After smashing its way through the Caribbean as a monster Category 5 hurricane, leaving a broken Jamaica and flooding Haiti, Cuba and the Bahamas and skirting Bermuda, Melissa is no longer a hurricane...

For the latest on Hurricane Melissa, check this story or visit the National Hurricane Center's website. Hurricane Melissa formed in the Caribbean, making it the 13th named storm in the Atlantic this year,

Hurricane Melissa will go down as one of the worst hurricanes ever in the Atlantic Ocean, with the hurricane reaching a strength that only a handful of storms have achieved in recorded history.

Health facilities in the area have been devastated, he says.