Fifth Storm In Under A Month Bears Down On Philippines

Rescuers ferry stranded residents from their flooded houses at a village in the Philippines' Isabela province on Tuesday (Credit: AFP)

The Philippines prepared Tuesday to evacuate potentially tens of thousands of people as the fifth major storm in three weeks bore down on the archipelago shortly after the onslaught of Typhoon Toraji.

Now a weakened tropical storm, Toraji blew out to sea overnight after causing relatively limited damage and no reported deaths.