17th Typhoon News Today

The central philippines and continues to batter this region with heavy rain. its becoming more and more disorganized which is showing signs of falling apart. our eyes are set on southern manila, because it will come into this region in the next 24 to 48 hours. manila is a populated area of roughly 12 million people. as this slow-moving typhoon eventually makes its way into southern luzon were going to see roughly 13 inches for our domestic viewers. so were going to look out for the possibility o...

The rainfall that could bring flooding into manila on monday. that is going to be our next focus. and of course we still have typhoon and tropical storm force winds impacting between 10 million and 40 million people. those are not typos. we could exceed a foot of rain in manila in the next two days, ati atika. >> keeping an eye on that as it is just hitting the philippines. officials in the philippines appear to have learned many lessons after a typhoon last year killed 6,000 people. this year...

Assessments in the most affected areas. >> of course these kinds of typhoons, this is a region thats particularly vulnerable to these type of powerful storms. the fact that were now seeing emergency procedures being put in place beforehand, does this mean that were going to see some systemic changing in the future where this becomes a natural reaction every time you see one of these storms coming through? >> well, this is the new norm. i mean, this is the 17th typhoon that has struck the philipp...

Of food. their key documents and moved to safer ground. >> what are the lessons that other countries could learn particularly from the tacloban experience. what can they learn from the experience here? >> many things. first thing is real community-based disaster preparedness. that is improving the capacity of local government officials to draw up hazard maps to identify areas that are unsafe, to identify families that are vulnerable, people with disabilities, elderly people and children are most...

Because were standing just outside a catholic church here and mass is currently being performed. but to your question, the typhoon, the storm surge this time around. so we actually, part of the reason for that, the reason for so many people here, theyre giving thanks for what could have been but what wasnt in the end. and also you have to say the people here, not only are they traumatized from what happened in recent memory with typhoon haiyan, but also much more aware of how the storm and the e...

Emergency, thankfully, so far we havent heard of any major catastrophe. the storm has passed through tacloban. we havent seen the devastation thankfully again, that we saw in typhoon haiyan. and in legazpi so far it seems to be okay. but i met some incredibly terrified people earlier. many of them low-income homeowners worried about the damage because theyre afraid they wont be able to afford the repairs. >> thats understandable, just listening to the furious sound of that storm. thank you for j...