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Coming up, how the latest science helped the Caribbean prepare for Hurricane Melissa, the alcohol-free beers that still provide a buzz but without the hangover and why a German warehouse is simulating a European moon landing.

The Caribbean is reeling in the aftermath of one of the fiercest storms to ever hit the region.

Hurricane Melissa tore through Jamaica with winds of up to 150 miles an hour,

flattening homes, cutting power and leaving streets flooded.

Neighboring Haiti and Cuba were also hit very hard by the Category 5 storm,

with casualties reported in all three nations.

Meredith Garfalo is an award-winning meteorologist in the U.S., and she's been tracking Hurricane Melissa.

The maximum sustained winds with the storm got up to 300 kilometers an hour.

To give you an example, you have like the island of Jamaica.

I mean, this storm was so big even if it didn't make landfall, it could still cover the island with the width of that. So now it's

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