Jeff and Lila Funderburg have been living part-time in Jamaica and part-time in Chicago developing a hurricane-proof atmospheric water generator that provides clean water for people who struggle to get it.

A lifeless body in a home. A toddler looking at her broken bed. A mom with a prescription and nowhere to fill it. This is what CNN found in Jamaica’s devastation after Hurricane Melissa.

A small plane heading to Jamaica for Hurricane Melissa relief efforts crashed into a waterway in a Coral Springs, Florida, neighborhood, officials said.

In Jamaica, survivors of Hurricane Melissa describe losing everything as the storm's fury lays bare the island's new climate reality.

Rita Hilton, who has lived in Jamaica for 60 years, works with the McLaughlins and helps farmers export their crops. She called the hurricane “the most intense, horrific storm” she has experienced. Hilton was airlifted to Kingston, the country’s capital, this week after seven days in her isolated, torn-down home.

Hurricane Melissa is making landfall in Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, the strongest to hit the island since recordkeeping began 174 years ago.

More than 735,000 people were evacuated in Cuba by Tuesday night, Oct. 28, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said in a social media post. In the Bahamas, next in Melissa's path to the northeast, the government ordered evacuations of residents in southern portions of that archipelago.

Kerry Cohen did her research and discovered other groups who are collecting items for Jamaica. She will collect locally donated items, pack it up and take them to Atlanta.

As Hurricane Melissa crosses over Jamaica with record-breaking winds and rain, these webcams show what happens as long as power holds out.