Stranded passengers board a plane at a damaged airport in Tacloban, Philippines, on Wednesday, November 13. Troops and aid organizations have been confronted with blocked roads and devastating damage while trying to deliver aid to Filipinos struggling to survive in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms in history. See how you can help. 
Soldiers evacuate a sick survivor at an airport in Tacloban on November 13. 
Relief supplies for the victims in the Philippines are loaded into an aircraft in Germany on November 13. 
Soldiers load relief goods onto a truck in Tacloban on November 13. 
People wait in line to receive relief goods in Leyte on Tuesday, November 12. 
Evacuees send e-mails to their family members and relatives at a free Internet cafe set up by the Philippines government on November 12 in Tacloban. 
Aid workers arrive in Leyte to assist survivors on November 12. 
People wait at a bus stop November 12 in Tacloban, Philippines. 
People board a U.S. military plane to evacuate Tacloban on November 12. 
People carry sacks of goods November 12 in Tacloban. 
A member of the Japanese Disaster Relief Team carries goods in Tacloban on November 12. 
Rescuers in Guigang City, China, search a flooded road by boat on November 12. China and Vietnam were also hit hard by the typhoon. 
Residents line up to receive treatment and supplies at the Tacloban airport on Monday, November 11. 
Staff load a Hercules airplane with equipment November 11 at the Orebro airport in central Sweden. The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, together with its humanitarian partners, sent equipment to support the United Nations' relief work in the Philippines. 
Philippine troops load boxes of water at Villamor Air Force Base in Manila, Philippines, on November 11. 
A man seeking aid paints a message on a basketball court November 11 in Anibong, Philippines. 
Villagers in Hernani, Philippines, run toward government officials hoping for food November 11. 
A military helicopter delivering food prepares to land at the airport in Guiuan, Philippines, on November 11. 
Emily Ortega rests on November 11 after giving birth to Bea Joy at an improvised clinic at the Tacloban airport. 
Typhoon survivors line up at the Tacloban airport on November 11 to board a U.S. military plane bound for Manila. 
Philippine Air Force personnel prepare to load relief supplies at the Tacloban airport on November 11. 
Philippine police commandos prepare to board a military plane in Manila on Sunday, November 10. 
A Tacloban resident carries boxes of milk November 10 as he passes by ships washed ashore by the powerful storm. 
Residents carry relief goods along the bay in Tacloban on November 10. 
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- Crews removing debris are uncovering more bodies, as death toll climbs to 3,621
- Women flee with children while some men remain to rebuild
- "My children are decomposing," one woman says
- Children wander about in the streets of Tacloban
Tacloban, Philippines (CNN) -- As cadaver crews collected more bodies off of streets and from underneath rubble in the Philippines Friday, the national disaster agency raised the death toll in the wake Typhoon Haiyan to 3,621.
The number of those injured stood at 12,165, state news agency PNA reported, after the storm ripped up a group of the nation's islands with winds more than three times stronger than those of Hurricane Katrina. At least 1,140 individuals are officially missing.
The fright-filled scramble to survive the storm's fury, to keep heads above the wall of ocean waves it pushed in, faded away with Typhoon Haiyan's winds.
Typhoon Haiyan: Faces of the storm
Survivors of Typhoon Haiyan carry food that a U.S. military helicopter dropped off in Guiuan, Philippines, on Thursday, November 14. The U.S. Agency for International Development donated the food to help with international relief efforts. Haiyan, one of the strongest storms in recorded history, decimated parts of the Philippines over the weekend. President Benigno Aquino III said the typhoon may have killed as many as 2,500 people. 
Dozens of bodies are placed near Tacloban's City Hall on November 14 as workers prepare a mass grave on the outskirts of the hard-hit city. 
A girl plays inside her house amid the devastation in Tacloban on November 14. 
A Filipino soldier hands out bread to survivors in Maraboth on November 14. 
