REAL (The Philippines): Helicopters delivered food to famished survivors and picked up casualties as flash floods began to recede, revealing the magnitude of a disaster triggered by back-to-back storms that left more than 650 people dead and nearly 400 missing in the northern Philippines.
Soldiers who reached an isolated Pacific Ocean village reported finding about 100 dead. In this worst-hit town in nearby Quezon province, television images showed bodies buried beneath mud and debris.