Video and Twitter Photos of Devastation in Philippines Video of parents searching for missing children in the aftermath of Typhoon Bopha. As my colleague Floyd Whaley reports from Manila, the death toll from Typhoon Bopha continues to rise in the southern Philippines with at least 270 people dead and hundreds of others missing. In a video from the hardest hit areas on the eastern coast of the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, parents looked for children and survivors and gathered what remained of their belongings. The ABS-CBN News Channel in the Philippines uploaded a YouTube video of its coverage of the battered Compostela Valley, a mountainous gold mining area, and the neighboring province of Davao Oriental, where many of the victims died in flash floods from storm surge and mudslides. A video from the ABS-CBN News Channel in the Philippines. As reported Tuesday on The Lede, the government of the Philippines began urging people three days before the typhoon struck to follow Twitter updates from the government's weather service and to use the hashtag #PabloPH (Typhoon Bopha is known as Pablo in the Philippines). People also used Twitter to share images of the devastation and to make pleas for assistance.