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Their homes and their lives after the devastation from earlier this year. and parts of the philippines had been gearing up for this. they had been getting heavy rainfall in parts of the country for the past several days. we've got footage in a southern city where they've been having streets and homes flooded with this muddy brown water. at the same time, you've got airlines cancelling flights, thousands stranded at ports as authorities have canceled land and sea travel in the central and southern part of the country. and this super typhoon made landfall on the eastern coast in the island calle...

The philippines gets around 20 typhoons per year. the deadliest one in 2013 killed more than 6,000 people. i want to read this statement from the chairman of the red cross. he said, quote, filipinos are tough, but this super typhoon is a bitter blow for millions of people who are still recovering from devastating storms, floods, and covid-19 in the past year. and, isa, humanitarian organizations are on the ground helping to provide shelter, helping to evacuate, food, water, aid. we spoke to the head of an aid organization who said that one of the big concerns is that some of the people in thes...

Breaking the national record for the most in one day. some of the gusts top 100 miles per hour, 160 kilometers per hour. now, this system is also caused nearly 20 tornadoes. minnesota reported its first ever december tornado. and this is a scene as you can see there in kansas where massive dust storm has formed. a major highway was forced to close as the skies practically went dark. wind gusts were so strong in colorado, meanwhile, they blew semi trucks as you can see there off the roads. and this was the frightening scene in boulder as a dust storm blanketed the city. meanwhile, on the othe...

To fully pass over the philippines? >> it looks like it's going to be at least another six hours or so. there's still lots of energy on that western or on that eastern edge. that's where we see the most dynamic activity when we see these hurricanes or typhoons or tropical systems. in this particular case, i can't remember the last time that i have seen a typhoon that was as monstrous as this one. it may not have been the strongest, that was in 2013. but this one was incredible. right now the winds supporting it are at 130 miles per hour, just about 215 kilometers per hour. as we go back in tim...

Fatalities, which is extraordinary. compare that to the -- typhoon, what do you expect the lessons are learned. >> the memory of hyan is a storm that will simply not go away. there are a combination of factors that combined to leave a tragic disaster, you can't help but learn the lessons from that. hyan was a more powerful super typhoon that hit back in 2013 in the southern part of the country. you're talking about a more densely populated area, and there simpy wasn't the kind of warning about the typhoon making landfall that you did in this case. in this case you had a super typhoon making it...