Hurricane Melissa churns toward Jamaica as Category 5 storm

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00:00jamaica is now in the crosshairs of a monster storm the strongest hurricane to threaten the

00:08island in decades hurricane melissa exploded into a category 5 storm this morning you see the eye

00:14right there with winds now topping 160 miles an hour the national hurricane center calls it

00:20life-threatening and catastrophic as it slowly bears down on jamaica high surf is already pounding

00:26kingston waves crashing over seawalls flooding streets and people rushing to stock up on food

00:32board up windows and stack sandbags noaa satellite images show melissa's well-defined eye churning

00:39about 130 miles south of kingston crawling at just three miles an hour that's important because that

00:46slow movement means torrents of rain are pummeling jamaica haiti and the dominican republic with

00:52flash flooding and landslides already reported melissa is expected to make landfall on jamaica

00:58early tuesday then move across eastern cuba and into the bahamas by midweek forecasters warn of a

01:05storm surge of up to 13 feet along jamaica's southern coast and up to 40 inches of rain in eastern parts

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