Follow live updates on Hurricane Melissa as the death toll reaches 38 people. Recovery efforts are underway in Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba and the Dominican Republic.

Melissa’s 10-day run as a tropical cyclone – culminating in a catastrophic Category 5 strike on western Jamaica Tuesday – will end Friday as it transitions into a powerful non-tropical storm, clipping Atlantic Canada’s southern Avalon Peninsula tonight before heading swiftly out to sea.

Residents have sought shelter this evening in preparation of Hurricane Melissa, which is expected to pass Bermuda as a Category 2 hurricane. Several parishes have experienced outages ahead of the

Although Hurricane Melissa's center is forecast to pass more than 100 miles past the coast of Bermuda, the outer bands of the withering deadly storm are expected to bring high winds and potential rain to the Caribbean island.