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  • 14
    Dec
    2012
    12:36am, EST

    80,000 homeless in Philippines after Typhoon Bopha

    Ted Aljibe / AFP - Getty Images

    Residents rest under an uprooted tree used as temporary shelter in New Bataan, Compostela province on December 12, 2012 nearly one week after the southern part of the Philippines was hit by Typhoon Bopha. The death toll from the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year has climbed above 900 with hundreds more missing, many of them tuna fishermen feared lost at sea, the government said on December 11. Read the full story.

    Erik De Castro / Reuters

    A man looks for his relatives from lists of missing persons more than one week after Typhoon Bopha hit New Bataan, southern Philippines December 12, 2012.

    Erik De Castro / Reuters

    A girl and other typhoon victims search for recyclable materials from among the debris at the ruins of a house in the coastal town of Cateel, that was devastated during last Tuesday's Typhoon Bopha in Davao Oriental, southern Philippines on Wednesday.

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  • 11
    Dec
    2012
    8:07am, EST

    Boat-load of coffins heads for Philippines disaster zone

    Rolex Dela Pena / EPA

    Philippine Navy personnel load coffins on to the BRP Laguna, which is set to transport relief supplies to typhoon-affected areas, from a navy base in Cavite City, south of Manila, on Tuesday.

    The United Nations has appealed for $65 million in emergency aid for millions of victims of Typhoon Bopha in the southern Philippines, where at least 714 people were killed as muddy floodwaters washed out entire villages. 

    -- European Pressphoto Agency

    Rolex Dela Pena / EPA

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  • 10
    Dec
    2012
    3:12pm, EST

    Nearly 900 left missing by Typhoon Bopha in the Philippines

    Erik De Castro / Reuters

    Smoke rises from the devastation caused at the height of Typhoon Bopha in the coastal town of Boston, Davao Oriental in southern Philippines on Dec. 10. Typhoon Bopha killed 647 people and caused crop damage worth $210 million. The most intense storm to hit the Philippines this year wiped out about 90 percent of three coastal towns in Davao Oriental province and buried an entire town in neighboring Compostela Valley province under mud.

    The Associated Press reports -- The number of people missing after a typhoon devastated the Philippines jumped to nearly 900 after families and fishing companies reported losing contact with more than 300 fishermen at sea, officials said.

    The fishermen from southern General Santos city and nearby Sarangani province left a few days before Typhoon Bopha hit the main southern island of Mindanao on Tuesday, Civil Defense chief Benito Ramos said. The death toll has already surpassed 600, mostly from flash floods that wiped away precarious communities in the southern region unaccustomed to typhoons.

    Rescuers were searching for bodies or signs of life under tons of fallen trees and boulders in the worst-hit town of New Bataan, where rocks, mud and other rubble destroyed landmarks, making it doubly difficult to search places where houses once stood. Read the full story.

    Leonito Navales / Philippine National Police-PIO Photo Office via Reuters

    Police and rescuers conduct search and retrieval operations underneath the debris for typhoon victims who were swept away by floodwaters at the height of Typhoon Bopha in New Bataan town, Compostela Valley, southern Philippines on Dec. 10.

    Erik De Castro / Reuters

    Children look out from a window of a roofless house, destroyed at the height of Typhoon Bopha in the coastal town of Boston, Davao Oriental in southern Philippines on Dec. 10.

    Erik De Castro / Reuters

    Residents sift through their clothes on the ruins of a house destroyed at the height of Typhoon Bopha in the coastal town of Boston, Davao Oriental in southern Philippines on Dec. 10.

    Erik De Castro / Reuters

    Typhoon victims sit at the entrance of a tent with a coffin of a relative, who died after a coconut tree fell on him at the height of Typhoon Bopha, in Montevista town, Compostela Valley in southern Philippines on Dec. 9.

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    Tragic. Best wishes for the future recovery.

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  • 7
    Dec
    2012
    1:52pm, EST

    Aerial photos reveal damage from Typhoon Bopha

    Jay Morales / AFP - Getty Images

    A banana plantation lies in ruin in Compostela Valley in the southern Philippines, Dec. 7, 2012.

    AFP – Getty Images reports — Hundreds of thousands of survivors of a deadly typhoon crammed into packed shelters on Dec. 7, braving the stench of corpses as the government vowed action to prevent storm disasters. Typhoon Bopha whipped the southern Philippines on Dec. 4, leaving at least 546 people dead and hundreds more missing in the deadliest natural disaster this year in a country regularly hit with quakes, floods and volcanic eruptions.

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    Uprooted coconut trees lie in ruin as residents and rescue workers look for survivors at a coconut plantation in the aftermath of Typhoon Bopha in Compostela Valley in the southern Philippines, Dec. 7.

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    Uprooted banana trees lie at a plantation in Compostela Valley in the southern Philippines, Dec. 7.

