Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim and city officials braved the strong rains and floods to attend to the more than 6,000 residents who had to be evacuated to ensure their safety and ferry individuals who had been stranded for the second day in a row.
Yesterday, Lim joined, among others by his chief of staff and media bureau chief Ric de Guzman, city administrator and Manila disaster risk reduction council (MDRRC) executive director Jay Marzan, social welfare chief Jay de la Fuente, department of public services chief ret. Col. Carlos Baltazar and first district Rep. Atong Asilo, made the rounds of the evacuation centers aboard a truck to personally bring relief goods and financial assistance to the families who were displaced by the heavy downpour that has hit the country for the past several days.
Those whom Lim and city officials visited were the evacuees currently  housed at the President Corazon Aquino High School in Baseco;  Antonio Villegas High School in Barrio Magsaysay, Tondo; Gregorio del Pilar Elementary School in Jose Abad Santos near Recto and Barangay 105 covered court in Happyland, Tondo.
A total of 600 families remain at the Antonio Villegas High School; 1,000 at the Corazon Aquino High School; Gregorio del Pilar Elementary School, 40 families; 100 families, Barangay 105 covered court.
De la Fuente said a total of additional 100 families were evacuated at the Tecson Elementary School in Sampaloc and were also fed, along with 250 families housed at the Don Bosco High School in Sta. Mesa.
The mayor, who is also chair of the MDRRC, has directed De la Fuente to feed the families being sheltered at the said  evacuation centers three times a day, as he also ordered Manila health department chief Dr. Benjamin Yson and directors of hospitals concerned to field doctors and check on the evacuees’ condition from time to time, making sure that the evacuees do not develop illnesses which may spread among them.
As of  2 p.m. yesterday, Marzan said the following areas remained flooded and impassable to light vehicles: Abad Santos, Soler, streets surrounding City Hall, Taft Avenue, V. Mapa,  Sampaloc, Finance Road, Lagusnilad, Tayuman, Ayala and Espana Boulevard.
Marzan said that on orders of the mayor, he fielded trucks to ferry stranded passengers, assisted by some city personnel and his own children.