Category 5 superstorm "Babi" hits Guam and neighboring islands tonight, with destructive wind gusts that may reach 346 km/h and about half a meter of rain • The typhoon is expected to drop massive amounts of precipitation of between 30 and 51 centimeters of rain in the area of the center of the storm • Authorities have opened evacuation centers, while the US military has been preparing at its strategic bases in the western Pacific Ocean