Philippines Braces for Second Tropical Storm as Death Toll Climbs

(29 Sep 09 - RV) Typhoon Ketsana roared into central Vietnam this afternoon after leaving devastation in its wake in the Philippines.


The toll so far from its progress across Vietnam is at least 23 people dead.

The toll in Philippines is now at 240 people dead and millions more homeless in and around the capital Manila.


But now officials are bracing for another storm forming in the Pacific Ocean, which they say is likely to enter Philippine waters on Thursday and make landfall later in the week on the northern island of Luzon, just like Typhoon Ketsana.


Monsignor Pedro Quitorio is the director of the media office of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines. He spoke with us about the severity of the humanitarian and natural disaster: