Need to 'do more'

The nation marked the 11th anniversary of the onslaught of Super Typhoon Yolanda just days after observing a Day of National Mourning on Nov. 4, with flags flown at half-mast for the 145 confirmed deaths from Severe Tropical Storm Kristine.

With peak winds of 315 kilometers per hour, Yolanda was a tropical cyclone so powerful it prompted weather scientists to add a higher wind warning signal, No. 5, to the alert system in the Philippines. It spawned storm surges up to six meters high, flattening much of Eastern Visayas with the force of a tsunami. Of over 6,350 confirmed fatalities, more than 5,900 were in Tacloban City.