Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful typhoons ever recorded, slammed into the Philippines on Nov. 8, setting off landslides, knocking out power in one entire province, and cutting communications in the country's central region of island provinces.
Early estimates predict the typhoon killed approximately 10,000 people and displaced more than 600,000. The United Nations said some survivors had no food, water or medicine. Relief operations were hampered because roads, airports and bridges had been destroyed or were covered in wreckage, it said.
Click “next” to see scenes of the devastation in the Philippines, especially the hard-hit Tacloban city.
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