00:00An aircraft flies into the eye of Hurricane Beryl to evaluate its strength.
00:05The storm has unleashed strong winds and dumped heavy amounts of rainfall
00:09after sweeping several islands in the Caribbean.
00:13Rescue crews cleared the streets as residents in Barbados assessed the damage.
00:19I didn't think that the damage would be so much.
00:22I just come to open the shop to check on it,
00:26but now I realize it is much more than I thought.
00:30Beryl is expected to be near major hurricane strength
00:34when it passes Jamaica onto the Cayman Islands and Mexico.
00:37On the French island of Martinique, meanwhile,
00:40worried residents were leaving nothing to chance.
00:44Every time there's bad weather, we prepare for it.
00:47We tie the boats up better or take them straight out to sea.
00:50We went shopping.
00:52Given the bad weather we're currently experiencing,
00:54we've come to do some shopping to be safe because you never know what can happen.
00:59The National Hurricane Center is warning of fluctuations in Beryl's strength.
01:04The storm is the most intense to form in the Atlantic this early in the year.
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