a lot of that watt waer wants t revert back into the ocean. really across much of these river gauges is prevalent as well. a lot of them stopped working in the last cup canouple hours bec they're over whechwhelmed by thr across them. we have 17 million under flood alert at this point. we expect the rain as you were mentioning to begin to finally die town over the next 24 or so hours. the damage has been done. this is the wettest tropical system in state history being what floyd did in 1999 with 30 inches. >> really hard to fathom. feel for the people there. pedram, thank you. now to the other storm and it's a race against time there to find survivors. we're talking about the philippines. coming up, the rescue effort