A powerful typhoon has wrecked houses, caused towering tidal surges and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee to emergency shelters as it barreled across the northern Philippines in the sixth

Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes as Super Typhoon Man-yi is making landfall along the eastern coast of Catanduanes, Philippines on Saturday.

More than 1.2 million residents evacuated ahead of the storm, including thousands in the capital, Manila, as authorities issued warnings of storm surges, flooding, and landslides