Hurricane Melissa devastates Jamaica
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Hurricane Melissa made landfall along Jamaica's southwestern coast Tuesday as an extremely powerful Category 5 storm.
People across the northern Caribbean are digging out from the destruction caused by Hurricane Melissa as deaths from the storm climbed.
NBC News' Jesse Kirsch boards one of the first passenger flights to Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa devastated the island.
More than 24 hours after Hurricane Melissa pummelled Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, Chris Garwood was still trying to make contact with his mother and a sibling who live in St. Elizabeth parish.
Images from a helicopter over Black River, a coastal town of 5,000 in southwestern Jamaica, show the extent of the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa.
Category 5 Hurricane Melissa sped up early Tuesday making landfall in Jamaica around 1 p.m, tying the record for the strongest landfall in the Atlantic.
CBS News Miami has been in touch with families living through the aftermath, including Marvin Edwards, who rode out the hurricane in Montego Bay.
From damaged studios to museums transformed into relief centers, the reggae world copes with the fallout of a monster hurricane