dispatched to rescue people from building collapses. rivers on the roadways. here is an individual plucked from their home. it took several hours to get them out because of the building collapse. you look at the magnitude behind typhoon lekima. several stories here. you see the buildings in the backgrounds. it made landfall local time 1:00 a.m. saturday morning. it is about 4:00 p.m. local time in shanghai. we are talking about 14 or 15 hours after the original landfall of the storm system. it is no longer over the east china sea. it doesn t have moisture source any longer. it is weakening. that is good news. it will rain out over the east coast. travel delays ongoing across shanghai. winds in excess of 80 kilometers
the deadly virus outbreak in 2003. translator: the downturn is so rapid that some people have described its arrival as a tsunami. compared to the economic downturn that we dealt with caused by the sars and the economic storm that came afterwards, i m afraid this time is harsher. the parts of china are on red alert as a powerful storm makes landfall in the country s eastern coast. typhoon lekima is battering the region with winds of 175 kilometers per hour. that s equivalent to a category 2 hurricane. some coastal areas are at risk of heavy rainfall and flooding. chinese officials have dispatched rescue teams and advised businesses and schools to close down as a precaution. meteorologist derek van dam is reporting on this for us. derek? you saw some of the wave picture there s. let s go back to some of the visuals of the flooding. it is quite extensive across the eastern sections of china.
typhoon lekima battered the regioned with winds of 110 miles per hour. the downpour has flooded the streets of coastal areas as you see here. china s officials reportedly ordered more than 1 million people to evacuate before the storm hit. our derek van dam is here. and with that a person in the water there. you know, it was actually a rescue operation. okay, okay. i was going to say. that video is quite something because they had 1400 fire rescue teams that were dispatched. two rescue people that were trapped in homes or swift water rescues because they were taken over by the high water in the area. it s all because of the heavy rainfall from this typhoon. you ll be able to see in this footage, the evolving storm as it approached the zhejiang
parts of china are on red alert as a powerful storm makes landfall on the country s eastern coast. typhoon lekima has battered the region with heavy rains and winds of 175 kilometers per hour. that is equivalent to a category 2 hurricane. the downpour has flooded the streets of some coastal areas, as you see here. chinese officials have dispatched rescue teams and advised businesses and schools to close down as a precaution. derek van dam is back with us from the cnn weather center. this storm wreaked havoc in the southern ryukyu islands south of mainland japan, and then it moved into the east coast of china. look at this time lapse. very ominous skies. this is in the zhejiang province south of shanghai. it turned streets into full-on rivers. you don t want to traverse this type of situation. of course many people getting stuck in the rapid rising water. there were swift water rescues that are taking place. you re watching one of the gentlemen who is successfully
rescued from a several hoyer operation trying to get them out of their home. there is another individual there. you can see the rescue personnel actually reaching them successfully, a stranded vehicle. a difficult situation. it paralyzed some of the transportation there, from air to road all the way to the railways. and you talk about the coast as well. you can see some of the waves here are several stories high. just incredible amounts of power and energy built up behind typhoon lekima. here s the latest. it is just after 2:00 p.m. local time i should say in eastern china. the landfall was roughly about 12 to 13 hours ago in the zhejiang province. 175 kilometer per hour winds at the time of landfall. and that was confirmed in many locations. here is a just, for example, 137. but there were higher accounts. and just some of these rainfall totals are impressive as well. it s picking up in speed in