<span style="color: #222222;">In the Philippines, Typhoon Mangkhut has claimed 64 lives. It is now pounding China's most populous province, Guangdong after making landfall on the coast near Jiangmen city this afternoon. With a wind speed of up to 162 meter per hour, the typhoon has earlier ravaged Hong Kong where it swayed skyscrapers and blew out windows. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In the United States, Florence storm has claimed at least 14 lives. Although it has weakened into a depression, the National Hurricane Center said flash flooding will continue over a significant portion of the Carolinas. Some towns have already seen 60 cm of rain in two days, with totals forecast to top one meter in places.</span>