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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.

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We're following the breaking news.

Major breaking news, the strongest storm yet to hit the planet this year is bearing down right now on Jamaica and getting stronger and

stronger. This is just into the situation room Hurricane Melissa's eyewall is now pushing ashore.

The storm has catastrophic and life-threatening winds, rain, and storm surge.

This right here is a live look from Jamaica as that island nation about the size

of Connecticut with a population of nearly 3 million braces for a direct hit with Melissa

packing sustained winds of around 180 miles an hour. Imagine that. This is a monster storm and

it's predicted to be the worst storm to hit Jamaica this century.

Right here, this is video from inside the eye of the storm.

The National Hurricane Center warns that the eye wall could bring massive power outages and, quote, total structural failure to Jamaica, especially at higher elevations.

So let's begin our coverage with CNN meteorologist Derek Van Dam on the ground right there in Kingston, Jamaica.

What's going on there? We're learning that the eyewall is coming to shore right now.

Yeah, we're bracing for what will be a generational and historic event that will unfold, unfortunately, painstakingly slow across this country of Jamaica.

So we're in the nation's capital, and we are about 100 miles or so east of the eyewall, which just, as you mentioned, is coming ashore now.

I want to share this special update before I kind of show you around this area,

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