Hurricane Melissa made a historic, catastrophic Category 5 landfall in Jamaica, then raked through southeast Cuba and the southeast Bahamas before swiping Bermuda, while it also wrung out days of prol...

Hurricane Melissa weakened on Wednesday as it barreled through the Bahamas after devastating Cuba, Jamaica and Haiti, leaving dozens of people dead and destroying infrastructure across the region.

In Jamaica, "there are entire communities that seem to be marooned and areas that seem to be flattened," Dixon said, adding there are "devastating" scenes in western regions.