The death toll is rising in Jamaica and Haiti as emergency teams have started reaching communities cut off by flooding and landslides from Hurricane Melissa. Here’s the latest on recovery efforts there and in Cuba.
New satellite images reveal stunning scale of destruction from Hurricane Melissa up and down Jamaica’s southwest coast. Watch this video to see before and after photos from what Jamaica’s prime minister called Melissa’s “ground zero” – Black River, the capital of Saint Elizabeth Parish. We’ll also show you the destruction in Santa Cruz, White House, New Hope and Montego Bay.
A work crew in Buxton, North Carolina, raced against the surf to reinforce a beach house. In the past month alone, fifteen houses have been destroyed by storms and coastal erosion on North Carolina’s Outer Banks.