Tropical Storm Melissa is expected to rapidly intensify and become a Category 4 hurricane with 145-mph winds, according to the National Hurricane Center. That's quite a difference from the weak tropical storm it was early Friday,

We will be very fortunate if Melissa does not cause a humanitarian disaster, even as Florida is again in the clear of a strange 2025 hurricane season.

Best-case scenario: “The best-case scenario for Florida would be if Melissa moves over eastern Cuba or Hispaniola and then gets pulled out to sea. That would spare Florida from impacts, though it would likely bring life-threatening and possibly catastrophic flooding to parts of Hispaniola, eastern Cuba, and the Dominican Republic."

Trump administration is quietly sending hundreds of Cubans and other immigrants with significant criminal records in buses to Mexico, in an expansion of third-country deportations.