Hurricane Matthew Blowing Through Caribbean

Jamaica and Haiti continue to encourage residents in vulnerable areas to evacuate as the Caribbean begins to get hit by powerful Hurricane Matthew. Haiti's interior minister Francois Anick Joseph said officials are “very worried” by the situation, adding that 1,300 shelters had been set up to assist hundreds of thousands of people. “We want everybody to know that it is real,” he said. Still, almost 2,000 people refuse to leave their homes and the minister said the government is...

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