Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us at least 16 people are dead and thousands of homes destroyed as of monday evening local time in the philippines officials continue to assess the damage typhoon goni is one of the strongest storms to make landfall there in years bringing winds of up to 200 kilometers an hour to parts of the country it mostly missed to the capital of manila but still hundreds of thousands of people have had to evacuate not just from the storm but from subsequent mudslides and floods. For a country hit on average 20 times each year by typhoons goni was the most powerful to strike the philippines this year. Rooftops were torn away debris flying everywhere as water rushed in one from the sea or downhill from mountainsides. Wind gusts reached above 300 Kilometers Per Hour and in some towns the red cross said up to 80 percent of the homes were destroyed. Goni rival typhoon haiyan which in 2013 killed more than 6000 people. But this time there were
Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us at least 16 people are dead and thousands of homes destroyed as of monday evening local time in the philippines officials continue to assess the damage typhoon goni is one of the strongest storms to make landfall there in years bringing winds of up to 200 kilometers an hour to parts of the country it mostly missed the capital of manila but still hundreds of thousands of people have had to evacuate not just from the storm but from subsequent mudslides and floods. For a country hit on average 20 times each year by typhoon dhoni was the most powerful to strike the philippines this year. Rooftops were torn away debris flying everywhere as water rushed in one from the sea or downhill from mountainsides. Wind gusts reached above 300 Kilometers Per Hour and in some towns the red cross said up to 80 percent of the homes were destroyed. Goni rivaled typhoon haiyan which in 2013 killed more than 6000 people. But this time there were w
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