An article on Haiyan Typhoon

You'll find underlined the points I explain later on in bold types.

Daily Mail

Nov 25th, 2013

Typhoon Haiyan feared to have killed TEN THOUSAND Filipinos as Vietnam and China now prepare for the worst

• Typhoon Haiyan was a maximum category-five storm with ground winds of up to 235mph ==> miles per hour
• Red Cross today estimates 1,200 people have been killed, 1,000 of those in the city of Tacloban, Leyte ==> one thousand two hundred
  
• Around four million people are said to have been affected, according to the the country's national disaster agency ==> génitif américain
  
• Bodies were seen floating in flooded streets with rescue workers saying the aftermath was similar to the 2004 Tsunami  ==> prétérit passif. Action passée, achevée et datée
  
• 800,000 evacuated before gales whipped up 19ft waves that battered the islands of Leyte and Samar ==> eight hundred thousand / foot
  
• Storm has now passed majority of the islands and is set to move inland towards Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and China
  
• Hundreds of thousands of people in South East Asia have been evacuated and moved to shelters ==> pluriel + of car nombre imprécis
• 170,000 Vietnamese soldiers are brought in as aid agencies predict 6.5 million people will be affected ==> one hundred seventy  thousand
  
• Thousands of British nationals are thought to have been left stranded by the ferocious weather ==> pluriel + of car nombre imprécis
  
• Britain has pledged £6 million in aid and US Secretary of State John Kerry has said America 'stands ready to help'
  
• UN says 2.5 million people are in need of food aid and UNICEF have estimated 1.5 million children live in affected areas
• Weather forecasts have also predicted that high winds and rain could return to the Philippines on Monday ==> on + day of the week