. The Pentagon will send aircraft carrier to the Philippines

. The Pentagon will send aircraft carrier to the Philippines

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has ordered the aircraft carrier USS George Washington and other American ships headed into the Philippine area hit by Hurricane Haiyan , the Pentagon said on Monday ( 11/11 ) .

Mother ship with more than 5,000 sailors and 80 aircraft are currently in Hong Kong for a port visit .

The crew pulled early from leave and the ship is expected to leave later this evening , according to a Pentagon statement quoted by AFP news agency .

Russia will also send a rescue team of 200 people to a devastating cyclone-hit Philippines if a formal request is made , said a spokesman for the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry on Sunday ( 9/11 ) as quoted by RIA Novosti news agency .

According to him , six aircraft are being prepared to fly to the Philippines and six teams of sniffer dogs could be deployed to help victims of the search operation in the ruins of the building .

One of the strongest hurricanes in recorded history swept named Typhoon Haiyan Filipinadan destroying small towns and big .

 The survivors of a super cyclone that swept across the Philippines the center and killed about 10 thousand people , asking for help and they scramble to get food , water , and medicine .

President Benigno Aquino sent hundreds of troops to Tacloban city to stop looting , while another report shows another view of the devastation in the region that have not been touched by the rescue team and the armed forces .

The government does not provide confirmation of the estimated death toll reached 10 thousand people , but the death toll from Haiyan , one of the strongest typhoons ever to hit mainland clearly well above the official count as many as 255 people . Armed Forces on Monday reported the death toll reached 942 people .

" The situation is very bad , which caused great destruction . In some cases the total damage , " Chief Cabinet Secretary Rene Almendras .

The United Nations said officials in Tacloban , the town worst hit by the disaster on Friday , reported a mass grave with 300 to 500 bodies .

More than 600 thousand people were displaced by the storm and others do not have access to food , water and medicine , the UN said .

Tacloban is already flat by high waves and winds 378 miles per hour at 580 km south of Manila, it just depends on three military planes that fly from Cebu to the nearest town to get food and evacuation .

Dozens of people shouting at the airport door asking for help .

" Help us , help us . Where President Aquino ? We need water , we were very thirsty , " shouted one woman . "When are you going to lift the bodies off the streets ? "

Haiyan expected to destroy 70 to 80 percent of the infrastructure in its path when struck Leyte and Samar provinces . Damage in the coconut and rice production center was expected to result in losses of up to 3 billion pesos ( 69 million U.S. dollars ) , Citi Research said in a report , with the greatest loss due to damage to the buildings owned by residents .

Most of the damage and death caused by large waves that inundated towns and villages swept along the coast , a scene described by some officers like the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 .

Corpses lying in the streets in Tacloban , rot caused by sunburn causing health threat .

International aid agency said supplies to aid in the Philippines is low after an earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale struck the province of Bohol last month , and also the displacement caused by conflict with Muslim rebels in the province of Zamboanga .

Relief operations were also hampered by roads , airports and bridges were damaged or collapsed buildings closed .

Crisis in the disaster -stricken region feared increased with the forecasts of heavy rain on Tuesday .

A shop owner Awelina Hadloc scavenge for instant noodles in a near-empty warehouse was looted . He said his store setnggi 3 meter waves swept away .

" The situation is very difficult . 's Like we have to start from scratch , " said the 28-year -old woman . " No more supplies in warehouses and shopping malls . "

Aquino is facing the biggest challenge of his tenure in three years to send 300 troops and police to restore security in Tacloban after looting some shops .

Aquino declared that before the storm struck the government wants no casualties in the disaster showed annoyance at the confusion of reports of damage and casualties . One television channel quoted the president told the chairman of the national disaster agency that he had lost patience .

The death toll could rise

The death toll from the storm could still rise as rescuers reach remote villages along the coast , such as Guiuan , Samar province in the east of the city has a population of 40 thousand inhabitants were severely damaged .

" The only reason why we do not have reports of casualties so far are disconnected communication systems , " said Col. . John Sanchez in the armed forces Facebook account .

About 300 people were killed in Samar , said officials from the provincial disaster agency . Baco , a city of 35 thousand inhabitants in the province of Oriental Mindoro 80 percent under water , the UN said .

Various U.S. aid group also launched a campaign to raise funds worth millions of dollars . An official of World Vision said , based on initial reports about 90 percent of the area was badly damaged in northern Cebu . While the relief team of Oxfam report " total destruction " at the north end of Cebu region .

Meanwhile as many as 13 people were killed and dozens of others were injured due to high winds and a storm approaching the coast at Haiyan in Vietnam , state media reported , although the strength of the storm had dropped after sweeping the Philippines , Reuters reported ..