Officials are warning people to hurricane could destroy homes and cut power to millions, possibly for days. First responders may not be there to help. We wont be able to save you. There is a point in time where we have to Cease Services because they will be putting the First Responders lives in danger just to get them. If they havent left already, people up and down the coast are preparing for what is to come, leaving bare shelves at Grocery Stores and long lines at gas stations. Just preparing the few i need for at least a week. Coastal counties in georgia are evacuated today in South Carolina governor Nikki Haley Says a quarter Million People have gone inland so far in another 2,000 could leave today. Airports in Fort Lauderdale and miami have closed. Flights have been canceled ahead of the monster storm and National Guard troops are standing by, bracing for the worse, but so hoping it wont come. In daytona, c2. Dave fraser is in the Weather Center and you told us last night the storm could take a sharp right and come back around. Is that still true . We are watching it closely and this is the latest radar image. Dealing with rain bands and the rain bands are getting more widespread in more intense per the ocean is starting to swell an inch on land per the wind is picking up in the reason is there is the center of matthew right there. I put a little measurement on it here and we are only 70 miles away from fort pierce which looks to be the spot where the i would come ashore during the overnight. I think in the next two hours when that will happen. That means the wind along eastern florida is really going to start to pick up. Here is the future radar. Watch the eye as it comes over fort pierce. It takes a jog inland and rate over Cape Canaveral. Basically up i95. Look at orlando. Look how much heavy rain and heres the wind speed model and notice the eye of the storm running right up i95 over Cape Canaveral and flipping back toward the orlando area. Its a good thing they closed disney world and tourist moved away. Heres the future cast per this is the eye of the storm and we put some locations along the eastern seaboard. Watch the wind speeds pickup. 135 Miles Per Hour gust and overnight watch these numbers around orlando and back toward daytona plus Miles Per Hour. Then as it continues to head up to jacksonville, winds could go to 171. A long hard night ahead for folks in florida. Category 4 now. Gus up to 160 Miles Per Hour in it stays that way as a gets close to fort pierce and hugs the eastern seaboard and doesnt change much. It might drop down when he gets were a little a little the last its been 11 years for people in florida. Since 1970 there have only been four storms to hit the us. They were category 4 or higher. Claudia, hugo into india drew, which in 1992 came ashore. Andrew was a five and that caused more than 30 billion in damages. Homes and businesses were flattened neighborhoods gone because of this. A defining moment for florida. Many people vacationing are stranded. Some in hotel rooms and others at local shelters. Fox 31 Michael Connor plastic spoke with one family tonight that is bracing for that storm. Many people at disney world and they tell us they are not going to be allowed to leave their hotel rooms until saturday morning. We just got some new pictures parks. They have been evacuated. Many employees were told to stay home until further notice. We spoke to a Disney Employee from colorado now experiencing her first hurricane. Its not safe. And the best we can do is tell them to keep holding on. I know disney has been giving out a lot of refunds. Everyone is racing to their rooms. We are fully booked at the hotel. They are passing out boxed food for each room. That was from thorton. We will have more at 10 00 with her with how she plans to write out the storm. Fox 31. As matthew gets closer to the florida coast you can track it on kdvr. Com and our family of mobile apps. We will keep the streams up for you all night as the storm moves its way up the coastline. This just into the newsroom, the boulder Corners Office is investigating the death of a 28 yearold man. Were told he was part of the morning. He is been identified as Brandon Simmons of thorton. An autopsy has been completed. The cause of death is pending further investigation. We are learning new details about to russian nationals arrested in denver, accused of illegally shipping and conspiring to send microtechnology overseas. It is a federal crime considered a threat to National Security. Erika gonzalez is here in the studio with new details. The suspects are behind bars and are facing up years in prison 1 million fine. A National Security expert i spoke with said there is no question in his mind russia would have used it to make the us week and make them stronger. To russian nationals are in federal custody tonight after 20 monthlong investigation, accusing of scheming to allegedly export cutting edge tech items to russia. They are accused of working with the coconspirator, former retired Army Special Forces reason the feds after these guys you could lose sleep thinking of all the uses they could put these microelectronics. This is how the scheme worked. The three suspects claim to work for spectra. Bogus it and tech distribution companies. They placed orders with us manufacturers to supply to other us manufacturers but investigators found there were no other company. Instead, they were accused of buying the tech items and shipping them to rus microelectronics is used by russian is meant to gain an advantage over the us. Investigators say the trio of hundreds of converters and circuits. Both items under the federal commerce control us. The feds have restrictions on their exports because they could quote make a significant they would be improving their Spy Satellite technology and drone technology. The list goes on and on. On wednesday, they were in denver thinking they were meeting with dealers of sophisticated electronic equipment. They met with undercover federal agents instead. Utterback also shared a word of caution to tech liberties here in colorado, saying they should Pay Attention to who they are selling their products to because they could end up on the other side of the world and used against the us. Erika gonzalez, fox 31. Creepy clown sightings. Recent pictures going viral giving clowns a bad name. How a local really clown is reacting to the negative attention. Plus, the