a mega has left significant damage in the eastern va, sayas region jamila alan duncan report. it is supposed to be the hardest time of the year in the philippines, but a tropical storm has battered many areas in the eastern. besides this region, leading many towns cut off because of flood waters and lands. life in the province of ino, rescue were struggle to help stranded residence, to get them to nearby shelters. in later volunteers are helping the overwhelmed coast guards. rescue the most vulnerable missions like these are often more complicated. given these communities are in far flung areas in the town of by, by more than 14 bodies have been found after a landslide and in the town of buena rescue efforts continued to be hampered by rain. you all know at this length and she sort of, we prepared for the security measures here being flux of the passengers in the modifying safety aspect of the problem. public. we help deployed around the 200 specialized workers search and rescue personnel. a trained dog conductor, search and rescue 3 shots even. ah, though, so flooded the area

more than 160 people have been killed and at least 110 are missing. jamila alan, doug reports me. we are following a government emergency team that's been in the village for nearly a week. hundreds of families once lived here, but a major landslide reduced a once thriving community to rebel. their work has been difficult for days. they have retrieved the bodies and the outskirts of the village, and are slowly digging for more. compactness is just one of the many areas devastated by tropical storm meggy earlier this week. but the scale of the death damage has shocked many in the provinces so reeling from the effects of another typhoon. 4 months ago, president rodrigo to 30 arrived in late to late on friday. he visited hospitals, full of rescued civilians. this smell of decaying bodies is quite overwhelming. just behind me is, is a neighborhood that rescue worse took several days to access. it may seem close from where we are, but they actually had to go around and secured the perimeter in order to reach that area. now the focus of responders. now, i've gone from rescue to retrieval

maggie struck the islands more than 160 people have been killed in at least a 110 or unaccounted for jamila alan doug has the latest from bay bay city in late a province. the government clarifies, there is no plan to stop retrieval operations despite this possibility being discussed on the ground. in fact, they're hoping they see that the weather participates and that if it continues to be sunny, they'll finally be able to bring in heavy equipment and implement a full scale retrieval operations. many believe that hundreds remain buried in many areas of later province. and even for a country, often battered by natural disasters, typhoon meggy is an unusual occurrence. it is supposed to be the hottest period of the year, and it comes as the province in particular is still reeling from the impacts of life when rise super typhoon. that battered the eastern, besides this region last december. it also comes as millions of families, particularly the thousands who live in late. the province is commemorating one of the holiest week of catholicism, is supposed to be a period where families are getting tog