Typhoon Morakot slams China

Graphic showing the path of Typhoon Morakot. China rushed nearly one million people out of harm's away as Typhoon Morakot slammed into its coast after triggering Taiwan's worst flooding in 50 years, leaving at least four people dead.
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A woman looks out from the second floor of her apartment which was flooded after Typhoon Morakot hit Pingtung county, southern Taiwan August 9, 2009.
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A collapsed hotel building is seen in heavily flooded river after Typhoon Morakot hit Taitung county, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009, in Taitung County, eastern Taiwan. The six-story hotel collapsed and plunged into a river Sunday morning after floodwaters eroded its base, but all 300 people in the hotel were evacuated and uninjured, officials said.
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Paramilitary policemen drive a motorboat in a flooded village in Cangnan county, eastern China Sunday Aug. 9, 2009. Typhoon Morakot slammed into China's east coast Sunday just hours after nearly 1 million people evacuated the area. It earlier lashed Taiwan with torrential rains that caused the island's worst flooding in 50 years and left dozens missing and feared dead.
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A rescuer helps a crying baby out of floodwater area after Typhoon Morakot hit Pintung county, southern Taiwan, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009. The storm dumped more than 200 centimeters (80 inches) of rain on some southern counties on Friday and Saturday, the worst flooding to hit the area in half a century, the Central Weather Bureau reported.
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A rescuer drags a life cutter in flooded area after Typhoon Morakot hit Pintung county, southern Taiwan, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009. The storm dumped more than 200 centimeters (80 inches) of rain on some southern counties on Friday and Saturday, the worst flooding to hit the area in half a century, the Central Weather Bureau reported.
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A team of rescuers rows a life boat in a flooded street in Chiatung Town, Pintung County, southern Taiwan after Typhoon Morakot hit the area Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009,. The storm dumped more than 200 centimeters (80 inches) of rain on some southern counties on Friday and Saturday, the worst flooding to hit the area in half a century, the Central Weather Bureau reported.
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Taiwanese people gather in floodwater in Chiatung Town, Pintung County, southern Taiwan after Typhoon Morakot hit the area Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009,. The storm dumped more than 200 centimeters (80 inches) of rain on some southern counties on Friday and Saturday, the worst flooding to hit the area in half a century, the Central Weather Bureau reported.
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In this image made from television broadcast by ETTV television Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009, a a six-story hotel in Chihpen, Taitung county, Taiwan collapses and plunges into a river after floodwaters eroded its base as typhoon Morakot passed through the area. All 300 people in the hotel were evacuated and uninjured, officials said. Typhoon Morakot slammed into China's east coast Sunday just hours after nearly 1 million people evacuated the area. It earlier lashed Taiwan with torrential rains that caused the island's worst flooding in 50 years and left dozens missing and feared dead.
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A woman sweeps water as children walk down a flooded alleyway after Typhoon Morakot hit Fuzhou, Fujian province August 9, 2009. A child was killed and houses were flattened after the typhoon battered China's eastern coast on Sunday, bringing torrential rain and high waves likely to disrupt life and business across the heavily commercial region. REUTERS/Kong Nong

A worker sits behind a pile of sandbags as pumping units pump flood water out of a workshop after Typhoon Morakot hit Fuzhou, Fujian province August 9, 2009. A child was killed and houses were flattened after the typhoon battered China's eastern coast on Sunday, bringing torrential rain and high waves likely to disrupt life and business across the heavily commercial region. REUTERS/Kong Nong

Flood waters brought on by Typhoon Morakot submerge a house in Pingtung county in Taiwan. China rushed nearly one million people out of harm's away as Typhoon Morakot slammed into its coast after triggering Taiwan's worst flooding in 50 years, leaving at least four people dead.
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A rescue worker carries a baby as a family is rescued from flooding brought by Typhoon Morakot in Chiatung, Pingtung county, in southern Taiwan. China rushed nearly one million people out of harm's away as Typhoon Morakot slammed into its coast after triggering Taiwan's worst flooding in 50 years, leaving at least four people dead.
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Rescuers try to reach a man who is stranded by floods as Typhoon Morakot approaches in Shanghai August 9, 2009.
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Rescuers help local residents escape the flooding brought on by Typhoon Morakot in Chiatung, southern Taiwan. China rushed nearly one million people out of harm's away as Typhoon Morakot slammed into its coast after triggering Taiwan's worst flooding in 50 years, leaving at least four people dead.
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A hotel building leans before falling in a heavily flooded river after Typhoon Morakot hit Taitung county, Taiwan, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009. The six-story hotel collapsed and plunged into a river Sunday morning after floodwaters eroded its base, but all 300 people in the hotel were evacuated and uninjured, officials said.
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