Super typhoon smacks into US Pacific island territories home to key military bases
Super Typhoon Bavi made landfall, pounding the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam on Monday. It's the second massive storm to hit the territories since April.
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Super Typhoon Bavi made landfall, pounding the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam on Monday. It's the second massive storm to hit the territories since April.

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Super Typhoon Bavi made landfall, pounding the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam on Monday. It's the second massive storm to hit the territories since April.
A "super typhoon" with the force of a Category 5 hurricane tore through the U.S. Pacific territories of the Northern Marianas and Guam on Monday, with authorities saying they had received r...
Local authorities on Rota, part of the Northern Mariana Islands, say they have received reports of 'major damages'.
Super Typhoon Bavi made landfall, pounding the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam on Monday. It's the second massive storm to hit the territories since April.
Super Typhoon Bavi made landfall, pounding the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam on Monday. It's the second massive storm to hit the territories since April.
Super Typhoon Bavi made landfall, pounding the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam on Monday. It's the second massive storm to hit the territories since April.
Super Typhoon Bavi made landfall, pounding the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam on Monday. It's the second massive storm to hit the territories since April.
Super Typhoon Bavi made landfall, pounding the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam on Monday. It's the second massive storm to hit the territories since April.
Super Typhoon Bavi made landfall, pounding the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam on Monday. It's the second massive storm to hit the territories since April.
Super Typhoon Bavi made landfall, pounding the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam on Monday. It's the second massive storm to hit the territories since April.
Super Typhoon Bavi made landfall, pounding the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam on Monday. It's the second massive storm to hit the territories since April.
Super Typhoon Bavi made landfall, pounding the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam on Monday. It's the second massive storm to hit the territories since April.
Super Typhoon Bavi made landfall, pounding the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam on Monday. It's the second massive storm to hit the territories since April.
Super Typhoon Bavi made landfall, pounding the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam on Monday. It's the second massive storm to hit the territories since April.
Super Typhoon Bavi made landfall, pounding the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam on Monday. It's the second massive storm to hit the territories since April.
Super Typhoon Bavi made landfall, pounding the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam on Monday. It's the second massive storm to hit the territories since April.
Super Typhoon Bavi made landfall, pounding the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam on Monday. It's the second massive storm to hit the territories since April.
Super Typhoon Bavi made landfall Monday over a tiny U.S. territorial island in the western Pacific near Guam, bringing powerful winds and torrential rain to the Northern Mariana Islands. Th...
WELLINGTON, July 6 - Super Typhoon Bavi was crossing the Mariana Islands in the western Pacific Ocean on Monday, lashing Guam, Tinian and Saipan and blasting Rota with catastrophic winds, t...
U.S. territories in the western Pacific prepare for storm's landfall Monday.
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