A boy takes cover from rain while waiting for an evacuation flight from Tacloban's airport November 14. 
Workers arrange bodies at a mass burial site at a Tacloban cemetery November 14. 
The weary wait for evacuation from Tacloban on November 14. 
A truck lies in the water in Hernani on November 14. 
Children play with fallen power lines near a damaged school in Guiuan on November 14. 
Teresa Mazeda hangs laundry in the ruins of her home in Tacloban on Wednesday, November 13. 
Nina Duran searches for belongings at her family's destroyed house in Tacloban on November 13. 
Survivors walk through the ruins of their neighborhood outside Tacloban on November 13. 
A man sits in front of his destroyed business on November 13 in Tacloban. 
On November 13, a family tries to use a ceiling fan to generate electricity, desperate to charge mobile phones to search for family and friends in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan in Cebu province. 
An injured man rests beneath a picture of Jesus Christ in Tacloban on November 13. 
A man takes a shower amid rubble in Tacloban on November 13. 
A rescue team wades into floodwater to retrieve a body in Tacloban on November 13. 
Residents take shelter in a Tacloban church on November 13 in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan. 
Residents make their way through a destroyed neighborhood in Tacloban on November 13. 
A boy cycles past a coffin left on a street in Tacloban on November 13. 
A man looks at his home destroyed by Typhoon Hayian in Tacloban on November 13. 
Body bags are lined up in the typhoon's aftermath in Tacloban, one of the hardest-hit cities, on November 13. 
Survivors prepare to board a military plane November 13 at the airport in Tacloban. 
An aerial view shows signs pleading for help and food scrawled on a road in the coastal town of Tanauan on November 13. 
Soldiers help a woman after she collapsed while waiting in line to board a military plane at Tacloban's airport November 13. 
Survivors wait to be evacuated from Tacloban on November 13. 
An injured survivor gets carried on a stretcher before being airlifted from Tacloban's airport November 13. 
A survivor begins to rebuild his house in Tacloban on November 13. 
Evacuees wait to board a military aircraft in Leyte on Tuesday, November 12. 
People walk through damage in Tacloban on November 12. 
A young man waits at the airport November 12 in hopes of being evacuated from Tacloban. 
A woman comforts a crying relative as a plane leaves the Tacloban airport November 12. 
A man sits crying on a packed aircraft in Tacloban on November 12. 
Debris lays scattered around a damaged home near the Tacloban airport on November 12. 
A girl sits inside a bus as she waits for a ferry in Matnog, Philippines, on November 12. 
Residents carry bags of rice from a Tacloban warehouse that they stormed November 11 because of a food shortage. 
Survivors in Tacloban board a military plane bound for the Philippine capital of Manila on November 11. 
Police line up bodies for processing in Tacloban on November 12. 
People in Tacloban pass debris on November 11. 
A woman in Tacloban walks amid the debris of destroyed houses on November 11. 
People make their way across a flooded street in Shangsi, China, on November 11. Haiyan moved toward Vietnam and south China after devastating the Philippines. 
Buildings lie in ruins on Eastern Samar's Victory Island. 
Emily Ortega rests on November 11 after giving birth to Bea Joy at an improvised clinic at the Tacloban airport. 
U.S. Marine Corps Osprey aircraft arrive at Manila's Villamor Airbase to deliver humanitarian aid on November 11. 
People ride past destruction in Tacloban on Sunday, November 10. 
A body lies amid the Tacloban devastation on November 10. 
People cover their noses to block the smell of bodies in Tacloban on November 10. 
Bodies of victims lie along a Tacloban road on November 10. 
A large boat sits aground, surrounded by debris in Tacloban on November 10. 
People walk past the Tacloban devastation on November 10. 
People stand under a shelter in Tacloban. 
A girl peeks out from a makeshift shelter in Tacloban. 
Typhoon survivors wait to receive relief goods at the Tacloban airport on November 10. 
