CNN The Situation Room July 7, 2014 21:46:00
>> this is going to appear to the people of japan a lot like sandy appeared to us. this earlier today was a supertyphoon, over 150 miles per hour, equal to a category 5 hurricane. it's lost a little bit of its punch. not as impressive on the satellite. we are talking a storm bigger than many states put together. bigger than texas and almost as big as alaska from one side to the other. here is the island we were talking about. this has that bubble of water underneath it just like sandy did. even though sandy came onshore a as an extra tropical 70 mile-an-hour storm, this is going to be a surge,...