It has gusts of wind as high as 217 MPH, and the Northern Mariana islands just took a direct hit.
It doesn’t seem like it because the islands are so far away, but that’s America and they are U.S. citizens.
Anyone born there after November 4, 1986 is automatically a citizen of the USA. Those born before that date have a more complicated status, although most of them living in the Northern Mariana Islands became US citizens under Article 3 of the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America. The great majority of those born before the magic date are U.S. citizens, because in order not to be, they had to file a formal declaration to opt out.