. >>> robert spedda joins us with more. >> we're still watching this move off towards the northeast, the good news is it has been downgraded from a typhoon. now a tropical depression, still bringing some showers, in western japan, you're actually going to be seeing some rainfall today, some of them rather heavy, up and over 100 millimeters is possible. but all of our attention is definitely down here to the southeast. where this came onshore this skirted the coastline of taiwan. on thursday, let's show you some video. just to give you an idea of the flooding that tack place. look at that, absolutely catastrophic, that's an historic bridge for that area, about 800 years old and it was seriously damaged by this storm system. very rare to have a storm this strong hit this specific area and thus that bridge stood for so long. the peak of this, 2.6 million people suffered from blackouts on thursday, trees are scattered across roadways there. more than 1,000 soldiers, 700 militia men were out and about to help with the recovery of this, this is going to be ongoing for some time to come. bu