Huffington Magazine Issue 75 | Page 7

POINTERS KEVIN FRAYER/GETTY IMAGES Enter HUFFINGTON 11.17.13 1 PHILIPPINES FACES UPHILL RECOVERY Thousands of people have been declared dead so far from Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, but the death toll could still rise dramatically. Workers buried 100 bodies Thursday during the first mass burial in the city of Tacloban, the site of the most devastation. About 11.5 million have been impacted by the disaster, said Valerie Amos, a U.N. humanitarian chief. “The situation is dismal ... tens of thousands of people are living in the open,” she said Thursday. “I think we are all extremely distressed that this is day 6 and we have not managed to reach everyone.”