A Category 5 Hurricane Melissa is bearing down on Jamaica tonight, leaving families in Milwaukee with loved ones on the island anxiously watching and hoping for the best.

Lilo Allen has been checking in nonstop with her father in Mandeville, Jamaica, where strong winds and flooding are hitting hard. She calls the wait an anxious, helpless feeling but is turning that worry into action.

"I saw my dad cry for the first time last night because I was crying, I was so, so nervous," Allen said.

Allen's phone hasn't stopped buzzing. Her father, Daniel O'Sullivan, lives in Mandeville, Jamaica — a town now under flood warning as Hurricane Melissa moves closer.

"It's getting really bad. It was actually really hard for him to get to shelter. I wanted him to stay at a hotel because his home isn't f

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