China evacuates around one million as typhoon hits

Chinese authorities have evacuated more than 960,000 people as a typhoon pounded the Chinese coast south of Shanghai on Saturday with strong winds and heavy rainfall, submerging roads and felling trees. Typhoon Chan-hom slammed ashore with winds of up to 160 kilometers per hour near Zhoushan, a city east of the port of Ningbo in the Zhejiang province. More than 100 trains and 600 flights were canceled in several cities, according to China's Xinhua News Agency. Luckily, the typhoon began to weaken as it moved inland, as China's national weather service said the typhoon might be the most powerful to hit the country since 1949.