    Malacanang Photo Bureau / EPA

    Trees lie uprooted in areas affected by Typhoon Bopha in Compostela Valley, southern Philippines, Dec. 7.

    Reuters

    Crops lie damaged in the aftermath of Typhoon Bopha in Compostela Valley, southern Philippines, Dec. 7.

    NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.

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    Prayers to the people there to deal with this terrible disaster.

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  • 5
    Dec
    2012
    8:52am, EST

    Typhoon Bopha leaves hundreds dead in the Philippines

    GRAPHIC WARNING: Contains graphic images which some viewers may find disturbing. 

    Erik De Castro / Reuters

    Residents clean their sofa outside their destroyed house after Typhoon Bopha hit Compostela Valley, southern Philippines, Dec. 5.

    Erik De Castro / Reuters

    Villagers wash their clothes amidst a destroyed banana plantation after Typhoon Bopha hit Compostela Valley, southern Philippines Dec. 5.

    Karlos Manlupig / AFP - Getty Images

    Residents walk amongst their destroyed houses after Typhoon Bopha hit Compostela town, Compostela Valley province, in southern island of Mindanao on Dec. 4.

    Erik De Castro / Reuters

    A villager walks on rope across water flooding over a destroyed road following typhoon Bopha in Compostela Valley, southern Philippines Dec. 5.

    Karlos Manlupig / AFP - Getty Images

    Relatives try to identify bodies in the aftermath of Typhoon Bopha in New Bataan, Compostela Valley in the southern Philippines on Dec. 5.

    Karlos Manlupig / AP

    Relatives grieve as they view bodies recovered from floods in New Bataan, Dec. 5.

    Reuters reports: MANILA, Philippines -- The death toll from the Philippines' strongest typhoon this year rose on Wednesday to around 230, with hundreds missing in landslides and floodwaters, as the storm continued its destructive path across the island nation.

    Typhoon Bopha, with central winds of 75 mph and gusts of up to 93 mph, battered beach resorts and dive spots in northern Palawan on Wednesday, but there was little damage as the storm began to weaken.

    Hardest hit were the coastal, farming and mining towns in the southern Mindanao region, where Bopha made landfall on Tuesday, destroying homes, causing landslides and flash flooding and killing at least 230 people. Continue reading...

    Typhoon Bopha has killed at least 283 people in the Philippines and left hundreds more missing. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.

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    This is terrible ....really nowhere to go an nowhere to hide. Prayers for these folks

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  • 3
    Dec
    2012
    6:58pm, EST

    Typhoon Bopha stirs awe from space

    NASA / JSC

    The storm clouds of Typhoon Bopha form a spiral far below the International Space Station in a photo captured on Sunday. The storm gained strength Monday, turning into a super typhoon with sustained winds greater than 150 mph. That's the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center reported.

    By Alan Boyle, Science Editor, NBC News

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    The awesome power of Typhoon Bopha was in full view of the International Space Station over the weekend, and since then the Pacific storm has strengthened to super typhoon status with sustained winds greater than 150 mph (240 kilometers per hour). The storm was headed for the Philippines, where memories of last year's killer storm are still fresh.

    "The potential destruction of this typhoon is no joke," Reuters quoted Philippine President Benigno Aquino as saying in a nationally broadcast address. Thousands of residents of coastal and mountain regions were evacuated in advance of the storm.


    Bopha is expected to make landfall on the southern island of Mindanao within hours. The same region was hit last year by Tropical Storm Washi, which killed more than 1,000 people and displaced more than 60,000. This time around, the storm's winds are more than twice as strong, qualifying Bopha as the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane.

    The Joint Typhoon Warning Center said waves reached heights of up to 52 feet at sea near the storm, and the width of the storm system was estimated at 370 miles (600 kilometers). Keep an eye on The Weather Channel's Hurricane Central as the storm proceeds. And for more imagery from NASA, keep an eye on the agency's Hurricane Resource Page as well as Goddard Space Flight Center's Flickr photostream.

    NASA / JSC

    Typhoon Bopha swirls hundreds of miles below the International Space Station on Sunday, in a photo taken by one of the astronauts on board. A piece of Russian hardware is visible in the foreground at upper right, bearing the words "Mission Control" in Russian.

    CIMSS / NASA / NOAA / UW-Madison

    A false-color infrared image, captured today by the Suomi NPP satellite, shows details of Super Typhoon Bopha's structure. For more typhoon imagery of the storm from Suomi NPP, check out the University of Wisconsin's CIMSS Satellite Blog.

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    There's a bit of a story behind that... I had the typhoon pictures slated as the day's entry in the calendar, but in the course of writing the copy to go with it, I found that the repercussions could be bad. What I think I'll do for now is remove the Advent calendar reference entirely and let this i …

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