A distraught mother who lost her young sons in the tidal surge of Super Typhoon Haiyan feels her life is over . `` I guess I 'm just thinking to jump from that building , '' Gelenbelle Vergara tells CNN 's Karl Penhaul on Sunday . `` This is what would be my life 's worth . My sons are dead . I just pray that I also dead with them . What would be my life worth now ? '' She combs the debris , scours the morgues and pours over the list of victims found in Tacloban , Philippines . `` I do n't have sons I do n't know if they 're dead or where their bodies are I do n't know if dogs in the street are eating their bodies already . '' Along with nearly 4,000 deaths , about 3 million people have been displaced , communities have been flattened and looting and violence have erupted . Survivors ask , 'Where was God ? ' The United States and Britain are bolstering their military assets to urgently help millions of hungry and homeless Filipinos -- socked , soaked and dazed more than a week after the typhoon clobbered the midsection of the Philippines . `` Right now , the U.S. military capability is continuing to grow , '' U.S. Marine Brig . Gen. Paul Kennedy told CNN on Sunday . `` We need to get life-sustaining aid immediately out to the stricken population . Food , water , shelter , medicine -- those are the basics . '' Kennedy said numerous aircraft -- such a dozen C-130 cargo airplanes , more than a dozen MV-22 Ospreys and several dozen UH-60 helicopters -- are being deployed . About 9,000 U.S. troops are supporting the operation in the Philippines , a U.S. military official said . U.S. military assets have delivered approximately 623,000 pounds of relief supplies . As the Royal Australian Air Force drops off another load of supplies and humanitarian workers in Tacloban -- one of a number of nations helping this devastated country -- the piles of aid stack up on an airport tarmac . `` It 's chaotic , but every day , it 's improving , going out to affected communities very quickly , '' said USAID official Ben Hemingway Sunday . Thousands of refugees converged on the Tacloban airport terminal hoping to jump on the planes as they leave . `` I do n't know what to do right now , '' one mother told CNN . `` All I can think about is my daughters . I have to save them first . '' The British ship HMS Daring arrived in Cebu on Sunday to provide medical assistance , emergency supplies and clean water to stranded victims , the UK government said . `` HMS Daring 's arrival is a major boost to DFID 's disaster experts and medical teams already deployed in the Philippines , '' Britain 's International Development Secretary Justine Greening said , referring to the Department for International Development . Baby born in wreckage clings to life . `` This Royal Navy vessel will help us open a lifeline and allow us to help many more victims of the disaster , '' she said . The Philippine central government is being criticized for a slow and disorganized response to what all agree is a catastrophic event . The nation 's disaster agency said between nine million and 13 million people were affected in 44 provinces , 536 municipalities and 55 cities . The United States and Britain are among nations across the globe racing against time to help Philippine authorities in a massive relief effort of delivering food and water to the devastated swaths of the archipelago . When the typhoon hit the central part of the country on November 8 , many lost their homes and electric power . As the days went by , thousands were scrounging for food , clean water and medical aid . Nancy Lindborg , an assistant administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development , told CNN on Sunday the United States has been focused `` on getting the logistics up , bringing in food , shelter and getting the water system back on tap . '' She cited a bit of progress in helping the infrastructure in Tacloban , a major city that was ground zero for the typhoon strike . `` Yesterday , we were able to support UNCIEF in bringing the water system back on stream , '' she said . `` There are now 150,000 people in Tacloban being served by clean water . '' Crews continued to collect bodies from streets , with the official death toll raised Sunday to 3,976 .
` ` I ' m just thinking to escape from that building , '' a desperate mother says . A military capability ` ` continues to respond , '' bringing food , water , shelter , medicine . British ship HMS Daring arrives in Cebu . Water system in Tacloban is ` ` back on tap , '' the official says .