It's packing the wind strength of a category 5 hurricane and making its way toward Hong Kong.Thousands of people in the Philippines are evacuating their homes amid a massive storm. Forecasters are calling Super Typhoon Regassa the strongest storm on Earth so far this year. WATCH: transcript below Super Typhoon Ragasa leads to evacuations in Philippines ABC News Sep 22 report: transcript; Thousands of people in the Philippines 0:01 are evacuating their homes amid a 0:03 massive storm. Forecasters are calling 0:05 Super Typhoon Regassa the strongest 0:07 storm on Earth so far this year. It's 0:10 packing the wind strength of a category 0:12 5 hurricane and making its way toward 0:13 Hong Kong. Now Hong Kong's airports 0:16 expected to suspend all passenger 0:18 flights. ABC's Brit is in Hong Kong with 0:20 those details. Brit, what's it like 0:21 there right now? 0:24 Hi Diane. Well, it is the calm before 0:26 the storm, but Hong Kong is very much 0:28 preparing to hunker down ahead of severe 0:30 typhoon regressa, which is edging closer 0:32 to the city, and we'll start feeling the 0:34 impacts uh tomorrow, but there has been 0:37 a rush to stock up on groceries here. Uh 0:40 the government telling everyone to make 0:42 sure they have enough food and supplies 0:44 at home. Uh the airport here, as you 0:46 mentioned, suspending flights in and out 0:48 for 36 hours. That means at least 700 0:51 flights will be impacted, will be 0:53 cancelled. 4,000 officers are on standby 0:56 here. That includes police, emergency 0:58 services, schools closed for at least 2 1:00 days. And you know, we have seen a 1:02 number of typhoons this year uh in and 1:04 around Hong Kong. But this would be the 1:07 fourth major tropical storm we've had 1:09 here in 2025. This is the first super 1:12 typhoon in 2 years. It could be the 1:15 strongest storm since 2018. That was the 1:17 worst uh tropical storm we'd seen in 1:20 decades. It injured more than 200 1:22 people. It caused almost $600 million uh 1:24 dollars in damage and it triggered 1:26 serious storm surges up to 11 ft high uh 1:29 which authorities are warning could 1:31 happen again with this storm. Diane. 1:34 All right, Brit Lennet for us in Hong 1:36 Kong. Brit, thank you. Stay safe.
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