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Drone footage shows Hurricane Melissa devastation | ABS-CBN News

Jamaican officials reported four deaths as a result of Hurricane Melissa on Wednesday (October 29), which made landfall a day earlier as the strongest hurricane on record to directly hit the island. "I am saddened to announce that four persons - three men and one woman - have been confirmed dead by the police in St. Elizabeth. They were discovered after being washed up by the flood waters generated by the hurricane," Desmond McKenzie, Jamaica's Minister Local Government and Community Development, said in a press release. Drone footage from Lacovia in St. Elizabeth Perish showed uprooted trees, damaged buildings and debris along roads. Melissa slammed into Jamaica as a record-breaking and destructive Category 5 storm with sustained winds of 185 mph (298 kph) but it had been downgraded to a Category 3 when it hit Cuba with winds of 120 mph, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. The storm moved north of the Caribbean's largest island on Wednesday afternoon and had been downgraded to a still dangerous Category 2 storm, threatening the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos with damaging winds, rain and storm surge. At least 241 communities remained isolated and without communications following the storm's passage across Santiago province, according to preliminary local media reports, affecting as many as 140,000 residents. (Production: Sandra Stojanovic, Maria Alejandra Cardona, Eva Weininger) For more ABS-CBN News videos, click the link below:    • ABS-CBN News   For more Breaking News & Live Coverage videos, click the link below:    • Breaking News & Live Coverage   For more latest news and analysis from ABS-CBN News videos, click the link below:    • The latest news and analysis from ABS-CBN ...   For more News Digital News Raw Cuts, click the link below:    • News Digital Raw Cuts   Subscribe to the ABS-CBN News channel! - http://bit.ly/TheABSCBNNews Watch full episodes on iWantTFC for FREE here: http://iwanttfc.com Visit our website at http://news.abs-cbn.com Facebook:   / abscbnnews   Twitter:   / abscbnnews   Instagram:   / abscbnnews   #NewsDigital #LatestNews #ABSCBNNews #Hurricane #Jamaica #Melissa