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The central philippines and continues to batter this region with heavy rain. it's 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 we're going to see roughly 13 inches for our domestic viewers. so we're going to look out for the possibility of flooding. >> thank you very much. derek van dam keeping an eye on that storm as it slowly moves...

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, people went to high ground and fled ahead of the storm. and crews are clearing airports so emergen...

Assessments in the most affected areas. >> of course these kinds of typhoons, this is a region that's particularly vulnerable to these type of powerful storms. the fact that we're now seeing emergency procedures being put in place beforehand, does this mean that we're 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 philippines. it's important for the governments to invest more in disaster preparedness measures, to red...

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 vulnerable to disasters. simple evacuation routes. telling people what a typhoon is. telling people...

Because we're 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, they're giving thanks for what could have been but what wasn't 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 effect, and they need to get out of the pathway. that's exactly what they did. there's been no cas...