Overview
- Officials report 127 people missing, nearly 2 million affected and more than 560,000 displaced, including about 450,000 in emergency shelters.
- Cebu suffered the worst impacts with at least 71 deaths, largely from sudden flash floods that drove residents onto rooftops in areas still recovering from a late-September earthquake.
- Six Philippine Air Force personnel were killed in a helicopter crash during a humanitarian mission, as authorities prioritize debris clearing and searches to account for the missing.
- Kalmaegi strengthened over the South China Sea and is tracking toward central Vietnam, where authorities planned mass evacuations including about 350,000 people in Gia Lai and warned of airport disruptions.
- Pre-landfall evacuations exceeded 387,000 with ferries halted and at least 186 flights canceled, and forecasters are monitoring another disturbance east of Mindanao that could threaten the Philippines next week.