Reading Script (Typhoon Report)

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Ka: It’s Wednesday, November 6, we hope you’re having a great morning.

E: We have stories and conversations for you for the next 2 hours. Let us keep it company until 10AM.

Ka: We get started with this morning’s headlines.

“PAGASA: 'Yolanda' could be strongest typhoon to hit Phl this year”

E: Typhoon "Haiyan," which will be locally named "Yolanda," continues to intensify further as it moves
closer to the Philippines, the state weather bureau said Wednesday afternoon. At a televised press
briefing, PAGASA said the typhoon was last observed at 1,221 kilometers east Mindanao as of 4 p.m.
Moving west northwest at 30 kilometers, Yolanda is expected to enter the Philippine Area of
Responsibility on Thursday morning. For further report, here’s our resident meteorologist, Mang Keith.

Ke: This is probably one of the Top 12, of all storms, ever seen on this planet. With the satellite or in
person, that’s how big it is. It is not as deep as Gilbert and Wilma in the Atlantic, but the wind speeds are
higher than those storms because the eye is so small.

This is just the most incredible photo I can show you. This eye, right there, it reminds me of Andrew,
slamming into South Florida as the eye of Andrew got smaller and smaller. Now Andrew’s eye was the
most important part of that storm because that’s where the big winds were, 150-160 miles per hour.

This storm is Sandy-size in width. There’s a lot of water under the storm. There’s going to be storm
surge, 50, maybe 60 feet. All the people along the eastern shores of the Philippines will be moving out
and getting to higher grounds. It’s a Category 5 hurricane, 175 miles per hour. It hasn’t been a good year
for the Philippines and this is the biggest one of the year so far. Ernie.

E: Keith, is there anything that people can do there? I imagine that the damage could be extraordinary if
people don’t pay attention or at least don’t prepare for what is going to hit them.

Ke: The good news here, if there’s any, is this area here is not as populated as Luzon up into Manila.
We’ll lose people no matter what we can do. This is some point for some people on Islands, to survive
the storm; you may at least go on the upslope side of the island if you can to get away with the massive
flooding. With a wind of 175 miles per hour, it doesn’t matter what kind of building you have, it will still
be damaged. Stay out of the water, that’s the big thing right now.

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“In the Philippines, Urban Planning Needs to Outrun Big Storms”

E: To keep its cities from drowning, the government is owning up to years of failed policy and designing
a more resilient future. Population growth, rapid urbanization and unfettered development of coastal
areas in the Philippines are increasing the risk of heavy damage from powerful typhoons. Experts urge
governments and the private sector to collaborate on improving urban planning. For further report,
here’s Timothy Daran.

T: For many of the world’s nations, climate change is a political abstraction. The Philippines is not one of
them. Eight of the top 10 cities most vulnerable to the impacts of a warmer, wetter planet sit inside the
Pacific Ocean archipelago; its seawaters are rising up to five times faster than the global average.

Every hour, 29 people move to Manila. The historic capital is now the fastest-growing city in Southeast
Asia, according to the United Nations and the London School of Economics. Where these migrants end
up, however, is often no safer than the place they came from.

Sir Paul Jaime, director of policy development legislation for the Housing and Urban Development
Coordinating Council made a statement 9PM Yesterday.

P: The problem is huge; it’s an accumulation of decades upon decades of doing this wrong, doing that
wrong. Cities need to move from unplanned urbanization to planned urbanization. They need to plan
urban growth - and that's not happening in Philippines to the extent that it needs to happen. Exposure is
increasing and intensity of the hazard is increasing, and combined - these two - mean that the risk is
increasing. The problems are exponentially more than the resources that we have. But if you’re doing
something like this, you have to be hopeful.

T: The short-term solution is to keep people in the city at higher densities by building high-rise public
housing at locations where the residents can continue to access the city. But even without these things,
Tolentino says the creation of a 127-page report represents a step forward. His hope is that the
Philippine government will catch up to the needs of the people, before another major disaster strikes.

Karl: That’s it for the first gap. The country’s hottest stories and conversations will be back after the
break.