Overview

• Officials ordered about 400,000 people to leave high‑risk areas as the tropical storm swept central provinces overnight.
• Civil protection chief Claudio Yugot said three people in the Bicol region died when walls collapsed and trees were uprooted.
• Rescuers reported many roads impassable and are clearing large fallen trees and downed electric poles in Masbate and nearby areas.
• AFP‑verified videos showed residents wading through waist‑deep floodwaters in the Visayas, while five fishermen were reported missing and forecasters warned of continued heavy rain.
• Authorities raised the Philippine death toll from earlier super typhoon Ragasa to 14, leaving thousands still displaced as Bualoi may reach typhoon strength after moving back over the South China Sea early Saturday.