South Florida organizations are gathering clothing, food and money to assist people affected by Hurricane Melissa in the Caribbean.

Celebrity Beyond’s Oct. 26 itinerary will visit the Western Caribbean rather than the Eastern Caribbean, according to the cruise line’s parent company, Royal Caribbean Group. The ship will visit Costa Maya in Mexico, Belize and Roatan, Honduras.

Satellite video show Hurricane Melissa intensifying in the Caribbean, with dramatic cloud formations and lightning flashes captured near the eye of the hurricane. The footage reveals the storm's growing power as it moves towards land. The hurricane threatens to be the strongest on record to ever hit Jamaica.

"Catastrophic winds in the eyewall have the potential to cause total structural failure especially in higher elevation areas tonight and early Tuesday."

As restaurant owner Chris Mitchell serves up these Jamaican recipes, he can’t help but think about Hurricane Melissa as it heads toward his homeland.

Hurricane Hunters were forced to cut short their reconnaissance mission into the Category 5 Hurricane Melissa Monday morning, Oct. 27.

Melissa developed into a deadly Category 5 hurricane Monday, Oct. 27, and is expected to have historically catastrophic impacts on the northern Caribbean.

Hurricane Melissa is now a potentially devastating Category 5 storm heading toward Jamaica as more U.S. military assets head toward the region.