Powerful typhoon hits Philippines

Residents cross a river at the flash flood-hit village of Andap, New Bataan township, Compostela Valley in southern Philippines on Dec. 5, 2012. Typhoon Bopha, one of the strongest typhoons to hit the Philippines this year, barreled across the country's south on Dec. 4, killing over 300 people and forcing more than 50,000 to flee from inundated villages.

Credit: AP Photo/Bullit Marquez