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Anderson Cooper 360

"Storm Of The Century" Strikes Jamaica; Cuba Next

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

4.13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Punishing winds, torrential rains, one of the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded comes ashore, hitting Jamaica as a Category 5 storm. Plus, a deeply moving conversation with country music superstar Luke Bryan, about grief and loss. He's the first guest in the new season of Anderson's podcast, "All There Is.” The audio and video podcast is available right on our grief community page at CNN.com/AllThereIs or wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tonight on 360, punishing winds, torrential rains, one of the most powerful hurricanes

0:05.7

ever recorded comes ashore hitting Jamaica as a Category 5 storm.

0:10.1

Also tonight a new House report opening questions any pardon signed by President Biden with

0:14.2

an auto pen and now a top Justice Department official is alleging abuses took place.

0:20.3

And later a deeply moving conversation with country music superstar Luke

0:23.6

Brian about grief and loss, part of my podcast All There Is, which starts this new season tonight.

0:28.6

How Luke Bryan is talking about grief to help others get through theirs.

0:33.6

This boy, he was nine years old, he looked up at me.

0:38.3

And he had these big tears in his eyes and he looked at me.

0:42.3

He goes, Mr. Luke, I lost my sister a couple of months ago and I want to know how you get through life.

0:51.3

Good evening. Thanks for joining us. We begin tonight with the latest bulletin on where Hurricane Melissa is going next.

0:58.0

Even as we're just starting to find out the damage it's already done to Jamaica,

1:02.0

it slammed into the island nation as a Category 5 storm lingered with winds of 185 miles an hour.

1:07.0

Now, when it hit, it was among the most powerful ever recorded. And now some seven hours later, with the eye moving off the country's north coast, it's

1:15.1

hard to fully assess the situation because communications are down.

1:19.1

One government official says the parish of St. Elizabeth in the southwest, in his words,

1:24.0

is underwater and has sustained extensive damage.

1:27.0

Now, in some places, people are even being warned about crocodiles,

1:29.7

which have been displaced by flooding.

1:31.6

As we said, we've got a new bulletin on the storm just in from the National Hurricane Center.

1:35.9

CNN meteorologist, Derek Van Damme joins us from Kingston.

1:39.1

What kind of damage have you been seeing, and what's the latest with the forecast?

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