Boats Bring Philippine Flood Victims To Safety As Death Toll Rises

The storm, which was weakening as it made its way north by northeast, was expected to be gone from the Philippines by Saturday morning.

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00:00Hours after Typhoon Kome made landfall, residents of Bulacan in the Philippines wade through

00:11knee-high floodwaters and ride through the streets on boats.

00:15The storm caused flooding in towns and villages north of Manila before heading to the west

00:24coast province of La Union.

00:30A local resident, Mary Rose Navia, said that it has been difficult for them to go outside

00:35because the water is so high.

00:54Mary stated that there is no solution as the same thing happens every time.

01:01Loro Sobino said he and his wife had evacuated their home in the morning after a frightening

01:07night of hard winds.

01:09I don't want to hear the poor, but I don't want to hear the water.

01:16Loro Sobino said he and his wife had evacuated their home in the morning after a frightening

01:22night of hard winds.

01:23I'm cold and I'm cold and I'm cold.

01:27I'm cold and cold and cold.

01:31Schools remained closed and electricity was down in swaths of the archipelago nation's largest

01:38island as the National Disaster Agency reported 25 dead and 8 missing since last Friday.

02:02The storm, which was weakening as it made its way north by northeast, was expected to

02:07be gone from the Philippines by Saturday morning.