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What are the latest updates on Hurricane Melissa?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone. Hurricane Melissa is now a Category 4 storm as it heads toward Jamaica. At least three people in Haiti and one in the Dominican Republic have died from the effects of the storm. NPR's Ava Pukach reports Melissa has maximum sustained winds of 145 miles an hour.
Jamaican officials have been urging residents to prepare for Melissa and seek shelter before it reaches the coast of the island. Daryl Vaz, Jamaica's Minister for Power, Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, says now is not a time for rifts and disagreements.
Every single Jamaican has a part to play between now, during and after. And if we do it collectively, in unity... And in harmony, we will recover better and quicker.
Jamaica's two main airports had closed Sunday ahead of the storm. The National Hurricane Center says the island could see 15 to 30 inches of rain. Eva Pukach, NPR News.
President Trump is wrapping up the first stop of his week-long visit to the Indo-Pacific region using a trip that began with his participating in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Trade is a major focus of the first trip of his second presidential term.
NPR's Deepa Shivaram tells us White House negotiators have been working with Chinese officials to de-escalate mutual trade tensions.
He wants a trade deal. Lately, tensions between the U.S. and China spiked again over trade when China announced they were going to further limit exports on rare earth minerals, which the U.S. really needs for technology, military equipment. Trump said that he could raise tariffs again on China by November 1st. But the U.S.
and China agreed to a framework for a trade deal that was announced just hours ago, though I will say nothing will be final until they meet.
Treasury Secretary Scott Besant is saying that a substantial framework is currently in the works and that as a result, the U.S. for now will not pursue 100 percent tariffs on China as threatened. Russia's top military general says that country has successfully tested a nuclear-powered cruise missile. But as NPR's Nate Rott reports, much about the weapon is not known.
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