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09.29.09 | FL News Team

As the death toll from a weekend typhoon climbs, . More than 240 deaths are being blamed on Saturday's Typhoon Ketsana, which has brought nearly 100-million-dollars in damages to the

nation of more than seven thousand islands. As the cleanup continues, weather forecasters say a new storm forming in the Pacific Ocean is likely to make landfall later in the week on the northern island of Luzon, hitting the same area as Ketsana. Last Saturday's storm dumped more than one month's of average rainfall on Manila and the surrounding areas in just one 24-hour period. About 80-percent of the city of 15-million was flooded.

Meanwhile, authorities in Vietnam have ordered the evacuation of at least 170-thousand people there as Ketsana is forecast to hit central portions of the country later today. Hundreds of soldiers are helping with the evacuations and storm preparation. Vietnam Airlines has cancelled all fights to the port city of Danang since yesterday and schools in several coastal provinces are closed.