Millions of people across Jamaica are hunkering down and praying for safety from Hurricane Melissa, which made landfall on Tuesday around 1 p.m. with winds of 185 mph.

Hurricane Melissa leaves trail of destruction in Jamaica’s Black River CNN’s Derek Van Dam reports from Jamaica’s Black River region, where Hurricane Melissa has damaged homes and infrastructure, leav...

More than one million people, a third of the population, were directly affected, he said.