Image Credit: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team

A record-breaking category 5 super typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines, touching ground on Thursday and passing through the central Philippines on Friday.

An administrator for the City of Tacloban in central Philippines said the death toll could reach 10,000, and hundreds of thousands have been displaced from their homes.

Defense Secretary Volteire Gazmin said, "All systems are down; there is no power, no water, nothing. People are desper...


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