Tonight the devastating direct hit, Hurricane Melissa slamming into Jamaica as a category 5.

The life-threatening storm stronger than Katrina, the most powerful in the Atlantic this year.

The massive hurricane roaring on shore, winds hitting 185 miles per hour, drenching rains already flooding parts of the island. Hotel guests packing into

ballrooms for safety. 25,000 tourists still on the island. Officials now cautioning crocodiles

may be in the floodwaters. With the Jamaican Prime Minister just told me about how hospitals are

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Nightly News with Tom Yamas. And good evening. That terrifying forecast for Jamaica

became a devastating reality today. Hurricane

Melissa roared ashore slamming into the island nation at a catastrophic Category 5 storm, with life-threatening winds and devastating rains.

185-mile-per-hour winds sent roofs and debris flying. You see it right here. Power now knocked out

for hundreds of thousands. And look inside this hospital where the roof was just torn off floodwaters

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