Right along the coast of florida. This is an unusual track. There it is. Right along the coast paralleling the coast. Some of the models make landfall with this thing. Its not set in stone as far as the forecast. Here is now. I will pause it through the bahamas. Major disaster for them with winds of 120 to 130 Miles Per Hour. Basically thursday night we would have a category 4 hurricane within miles east of florida here. Now, the Hurricane Force winds extend out 40 miles. That could be impacting the east coast which is why we have the hurricane warnings up. Then it parallels the coast which is worse because the storm maintains its strength and allows for the dangerous wind to continue hugging the coast up to the north. Lets focus in on our area as far as the impacts. You saw the cone. It remains to be seen. A jog to the west and we are the watches and warnings are posted. Specifically for our area we have polk and high plants county under Tropical StormHighlands County under Tropical Storm watches. We could have Tropical Storm conditions thursday into friday. Basically 40 to 60 Miles Per Hour winds beginning thursday into friday. That is a long time because its not making landfall to get those winds. This will be a big deal here. As far as the rainfall, not a big rain event for us unlike the last few storms that we had, of and the tropical moisture. That should stay with the current track east of our area. 40 to 60 Miles Per Hour winds for the interior counties. The heaviest rain and wind offshore. We will talk more about that and talk about the local forecast today in a few minutes. The extent of the hurricane damage in haiti is a big question after the storm knocked out communications to some areas. Floodwaters destroyed a key bridge in the southwest peninsula. The requires continue to rise rainfall pours downhill sides and mountains, roughly 10,000 people are in shelters which are overcrowded and running out of freshwater. The storm is now blamed for 11 deaths but that number could rise m. Storms are now heading to the bahamas. Two bay area women are stuck in the path of the storm. They are stuck in the bahamas and cant fly out. Reporter the two tampa women vacationing in the bahamas found themselves stranded with no other option than to stay and ride out the storm. Matthew could be devastating for the island nations. Storm systems typically weaken when they bump up to land. Feel it continues as a powerful cat 3. The bahamas will get hit with a tremendous amount of rain and wind for two days, today and tomorrow. Storm surge up to 15 feet and flash flood highly likely. Up, boarding up and stalking up, grabbing what they can from store shelves and preparing for the worst. Two tampa women are stuck and plan to ride out the storm at their atlantis resort. T. I am concerned. I dont want to get stuck here. I have to go back to work on monday. Im scared. Reporter the bahamas could see devastating impacts before the eye passes over. We are watching all the video feeds this we will bring you anything knew that we get from the bahamas. Back to you. Thanks, lindsay. The navy is sending ships to help the victims in haiti. One has set sail. Two more will head out later this week. Haiti is recovering from a 2010 earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people. After the quake the u. S. Sent 17 ships to help with reconstructs. Track is taking it on the east coast and impacting us in the bay area. Abc action News Reporter ashley yore is live in south tampa. Reporter good morning, dan and deiah. Things like batteries are already selling out in some stores in south florida. We are at lowes. I am with josh. How are you guys preparing for the storm that is potentially heading our way . Reporter right now with the lows command lose command center, they lowes command center, they are replenishing the shelves in south florida. We have locations down there. Distribution facilities are refilled so i think they will be replenished quickly. We mentioned batteries. But there are others that will main concerns, checking the flashlights, having them at hand. Water goes quickly. Sand with sandbags, goes generators, an increase over the last couple of days at our store for generators. Power is something that people will be concerned about. How many generators did you sell yesterday here. I believe i sold about five or six out the door yesterday. That is high for you. Especially this time of year. So, people are already getting prepared. In the next hour, i will tell you about the three things you need to make sure you check and have in your home before matthew heads our way. Reporting live, ashley yore, abc action news. Good morning, everybody. An update on the crash we told you about earlier on the Courtney Campbell causeway. Fhp saying the crash is in the westbound lanes. We have one lane. This will be for folks in clearwater to tampa. We are seeing backups leading up to the crash. The good news, its early. A delay there. The other bridge is looking great. This is a live picture of the howard frank howard frankland. Six minutes across. Drive on the Sunshine Skyway looking good, a minute slow in both directions from toll booth to toll booth. Pinellas crews will fix a sue wage problem in palm harbor. Thousands of gallons of untreated sewage gushed for about 12 hours tuesday. Crews got the flow under control but not before it poured the stinky stuff through backyards. This morning crews are expected to dig down to the broken pipe to determine exactly what happened and fix it. Neighbors have been told to limit the use of showers, toilets and other shownnal water. They believe a full fix and cleanout could take a few days. The Tampa Bay Times reports the florida fish and wildlife s ps sewage problems. Investigating