everyone. we're keeping a close watch on the massive supertyphoon that slammed into the philippines last night. take a look at this view we have from space. these are the video from the ground. there are reports of catastrophic damage. the repo the storm is likely to be one of the strongest ever with sustained winds at 235 miles an hour. we bring in mr. horton, a climate scientist. where does it get this intensity? >> this is a record-breaking storm. this is up there about as high as anything we've observed in the record. incredibly strong winds, a lot of damage on the ground. it means storm surge. the winds are piling up water on land. and very heavy rain and mountainous terrain.