The U.S. Navy has ordered the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier strike group to head to Guam to assist in the recovery effort from Typhoon Mawar and three ships were already underway to the besieged U.S. Pacific island territory as the scope of the devastation became clear, a U.S. official said.

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