Welcome back. We are tracking some breaking news in the Caribbean where Hurricane Melissa is creeping closer to making landfall in Jamaica. Melissa has been a category 5 storm now for more than 24 hours and is expected to be the strongest storm ever to hit Jamaica.And it is just crawling, moving at about 7 mph. And it's that slow pace that's especially concerning, raising fears about widespread flooding. Officials have ordered tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes.Hundreds of shelters have bee ...

Watch live as Hurricane Melissa, a Category 5 storm, makes landfall in Jamaica and is expected to bring "catastrophic and life-threatening winds, flooding and storm surge," forecasters say. For more context and news coverage of the most important stories of our day click here: https://www.msnbc.com/ » Subscribe to MSNBC: https://www.youtube.com/msnbc » Subscribe to MSNBC on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@msnbc » Subscribe to MSNBC on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/msnbc Download our new MSNBC app for t ...

Overnight conditions here in Kingston rapidly deteriorating. Some rain rain, some wind, some debris already falling. You can see here that is starting to become more and more apparent across the island.Roads are also starting to flood. And unfortunately, Melissa has already claimed lives even before making landfall. And one thing to note here in Kingston, the airport is barely above sea level.So that could be a real challenge if you start to see some of that storm surge. And the roads and infrastructure her ...

[Music] What of Jamaica is bracing for catastrophic impacts. Hurricane Melissa strengthening to a powerful category 5 hurricane and expected to make landfall in Jamaica in the coming hours. The storm has already produced winds of 160 m per hour, the most dangerous on the hurricane scale, and the conditions are only supposed to intensify.The island expecting up to 40 ines of rain, so major flooding expected. Last night, one of Jamaica's government ministers delivered this stark warning. >> If you listen to w ...

Urgent preps underway in Jamaica as Hurricane Melissa barrels towards the island. The storm expected to bring catastrophic rain and flooding. Jamaican authorities today clearing beaches.>> It's a very dangerous hurricane that is approaching us and we want to make sure that every Jamaican is safe. >> In floodprone communities, buses have already been staged for those that want to evacuate. The weather threat shutting down the nation's airports.Melissa leaving a path of destruction across the Caribbean, killi ...

Tonight, urgent preps underway in Jamaica as Hurricane Melissa barrels towards the island. The storm expected to bring catastrophic rain and flooding. Jamaican authorities today clearing beaches.>> It's a very dangerous hurricane that is approaching us and we want to make sure that every Jamaican is safe. >> Travis Row plans to ride out the storm at home. We really are just trying to prepare at best and weather the storm here.>> In floodprone communities, buses have already been staged for those that want t ...

Hurricane Melissa has strengthened into a dangerous category 4 storm, taking dead aim at Jamaica. The storm's outer bands already responsible for several deaths in Haiti and expected to cause potentially deadly flooding and mudslides once it hits. ...

because it's moving so slowly. This slow motion is going to really cause a problem. These bright purples, which include Jamaica and the western tip of Haiti, 20 to 30 inches of rain.So, that kind of rain is going to cause catastrophic catastrophic flooding. You're really looking at probably widespread power outages and disruption of communication for Jamaica. the inability to move around.Talking about mudslides and flooding, impassable roads, cut off communities. really a very very concerning situation unfo ...

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