BBC Breakfast star announces tragic news minutes in saying 'it's a real concern'

A BBC Breakfast star announced tragic news just minutes into Monday's (November 10) show, saying, "It's a real concern".

During today's edition of the hit morning programme, hosts Sally Nugent and Jon Kay updated viewers with the latest news from across the UK and around the world.

They were joined in the studio by Jane Dougall, who presented the sports segment, while Carol Kirkwood delivered regular weather updates.

At the start of the show, Sally confirmed that a typhoon had hit the Philippines, forcing one million people to be evacuated. Two people have sadly died.

"A powerful typhoon which struck the Philippines has now passed into the South China Sea, leaving at least two people dead and causing widespread flooding," Sally began.

"Typhoon Fung-wong hit the country's east coast last night as a super typhoon, with winds reaching speeds of 143 mph. Nearly one million people were evacuated after warnings of a high risk of threat to life."

BBC correspondent Jonathan Head then explained the worrying nature of the event in a pre-recorded clip from Cabanatuan City in the Philippines.

"Well, the storm has actually long since passed but, as you can see, it's still raining very heavily," he said.

"The big concern for this community, and so many others that are low-lying in the Philippines, is actually these water levels are now rising very fast. That's because the huge amounts of rain that were dumped by the typhoon have collected on the mountains, and they have soaked the terrain there.

"They're filling up the rivers and that water is feeding down to cities like this one lower down."

Jonathan continued: "We've really watched this water come up and we see people wading into their houses, retrieving possessions, furniture, pets as well.

"They now realise that even people who might have a second floor, this water might rise that high. It's an illustration of the many different, unpredictable risks that come with typhoons.

"The challenge initially was to protect people from the ferocity of the storm as it passed through this area... There's a lot of clearing up to do, but these rising water levels are a real concern."

The correspondent concluded: "[Although] this typhoon appears to have left the country far less damaged than expected, there are still dangers that it has left behind."

BBC Breakfast airs daily on BBC One at 6am