 impacts the evidence before his court that resulted in a jury verdict. Hurricane Beryl is weakening but still tearing through the Caribbean. Beryl continues beryling toward Jamaica after battering smaller islands in the eastern Caribbean. Beryl is still a very powerful category for a hurricane with maximum sustained winds of around 155 miles per hour this afternoon. National Hurricane Center Director Michael Brennan, the storm has claimed at least five lives. Communications are out in many storm-ravaged areas.