Asian capital city of the Philippines, Manila, I'm Art Bell, and this is coast-to-coast

AM, the very largest program of its sort in the nighttime, across the U.S., Canada, or any other

land on the face of the globe.

Hi, everybody.

I'm Art Bell, the original creator of all this, I guess.

And it is an amazing thing, I tell you, that I am here right now.

Absolutely astounding, actually, that I'm here at all right now because I've got a little bit of a story to tell you.

We went through one hell of a typhoon.

We still do not have electrical power here, and I believe the majority of Manila.

There are spots that are beginning to get it, but we have been without power here now for

four days.

Four days ago, I had seen it coming for about two days. I had seen this crazy

thing coming. There's a website up there called Para, P-A-R-A, which is the Philippine Amateur Radio Association

website, and they had a pretty good take on what was going on with this typhoon.

And I saw it begin to turn.

First, it was going northwest, then it began going west-northwest, then it turned finally at the last minute,

the last few hours, into a westerly direction.

This thing had winds of about 160 kilometers per hour, and it came right over Manila. Now, we woke up that morning, and I'm telling

you, it was sheer terror. Now, these 160-kilometer winds were at the ground.

Bear in mind, we're on the 19th floor of a condominium building.

And that puts about 190 feet, 180, 90 feet in the air, something like that.

Almost 200 feet in the air.

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