is also suspended work and public transport. judging its citizens to stay at home and speak to tom grundy, who is the editor in chief of hong kong, free press. he's live in hong kong for us. so well, i can see the situation behind you. tom is pretty when the starting now it's really feel the effects of a storm. the believe it or not, they can be on the phone. so let me find the island, the hall, my head off and out for me to be the. i'm always going to rush me then for xico on making sure that they stay overnight. and 2nd thing i thought of something said home bring down a render rooftop. here on the island dispute on something, come off and shelves being afraid of some leaving thoughts on the box or we find government advice this morning. only the names of the ladies say that t i you said. busy you might have some, uh, not searching me some on the 15th of this month by rail ferry refund. get in and out of the file into the moment. several phone bills, both business days. a few. when i phone my phone can only stay in the name of rick . good. holmes. tom. generally. we started the phone an

we can turn now to tom grundy, who is the edison chief of hong kong, free press the joints now from hong kong. and i said, since we last spoke tom, you've actually moved indoors to sort of a situation where you are but we're not lying island. so we very much, still the brunswick 1st here we have just hudson, the hong kong observatory, that in 20 minutes time they're going to upgrade based on to a t 9. after that, we have the maximum t 10 and it's going to be around midnight and 6 hours. that they all have. the storm will be over the city, so certainly people have been a buttoning down the hatches today. earlier we saw people clearing, supermarket shelves of supplies, and even some this morning going out, surfing the spike, government's advice. the city itself, shut down this morning flights rail of fairies, full council, the sent me no way in and out of a alarm or island today. and perhaps tomorrow, the stock market closes and that finally costs the city of millions, economically, and schools and most businesses are also uh uh, shots. although some balls restaurants do tend to continue t

grundy. he is edison chief of the hong kong free press. he joins us now live from hong kong, tom. so from what i understand this extreme rain has taken everyone by surprise described to us what's going on. that's what we're seeing. widespread. the flooding, at least 20 lines slides, and it's begun overnight calls disappearing into the sink holes macro stations, comp hawks, even shopping moles, under water, entire roads and villages cuts off some chaos on the roads today with the transport and people being swept off that feet down roads, some stuck in, i call the knights of his wading through knee. deep volta and arrows like fungi professionals. now a, a just meeting the press. and they've decided that this state of a lot will continue to at least midnight. that's another 9 hours. it certainly is the longest black rainbow winning, we've had the same as 14 on dallas, and we just received them a call. it says that it's one person desk who has stood near the seat. it was taken to hospital. so this is the most meaningful hong kong is saying for a 139 years, at least since that quotes b