Typhoon Wipha flooding streets and high winds hitting Tokyo Japan | Tokyo

A typhoon described as the "strongest in 10 years" battered Tokyo Japan today and is now on a path that will take it towards the precarious Fukushima nuclear power plant. Typhoon Wipha, was packing winds of nearly 200 kilometers (125 miles) per hour near its centre and bringing heavy rains according to the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The storm was moving north at 35 km/h, according to the agency. Later today it is due to be off the coast of Fukushima, where the crippled nuclear power plant sits. "It is the strongest typhoon in 10 years to pass the Kanto region (Tokyo and its vicinity)," Hiroyuki Uchida, the agency's chief forecaster, told a Japanese news conference. Our videos may be used free of charge if you link back to us and give us credit in the video.GOPR1982