Evacuations in Guam as super typhoon Bavi approaches

Emergency evacuations are taking place in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands as a super typhoon bears down on the US Pacific territories.

Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands have already experienced one super typhoon this year - Sinlaku in April, which killed 17 people and caused about $1.

Bavi has been classified as a super typhoon by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC), a part of the US Navy responsible for monitoring tropical storms in the western Pacific.