1.   Nearly a week after the storm pounded Central America with its debilitating rains, rescuers are beginning to reach thousands of stranded people across Central America.

2.   Pilots for the South African National Defense Force, which has led the search and rescue effort, say they are seeing fewer and fewer stranded people.

3.   Sand bags are being prepared, storm drains cleared and buses reserved to evacuate stranded people.

4.   United States officials say they are considering ways of entering the city to look for stranded people.

5.   Pilots delivering food and bottled water to shelters continued to look for stranded people.

6.   Pilots delivering food and bottled water to shelters continued to look for stranded people from the air.

7.   A military truck was seen picking up stranded people in Central Jakarta.

8.   Aid agencies have had little success in their appeal for helicopters to drop food and medicine to stranded people.

9.   And in the jungles of central Zaire tens of thousands of stranded people sit and wait.

10.   Another two helicopters were ferrying stranded people to aid camps.