{"id":254807,"date":"2025-10-27T15:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T15:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/254807\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T15:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T15:39:08","slug":"live-updates-hurricane-melissa-threatens-catastrophe-in-jamaica-as-a-category-5-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/254807\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Hurricane Melissa threatens catastrophe in Jamaica as a Category 5 storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap25299817458368.jpg?c=original&amp;q=w_1280,c_fill\/f_avif\" alt=\"Workers board up shop windows in Kingston, Jamaica, on October 26.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1667\" width=\"2500\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmh99h5fx0003396o7nvmviix@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            A senior government minister in Jamaica has called on people to follow mass evacuation orders, ahead of what could be the most ferocious storm to hit the country in decades.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmh99i57p0008396ohnv651of@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Matthew Samuda, the minister of water, environment and climate change, implored residents to travel to shelters and reach high ground on Monday, as the government braced for Hurricane Melissa \u2014 the 45th Category 5 hurricane on record in the Atlantic.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"pull-quote_block-quote__text  vossi-pull-quote_block-quote__text inline-placeholder\" data-editable=\"text\">\n                    \u201cHeed the warnings. This is serious. It\u2019s a devastating storm,\u201d Samuda told CNN on Monday.\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmh99i57p000a396oxg2ii63w@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Communities on the coasts will be particularly exposed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/10\/25\/weather\/hurricane-melissa-storm-tracker-forecast-jamaica-haiti-climate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">destructive winds<\/a>, catastrophic flooding and life-threatening storms \u2014 and seventy percent of the Jamaican population live within five kilometers of coasts, Samuda said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmh99i57p000b396owxqaiife@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The government has erected 800 shelters across the country, according to Samuda. Meanwhile, crews from the national bus service, the country\u2019s defense forces and disaster preparedness unit are mobilizing mass evacuations.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmh99ve4u0001396ofk9c55ja@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cGo to the shelters. Go to higher ground because this can take lives,\u201d he said.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A senior government minister in Jamaica has called on people to follow mass evacuation orders, ahead of what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-254807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}