Hurricane Melissa live updates: storm strengthens again to category 4 as it nears Cuba; ‘extensive’ damage in parts of Jamaica
Reports of families trapped by floodwaters in Jamaica, as hurricane moves on to threaten Cuba’s second-largest city
Category 4 Melissa is forecast to make landfall in eastern Cuba early Wednesday morning.
Provinces from Guantánamo — in the far east — to Camagüey, almost in the center of elongated Cuba, had already suspended classes on Monday.
We’re watching it closely, and we’re prepared to move.
I’ve never seen that before. I guess it can get that high, but I’ve never seen it.
Secretary of State and the President of the United States have always been good to us, and we’ve always been good and strong partners with the United States.
We’re confident that whatever assistance they can render, whatever assistance we deem necessary, there will be a great effort to have that fulfilled.