in tacloban. there s been a breakthrough in the case of 43 mexican students who vanished in september. investigators have identified the remains of one of the students, but families of the missing say their quest for justice is not over. we have more on the investigation. reporter: the remains belonging to the 19 year old are the first to be identified. he s one of the 43 students from a rural teachers college who went missing in late september. the announcement was made on the school s facebook page. a legal representative for the families of the missing also confirmed the news to cnn. [ shouting ] reporter: at a protest in mexico city saturday night a group of parents acknowledged the announcement but said the search for the rest of the group is not over. [ speaking in foreign language ]
reporter: well, just in the last hour or so, isha, the wind speeds have picked up significantly here. and it s still quite heavy rain. the rain seems to come through in bands. but certainly it is not yet sort of the terrifying force winds that were experienced here a little more than a year ago. now, it is going to get worse here, but as we ve just been hearing, the brunt of the storm is not going to hit or come too close to tacloban. no doubt there is going to be severe winds here, and there s going to be heavy rain, but at this stage, it doesn t look like there s going to be a storm surge. and this is incredibly significant because you remember tacloban was in many ways the ground zero for typhoon haiyan, the strongest storm that s ever made landfall. and nearly 6.5 million people died mainly because of a storm surge. perhaps six to eight meters high. so this time around when authorities were not clear, when no one was clear exactly where
because it s going to lie just to the south of the eye wall. that s going to play particular concerns for that area. future forwarding this idea of the storm as it goes into sunday and monday, we re going to look at a weakened storm but still significant and still a typhoon as it makes its way into the southern luzon islands including manila. the possibility of urban flooding exists across that region. they have issued and expanded its signal three public storm warnings including samar. you see tacloban currently under a signal two, and it is experiencing strong winds and hefty rain. but the bulk of the major part of the storm just to the north of tacloban. two to four-meter storm surge expected especially north of the eye wall where it does make landfall. 200 to 500 millimeters of rainfall. that is not a typo. this is a mountainous location. so the possibility of mudslides
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but they are definitely talking about doing everything they can this time around. well, andrew stevens there in tacloban which will be spared a direct hit. still, you are already seeing the rain come down where you are. andrew, stay safe. we appreciate the reporting. thank you. now back to the united states, a third straight night of demonstrations in new york brought out smaller crowds, but hundreds of protesters took to the streets in several major u.s. cities. now, this was the scene at the flagship macy s department store in new york where protesters staged just one of many die-ins. they re demanding that all the police officers involved in the chokehold death of a staten island man back in july be fired. in washington, demonstrators blocked traffic for hours in chinatown, and crowds shut down a major freeway in miami. well, new york s police commissioner has announced plans to retrain all of the city s officers on conflict resolution and the use of force.