Tonight, the catastrophic warning. Hurricane Melissa, now a historic and deadly Category 5 hurricane.

The monster storm now projected to be the strongest hurricane to ever hit Jamaica.

Melissa set to plow into the island tomorrow morning with life-threatening winds up to 175 miles per hour,

as much as 40 inches of rain to swamp areas.

The satellite video showing lightning firing off from Melissa's eye.

The mandatory evacuations tonight as residents and American tourists race to safety.

Our team live from Jamaica.

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A monster life-threatening storm, the most powerful we've seen in the Atlantic this year is now just hours away from slamming directly into the island nation of Jamaica. Hurricane Melissa is now a cat five, the strongest rating possible. The time to evacuate that island is over. Now residents and stranded tourists,

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