broncos have their eyes set on the falcons paired with the team is focusing on this week to remain undefeated. And the Great American beer festival is underway. What you need to know if headed downtown this weekend to take in all the new bruce. Rain is wrapping up in the clouds are clearing out. Temperatures are headed down. Ta temperatures go it will we bounce back in the pinpoint happening right now thousands of people downtown for the Great American beer festival. The event is sold out and if you have a ticket you are in for new brew. Greg . Hey, we are did inside the Convention Center. Very loud and a lot of people including julia. She is with the craft beer program. To us where we are sitting now. We are inside the Convention Cent american beer festival. More than 20 brew clubs are in the pavilion showcasing some of the best of their talk about the 35 years intel this beer festival has evil. This beer festival continues to up the game in quality. It highlights innovation and independent craft brewers of today are responsible for the success of this festival. Peer festival for these two days sold out but it really contributes a local economy. Absolutely. This festival brings in 28 million estimated dollars to the city of denver alone. This festival is an international destination. About 50 percent historically give or take have come from out of state to colorado to the national festival. His grand daddy of them all. A Great American beer festival and julia hurst have to give props to one of my Fraternity Brothers and a little toast. Cheers. Greg nieto, fox 31. Now pinpoint weather with chief meteorologist dave fraser. Cant fool us. That is a huge draw downtown for the next couple of days. People will enjoy tomorrow with a fantastic conditions. Today we a lot of clouds with showers. It was great to see the rain out there but the temperatures were a little on the cool side. As far as rain left tonight is no shower out here making its way up i 70 and just west of grand junction. For as we had a few evening showers on the north side of town. Those have now faded away. Notice how it comes down from the lower elevation. Then we have a few showers here and southeast colorado. Those are dwindling quickly. Fortys and 50s for highs in the mountains. 5560 montrose and grand junction. A cool day as i mentioned thinks to the cloud cover out there. 50 degrees and fort greeley and denver coming in at 55 degrees. After starting at 41 degrees. A meager 14degree warm up today. We should be closer to 70 degrees and we will get there outside right now skies are starting to break. We have clouds around and 42 degrees downtown and at the airport. Humidity on the high side and we have the wind taking a southerly term. Temperatures are starting to fall off. We see chilly 30s out there like aurora. 41 degrees in golden. They put that out because we could have the coldest night of the year on the way. 39 degrees and it and 37 degrees already in the fort collins area. Showers done. We keep a few clouds on the eastern plains. Some that could spill back north of denver. In the city and south we will be clear. Any cloud cover early in the morning birds off for the rest of the day is looking like nothing but sunshine. A fantastic friday coming your way. A wider view and here is the shower to the south of us. Watch how quickly that drops off. We do little blowback on the eastern plains. And any cloud cover once the sun comes up the sunset will be clear skies. Under the clearing skies tonight heres where the problem is. Twentys in the mountains and i think we will be freezing or in denver forecasting below freezing. We do have once again another freeze warning out for the entire eastern plains. Weve had a few of these in six days in the 30s. Tonight is the night we go below freezing. If you have to cover them. They are not going to make it through the night tonight with those cold temperatures. Temperatures tomorrow back into the 50s and 60s out west. We will go back up ten or more degrees with mid and upper 60s expected. Heres your forecast with highs tomorrow low 60s around need we are looking at 64 degrees and in firestone peer the cooler 60s estes park and jamestown. Downtown denver 66 degrees tomorrow. Mid 60s toward the denver few degrees cooler anywhere from 60 degrees in castle rock and 6h area. Freeze warning 30 degrees tonight under clearing skies. Mostly sunny tomorrow. Dry and sunny and 55 degrees. On saturday and sunday we take you into the 70s. On sunday we top it at 77 degrees on monday. Dip a little bit with a stray shower on tuesday and 71 degrees but a bounce back. For sunday for all of you lucky folks that get to go to mile high. I will have that coming up at 9 00. Really miles. Today was nice and refreshing. I would like more of that but when you can put together a 6070degree week with nothing but sunshine its a nice start. Maybe a Little Something extra. I will join great at the focused on sunday, the broncos getting ready for a big game against the falcons with the keys they believe are necessary to stay undefeated. Plus, new information released on the new jersey trained to roman. Just how fast the fed say the train was going when it slammed into the platform. Dont get caught in a backup. Get realtime traffic information anytime, anywhere. Download the fox 31 denver apt today for timesaver traffic at Demaryius Thomas has extra reason to smile today. His grandmother, many perl thomas, has just been released from prison. She was serving a life sentence for Drug Trafficking but president obama commuted her sentence in august. She was transferred to a Halfway House in atlanta it will remain there for several weeks. Dt told kimi carmen her release came a little early and it was a bit of surprise. Sentence of dts mom last year. They were arrested and sent to prison when he was just ten years old. The broncos walk of the falcons to mile high on nobody is scoring more points than atlanta. At least recently until he come here. The denver defense will have a challenge. The big question who will be leading their offense . Still recovering from the shoulder injury. After sitting on a practice yesterday, Trevor Simeon getting back toward today but there is no guarantee he go by sunday. The young quarterback did make his first throes of the week and that is encouraging. The ac joint sprain still needs time to heal. It is his nonthrowing shoulder so thats good but the bad news