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The Category 5 Hurricane Melissa is drawing closer to Jamaica.

The storm is packing top winds of 175 miles per hour and could be the strongest hurricane to hit the island since record keeping began in 1851.

Here's MPR's Rebecca Hersher. Hurricanes happen every year in the Caribbean.

Jamaica has obviously been hit by lots of storms over the years.

This is just the first time a storm of this magnitude has hit the island head on since modern records began.

But storms like this one are getting more likely.

You know, climate change makes

large, powerful storms more common. It also makes very rainy storms more likely. So if you live

in the Caribbean, you know, Hurricane Central, you are more and more likely over the years to find

yourself staring down a really scary hurricane like

Melissa at some point in your life. Forecasters are warning of catastrophic flooding,

landslides, and widespread damage. One of the 100 lawyers who held leadership roles at the Justice

Department are condemning the case against former FBI director Jim Comey. In Pierce Kerry Johnson reports that the attorneys say they're coming together in bipartisan

fashion because they're worried about the rule of law.

The unusual group includes former attorneys general and their top deputies.

They're speaking with one voice to warn about the prosecution of former FBI director Jim Comey.

Their new friend of the court brief says that case appears to be motivated by President Trump's

animosity and a dangerous exercise of the power to prosecute.

Comey's pleaded not guilty to charges of misleading Congress.

He's trying to get the case thrown out by arguing he's the target

of a vindictive or selective prosecution. Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington.

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