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CBC NewsRescuers stepped up their efforts in the northern Philippines on Sunday as the skies started to clear a day after a tropical storm tore through and left more than 70 people killed or missing in the worst flooding in more than four decades.
The government declared a "state of calamity" in metropolitan Manila and 25 storm-hit provinces, allowing officials to use emergency funds for relief and rescue, Defence Secretary Gilbert Teodoro said.
The 42.4 centimetres of rain that swamped metropolitan Manila in just 12 hours on Saturday exceeded the 39.2-centimetre average for September, Cruz said, adding that the rainfall broke the previous record of 33.4 centimetres) in a 24-hour period in June 1967.
Ketsana, which packed winds of 85 km/h with gusts of up to 100 km/h, hit land early Saturday, then roared across the main northern Luzon island toward the South China Sea
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Flooding has left 250,000 homeless and the army has rescued 4,000 in the Phillipines as a result of Tropical Storm Ketsana.