NBC晚间新闻 台风幸存者:不要让我们像这样死掉（在线收听）

Typhoon survivor: ‘Don’t let us die like this’

台风幸存者：不要让我们像这样死掉

Those who have survived the devastating typhoon in the Philippines are left with meager rice rations, lost family members and not nearly enough aid. NBC’s Harry Smith reports from Tacloban.

菲律宾从毁灭性台风中活下来的人只有很少的口粮，失去了家人，没有足够的援助。NBC的Harry Smith从塔克洛班发回报道。

reporter: This is Harry Smith in tacloban. Friday morning under a withering sun the line to receive a meager ration of rice stretches for blocks. How much will you get?

Two kilos of rice.

reporter: Is that enough to feed a family?

No.

reporter: But it's food therefore, anger in this heat would be a waste of energy. When the food showed up, all hell broke loose. Crews still roam the neighborhoods, collecting and trying to identify bodies. The workers are dutiful, respectful.

reporter: Their work is nowhere near done. Still here under the most cruel circumstances, you see many people repeating the rituals of daily life. A woman bathes her child. a mother nurses her baby. Why would you wash clothes unless you knew you would need them tomorrow? This is what hope looks like. Its supply, though, is not limitless. This afternoon we went back to check on Mecon Santos. You love this place?

Yes, I love this place.

reporter: We met Mecon last monday. She and her extended family are still where we left them -- alive, but not well.

Dead bodies there.

reporter: Still? Mecon and the 50 people she lives with cleared space to sleep. While they have received some aid, it's rarely enough.

God gave us a second chance to live. To do things. God gave us the courage to live, to fight. I don't want to end my life because I don't want to die like this.

reporter: Mecon and her group are sick and tired. They tried joining the line at the airport and concluded it's no use. A week ago she was praying to survive the typhoon. Now, her prayers have changed.

Lord, please, don't do this to us. Don't let us die like this.

reporter: Harry Smith, NBC News, Tacloban.