The UK government has chartered flights to help British nationals leave Jamaica in the wake of Hurricane Melissa. As many as 8,000 Britons are understood to be on the Caribbean island. The Foreign Office has urged them to register their presence to receive updates on the disaster response.

As flights from the Caribbean continued to land in South Florida in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, CBS News Miami caught up with a man who was on the other side of the doors, waiting for someone special.

Hurricane Melissa has left at least 34 people dead and caused widespread destruction across Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica

Agape Flights in Venice has their supplies already ready to bring to people in Jamaica, but crews are still waiting to get the okay from authorities to fly out to the island.

Emergency water systems and medical teams deployed to Jamaica following Category 5 Hurricane Melissa with additional Samaritan's Purse relief flights planned.

A Sarasota County flight crew prepares to deliver relief supplies to Jamaica later this week as catastrophic Hurricane Melissa slams the island.

As Jamaica works to deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, Agape Flights is doing everything it can to help those on the ground, some of whom lost everything.

Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, Jamaica, was set to reopen to relief flights on Thursday, but not to commercial flights yet, so many tourists and Jamaicans were disappointed to have to turn back.