it is very, very strong typhoon, guys, super typhoon merante because it has been recorded as strongest storm on planet earth so far this year, at max sustain wind speed yesterday of 185 miles per hour. current wind speeds are 115, that is pretty intense. minimal central pressure at 930 millibars but moving slowly and impacting china thankfully losing its strength by the time it moves inland but look at these projections, absolutely incredible, several feet potentially already expected in taiwan and just as much along some of the shores in china there have been hundreds of actually over a thousand people's vac waited in anticipation, you can understand why but we will keep you posted as things progress there we will go back stateside and look at a quiet pattern for us here at home. we are seeing currently eyewitness weather watcher network low to mid 60's. pretty comfortable. we will go out to a format middletown delaware where jason is 63. fifty-eight from dave bradley in essington. mid to low 60's. johnnies in mullica at 62. phil in philly at 65. ed in chesterfield 63. list goes on. c

. >>> controversy over a major >>> tropical storm merante crashed into southern china this morning. dozens of people are hurt. the storm knocked out storm and will probably fade as it moves north, julia has weakened to a tropical depression, heavy rain is expected on the east coast for days to come. it settled off the coast of georgia and south carolina. let's talk about this because the east coast is asking the question: when will they catch a break? >> it's making very little progress here in the next day or 2 anticipated r this is right hugging the coast in the additional 1 do 2, 1 to 3-inch range. what we anticipate to happen today with moderate showers going there through the afternoon and evening tomorrow. we'll start to get some rain in the morning, and then slowly see that shift a little more to the east but you can see that right along the coast they're still going to be saturday. by the way snow, the rain at and above 11,000 feet. which leads a lot of allergy sufferers to say hey when can we freeze down here, these weeds are killing me? >>> good morning. looking at sky 9 o

person, was killed, and more than three dozen injured after a powerful typhoon hit taiwan, typhoon merante roared a shore knocking out power to nearly 1 million homes. storm hit southeastern china, no deaths have been reported there. the storm has since been, downgraded to a tropical storm. >>> right before getting taiwan, meranti struck the philippines. the nasa ought this image. see the streak of lightening top the eye of the storm. infrared image was captured thanks to a nearly full moon providing tons of light. >>> speaking of the moon a giant model moon, got loose on the road of the chinese city just as the super tie fun blew past the providence, the province. the moon was part of decorations for autumn festival noon as the moon festival. there was no reports of any injuries. >>> that is surprising, considering it was rolling over cars. >> i'm telling you bicyclist. >> my goodness. >> man i'm trying to get to work. >> i'm telling you. >> to the moon, alice. >> we all know that one. >> yes. >> it looks light weight wait. >> yes. >> it bounced a little bit. >> rolled over and bounced of