four-wheel drive patrolling the streets. again, down near the shore area. the philippines breaks right down into small municipalities and each has its own group of people who sort of whose responsibility is policing, if you like. there are quite a few groups of these out around the areas checking that if there are people staying there, that they re relatively safe. as far as a national and state level goes, there are there s food that s been brought in. there are bulk food dumps now. hospitals are obviously on stand by. and there have been constant warnings for people to seek safety basically. so just generally so much more prepared this time around. it s interesting, we were here last year, as you know. the night before the storm hit, the president came on television and said, we are standing with
warnings. it has included in a signal three the southern islands of luzon and all of sumar in that signal three. signal two for the tacloban region. manila could be upgraded within the next 12 hours. two to four-meter storm surge, especially the northern portion of the eyewall. 200 to 500 millimeters of rainfall in a very mountainous rainfall and typhoon winds stretching throughout a large area. let s talk about the storm surge threat. unfortunately, this typhoon is coinciding with a full moon and high tide. as it nears here, it will have a component effect with the winds pushing up the waves allowing for the surge to be on the increase, between two, four,
hopefully they ve heard the warnings and have made themselves to higher ground and away from any parts of the ocean. let s go back to the graphics and we can see the latest public storm warnings. we have signal three expanded into the southern luzon islands. this area is going to be in a major zone for coastal storm surge. that s because the eyewall is going to travel just south of this particular port city. it s an east facing city, so we ll get a compounding effect from the winds, pushing up the water, allowing between two and four feemeter storm surge. we have 200 to 500 millimeters of rainfall. and a large swath of typhoon force winds. let s talk about the coastal storm surge. unfortunately, the passage of this storm just south of
we re expecting the land fall to take place in the next nine to ten hours. a very precarious situation for and as it moves across the central philippines eventually impacting manila as a weaker storm but still a sift storm by late monday evening. we have several different tracks from different meteorological organizationz. we are following that center track across the northeastern sections of samarra island. this is the current conditions. winds starting to pick up. reports of typhoon gusts across the east coast already of the island. this is the latest, public storm warnings extended into the southern islands of lieu zan. this is the coastal storm surge they re the we re concerned about as the storm moves inland, we are anticipating the northern periphery of the storm to bring in a compounding effect with winds bushing up the waves and by the way, this storm is coinciding with high tide and a
out bulletins every hour, telling people to get to safe grounds. remember, 6,300 people here died in tacloban. the bulk of those died because of the storm surge and there is a lot of building, rebuilding on the water front one year on. but as we drove through, there is virtually no one there. i wouldn t say it s completely empty, but certainly the vast majority of people have heeded the warnings and they are getting to safer ground. that s one of the concerns from last year, that the people weren t heeding the warnings. but hagupit is still a ways away from manila. reporter: just as we drove in, i saw two armored personnel carriers and a military