Hurricane Beryl upgraded to Category 5 hurricane

U.S. forecasters have upgraded Hurricane Beryl to a 'potentially catastrophic Category 5 hurricane' as it makes its way across the central Caribbean Sea.

An advisory issued late Monday night by the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Beryl was carrying maximum sustained winds of 260 kilometers an hour, putting it at the highest level of the center's five-level scale that measures a storm's maximum sustained w