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Live Updates: Haiti and Jamaica Assess Damage as Hurricane Melissa Barrels Toward Bermuda
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Live Updates: Haiti and Jamaica Assess Damage as Hurricane Melissa Barrels Toward Bermuda

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The New York Times

The storm, now a Category 2, passed through the Bahamas Thursday morning and was on course for Bermuda. Officials said 23 people have been killed in Haiti, and five in Jamaica.

The hurricane, which made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday as a Category 5 storm before lashing Cuba, was still expected to cause dangerous storm surges in the Bahamas, with minor coastal flooding possible in the Turks and Caicos. In Haiti, children we... [10231 chars]

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