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The Philippines are working to recover from the devastating effects of Super Typhoon Haiyan after the powerful storm made landfall this weekend, leaving a path of destruction and death in its wake.
The city perhaps hit hardest by the storm was Tacloban, on Leyte Island. It was one of the first cities the storm hit after making landfall. Some officials estimate the storm destroyed 80 percent of the structures on Leyte Island. The death toll in Tacloban alone could reach into the tens of thousands, according to the government's internal estimate. "We had a meeting last night with the governor and the other officials. The governor said, based on their estimate, 10,000 died," police chief superintendent Elmer Soria told Reuters. "There are dead bodies in other towns. In Tacloban, maybe hundreds more or thousands more," Philippine Red Cross chairman Richard Gordon told the Wall Street Journal. "The storm surge was strong," he said.