meteorologist robert speta joins us now. robert you've been keeping an eye on storm. what's the latest? >> yes, this is still ongoing actually out here, catherine. we are looking at, at this time, it is still lingering out here just off the northwestern coast of luzon. you have the moisture in full wrapping around the south. this is by no means no longer a typhoon. it has weakened out to a tropical storm but the rainfall is still the biggest issue with this. take a look at this, baguio city 05 millimeters reported in a 12-hour span and also indications in this area upwards of 800 to 900 millimeters of total rainfall. this is actually the past several days of total rainfall accumulation based on satellite estimates some areas toward aurora province you're looking at upwards of 800 to 900 millimeters as well. video what it looks like in the northern philippines some of the areas hardest hit by the continuous rainfall. flash flooding into the mountainsides and rural locations, rice growing provinces, trapping villagers in their homes. people waiting for the water to rece

meteorologist robert speta has the latest. >> i know we have been talking about this all week, the destruction that took place out here. we are still talking about this because we are continuing to see the recovery, the after math across much of the region. the good news that the the storm system itself is completely dispersed off. it was the rain totals over the past week. some areas saw well over 1,000 millimeters of total precipitation. that is really the big story with the storm system. let's go to video we have showing you the flooding that was taking place. this is after the rain has stopped. the waters are starting to recede but still incredible ima images. total death toll well over 50. still defense officials say deaths are mostly due to drowning, landslides and crashed walls. forced more than 100,000 people to take shelter these emergency evacuation shelters. rice fields ready for harvest have been destroyed, same thing with banana crops and looks like the total amount of damage due to agriculture at the top well over $100 million. this is having a big impact on the economy yet alone

meteorologist robert speta joins us with more. >> what we have going on is actually once a tropical system, a severe tropical storm, actually, but we're really seeing that transition as this does move off toward the north and what i mean by all that is take a look at the satellite imagery and look at hokkaido and definitely the winds continue to kick up and down toward the south is a fairly organized system near-typhoon intensity and you see it disperses out and it interacts with the upper level jets over the westerly to the northern latitude and this is just a big stream of air and you can see it right here it kind of blows it out luke a candle and it expands up the wind field. by no means does that weaken a storm system, but it makes that wind field much longer. right now in the center of this and expanding out from it are 108 kilometer-per-hour sustained wins and the gale-force winds are here and this expands out. you are seeing breezy conditions and where people are really being impacted and traveling at the very least and at least 100 flights have been cancel side out here toward hokk

meteorologist robert speta joins us with the latest. >> yes, let's talk about this storm system.longer by any means a tropical system. it's out here just north of hokkaido extending toward far eastern russia. what we are seeing right now is a pretty fierce storm. take a look at this, you have winds continuing to wrap around here. and actually some areas of northern hokkaido reporting winds upwards of 130, 140 kilometers per hour, winds 80 to 85 kilometers per hour. this is still a potent storm system. let's go to video coming out of northern hokkaido where you can just see that blinding rains, waves continuing to crash onshore, some areas over 200 millimeters of rain has been reported. jma is advising people to stay away from water, as many rivers are exceeding dangerous levels. you can see it. one of the water gates going into the city where this image is coming out of was closed yesterday that ended up stopping some of the flow of water from escaping worsening the situation. on top of that very large waves. what we have is three fishermen missing out here because of these high