Developing: The U.S. Navy has evacuated hundreds of defense personnel from Naval Station Guantanamo Bay as the category-5 Hurricane Melissa barrels northeast through the Caribbean Sea. The evacuations routed nearly 900 “non-mission essential personnel” from the base in Cuba to Naval Air Station Pensacola this past weekend, Navy officials said Monday.

About the storm: “Hurricane Melissa is just hours from a historic, catastrophic Category 5 landfall in Jamaica today with life-threatening flash flooding, landslides, destructive winds and storm surge in one of the strongest landfalls on record anywhere in the Atlantic Basin,” the Weather Channel reported Tuesday morning. “In eastern Cuba, tropical storm winds are expected starting today, with hurricane-force winds arriving tonight int

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