and we keep our focus in asia as a powerful typhoon is headed straight for taiwan. meteorologist ivan cabrera joins us to explain why it carries the potential to be quite dangerous. ivan? yeah multiple things going on here, errol. making a beeline for taiwan. high probability of it striking directly at taiwan over the next 72 hours. formidable typhoon here. this was the strongest in 2015. it was a super typhoon. it s weakened somewhat. but the winds still a dangerous 175 kilometers per hour. and in fact intensifying a little bit more over the next few days as we talk about well, in about 36 hours right before it makes landfall winds of 215 kilometers per hour. and it just goes right into taiwan over the next couple of days here. you have just about a day to get things prepared as this thing begins to move in. now, the reason for that is we have the winds that are going to be moving in. take a look at that. by the time we get to friday at
protect the legitimate rights of the families. errol, there s still a lot of mistrust wen those 239 families and specifically the malaysian authorities. this potentially could have been an opportunity to begin to work past that for whatever reason the announcement did not play out that way. the question families continue to ask is does this announcement get us any closer to finding the plane, the passengers and ultimately errol, the truth? it really is your heart goes out to all the relatives of the victims. david molko in hong kong with that new information there from the chinese foreign ministry. david, thanks. now to some other big stories we re following for you. in the u.s. state of tennessee authorities say a man who attacked moviegoers had a history of mental illness. he was also reported missing two days before the incident where police shot and killed him. cnn s mary maloney has the details of what was a terrifying situation. reporter: sounds of a
the storm surge the worst of it i think will be on the western side of the island from the taiwan strait as the winds switch and move over from the west. we ll watch that closely. the winds in excess of 100 kilometers per hour 150 kilometers per hour. that is important because we have taipei 101. this is one of the tallest in fact the tallest building in taiwan. we re talking about 500 meters here designed to withstand 260-kilometer per-hour winds. so i think we ll be okay. because of the mountain chain back here. let s go back to the wall and show you real quick here what we re talking about as far as accumulation. anywhere from 500 millimeters to as much as a meter of rainfall errol, in the next 72 hours. that is going to be very dangerous stuff with flash flooding and mudslides likely. all right. ivan cabrera the great breakdown there on why the topography of this is such an important aspect to keep in mind. we ll see you next hour. thanks. one day after netflix announced its