Severe flooding across the Philippines, driven by Tropical Cyclone Emong and the annual monsoon season, has forced more 53,000 families into evacuation shelters. The country announced that some 88 disaster declarations have been issued and over $5 million in aid has been distributed.

A tropical storm is blowing across the Philippines’ mountainous north, worsening more than a week of bad weather that has caused at least 25 deaths and prompted evacuations in villages affected by flooding and landslides.

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