00:00Clean-up efforts are underway as Hurricane Melissa, one of the most powerful storms ever
00:07recorded, left a trail of destruction across much of the Northern Caribbean. The death toll further
00:13rose to 49 on Thursday, with deaths recorded in Haiti, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic.
00:20In Jamaica, where Melissa made landfall on Tuesday as a Category 5 hurricane,
00:25emergency relief flights entered the country carrying water, medicine and other essentials.
00:31Government workers and residents are working to clear roads and reach isolated communities,
00:37and search efforts are underway to find victims under the rubble.
00:42Aerial images of Black River reveal the damage the hurricane caused. Jamaica's Prime Minister
00:48Andrew Holness said up to 90 percent of roofs in the coastal community were destroyed.
00:53Meanwhile, in Cuba, residents slowly started returning back home after the civil defense
01:00evacuated hundreds of thousands of people across eastern Cuba ahead of the storm.
01:05Haiti reported the highest number of deaths. At least 30 people were killed after the country
01:24was hit by catastrophic flooding unleashed by the hurricane.
01:28Melissa brushed past the South East Bahamas on Wednesday, and on Thursday night, the hurricane weakened to a Category 2 storm as it passed by the
01:33weather.
01:34Melissa brushed past the South East Bahamas on Wednesday, and on Thursday night, the hurricane weakened to a Category 2 storm as it passed by the
01:51west of Bermuda.
