Overview
- Officials report at least 114 dead, 127 missing and over 430,000 displaced, with most fatalities in Cebu from drowning and landslides.
- President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. declared a state of emergency to speed funding and operations as authorities prioritize debris clearing and searches.
- Six Philippine Air Force personnel died when a helicopter on a humanitarian mission crashed in Agusan del Sur.
- Kalmaegi has moved into the South China Sea and is strengthening toward central Vietnam, where authorities prepared mass evacuations and warned of airport disruptions.
- Forecasters are monitoring a separate tropical disturbance east of Mindanao that could develop into another cyclone.