“Damage this storm has caused is heartbreaking,” US Embassy spokesperson Rebecca Thompson said in a statement sent via text messaging on Saturday night.

She said Kenney has called Philippine National Red Cross chairman, Sen. Richard Gordon, to offer US$50,000 in immediate disaster relief assistance through the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance of the US Agency for International Development.

Thompson added that embassy officials would be keeping in touch with the National Disaster Coordinating Council to determine what other assistance the US may offer.

Around 1 p.m. on Sunday, several US Navy personnel, bringing with them inflatable boats, went to the NDCC center dubbed “Camp A” along Marikina River in Cainta, Rizal, from where they helped Filipino soldiers and emergency workers rescue people still trapped in their homes or who lost their homes to the flood.