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\f0\fs26 \cf0 \cb2 (Image source: {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20590437"}}{\fldrslt
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\f0\b\fs26 \cf0 BY NATHAN BYRNE \f1\b0\fs24 \
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\f0\b\fs26 ANCHOR JIM FLINK \f1\b0\fs24 \
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\f0\fs26 \cf0 At least 40 people are reported dead or missing and nearly 150,000 have evacuated
the southern Philippines where Typhoon Bopha has made landfall on the island of Mindanao.
{\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20589510"}}{\fldrslt \cf4 \ul \ulc4 T\cf3 \ulnone he BBC reports
heavy rain and wind gusts of 130 miles per hour}}.
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\f0\b\fs26 \cf0 \'93 \'85 the storm has uprooted trees, torn the roofs off of houses, it\'92s
set off landslides and flash floods. It\'92s now on the move towards the center of the
country.\'94 \f1\b0\fs24 \
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\f0\fs26 \cf0 At first, evacuations were voluntary. But {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/12/201212415828801945.html"}}{\fldrslt
\cf3 a reporter for Al Jazeera says the government eventually ordered people in harm\'92s way
to leave their homes}}. \f1\fs24 \
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\f0\b\fs26 \cf0 \'93They were determined not to see the same high casualty rate as last
year when over 1,200 people were killed in this area during a tropical storm.\'94
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\f0\fs26 \cf3 Meteorologist Jim Cantore with The Weather Channel}}
\f0\fs26 says the way this storm started is rare.
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\f0\b\fs26 \cf0 \'93This thing formed at 3.6 degrees north latitude. Storms don\'92t usually
form that close to the equator. But this one has a little help from what we call a Rossby
wave, which actually induced the circulation out of this.\'94
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\f0\fs26 \cf0 And {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/04/world/asia/philippines-typhoon/index.html?hpt=wo_c2"}}{\fldrslt
\cf3 a meteorologist for CNN adds}} \'97 December isn\'92t typically typhoon season.
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\f0\b\fs26 \cf0 \'93If you talk about Mindanao in the month of December, I mean, they have
typhoons once every 10 years. But they\'92ve never had one of this size. They\'92ve never
had a super typhoon move into Mindanao.\'94 \f1\b0\fs24 \
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\f0\fs26 \cf0 According to Reuters, the storm is expected to move into the South China Sea
by Thursday.}