eventually it makes its way towards southern luzon. and the storm will exit the philippines by tuesday and wednesday. so lots to talk about here in the world weather center. but in the meantime, back to you. >> thank you very much, derek. landslides and the strong winds and all that rain, very dangerous indeed. derek vandam there for us. we want to go to cnn's andrew stevens who is in the philippines. andrew, what are you seeing right now? >> reporter: okay, i've just arrived, and the rain is quite heavy at the moment. not too bad wind conditions, though. things are likely to get a lot worse in about four hours or so from now, perhaps slightly less. but i have driven in from a town about 100 kilometers away, so i've had a good chance to see the countryside and what's happening. what i would say is so different this time compared with last year with typhoon haiyan, is that there have been effective evacuations here. there have been forced evacuations and people are now completely aware of just what sort of damage a storm of this magnitu

we are expecting it to impact southern luzon including manila by late sunday evening into monday, thet of the workweek. it will be a weakened typhoon but still a force to be reckoned with. the rainfall will be a concern, powe leshlly urbanized flooding. an interesting graphic here, you see that some of the outer typhoon-force winds now starting to reach the east coast, but, again, the eye wall still well offshore. let's talk about the concerns over this region and coastal storm surge is our major concern especially for the east-facing islands. and that including legazpi. specifically we have all the little inlets and bays that we want to be paying close attention to as this finally makes landfall. it's going to have a compounding effect. it is coinciding, by the way, isha, with a full moon and high tide, which is not great news. by the way, rainfall totals exceeding 400 millimeters in some locations. >> those are incredible numbers we see there on that picture. >> it really is. >> we shall follow this closely. derek, appreciate it. thank you. >>> millions have fled their homes in the

southern luzon was flooded and hit by landslides. powerful winds damaged more than 260 houses, ripping off the roofs of some buildings. the storm approached manila during the predawn hours from monday. so far, no significant damage has been reported in the capital. with lingering memories of last year's typhoon, residents appear to have responded well to the government's call to evacuate early. but access remains difficult in areas cut off by landslides. authorities say they're still evaluating the damage. they say they're determined to provide quick relief to people in need. >>> the u.n. special envoy for ebola has warned the epidemic is spreading in sierra leone. the country now has the highest number of cases. >> the increase in transmission in western sierra leone is a reflection of the fact that communities there have yet to fully embrace the outbreak and to take action to avoid infection themselves. >> the special envoy said it was a lack of facilities for isolating ebola patients. he said treatment centers should quickly be bu

they also say utility poles were downed and roads were blocked by mud and debris in southern luzon and other areas. power outages are continuing on samar island. the first place where the storm made landfall. the government has been calling on residents to evacuate. more than 1 million people are taking shelter at schools, churches and other buildings. manila schools and surrounding areas are closed on monday and public servants, excluding disaster officials, have been given the day off. >>> ministers from eight latin american nations are joining hands to fight global warming by planting trees. they announced the initiative to restore millions of hectares of forests during a u.n. climate summit in lima, peru. agriculture and environment ministers from countries including peru, mexico and argentina, say they will restore 20 million hectares of forests by 2020. the ministers are attending the u.n. cop20 talks on climate change. latin america's forests are rapidly disappearing. much of the land is being turned into farms. changes in land use account for almost half of the region's greenho

currently it's just passing to the south of legazpi and saeding to the southern luzon region impactinganila by late monday evening. this is a densely packed area of the philippines. we have a major concern of flash flooding across that area going forward into the early parts of the work week. 400 millimeters plus for some regions already. starting to see the back start of the storm. the storm center again just south of legazpi and does have its eye set on southern manila and much weaker typhoon by the time it reaches that location but nonetheless a big rain maker. let's look at the rainfall totals. as you can see how it's picking up on some significant rainfall. this is well over a foot of rain in two days for our domestic viewers, 340 million meters of rain in manila. here's a look at the population that could still experience tropical storm force winds from the eastern and central parts of the philippines. 40 million people possibly experiencing that and we still have our typhoon force winds in this swath of red and that includes about 10 million people. now with an onshore wind near

as this slow-moving typhoon eventually makes its way into southern luzon we're going to see roughly 13 inches for our domestic viewers. so we're going to look out for the possibility of flooding. >> thank you very much. derek van dam keeping an eye on that storm as it slowly moves toward the capital of manila. well, our cnn reporter is in the city of legazpi. now she joins us there live. i heard the wind howling earlier at your location. but it's not just the wind and the storm surge but also the concern that with the slow speed of the storm it's dumping even more rain, and that brings the possibility of landslides. how is legazpi city prepared? >> reporter: just a point about the wind there, that just when we came out to join you right now, this is possibly some of the strongest winds we've seen. it was really bad this morning. this morning we had the rain kind of driving in to my face when we were talking from legazpi. and now we've got it coming from behind me. but this is really bad. it's getting wroorse and worse d as we just heard in that weather report, high tide coming up and t