She finds out that a cyclone hit the city, and many people are missing.
The reports were the first from the region since the cyclone hit with 190 m.p.h.
Before the cyclone hit, dikes had collapsed, irrigation systems had failed and bridges were sometimes impassable, Mr. Turnell said.
The cyclone hit Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal on Monday and has displaced about 500,000 people.
We have been present in Myanmar since 1950, and the emergency response was operational immediately after the cyclone hit.
Jens Orback, a former minister for integration and democracy in Sweden, was in Yangon when the cyclone hit.
I had to go to an almanac to relearn that on Oct. 31, 1971, a cyclone hit the eastern coast of India, in the province of Orissa.
In 1999, ten thousand people were killed and millions were left homeless when a cyclone hit India's eastern coastal state of Orissa.
There are reports that 90% of the buildings in the capital Port Vila have been destroyed or damaged after the cyclone hit over the weekend.
At least 49 fishermen were confirmed dead and more than 300 were missing after a cyclone hit eastern India and Bangladesh, officials said.
Mr. Bush's called for openness from Myanmar a day after his wife, Laura, criticized the country's military leaders for not warning people before the cyclone hit on Saturday.
