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CARL AZUZ, cnn 10 ANCHOR: Flooding in the nation of Vietnam headlines today's show. I'm Carl Azuz. Thank you for making us part of your day.
October is part of the rainy season in the communist nation of Vietnam. But this year, precipitation has been particularly heavy. Meteorologists say the natural La Nina phenomenon in the Pacific may be to blame. Hundreds of thousands of homes are underwater. There have been some major landslides.
The Reuters news agency reported yesterday that 111 people are dead and 22 were still missing.
The president of Vietnam's Red Cross Society says the floods are some of the worst the nation has seen in decades. Everywhere we look, she says, homes, roads, and infrastructure have been submerged. Rescuers are bringing in supplies by air, sea and land.
The floods aren't just affecting lives, they're affecting livelihoods. About 40 percent of Vietnam's labor force works in agriculture and the government-run news agency says more than 17,000 acres of crops have been lost, in addition to over 691,000 cattle and poultry that have been washed away.
Combined that with the loss of tourism revenue, first from COVID-19 and now from the flooding, and international aid workers say millions of people could be pushed toward the brink of poverty.
The forecast isn't helping. A tropical storm which recently caused flooding and evacuations in the Philippines is headed toward Vietnam.
