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Laura Coates Live

Category 5 Hits Jamaica

Laura Coates Live

CNN

News

4.22.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The carnage continues as Hurricane Melissa churns from Jamaica to Cuba. Plus, ICE is in the hot seat as the intense and dramatic shakeup being planned to turbo charge Trump’s deportations is underway.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Right now, the carnage continues as Hurricane Melissa churns from Jamaica to now Cuba.

0:09.0

We are live in the Caribbean with the storm of the century.

0:13.0

Plus ice in the hot seat, the intense and dramatic shakeup being planned to turbocharge the president's deportations.

0:21.6

And Republicans treating President Biden's pardons like he bounced a check.

0:27.6

While they're now trying to argue, they don't even count.

0:30.6

Tonight on Laricoe's Live.

0:33.6

The strongest storm on Earth so far this year slammed into Jamaica, a Category 5 hurricane.

0:40.3

And just for perspective, Hurricane Katrina made landfall as a category 3.

0:45.3

We are waiting for daylight to understand the full scope of the damage to an island,

0:50.3

home to nearly 3 million people across an island the size of Connecticut.

0:56.4

Right now, Hurricane Melissa is a powerful category three storm that is barreling towards Cuba,

1:02.8

a direct dark of night hit now just hours away as forecasters warn of deadly flashed

1:09.4

flooding, 30 inches of rain, and winds around 130 miles per hour.

1:15.8

Now, when this hurricane made landfall on the southwest coast of Jamaica, it was the strongest to ever strike the island.

1:22.7

We're talking about wind speeds of 185 miles per hour.

1:27.1

I mean, just listen to the sound captured by CNN's cameras

1:31.1

in Kingston. To make an official say the entire country has been impacted.

1:53.8

The infrastructure, quote, severely compromised with reports of damages to homes and hospitals.

2:01.6

Look at this photo captured earlier today.

2:03.6

It shows massive boulders blocking a roadway in St. Thomas Parish

2:08.6

on the southeast part of the country.

2:10.6

Tonight, officials believe half a million people are without power.

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