ABS-CBN suspends Korina Sanchez for 1 year?

Contrary to what Korina Sanchez announced recently on her DZMM program Rated Korina, the multi-awarded and veteran broadcaster is actually suspended by her mother network ABS-CBN for an entire year following a conflict with CNN reporter Anderson Cooper, Inquirer’s Bandera wrote.

Bandera cited a source saying that there “then came a much bigger sanction” following early reports that ABS-CBN suspended Sanchez for a week (only). Something that the host denied.

If this report is correct, it means that the public will not be seeing or hearing Sanchez in TV Patrol and DZMM until the latter part of 2014.

Sanchez has been a subject of internet hate following a tiff with Cooper. Her donation for Yolanda victims were mocked and rendered useless by netizens calling the anchor epal.

Source: http://www.talk.ph

Dramatic U.S. humanitarian effort in Philippines aids Asia "pivot"

By Manuel Mogato and Aubrey Belford

MANILA/TACLOBAN, Philippines (Reuters) - The U.S. military's response to the devastation wrought by one of the world's most powerful typhoons has been breathtaking.

About 50 U.S. ships and aircraft have been mobilized in the disaster zone, including 10 C-130 transport planes, 12 V-22 Ospreys and 14 Seahawk helicopters air-dropping supplies from an aircraft carrier.

The accelerating relief efforts underscore a fast-expanding U.S.-Philippine military alliance that could grow even stronger in the wake of the catastrophe as the United States pursues its "pivot" towards Asia.

As U.S. ships deliver food, water and medicine, they are also delivering goodwill that could ease the way for the United States to strengthen its often-controversial military presence in one of Southeast Asia's most strategic countries.

"It is not that the United States used assistance to promote rebalancing, but that rebalancing enabled to the U.S. to respond so decisively," said Asia security expert Carl Thayer.

The Philippines is one of Washington's closest allies in Asia and a crucial partner in President Barack Obama's strategy to rebalance U.S. military forces towards the region to counter the rising influence of China.

The United States sent the nuclear-powered USS George Washington aircraft carrier to lead relief efforts after Typhoon Haiyan killed at least 3,900 people on November 8, leaving many survivors dazed and without food and water for days.

Korina Sanchez Suspension Rumors Surfaced Online After Rift with CNN’s Anderson Cooper

Korina Sanchez have been suspended by ABS-CBN after her rift with international journalist Anderson Cooper of CNN. This is the hottest rumors that surfaced online on Sunday, after PhilStar reported about the long days of absence by Korina Sanchez on TV Patrol.

For the past few days, Korina Sanchez was not seen in the Philippines most popular news segment on prime time TV, ABS-CBN’s TV Patrol. According to some sources cited by PhilStar, Korina Sanchez is currently in vacation.

PhilStar also cited that the vacation of Korina Sanchez according to their sources was the effect of Korina’s statement against Anderson Cooper on his radio program at DZMM. Korina Sanchez was also lambasted online with her reactions to Copper’s reporting.

Anderson Cooper also replied with what Korina have stated on her radio program and even answered the allegations made by Korina Sanchez with a replay of his report in Tacloban City, aside from challenging Sanchez to come to Tacloban to proved his report.

The CNN journalist Anderson Cooper is now considered as hero in the Philippines especially on social media because of his truthful reporting and his commendation of the Filipino spirits who survived despite the huge devastation suffered from super typhoon Yolanda.

According to some netizens, the last time that they saw Korina Sanchez reports for TV Patrol was on Thursday wherein she traveled to Ormoc City to report the aftermath of the typhoon. She didn’t appear on the evening news after that report, she was instead temporarily replaced by Bernadette Sembrano.

Source:http://philnews.ph

Typhoon Haiyan: No medicine, little aid at Tacloban clinic

Tacloban, Philippines (CNN) -- The cries of the suffering carried through a small, cramped one-story clinic in typhoon-ravaged Tacloban where the medicine was all but gone Thursday, but the number of wounded in the hard-hit Philippine city continued to grow.

The clinic at the airport in the decimated capital city of Leyte province is one of the few places where those injured in Super Typhoon Haiyan and its aftermath can turn for help, what little help there is six days after the storm. 

"We don't have any medicines. We don't have any supplies. We have IVs, but it's running out," Dr. Katrina Catabay told CNN.

"Most of the people don't have water and food. That's why they come here. Most of the kids are dehydrated. They are suffering from diarrhea and vomiting."

Help is coming, on military and civilian transports, by air and by sea. But much of it has been piling up at airports.

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A typhoon is a mature tropical cyclone that develops in the western part of the Pacific Ocean between 180° and 100°E. This region is referred to as the northwest Pacific basin.[1] For organisational purposes, the northern Pacific Ocean is divided into three regions: the eastern (North America to 140°W), central (140°W to 180°), and western (180° to 100°E). The Regional Specialized Meteorological Center (RSMC) for tropical cyclone forecasts is in Japan, with other tropical cyclone warning centers for the northwest Pacific in Honolulu (the Joint Typhoon Warning Center), the Philippines and Hong Kong. While the RSMC names each system, the main name list itself is coordinated amongst 18 countries that have territories threatened by typhoons each year. The Philippines use their own naming list for systems which approach the country.

Within the northwestern Pacific there are no official typhoon seasons as tropical cyclones form throughout the year. Like any tropical cyclone, there are six main requirements for typhoon formation and development: sufficiently warm sea surface temperatures, atmospheric instability, high humidity in the lower to middle levels of the troposphere, enough Coriolis force to develop a low pressure center, a pre-existing low level focus or disturbance, and low vertical wind shear. The majority of storms form between June and November whilst tropical cyclone formation is at a minimum between December and May. On average, the northwestern Pacific features the most numerous and intense tropical cyclones globally. Like other basins, they are steered by the subtropical ridge towards the west or northwest, with some systems recurving near and east of Japan. The Philippines receive a brunt of the landfalls, with China and Japan being impacted slightly less. Some of the deadliest typhoons in history have struck China. Southern China has the longest record of typhoon impacts for the region, with a thousand year sample via documents within their archives. Taiwan has received the wettest known typhoon on record for the northwest Pacific tropical cyclone basin.

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PNoy appeals for sobriety in reporting fatality figures from Typhoon Yolanda

President Benigno Aquino III on Sunday night appealed against reporting unconfirmed casualty figures from Super Typhoon Yoland, particularly those in Leyte.

Radio dzBB reported that Aquino, who visited Yolanda-hit areas including Tacloban City, met Sunday night with concerned officials at the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council when he made the appeal.

Tacloban City after typhoon Yolanda (Image source: cnn.com)

News reports have cited fatality figures as high as 10,000.

Meanwhile, official numbers from the NDRRMC released Sunday night set the number of confirmed fatalities at 229. The injured now number 45, with 28 still missing.