Kamal Hyder: Kandahar living conditions worsening

Kamal Hyder in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Sunday.

(CNN) -- In southern Afghanistan, U.S. warplanes returned to the skies over Kandahar, raining down bombs after two days of relative quiet. Journalist Kamal Hyder spoke with CNN's Kyra Phillips early Sunday about the aftermath.

PHILLIPS: Kamal, can you describe the conditions?

HYDER: Kyra, this morning at 11:30 (Sunday morning local time) allied bombers appeared over the skies of Kandahar. They were circling over the city and then they dropped their payload west of the city -- that's the Kandahar-Herat highway -- probably on military targets again.

They have been flying over Kandahar all day. In fact, a little while ago, we heard the roar of jets over Kandahar. They have been doing, as people out here are beginning to say, reconnaissance for the day. So, the residents of Kandahar are bracing themselves for another heavy night of attacks.

We do not know at this moment whether this is a routine reconnaissance affair or whether they're going to be attacking this place tonight, but most of Kandahar, of course, (is) apprehensive that perhaps the heightened air activity is a prelude to an attack at night.

Another interesting thing, Kyra, is that these aircrafts are flying lower. Now, we couldn't see them primarily because the sunshine here is just spectacular, so we could not see them but the sounds (are) much louder.

PHILLIPS: Kamal, you mentioned the residents. How are they coping, what are they telling you, and what are the living conditions like right now?

HYDER: The living conditions are becoming more and more difficult every day. Poor people are not able to afford the high prices of food here. It is normally, and in most cases in Kandahar at this moment, the poor people who have stayed behind.

Now, those people do not have adequate water supplies because the electricity pylons were blown away. And of course, the sanitation here is beginning to fail, there's are a lot of flies here in Kandahar, and authorities fear that it could lead to an outbreak of epidemic.