Hurricane Melissa made landfall on Cuba early Wednesday with catastrophic winds, flash flooding and storm surge expected on the island, forecasters said. Follow below for live updates:

Hurricane Melissa made landfall on Cuba early Wednesday with catastrophic winds, flash flooding and storm surge expected on the island, forecasters said. Follow below for live updates:

Hurricane Melissa barreled toward eastern Cuba, where it was expected to make landfall as a major storm early Wednesdayafter pummeling Jamaicaas one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record. More than 700,000 people were evacuated in Cuba, according to President Miguel Daz-Canel, and forecasters said the Category 3 storm would unleash ...

What to KnowThe Los Angeles Dodgers hold a 2-1 series lead over the Toronto Blue Jays in the 2025 World Series winning an 18-inning epic in Game 3 and are looking to extend their lead.Freddie Freeman walked it off for the Dodgers with a solo home run in the bottom of the 18th inning in Game 3, which tied the record for longest game in MLB postseason ...

Bill Gates thinks climate change is a serious problem but it won’t be the end of civilization. He thinks scientific innovation will curb it, and its instead time for a strategic pivot in the global climate fight: from focusing on limiting rising temperatures to fighting poverty and preventing disease. A doomsday outlook has led the climate community to ...

What to KnowHurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday as an “extremely dangerous” Category 5 storm, forecasters said.Melissa’s maximum sustained winds hit 185 mph Tuesday ahead of landfall, as the storm became the strongest to ever hit Jamaica since records began.Forecasters with the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Melissa was ...

Apple on Tuesday became only the third company to break through the $4 trillion market value milestone. Apple shares rose fractionally in early trading, just enough to briefly push the companys value above the historic level. It ended the trading day at $3.99 trillion. Nvidia and Microsoft crossed the $4 trillion threshold in July. Nvidias market ...

A 13-year-old student who is accused of making serious threats against a charter school in Plantation last week appeared before a judge on Tuesday. NBC6 is not showing the teen’s face because he is a minor. During his court appearance, a prosecutor described how the teen is accused of making online threats against Renaissance Charter School in ...

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, the strongest to lash the island since recordkeeping began 174 years ago. The storm’s eyewall entered near New Hope in southwestern Jamaica at 1 p.m. ET and is expected to slice diagonally across the island, exiting around St. Ann parish in the north, forecasters said. It ...

President Donald Trumps lawyers have asked a New York state appeals court to toss out his hush money criminal conviction, saying federal law preempts state law and there was no intent to commit a crime. The lawyers filed their written arguments with the state’s mid-level appeals court just before midnight Monday. In June, the lawyers asked a ...

Anyone who had a particular account through Capital One could soon be receiving money as part of a multi-million dollar class action settlement. The $425 million settlement involves the bank’s popular 360 Savings accounts, which a lawsuit alleges was “deceptively marketed,” “cheating” millions of customers out of more than $2 billion in ...

The 2026 Olympics are on the horizon. The Winter Games will be held in Italy for the third time, as the world’s greatest athletes will hit the slopes, ice and track in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo. Italy is returning as the host nation 20 years after the 2006 Torino Games and 70 years after the 1956 Cortina d’Ampezzo Games. While athletes and ...

The 2026 Olympics are on the horizon. The Winter Games will be held in Italy for the third time, as the world’s greatest athletes will hit the slopes, ice and track in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo. Italy is returning as the host nation 20 years after the 2006 Torino Games and 70 years after the 1956 Cortina d’Ampezzo Games. While athletes and ...

The U.S. military on Monday carried out three strikes on four vessels in the Eastern Pacific Ocean that were allegedly trafficking narcotics, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday. Hegseth said in a statement posted on X that the strikes killed 14 narco-terrorists and there was one survivor. Mexican authorities took over responsibility for the ...

A man is facing charges after he allegedly violently robbed another man in Miami Beach in a crime that was caught on camera, police said. Cornelius Wedner, 25, is facing charges including aggravated battery with great bodily harm, strongarm robbery, and resisting an officer with violence in the incident that happened early Sunday, an arrest report said. ...

A man was rushed to the hospital after he was found shot near a smoke shop in northwest Miami-Dade early Tuesday. Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office officials said deputies responded to a ShotSpotter gunshot detection alert in the area of 27th Avenue and Northwest 45th Street shortly before 6 a.m. When they arrived, the deputies found a man with apparent ...

“Oh my Jesus Christ,” NBC6’s hurricane specialist John Morales said on air on Tuesday during NBC6’s continuing coverage on Hurricane Melissa as it was set to make landfall as a Category 5 storm in Jamaica. The comment came as NBC6 meteorologist Adam Berg informed him that the National Hurricane Center had released a new advisory at 9 a.m. ...

Hurricane Melissa is forecast to make landfall on Jamaica Tuesday morning and cross Cuba and the Bahamas through Wednesday. Melissa intensified to Category 5 strength Monday as it neared Jamaica, where forecasters said it would unleash catastrophic flooding, multiple landslides and extensive infrastructure damage.

Hurricane Melissa is forecast to make landfall on Jamaica Tuesday morning and cross Cuba and the Bahamas through Wednesday. Melissa intensified to Category 5 strength Monday as it neared Jamaica, where forecasters said it would unleash catastrophic flooding, multiple landslides and extensive infrastructure damage.

Freddie Freeman homered leading off the bottom of the 18th inning, Shohei Ohtani went deep twice in another record-setting performance and the Los Angeles Dodgers outlasted the Toronto Blue Jays 6-5 in Game 3 on Monday night to win a World Series classic. The defending champion Dodgers took a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven matchup and still have a chance ...

What to KnowPresident Trumparrived today in Japan for his first meeting with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. Republican and Democratic lawmakers remain at a stalemate on finding a government funding solution to end what is now the the second-longest shutdown in U.S. history.Atrade dealbetween the U.S. and China isdrawing closer, officials fromthe worlds two ...

High demand and limited funding – those are the issues local governments are facing as they try to help those in need of housing help.  The Housing Choice Voucher, known as Section 8, is a lifeline for many low-income families in need of rental assistance. The program is federally funded and is administered by local governments.  Section 8 tenants ...

High demand and limited funding – those are the issues local governments are facing as they try to help those in need of housing help.  The Housing Choice Voucher, known as Section 8, is a lifeline for many low-income families in need of rental assistance. The program is federally funded and is administered by local governments.  Section 8 tenants ...

People wearing Halloween masks banged on a familys door in Alexandria and said they would break in and kill the residents. Police investigated the case as an attempted burglary and learned relatives were responsible and had been filming what they called a prank. The prank could have been deadly, Alexandrias police chief said in an update Monday. When a ...

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