A Tale of Two Storms is where we begin today's edition of CNN
Student News. I'm Carl Azuz.
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When we produced today's show, the Japanese island of Okinawa was
getting hit with a super typhoon.
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Its name is Chaba.
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Its maximum sustained winds were about one hundred and sixty-five
miles per hour, that made it the equivalent of a category five
hurricane, the strongest type.
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Several islands were in Csaba's expected path, which was expected
to turn east near South Korea and roar across the northern
Japanese mainland, and in the Caribbean, Hurricane Matthew, a
category storm last night, was expected to brush by Jamaica and
hit Haiti overnight before moving over eastern Cuba.
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Matthew was traveling slowly with a hundred and forty mile per
hour winds.
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The longer it hovers over an island, the more rain it can bring
and the vigorous threat of causing flash floods and mudslides.
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Throughout the Caribbean, Airports have been closed, storm
shelters opened, and cruises rerouted to avoid the hurricane.
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This is what we're expecting the storm to do as it gets into the
Bahamas. This is what concerns me.
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You can see the left turn as it gets east of Cuba and then it gets
into the Turks and Caicos it turns left, it turns back toward the
U.S
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Then it has to turn right to miss us. Now that's the forecast.
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But that still concerns me whether that's going to happen or not
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Here are the models. See how they turn left. See this little left.
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This what really concerns me, that part right there will, will
they actually turn right again or will they just keep going to the
left.
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Those are so many days away
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I know and we talked about this all the time that the first 24 to
48 hours of a model is very good, after that not so good.
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So, if this is a good part and this might not be the good part,
where does it go from there, you need to keep watching if you live
on the east coast, anywhere.
