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US: Super Typhoon Bavi Slams Guam, Northern Marianas 2

Super Typhoon Bavi made landfall Monday, July 6, passing directly over Rota in the Northern Mariana Islands around 8 a.m. local time, with sustained winds over 150 mph. Guam and nearby islands also reported major damage from the storm.

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US: North Dakota Sees Powerful Winds Amid Tornado-Producing Storm

Severe weather swept across the upper Midwest on Friday, June 20, bringing powerful winds and leaving at least 3 dead in North Dakota as a tornado ripped through the area.

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Tsunami in Japan: 5 years on

SENDAI, March 5 Kyodo - Combined photos show an area of Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, in northeastern Japan on April 27, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by massive tsunami; and the same area nearly five years later on Feb. 14, 2016. Seedlings of Japanese black pine trees, planted as part of efforts to prevent disaster, sway in wind.

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Cherry blossoms in Iitate, Fukushima Pref.

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Cherry blossoms are in full bloom in the Nagadoro district, where access has been limited following the 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in Iitate Village, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 27, 2014.

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Quake-affected firms introduce post-disaster undertakings

SENDAI, Japan - An official of one of the Japanese companies affected by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami explains some of their post-disaster business undertakings during an academia-business symposium on regional reconstruction held in Sendai, northeastern Japan, on April 27, 2014.

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Abe inspects temporary housing in Iwate village

NODA, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits on April 27, 2014 temporary housing units in Noda village, Iwate Prefecture, which were built after the northeastern Japanese prefecture was heavily damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Abe pledged the central government's all-out assistance for the residents.

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Abe inspects temporary housing in Iwate village

NODA, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds the hand of a child on April 27, 2014 while talking with residents of temporary housing in Noda village, Iwate Prefecture, built following the devastating March 2011 earthquake in northeastern Japan.

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos taken from Kyodo News helicopter show a coastal area of Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, on April 10, 2011 (L), nearly a month after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on Feb. 27, 2014 (R).

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Tsunami-damaged railways

MORIOKA, Japan - Sanriku Railway Co. President Masahiko Mochizuki (C) holds a press conference in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Jan. 27, 2014. The railway operator will fully resume services on its two railway lines in Iwate Prefecture in April 2014, three years after the devastating March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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2 years after quake

IWAKI, Japan - Photos show a shrine in the Hisanohamamachi district in the city of Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 27, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 4, 2013, with a sacred "torii" arch.

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Young ibis flies

SADO, Japan - A young crested ibis flies in Sado, Niigata Prefecture, on May 31, 2012. The bird was one of three crested ibis chicks born in late April 2012 to a 3-year-old male and a 2-year-old female released in March 2011. They are believed to have begun learning to fly between May 25 and 27, 2012, becoming the first crested ibises to do so in the wild for 38 years in Japan. (Pool photo)

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Young ibis on rooftop

SADO, Japan - A young crested ibis is perched on a rooftop in Sado, Niigata Prefecture, on May 31, 2012. The bird was one of three crested ibis chicks born in late April 2012 to a 3-year-old male and a 2-year-old female released in March 2011. The one-month-old birds are believed to have begun learning to fly between May 25 and 27, 2012, becoming the first crested ibises to do so in the wild for 38 years in Japan. (Pool photo)

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Young ibis on tree

SADO, Japan - A young crested ibis stands on a tree branch in Sado, Niigata Prefecture, on May 31, 2012. The bird was one of three crested ibis chicks born in late April 2012 to a 3-year-old male and a 2-year-old female released in March 2011. The one-month-old birds are believed to have begun learning to fly between May 25 and 27, 2012, becoming the first crested ibises to do so in the wild for 38 years in Japan. (Pool photo)

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Young ibis flies

SADO, Japan - A young crested ibis flies in Sado, Niigata Prefecture, on May 31, 2012. The bird was one of three crested ibis chicks born in late April 2012 to a 3-year-old male and a 2-year-old female released in March 2011. They are believed to have begun learning to fly between May 25 and 27, 2012, becoming the first crested ibises to do so in the wild for 38 years in Japan. (Pool photo)

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Young ibis flies

SADO, Japan - A young crested ibis (top) flies in Sado, Niigata Prefecture, on May 31, 2012. The bird was one of three crested ibis chicks born in late April 2012 to a 3-year-old male and a 2-year-old female released in March 2011. They are believed to have begun learning to fly between May 25 and 27, 2012, becoming the first crested ibises to do so in the wild for 38 years in Japan. At bottom is one of its parents. (Pool photo)

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Young ibis flies

SADO, Japan - A young crested ibis flies in Sado, Niigata Prefecture, on May 31, 2012. The bird was one of three crested ibis chicks born in late April 2012 to a 3-year-old male and a 2-year-old female released in March 2011. They are believed to have begun learning to fly between May 25 and 27, 2012, becoming the first crested ibises to do so in the wild for 38 years in Japan. (Pool photo)

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Key chain containing radioactive material

CHIBA, Japan - Photo shows a key chain confiscated by the Chiba prefectural police which contains a glow-in-the-dark material that emits radiation around 12 times greater than the legal limit. Police said on Sept. 27, 2011, they sent papers to prosecutors in April concerning a 15-year-old boy suspected of violating laws meant to prevent radiation hazards. The boy allegedly sold the key chains via the Internet at prices ranging from 3,000 to 10,000 yen after purchasing 30 of them online for 1,000 yen each from July to October 2010.

