Happening now, Hurricane Melissa wreaks havoc in Cuba after devastating Jamaica, the storm causing colossal destruction on the island, damaging homes, hospitals, and schools.

Why Jamaicans are still on alert hours after the storm passed?

Were warning signs ignored, a trial begins for a former assistant principal accused

of missing several opportunities to take a gun from a six-year-old boy,

who then later used it to shoot his first grade teacher.

Plus a pivotal meeting.

President Trump will face Chinese leader Xi Jinping

to discuss a potential trade deal that could have a major impact

on the global economy.

And defending Roblox, the chief safety officer of the online gaming company, will join me this

hour to respond to a mother who says her son died by suicide after meeting a predator on the gaming platform.

Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer with Pamela Brown, and you're in the Situation Room. This is CNN Breaking News.

And we begin with breaking news. Right now, Hurricane Melissa is unleashing its fury on Cuba,

packing heavy rains and damaging winds at over 100 miles an hour. It's now a powerful

category two storm.

Hundreds of thousands have already been evacuated

as severe flooding turned city streets into rivers

of rushing water.

And behind Melissa, a trail of destruction.

Jamaicans are just beginning to take in the scale

of the damage caused by one of the strongest

Atlantic storms ever recorded. Video coming scale of the damage caused by one of the strongest Atlantic storms ever

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