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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...

Year in tacloban, wasnt it? >> yeah, thats true, atia. i was out early, early this morning around tacloban, and there are a lot of heavy earth moving equipment, shifting trees that have fallen across the roadside. were getting reports now coming through that a lot of the roads are now clear. so well be distributing our goods such as water kits starting tomorrow afternoon. there are reports, though, that some arias of eastern samar are still cut off due to floods and landslides. the other challen...

Captors as help arrived. the philippines is bracing for mudslides, storm surges and severe flooding in the wake of typhoon hagupit. it is moving incredibly slowly across the country. the storm made landfall on saturday and is expected to come ashore on a different island in the coming hours. so far, 11 nations have offered assistance to the philippines to deal with this powerful storm and its aftermath. the philippine coast guard rescued a 17 year old fisherman on sunday from tacloban. authori...

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...

We have a volcano, one of the world-famous volcanos. its perfectly cone shaped, the cone shapes you would draw in school as a kid. because of that shape it has a lot of those possible landslides. so thats possible there too. that can also cause flooding as well, not just the risk of crashing into peoples homes but flooding because they might block up waterways. >> now of course the philippines was hit hard last year by typhoon haiyan. especially tacloban. what has legazpi learned in terms of hav...

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...