NU Online News Service, Sept. 28, 3:31 p.m. EDT

Eighty percent of the Philippines capital city of Manila was left underwater after the storm Ketsana, now a typhoon, struck over the weekend, catastrophe modeler Risk Management Solutions said.

Guy Carpenter reinsurance brokerage said authorities there had reported economic damages estimated at $30 million and more than 100 persons killed.

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