00:00Super Typhoon Phuong-1 battled the Philippines' northeastern coast ahead of landfall on Sunday,
00:06leaving at least two people dead and forcing more than a million people to evacuate.
00:11The climate phenomenon approached the Pacific coast while the Philippines was still dealing
00:16with the devastation caused by Typhoon Kalmaegi, which left at least 224 people dead
00:23in the central provinces on Tuesday before hitting Vietnam, where at least five people
00:28lost their life. The typhoon reached maximum sustained winds of up to 185 km per hour
00:35and gusts of up to 230 km per hour. More than a million people were evacuated from high-risk villages
00:42in northeastern provinces, including in Bicol, a coastal region vulnerable to pacific cyclones
00:49and north floods from Meijon, one of the country's most active volcanoes.
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