is the broncos have a short week. They host the falcons on sunday, visit the chargers a week from today. Thats why gary kubiak is not rushing anything. The biggest thing is you are so sore. When you throw your trunk is moving and everything is moving. Trevor threw the ball find yes to tell the rotation is something to get used to. Its like a hip pointer is the way its described to us me. It doesnt feel very good. Its something you have to work through the soreness and get it going again. But i think we took a good step today. Rookie paxton lynch has taken the majority of a firstteam snaps so he will be good to go if needed. It will be a gametime decision on sunday. Hes bundled up. Dont forget we have pregame show right here and the game at to 05. We kick things off at 1 00 on sunday as the broncos take on atlanta. Right now, parts of the east coast under hurricane alert. Hurricane matthew is expected to make landfall in a few hours just how strong the storm is expected to get as add that the eastern seaboard. Plus, creepy clown sightings. The recent clouds here in the metro are concerned for clowns fox 31 denver news at 9 30. Happening right now you are looking live at the east coast as Hurricane Matthew is expected to make landfall in just a few hours. Right now, millions of people are in shelters away from the hurricane moves up the coastline of florida towards georgia. We have learned of the last ten minutes that 82,000 people are without power as the powerful storm churns along the coast. We have feeds all over the seaboard and we will have a live update at the top of the hour. Police say they are investigating the situation involving a man in a clown mask in the area of garden of the gods. Police say a man and his wife are working on a bike path when they clown mask, walking toward them. Wife told officers her has been asked to the man in the mask was in when neither answered, he punched the masked man. The man in the clown mask hit the husband back, knocking him to the ground. All across the country, the first case we reported on august complex in greenville, South Carolina. Someone wearing a clown concert social media certainly playing a role in helping this phenomenon blowup. In greeley, if 15 yearold Northridge High School student facing criminal charges after posing threats of violence against the school involving clowns. Its important to note that except for a few cases, most of the reported sightings are a hoax or involve copycat behavior. School districts across the state are reporting vague clown threats stemming from social media. Again, officials believe it is just a hoax. Many are on fox 31 Ashley Michels to look in the scary clown phenom in and outs hurting some livelihood. This is the first time we had an increase in scary clown sightings. This time social media is making it bigger than ever. Professional clowns do it for a living say the whole thing is giving them a bad name. . . Clowning around is actually serious business. You have to go through 12 weeks of clown class, Clown College college as we call it. Marine static graduated as banjo 33 years ago. The clowning for me is about happiness and joy. But underneath her painted on smile, his real sadness. Its just very very sad that they use our image as a scare tactic. She is talking about images like this one better making their way around the internet and scaring the out of people. No matter how far back clowning has gone there is always somebody that is afraid of a clown. But now social media is fueling a creepy clown epidemic. Articles like this one are spreading like wildfire. But when you click it, it is clearly a prank. Take a look at this one from the global son that says creepy clowns killed 23 people. It has been shared almost 100,000 times, probably because you have to search for the sites legal disclaimer before you find you cannot believe everything you hear or see. You cant. She worries people anyway, especially kids, and that soon they will be afraid of happy clowns, to. I think they are not educated as to what really clowning is. Its an art. Unfortunately its a dying art but we are trying to work hard and get it back into the limelight again. Clowns are taking a stand. Fighting this. By continuing to do what they do best. You know, we are good. There are good clowns. These are just people in a costume portraying a clown. The worldwide Clown Association has even stepped in. The issued a statement asking people to realize there is a difference between the scary characters and real clowns. Some professional performers are actually losing business because new information tonight on the new Jersey Transit train the crash last month. We are learning it accelerated just before the accident. The National Transportation safety board said information from the recording device on the train showed that it sped up from 821 Miles Per Hour before hitting a platform at the hoboken terminal. They also say the engineer pulled the emergency brake less than a second before the crash. One person was killed and more than 110 others injured. The investigation could take more tha a soldier from fort carson killed overseas in afghanistan. The department of dmfense said 31 yearold Staff Sergeant adam thomas died tuesday from injuries caused her in an explosion. Thomas was supporting Operation Freedom Sentinel in afghanistan. He was originally from takoma park, maryland. Cu boulder back to normal after a chaotic day yesterday. First, police shot and killed a man reportedly threatening athletic center. As we reported earlier today, that man was identified as Brandon Simmons of thorton. Hours after that, Police Responded to a false report of an active shooter inside the University Memorial center. One student describes the scary moments during the evacuation. And some random guy shouted Everyone Needs to get out. It was chaotic and everyone was running. It was so scary. I fell and i got my phone. I could grab it like to keep running my left it. Many students left their belongings behind. A line of students formed outside to pick up their belongings. Some denver residents a plan simple a fivestory apartment complex without providing parking will destroy their neighborhood. At about once the build 108 micro apartments on this lot at 16th and humbled. They are taking advantage of a loophole in the citys zoning code that does not require them to override any offstreet parking for the people that live there