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

Year in tacloban, wasn't it? >> yeah, that's 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. we're getting reports now coming through that a lot of the roads are now clear. so we'll 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 challenge that we're facing is lack of communication in some areas. a lot of the mobile networks are st...

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. authorities say the boy told them he was in the water since saturday night. but they also say he appears in...

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...

We have a volcano, one of the world-famous volcanos. it's 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 that's possible there too. that can also cause flooding as well, not just the risk of crashing into people's 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 having the shelters in place and being prepared? >> reporter: we were concerned on the way down here...