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Fishermen carry their outrigger to higher ground Friday in Legazpi City, south of Manila.

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Half A Million Flee To Shelters As Typhoon Hits Philippines

9:13pm December 06, 2014

by Christopher Dean Hopkins

Hagupit hit the archipelago as a severe Category 4 storm in a region still recovering from a 2013 typhoon that killed 7,300. This storm could drop 2 feet of rain in some areas.

A satellite image showing Super Typhoon Hagupit on Friday.

A Year After Typhoon Haiyan, The Philippines Braces For Another Big Hit

7:50pm December 05, 2014

by Scott Neuman

Typhoon Hagupit is expected to hit just north of where last year's devastating storm made landfall — and then cut a path toward the capital, Manila.

This image captured by NASA's Aqua satellite shows Typhoon Hagupit on Wednesday in the western Pacific Ocean.

Super Typhoon Hagupit Takes Aim At The Philippines

2:35pm December 04, 2014

by Eyder Peralta

The storm is expected to be at least a Category 4 when it hits the island chain on Friday. Some places are still recovering from the devastation wrought by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013.

A makeshift graveyard outside San Joaquin Parish is now the final resting place of hundreds in the province of Leyte, Philippines.

Filipino Priest Suffers With His Flock Amid Typhoon's Ruins

8:58am January 13, 2014

by Anthony Kuhn

The Rev. Kelvin Apurillo rode out Haiyan on the second floor of his parish church. Two-thirds of his parishioners are now dead, missing or have left, and he's struggling to make sense of the destruction. In the majority Roman Catholic country, the church has played a key role in relief efforts.

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Military personnel from the U.S. and the Philippines unload relief goods at the Tacloban airport, Nov. 11, 2013. Some reports estimate that 10,000 people may have died in the city of Tacloban.

Aid Groups Struggle To Reach Survivors Of Typhoon Haiyan

8:08am November 12, 2013

by Jason Beaubien

More than 600,000 have been left homeless and hungry by the devastating storm. In response, humanitarian agencies are mounting the largest relief operation since the Haitian earthquake in 2010. The biggest challenge right now is getting the basics — clean water and food — to the hardest hit areas.

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