Super Typhoon Mawar slams Guam as Category 4 storm: "The winds are howling, things are breaking"

Super Typhoon Mawar struck Guam as a powerful Category 4 storm Wednesday, hitting the island with destructive and powerful winds, heavy rain and a dangerous storm surge that swamped low-lying areas. Residents of the U.S. territory hunkered down in homes and shelters. The typhoon's center passed over the northern tip of Guam on Wednesday evening, the National Weather Service said. It is the strongest storm to hit the territory of over 150,000 people in decades. Meteorologists suspect the storm clipped the far northern part of the island, but otherwise it...