liberal country, but polls show the far-right sweden democrat gaining strength echoing the rise of right-wing populists across europe. our atika shubert is covering this for us live in stockholm. and from your vantage point, acqu acqu ati atika, what is the mood this election day? reporter: voters are coming out for different reasons. they are motivated by different issues, but the one thing we can agree on is this is one of the most important elections in decades with so much at stake. i want to bring in susanne lindenstein. you just voted. what for you was the most important issue this election? well, i think that the two main issues in this election is democracy and climate. that s the most ones. but beyond that, i think, coming down to a little bit more practical questions, i think
alternative for germany could be the first far-right party to win seats in parliament since world war ii. a lot to talk about. atika shubert following this story live in berlin. ati atika, thanks for being with us. angela merkel, known for her pragmatic style, it s seen as a big positive for her. at the same time, she faced a great deal of heat in her decision to allow thousands of migrants into germany. how did she weather that storm to be where she is now in this election? well, you know, it s a really good question. because in 2015, as she was under incredible pressure when she made the decision to open the doors to nearly 1 million refugees coming in here, you know, and i spoke to somebody who was kind of following what was happening there. i talked to a number of mayors and ministers. they say she worked overtime, calling up mayors of individual towns, saying what do you need to accommodate all of these extra people?
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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 emergency services can get through. joining me now from tacloban is the emergency response manager.
members are very tense. they re very nervous. they don t know what s coming up next. so they re basically inside, waiting to see what happens, hoping for some sort of closure. and we absolutely respect the privacy of the families at a time like this. we certainly wouldn t want to intrude on that. ati atika, we ll check back in with you. david suchi, former faa investigator, author of the book why planes crash. i was talking to david gallo and he raised the question of if in fact this plane crashed in this debris is related to the flight and it did land in the water, essentially with the flight 447, the air france flight, that plummeted at a great speed into the water. if a plane ran out of gas, for instance, ran out of fuel, would it nose-dive down into the water or would it be kind of a softer landing, soft as one can have in a 777 in the ocean? well, it depends on if it was in controlled flight or not and if there was someone navigating