st. Petersburg sewage problems. Today Hillsborough County commissioners are set to vote to ban new marijuana dispensaries for opening for 180 days so officials can see the impact of the new businesses. Dispensaries are open in tampa and clearwater. If you bought a chair at office depot, be careful when you lean they are recalling the winsley chairs because they may flip over. If you have one, Contact Office depot and you will get a free repair kit. They were sold for about 150. Best buy has 4 million in fines for selling electronics and appliances that should have been pulled from shelves because they were recalled. They sold about 600 recalled products expense september of 2010 and october 2015. The products were recalled for that cause skin irritations. Can games and puzzles prevent alzheimers . The jury is still out. A team of researchers analyzed more than 130 studies trying to prove that Brain Training games help stave off cog any dave impairment cognitive impairment. A new consumer alert. Hackers could target medical devices. Johnson and johnson says the insulin pumps but the risk is low. The company says the one touch insulin pump has a bug that could make it a Cyber Security risk. The Company Believes a hacker could break into the pump and cause a patient to overdose. Johnson and johnson says as far as it knows, no one has tried to hack the pumps. Bucks would be practicing today but since the players wont play until monday, they will use the day to give back to the community. Springs resource center. They will be painting picnic tables, benches, sidewalks and parking lots, installing new landscaping and laying down new carpeting and read to the kids and lead them through football drills. We have a heads up if you have tickets to segarth brooks in orlando. He has rescheduled the concert because of Hurricane Matthew. He will play sunday, october 9th at 3 00 p. M. All tickets will be honored. If you cant make you can request a refund from wherever you bought the ticket. Mostly sunny through the day then showers and afternoon thunderstorms continuing to develop. Into the afternoon, temps around 89. Humid again. Feels like 95 to 100. The impacts begin thursday for the area and then into friday. Talking Hurricane Matthew a powerful category 3 storm expected to become a cat 4 as it emerges over the bahamas. Minutes. s still to come, not coming to usf. Why the white house is in democracy 2016, president obama wont be speaking at usf after all. The white house has postponed his trip because of Hurricane Matthew. The president planned to talk about the progress the Affordable Care act made in coverage for more americans. The white house says they are hoping to reschedule the trip to tampa. And a Campaign Stop in miami for Hillary Clinton as soon as the impact of matthew is determined. Speaking of matthew, lets check in with ivan for the latest. We have the 5 00 a. M. Advisory from the National Hurricane center. We have been sharing that with you. No big changes as far as the current intensity. 125 Miles Per Hour winds. The center of matthew is now to the north of cuba. Now, has it been disrupted by the absolutely. Yesterday we talked about the 140, 150 Miles Per Hour winds. You can see the structure not as well defined. That is temporary. It is moving over water. In fact over warm water and conditions up above will be favorable for this not to stay at 125 but to intensify back to a category 4 which would put it at 130 or perhaps higher as it heads to the north and west. A dangerous path now heading landfall across portions of the east coast. The official track has it hitting the brakes a few miles before the coast then turning north and to the north and east and making a c heading back out. We will watch it closely as far as the additional model runs and the forecast track. We may have to shift it further west than we have been. We will run out of further west before we make a landfall here. There it is. As we head drew the middle part of the week, getting into thursday 4 hurricane with 130 Miles Per Hour winds just thursday night into the early hours of friday morning so very close. You cant see with the icon whether it has made landfall or not. It hasnt with this forecast track, it keeps it offshore thens heads up the coast. Thursday into friday the biggest impacts with highlands and polk counties under the Tropical Storm watch. The only counties under cone, still looking at gusty winds for us thursday into friday but not Tropical Storm force sustained winds. Those are in the forecast for polk and highlands. The further closer to 95 you get, thats when you get into the potential for hurricane conditions there. Lets highlight this. Not only are winding to be 40 to 60 Miles Per Hour because it will par are legal parallel the coast, that will begin thursday and continue through the day on friday. What does that mean . 40, 60 miles per thats a big deal. Big Power Outages across polk and Highlands County if not further to the west as well. This is a take action situation. Get ready for the worst of it which would be strong winds lasting for quite a bit of time here. Our other counties just have to be weather aware. Just keep checking back with us and keep you posted. The trend has been further west. So, any change in that, in additional advisories would this is important. 160 miles Tropical Storm force winds. Only at the core. 40 miles out from the center. Anywhere from the center out 40 miles, that is where we have the destructive Hurricane Force winds. Those are going to tampa bay very close to the eastern coastline here and then we will get into the yellow which is the Tropical Storm importance winds thursday night force winds thursday night into friday. This is a welldefined storm on futurecast beginning to make a run thursday and friday. This particular model to the east. But, again, they are back and forth here. So, recapping and we will get to traffic in a second here, thursday through friday. 