Hello, and welcome to our viewers in the u. S. And around the world. Im Atika Shubert in london. Typhoon hagupit is threatening the philippines with the possibility of storm surges, flooding and landslides. Right now its pounding the islands with relentless torrential rain as it moves across the country. The storm madity first landfall on saturday and is expected to make a second landfall in the coming hours. Tens of thousands in lahti province had been evacuated. Now derek van dam has been with us from the start of the storm and has been following every movement and is standing by with the latest. Thanks very much for joining us. What can you tell us about what to expect in the coming hours . Well, atika, this is what you get when you have a very onshore wind on onto a very coastal city. This is a concern because there are still people located near the coast of legazpi city. We are looking for storm surges in the next couple hours. Thats because this particular city is facing in an ea
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 what a storm surge is. there s many lessons that can be learned from other countries. thank you very much. that s richard sandison for us