Packing winds higher than 201 miles per hour and driving waves 50-feet high, the eye of Super Typhoon Mangkhut is now about 500 miles west of Manila on a trek to tear apart the northern Philippines, destroying rice crops and pancaking houses in a rural region that’s home to 10 million residents.
Fueled by warm Atlantic waters, Hurricane Florence is about 1,200 miles east-southeast of Cape Fear, N.C., and intensifying into a potentially devastating storm.