kohei spds tsuji, nhk world, golan heights. >>> a large typhoon is heading towards okinawa. meteorologist robert speta has the details. robert? >>> well, currently there's a very violent typhoon samba is pulling off here towards the north. on the satellite imagery, you can see that very clear and defined eye in here. around that eye is the eye wall, and that's where you're packing some winds upwards of 288 kilometers per hour. it does look like all this energy is going to continue to push off here towards the north across portions of southern okinawa here. you could actually be seeing some ten-meter-high waves with it as it starts to crash onshore. also, you have the risk of storm surge here, and the right front quadrant of the storm is where you're going to be seeing some wind blowing this water onshore. and then on sunday morning you have high tide, so that combined with this high storm surge is definitely going to be creating the risk of some coastal flooding across much of this region here. and then as it continues to push off there towards the north, some widespread rai

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