A woman mourns in front of her husband's dead body November 10 in Tacloban. 
Fallen trees litter the ground at the Tacloban airport on Saturday, November 9. 
A resident passes victims' bodies on a Tacloban street November 9. 
People in Tacloban carry a victim of the typhoon November 9. 
A vehicle lies amid Tacloban debris on November 9. 
People walk past a victim left on the side of a road in Tacloban. 
A resident passes an overturned car in Tacloban on November 9. 
Rescue workers carry a woman about to give birth November 9 at a makeshift medical center at the Tacloban airport. 
An airport lies in ruins in Tacloban. 
Astronaut Karen L. Nyberg took a picture of the typhoon from the International Space Station on November 9. 
Women walk past fallen trees and destroyed houses in Tacloban on November 9. Residents scoured supermarkets for water and food as they slowly emerged on streets littered with debris. 
A soldier pulls a cable inside the devastated airport tower in Tacloban. 
Tacloban houses are destroyed by the strong winds caused by the typhoon. 
Dark clouds brought by Haiyan loom over Manila skyscrapers on November 8. 
A woman carries a baby across a river November 8 at a coastal village in Las Pinas, Philippines. 
A resident walks along a fishing village in Bacoor, Philippines, on November 8. 
A house in Legazpi, Philippines, is engulfed by storm surge November 8. 
A child wraps himself in a blanket inside a makeshift house along a Bacoor fishing village. 
A woman and her children head for an evacuation center November 8 amid strong winds in Cebu City, Philippines. 
Huge waves from Haiyan hit the shoreline in Legazpi on November 8. 
A fisherman lifts a post to reinforce his home at a coastal village in Las Pinas on November 8. 
A resident unloads nets off a fishing boat in Bacoor on November 8. 
Residents reinforce their homes in Las Pinas on November 8. 
The storm approaches the Philippines in this satellite image taken Thursday, November 7, by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 
Workers bring down a billboard in Makati, Philippines, on November 7 before Haiyan makes landfall. 
Philippine Coast Guard personnel stand in formation beside newly acquired rubber boats after a blessing ceremony in Manila on Wednesday, November 6. The boats were to be deployed to the central Philippines in preparation for Haiyan. 
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Photos: Typhoon Haiyan A boy rides his bike past a coffin and other scenes of destruction in Tacloban, Philippines, on Wednesday, November 13. Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms in recorded history, has devastated parts of the Philippines and killed at least 2,275 people. 
Children carry relief goods as they pass by damaged houses in Tacloban on November 13. 
Survivor children, who escaped after their village was attacked by allegedly armed men, wait for social workers in Tacloban on November 13. 
Residents ask for water while waiting to get a free pass to board a US C-130 plane in Tacloban on Tuesday, November 12. 
Survivors seek medical attention inside a makeshift hospital inside an airport compound on November 13 in Tacloban. Residents take shelter in a church November 13 in Tacloban, one of the hardest-hit cities. The Philippine government estimates the storm has left more than 582,000 homeless. 
A woman holding a baby runs during a downpour Tuesday, November 12, in Tacloban. 
A boy and a girl salvage materials November 12 in Leyte, Philippines. Many in the region have nothing left. 
Typhoon survivors line up November 12 in hopes of boarding a military transport plane out of Tacloban. 
A woman weeps as she carries a child to a military aircraft in Leyte on November 12. 
Philippine military personnel try to prioritize children and women first as people wait for evacuation flights November 12 in Tacloban. 
A woman carrying a child cries November 12 as survivors wait to board an aircraft in Tacloban. 
Survivors walk in Tacloban on November 12. 
A woman cries November 12 as other survivors wait to evacuate Tacloban. 
A Philippine air force officer hands out orange slices to typhoon survivors as they line up to board a military transport plane November 12 in Tacloban. 
Children stand on rubble in the storm-ravaged town of Hernani, Philippines, on Monday, November 11. 
