Tropical Cyclone Gita is a monster Category 4, and it's hammering Tonga

A New Zealand reporter is in Tonga, holed up in a hotel. She told her home station that, on the small islands in the middle of the ocean, "you're completely at its mercy.""Compared to storms at home, this just doesn't compare," Barbara Dreaver told the station. "It's like someone screaming out of control, the palm trees are bent over sideways, there's a lot of variables in play."The cyclone's eye brushed south of the islands in southern Tonga on Monday night, local time. The U.S. Joint Typhoon W