Tacloban evacuations continue

Crowds of Tacloban residents queued at the airport in a bid to flee the typhoon-hit city on Monday (November 18).

Some resident held umbrella's to shade themselves from the sun bearing down on them as they gathered at Tacloban airport hoping to get on a flight out.

More than a week after Typhoon Haiyan killed at least 3,633 with tree-snapping winds and tsunami-like waves, hundreds of international aid workers have set up makeshift hospitals and trucked in supplies.

The number of people made homeless by the storm rose to 1.9 million, up from 900,000, the United Nations' humanitarian agency said. In Tacloban, at least 56,000 people face unsanitary conditions, the United Nations' migration agency said.

U.S military assistance has been pouring into the Philippines since Thursday (November 14) when the USS George Washington aircraft carrier and accompanying ships arrived off eastern Samar province, carrying 5,000 crew and more than 80 aircraft.