Following a Category 5 landfall in Jamaica, Melissa is set to accelerate northward with destructive winds, extreme rainfall and more. Here's the very latest.

Melissa was a Category 5 hurricane, the highest level, when it made landfall Tuesday in Jamaica. It was the strongest to hit the island since recordkeeping began 174 years ago. Melissa caused power outages, fallen trees, landslides, and heavy flooding and tore off roofs in Jamaica.

Hurricane Melissa, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record, devastates Jamaica as a Category 5 storm, causing widespread destruction.

Tuesday 5 p.m. The National Hurricane Center warned about major flash flooding, landslides and strong winds in Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Eastern Cuba as the latter country braced for the Category 4 hurricane Tuesday evening.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel urged residents on Tuesday (October 28) to relocate to safe areas ahead of Hurricane Melissa’s approach to eastern Cuba.

The storm is expected to bring destructive winds and life-threatening and catastrophic flooding and landslides to Jamaica, forecasters say.

Cuba is bracing for Hurricane Melissa as it heads towards Santiago de Cuba, the island’s second-largest city, threatening catastrophic damage at a time the government is already failing to provide the most basic services and thousands are sick because of the rise of mosquito-transmitted diseases and other illnesses linked to poor sanitary conditions.