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Keene has no doubt Tohoku 'will rise again' after 3/11 disaster

NEW YORK, United States - Donald Keene, an 88-year-old prominent scholar in Japanese literature, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News at Columbia University on April 27, 2011, a day after he taught his final course at the university in preparation for his permanent move to Japan. He strongly believes the Tohoku region will recover from the March 11 disaster, just as Tokyo was rebuilt after World War II.

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Topsoil removed from Fukushima school playground

KORIYAMA, Japan - Topsoil is removed from the playground of an elementary school in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 27, 2011, after radiation levels reached government-set levels due to radiation leakage from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station.

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Memorial in Chile for Japan quake

SANTIAGO, Chile - Chilean Foreign Minister Alfredo Moreno (2nd from L) and Japanese Ambassador to Chile Wataru Hayashi (front R) head to a memorial sponsored by the Chilean government in Santiago on April 27, 2011, for the victims of the major March 11 quake and tsunami in Japan.

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Figure skating championships in Moscow

MOSCOW, Russia - Japan's national flag is projected on the rink during the opening ceremony of the world figure skating championships in Moscow on April 27, 2011. A moment of silent prayer was offered for the victims of the March 11 quake and tsunami in Japan.

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Takahashi 3rd after SP at worlds

MOSCOW, Russia - Defending champion Daisuke Takahashi of Japan performs during the men's short program at the world figure skating championships in Moscow on April 27, 2011. Takahashi ranked third after the SP.

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Oda 2nd after SP at worlds

MOSCOW, Russia - Japan's Nobunari Oda jumps during the world figure skating championships in Moscow on April 27, 2011. Oda stood second after the men's short program.

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'Fukushima' soup in Russia

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Soup (bottom R) containing seaweed and named ''Fukushima'' is served at a restaurant in Vladivostok, Russian Far East, on April 27, 2011.

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Kozuka 6th after SP at worlds

MOSCOW, Russia - Japan's Takahiko Kozuka performs during the men's short program at the world figure skating championships in Moscow on April 27, 2011. Kozuka placed 6th after the SP.

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Tohoku Shinkansen service to fully resume

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on April 27, 2011, shows the Hayabusa advanced model of the shinkansen (front) in the town of Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture. The bullet train service on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line between Sendai and Ichinoseki, which has been suspended in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster, is scheduled to resume on April 29, linking Tokyo and Shin-Aomori for the first time since the suspension. As the Kyushu Shinkansen Line fully opened between Hakata and Kagoshima-Chuo on March 12, bullet train services will link Aomori at the northern tip of the Honshu main island, and Kagoshima at the southern tip of the southwestern main island of Kyushu, for the first time.

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DPJ's Hosono at press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Goshi Hosono (R), a special adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan on the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, speaks during a press conference on the situation about the power plant at the head office of Tokyo Electric Power Co., the plant operator, in Tokyo on April 27, 2011. Hosono, a Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker, said he believes the crisis triggered by the twin disasters is in the process of being brought under control.

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Quake-hit daily Kobe Shimbun opens news gallery

KOBE, Japan - A clock used in the editorial room of the Kobe Shimbun, which stopped telling time after the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake hit the area, is displayed in the ''Newsport'' news gallery at the headquarters of the paper in Kobe, on April 27, 2011, during the exhibit's opening ceremony.

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Boat salvaged at tsunami-hit Yamada port

YAMADA, Japan - A fishing boat capsized by the March 11 tsunami is salvaged at Yamada port in Iwate Prefecture on April 27, 2011.

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S. Korea's foreign minister, China's nuke envoy meet

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung Hwan (L) and China's chief nuclear negotiator Wu Dawei shake hands at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Seoul on April 27, 2011, ahead of their meeting.

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Quake-hit daily Kobe Shimbun opens news gallery

KOBE, Japan - People view panels on coverage of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake in the ''Newsport'' news gallery at the Kobe Shimbun in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on April 27, 2011, during the exhibit's opening ceremony.

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Removing topsoil from Fukushima school playgrounds

KORIYAMA, Japan - Workers remove topsoil from the playground of a nursery school in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 27, 2011, to ensure children's safety amid radiation leaks from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

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Removing topsoil from Fukushima school playgrounds

KORIYAMA, Japan - A radiation detector indicates a level of 3.0 microsieverts per hour at Kaoru Elementary School in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 27, 2011, ahead of work to remove playground topsoil amid radiation leaks from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

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Removing topsoil from Fukushima school playgrounds

KORIYAMA, Japan - Workers remove topsoil from the playground of Kaoru Elementary School in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 27, 2011, to ensure children's safety amid radiation leaks from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.