Newborn Bea Joy rests November 11 after her mother gave birth to her at the airport in Tacloban. 
A boy in Tacloban walks near a container appealing for help. 
Soldiers let a woman and her child through a fence to get food November 11 outside the Tacloban airport. 
A woman carries a child through a flooded street in Yong'an, China, on November 11. China and Vietnam were also hit hard by the storm. 
Residents of Anibong, Philippines, rest November 11 near a ship propeller that washed ashore during the storm. 
Survivors walk through the streets of Tacloban as a military plane flies overhead on November 11. 
A young survivor rests on a pedicab November 11 in Tacloban. 
Children peek out from their makeshift shelter in Tacloban on Sunday, November 10. 
A young Tacloban resident walks inside a damaged home on November 10. 
Children carry relief goods past damaged homes in Tacloban on November 10. 
Two young boys look at the devastation in Tacloban on November 10. 
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Photos: Children among typhoon victims 
Typhoon devastation beyond Tacloban 
General Kennedy on typhoon relief But a week later, sickness, hunger and thirst have settled in with the sticky, humid heat and stench of rancid flesh hanging over the apocalypse the cyclone left behind.
Traumatized survivors under improvised shelters have kept watch over bodies of husbands, wives and children who perished and have decomposed in the sun.
Juvelyn Taniega tried to keep busy. She collected old dishes and cleaned them up, crouching on the ground near the spot where her home once stood and the place where she last saw her husband and six children alive.
She's found the bodies of three of her children, but three of them are still missing. In days, she said, no one has come to help.
How to help Typhoon Haiyan survivors
"My children are decomposing," she said.
There are many like her, looking in disbelief over fields miles long of crushed wood and stone that once stood as houses, wondering if her missing loved ones are buried in them.
More bodies have emerged from underneath it, as the cadaver collectors' cohorts in debris-removal crews uncovered them, while heaving away wreckage from the roads.
But the bodies that Haiyan had initially flung everywhere are becoming a scarcer sight, as cadaver crews pull up in trucks to collect them for mass burial in nameless graves.
Officially, 801 bodies were counted in Tacloban by Friday morning, but thousands are feared dead here.
Whole neighborhoods were swept out to sea.
Wandering children
Clinic in Tacloban overflowing 
Typhoon survivors: Where is the help? 
'We miss our homes, have nothing to eat' In Tacloban, children have stayed children in spite of the wretchedness around them left by one of the strongest storms on record.
They wandered the streets Friday, satisfying their curiosity. Parents were often nowhere in sight -- if they were even still alive.
Children are most vulnerable, UNICEF spokesman Kent Page told CNN's Anderson Cooper. It's hard to keep them safe, and to give them what they desperately need.
Typhoon victim: This is worse than hell
"Health, nutrition, getting them clean water, good sanitation, protection, and we have to consider education also," Kent says.
"Schools have been wiped out and getting kids into child friendly spaces, where they can feel protected, where they can get a chance to play, where they can get a sense of normalcy back in their life after going through such a devastating experience is very important."
Many families were busy getting their children out of town. Their mothers evacuated them, while their fathers stayed behind to sort through the remains of their destroyed lives, Tacloban's mayor Alfred Romualdez said.
He advised other families to follow their example.
As many mouths as possible should be fed elsewhere, where there is more food and water, and children need to be in safety.
Turning a corner?
Major streets have freed up in Tacloban, once home to 220,000 people, but the hum of delivery trucks ferrying out aid is conspicuously missing. The fields of rubble have become a ghost town.
Many of the city's haggard survivors have concentrated at the airport. A line of people eager to catch a flight out of the tragedy snaked around it.
Special type of aid needed in Philippines 
Mayor of Tacloban's story of survival 
Storm survivors desperate for aid As naval ships pushed up on beaches like gray whales and dropped their loading bay gates, people carrying over their shoulders whatever possessions they could rescue, strode into the bellies of the arks taking them to safer ground.
