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Signs for help highlight despair of Filipinos struck by typhoon

Children hold signs asking for help and food along the highway in Tabogon, Cebu Province, central Philippines Nov. 11, 2013.
Children hold signs asking for help and food along the highway in Tabogon, Cebu Province, central Philippines Nov. 11, 2013.Charlie Saceda / Reuters
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Signs for help can be seen from the air in the coastal town of Tanawan, central Philippines, Nov. 13, 2013.
Signs for help can be seen from the air in the coastal town of Tanawan, central Philippines, Nov. 13, 2013.Wally Santana / AP
Children help to carry pails of drinking water as they walk past graffiti calling for help in Tacloban city, central Philippines Nov. 12, 2013.
Children help to carry pails of drinking water as they walk past graffiti calling for help in Tacloban city, central Philippines Nov. 12, 2013.Romeo Ranoco / Reuters
An SOS sign can be seen from the air amid the destruction left from Typhoon Haiyan in the coastal town of Tanawan, central Philippines, Nov. 13, 2013.
An SOS sign can be seen from the air amid the destruction left from Typhoon Haiyan in the coastal town of Tanawan, central Philippines, Nov. 13, 2013.Wally Santana / AP
Typhoon survivors hang signs from their necks as they queue up in the hopes of boarding a C-130 military transport plane, Nov. 12, 2013, in Tacloban, central Philippines. Thousands of typhoon survivors swarmed the airport seeking a flight out, but only a few hundred made it.
Typhoon survivors hang signs from their necks as they queue up in the hopes of boarding a C-130 military transport plane, Nov. 12, 2013, in Tacloban, central Philippines. Thousands of typhoon survivors swarmed the airport seeking a flight out, but only a few hundred made it.Bullit Marquez / AP
A roof is turned into a sign for help amid the destruction in Tanawan, central Philippines, Nov. 13, 2013.
A roof is turned into a sign for help amid the destruction in Tanawan, central Philippines, Nov. 13, 2013.Wally Santana / AP
Children beg for food from passing motorists in Borbon town, Cebu, Philippines, Nov. 11, 2013.
Children beg for food from passing motorists in Borbon town, Cebu, Philippines, Nov. 11, 2013.Jay Rommel Labra / EPA
Typhoon Haiyan survivors walk through the ruins of their neighborhood in Tacloban, Nov. 13, 2013, where a man named J.R. Apan painted a plea for help in front of his destroyed home the day after the typhoon hit hoping for aid to arrive but says he has not yet received food or water supplies.
Typhoon Haiyan survivors walk through the ruins of their neighborhood in Tacloban, Nov. 13, 2013, where a man named J.R. Apan painted a plea for help in front of his destroyed home the day after the typhoon hit hoping for aid to arrive but says he has not yet received food or water supplies.David Guttenfelder / AP

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