What Could Be The Strongest Tropical Cyclone Ever To Make Landfall Hits The Philippines
COOPER: Breaking news, what is likely the strongest cyclone recorded in history has hit the Philippines. It's already taking live, two, so far that we know about. Hard to imagine numbers will not climb. Thousands of people in the central part of the country were evacuated as this super typhoon made its way to the Philippines, made landfall with sustained winds of 195 miles per hour. It's the kind of wind you get with a very strong category five hurricane. CNN international correspondent, Andrew Stevens is in the Philippines. We were going to go to him, but the conditions there are too dangerous right now. Let's get the latest from meteorologist, Chad Myers -- Chad.</s>CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: We're expecting an awful lot of damage. This is nothing, Anderson, like you and I have ever experienced not in the Atlantic basin at all, 195 mile per hour hurricane, which is essentially like a category four, an F4 tornado about 15 miles wide, going straight across the country right now and then F3, F2, F1 winds like a tornado literally although this is a hurricane. The center of the hurricane, very strong winds, very low pressure and of course, an awful lot of rainfall that could cause flooding, and it is likely now, it is claimed now that this is probably, we're going to have to go through and figure it out, this is probably the biggest storm to ever hit land. There probably have to be storms over the ocean bigger, we just didn't see them or fly into them. We don't know how big this truly is because there are no planes that fly into it. They don't fly planes into storms like we do here in America. I don't think I want to be in a plane wind doing 195 and gusts 235. It is moving fast, moving 25 miles per hour, the next stop is probably the North China Sea and then eventually, South China Sea right into Vietnam, that's the next stop for this storm and there will be no stopping it. There is nothing in the way. It will keep going as a category four hurricane typhoon cyclone. They are the same thing, just different oceans and different surname. Hurricane is a cyclone is a typhoon. It just depends on where it is.</s>COOPER: How long will it be on land for?</s>MYERS: It's moving very, very fast. It really is cruising. It came on shore probably three hours ago, moving to the west at 25. I can see it going 30 miles an hour as far as it's already moved. Our reporter right there under the A in Tacloban City. It would eventually be another six hours and then back into the water away from the Philippines. The great news about all of this is that the populated, the truly densely populated area is up here, Manila, Luzon Island, up here to the north. This will miss that by 150 miles. The death toll would be astronomical had this 195 mile-per-hour storm gone over Manila.</s>COOPER: All right, Chad, unbelievable, our thoughts and prayers with all the people in the Philippines obviously right now. One quick note, in my interview with Dr. Drew Pinsky, I asked what Mayor Ford said about a twin brother. They said he didn't say that and he doesn't have a twin brother. I want to correct that error and apologize. Coming, we are going to get an exclusive look inside a newly discovered elaborate drug tunnel stretching between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico. Miguel Marquez takes us inside next.