Bopha's Toll Nearing 500

According to the latest numbers, the death toll in the Philippines has climbed to nearly five hundred.

477 people are reportedly dead due to Typhoon Bopha.

Hundreds more are missing, in the storm which has brought deluges of rain.

Massive flash floods are blamed for most of the deaths.

Flooding continues throughout most of the country.

Around two hundred thousand people have left the effected areas.

The entire south of the nation is shut down as the country bears out the storm.

Moving west at about seventeen miles per hour the nearly four hundred mile wide storm is expected to leave the Philippines sometime Friday.