HELP FOR ONDOY

Even Hollywood stars called their fellow Americans to help the victims of tropical storm ONDOY (Ketsana) in the Philippines as they expressed their sympathies to the ondoy victim.

Eva Fonda sexy actress Cristine Reyes cried for help when she trapped at their rooftop in their residence in Provident Village, Marikina City, as tropical storm roared and flooded rose menacingly. The actor emerged from nowhere on a speedboat and help her to safety. WOW how sweet?

Rescuers from different areas pulled the dead from swollen rivers and thousands thirst from without water, hungry for food and power as the death toll from the worst flooding in the Philippines in more than 4 decades climbed to 100.

While tens of thousands of affected residents began to cleanup and storm ondoy left the Philippines, the extent of devastation became clear, mud covered communities, houses covered with landslide, car choked the streets and huge number of residents without water to drink, foods to eat and no power.

The government has declared a state of calamity in metropolitan Manila and other provinces affected. More than 450,000+- people were affected by the storm, including some 115,000+- brought to about 200 schools, and Churches and other evacuation centers. Government welfare officials have begun focusing on providing food, medicine and other necessities to those in emergency shelters.

The United States has donated $100,000 and deployed a military helicopter and five rubber boats manned by about 20 American soldiers from the countries south. The United Nations Children's Fund has also provided food and other aid.

However PAGASA said ondoy will continue to enhance the southwest monsoon and bring occasional rains in the western section of Central and southern Luzon. Luzon will experience cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms.

Another two weather disturbances are likely to enter the Philippine area and expected to enter the Philippine boundary by late Wednesday or Thursday.

MP3 player helps in rescuing missing skiers

SAVOGNIN, Switzerland – Swiss rescue officials say they have found two missing skiers after spotting the light from their MP3 music player.

The Swiss air rescue association Rega says it received a distress call from the French tourists late Friday but the skiers' phone battery went dead before they could be reached.

Rega spokesman Gery Baumann says the two men were eventually found after midnight in steep, wooded terrain by a helicopter crew that spotted the light from their digital music player.

Baumann said Saturday that the two 22-year-olds suffered only mild hypothermia despite enduring temperatures as low as 5 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 15 degrees Celsius).

The incident happened near the town of Savognin in southeastern Switzerland.