Typhoon hagupit
Typhoon Hagupit weakens
Nearly 13,000 houses were crushed and more than 22,300 were partially damaged in Eastern Samar.
The storm tore through the country's central islands flattening homes and toppling trees and power lines.
A powerful typhoon tore through the Philippines on Sunday bringing with it howling winds that toppled trees and power poles and cut off communications. CNN's Saima Mohsin has latest.
A UN agency says Typhoon Hagupit caused one of the world's biggest peacetime evacuations.
The UN Office for Disaster Risk Management in Geneva said 200,000 people had been evacuated.