Hurricane Melissa has strengthened into a Category 5 storm and is forecast to bring destructive winds and storm surge and "catastrophic flooding" to Jamaica through the day, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Hurricane Melissa has hit Cuba after leaving a trail of destruction in Jamaica, though the full extent of its impact remains unclear.

Jamaicans began surveying the extensive damage left in Melissa's wake after it made landfall as an extremely dangerous Category 5 hurricane, the highest level on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scal...