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Jamaica is now in the crosshairs of a monster storm, the strongest hurricane to threaten the island in decades
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Hurricane Melissa exploded into a Category 5 storm this morning. You see the eye right there, with winds now topping 160 miles an hour
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The National Hurricane Center calls it life-threatening and catastrophic as it slowly bears down on Jamaica
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High surf is already pounding Kingston, waves crashing over seawalls, flooding streets
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and people rushing to stock up on food, board up windows, and stack sandbags
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NOAA satellite images show Melissa's well-defined eye churning about 130 miles south of Kingston
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crawling at just three miles an hour. That's important because that slow movement means torrents of rain are pummeling Jamaica
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Haiti, and the Dominican Republic, with flash flooding and landslides already reported
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Melissa is expected to make landfall on Jamaica early Tuesday, then move across eastern Cuba and into the Bahamas by midweek
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Forecasters warn of a storm surge of up to 13 feet along Jamaica's southern coast
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and up to 40 inches of rain in eastern parts of the island
