Overview
- Kalmaegi made landfall near Quy Nhon on Thursday evening with roughly 205 km/h winds as Vietnam evacuated about 300,000 people and mobilized around 200,000 troops across central provinces.
- Philippine authorities report 114 confirmed deaths nationally, rising to about 140–142 when provincial counts are included, with roughly 127 people still missing.
- President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. declared a national state of calamity to speed funding, price controls and emergency operations after the storm inundated Cebu and other Visayas provinces.
- Nearly two million people were affected in the Philippines, with more than 560,000 displaced and about 450,000 sheltering in evacuation centers, according to the Office of Civil Defense.
- Officials in Cebu say years of quarrying, clogged rivers and poor flood-control projects worsened the flooding, while a Philippine Air Force helicopter ferrying aid crashed, killing six, and forecasters are tracking a second system, Uwan/Fung-Wong, that could threaten northern Luzon.