At the convention center, the hungry stood for hours in the sun in long lines awaiting the next load of food and bottled water landing in bulk pallets from around the world.
Some were there, because they had nowhere else to go.
"We really don't know what we're going to do next," said 30-year-old May May Gula, whose family shares what was left of a room on the convention center's ground floor with eight more families.
Reaching all the victims and assisting the survivors -- including more than 2 million people in need of food, according to the Philippines government -- are both priorities now.
Romualdez feels like his town is turning its first corner towards recovery. The mayor compared Tacloban to boxer who was knocked out.
After lying on the mat for a long time, it is just now coming to and trying to get back on its feet.
The relief efforts took a lunge forward Thursday, when the USS George Washington, an aircraft carrier teeming with 5,500 crew, pulled into Philippine waters.
It was accompanied by eight more ships that, together, have 80 aircraft, including 21 helicopters that can deliver supplies to inland villages where roads have been obliterated and eyeball pockets of people in despair from above.
Endless debris has kept them locked in with their misery and slowed down aid from reaching them.
Australia: 30 million
U.N.: 25 million
UK: 24 million
U.S.: 20 million
Japan: 10 million
Denmark: 6.9 million
European Union: 4.1 million
Sweden: 3.6 million
UAE: 10 million
South Korea: 5 million
Canada: 4.8 million
Norway: 3.4 million
Switzerland: 3.4 million
Indonesia: 2 million
Spain: 1.8 million
New Zealand: 1.75 million
China: 1.6 million
Ireland: 1.4 million
Italy: 1.3 million
Mexico: 1 million
Austria: 690,000
Belgium: 690,000
Czech Republic: 214,000
Singapore:160,000
Vatican: 150,000
Vietnam: 100,000
Source: U.N. OCHA, government officials, reports
Irony of fate
Some typically called upon to help need help themselves.
Ryan Cardenas has helped with recovery efforts in the Philippine Navy after two cyclones in the past two years that left hundreds dead.
But when Haiyan slammed into the Tacloban naval station where he's based, he and other sailors clung to rafters in their barracks.
Their commanding officer, who was in a separate building almost demolished by the storm, stayed alive by clutching a palm tree's trunk.
Afterward, sailors helped retrieve some bodies, according to Cardenas. One found his mother sitting dead against a wall.
Now, they're sorting through the wreckage of the naval station and awaiting orders.
"This is the worst," Cardenas said, taking a break from fixing a piece of damaged furniture. "We're both victims and rescuers."
Concerns of violence
There have been reports of the threat of violence by groups looking to steal relief aid, but the U.S. military has said that violent crime is less of a problem than the debris blocking roads to those who need aid the most.
A Philippines senator said she's learned of reports of rapes and other crimes against women, some allegedly perpetrated by convicts who escaped prison in the typhoon's aftermath, the state-run Philippines News Agency reported.
Sen. Nancy Binay particularly expressed alarm after women said on TV that the situation had become worse, with assailants going so far as to break into people's homes.
Someone to live for
Jericho, a boy whose mother, aunt and nine cousins were killed in the storm in Tacloban, told his father he wanted to leave the city on one of the planes he has seen flying overhead.
His father told him they have to stay.
"We have no money," he said. "Just each other."
Another man whose wife and child died said he can't stop thinking of seeing his family drown in the storm.
"The first one that I saw was my youngest," he said. "She fainted, and then she drowned. The water was so fast. And then my wife, when I tried to grab her, I missed her. Then she drowned, and then I never saw her again."
Over the past week, he admits he has often thought of killing himself.
But he hasn't, he said, because he still has one child who needs him.
CNN's Jethro Mullen reported from Tacloban; Ben Brumfield wrote and reported from Atlanta. CNN's Anna Coren contributed from Cebu; Greg Botelho and Catherine Shoichet contributed from Atlanta.