40 to 60 Miles Per Hour winds, heaviest rains with the Hurricane Force winds should remain further to the east along 95. If that changes course, we will let you know. Showers and thunderstorms into the afternoon. Temperatures around 89. Encommunity, you have to dodge thunderstorms but for the morning, janelle, we are crash we are following is the crash we are watching for about an hour on the Courtney Campbell causeway. This is for folks heading out of tampa into clearwater. A little delay through the rocky point area. This crash here just past rocky point drive. We are told one lane is blocked here. We are seeing a five minute delay. So, if you are heading that way, you might want to leave a tad early. Pinellas county, the roads are looking great. The major roads, u. S. 19, crashes or break downs. Howard frankland up to the Sunshine Skyway. And the drive on 275, we are in the green, 13 minutes from the apex to i4 and 14 minutes from i4 to the howard frankland. Country music sweethearts tim mcgraw and faith hill are coming to tampa. They will kick off the soul to sales of American Made cars hit a plateau after a seven year rise. The price may have something to do with that. Kelly blue book says the average price of a car bought last month is more than 38,000. The price of a car is rising twice as fast as the cost of living. Supply and demand would suggest prices may come down as sales drop. Coming up, a man finds a sweet way to get his foot in the door market. He scored ten interviews without sending an email or resume. The tattoos that allow people to carry a lost loved out the door here, Doppler Radar is quiet. Not much today. We are in the similar pattern we had the last few days. Northeast wind easterly component. What that means for you and me, the moisture comes in off the atlantic. With the sea breeze and heating of the day, which will be plenty, 89, thunderstorms going and Coverage Today about 30 to 40 . So, a little less than the last few days. Of course we are tracking a powerful hurricane east of cuba. 125 Miles Per Hour winds expected to intensify. The latest track has it doing very close pass to the east coast of florida. We will talk more about that and the local impacts in the next hour. Thanks, ivan. Fans of the popular Gilmore Girls tv series are excited about this news. To celebrate the anniversary of the First Episode airing 1 years ago and stir interest in the netflix reunion, netflix is taking over 250 coffee shops and turning them into the fictional four local coffee shops are participating. They will offer a free cup of coffee between 7 00 and 9 00. They are starting today you can get alcohol delivered to your house. The mobile app is expanding service to include beer, wine, spirits and growlers as well as mixers and other bar delivering groceries to people. It is for people in the tampa metro area who show proof of being 21 and sign up. Finding a job is tough. One man got employers attention without sending a resume. He used doughnuts to do it. He posed as a doughnut delivery man, showed up at several companies with a box of doughnuts and had the resume posted inside. He scored resumes at 10 of the 40 places he delivered the doughnuts. A has found a unique way to help clients remember their lost loved ones. One woman had it done after her 15yearold daughter and daughters friend were killed by a drunk daughter. Her daughter is always with her spiritually. Now this tattoo keeps her close physically. She came from my body. I gave birth to her, i created her and now that she has passed longer with me, the ashes can signify her returning to my body. Judy says she feels like an artist and a they are ativity because she says her art helps people cope with their loss. You know, we always tell you to have a plan in place during Hurricane Season in the event a storm comes our way. People are doing that and sharing their storm preparations on social media. We liked this one in particular. This is from floridas east coast. Robert from melbourne tweete out this picture of his outdoor fur at the if your stacked inside staying, quote, i really hope i did all this for nothing. Sums up hurricane preparation. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. For sure. Coming up at 6 00, this powerful storm is taking aim at the bahamas and heading to the u. S. We will talk to ivan cabrera. He says we could feel the impact as soon as tomorrow night. Folks in pawk harbor are matthew is heading in our direction. Florida is on high alert with warnings and watches across the entire state. The massive storm taking aim at cuba and the bahamas after tearing through haiti. The death toll is up to 11 in haiti. It is expected to arrive. Meteorologist ivan cabrera is closely watching it for you. Absolutely. The Hurricane Hunters are finding a potent storm north of cuba. That means we are talking about always when you talk about intensification. The winds are 125 Miles Per Hour. Still wreaking havoc in cuba. As it pushes to the north and west it will gain a healthier environment. That will allow it to intensify. It will be back to category 4 status in the next 1 to 24 hours, strengthening through the bahamas and eventually making a bee line for the peninsula. We look for a im not convinced about that. If i am on the east coast of florida, im preparing for a landfall of a category 3 or category 4 storm. Its just too close. We are talking 25, 30 miles and we are not good as far as the forecast errs to this period. When you have a cat 4 offshore like that, you must prepare for the worsest. The official worst