By NBC News
A little more than a year since Super Typhoon Haiyan killed thousands and devastated large parts of the Philippines, another storm, Typhoon Hagupit, was bearing down on the Pacific island nation Wednesday morning with sustained winds of 80 mph, the national weather bureau said.
Hagupit — which Ari Sarsalari, a forecaster for The Weather Channel, said could reach “super typhoon” strength before the end of the week — was still about 1,000 miles east of the country and wasn’t expected to begin affecting the weather there until midday Thursday …
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