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What will happen now is we will enter this kind of blackout period where we wont get a lot of information out of the most impacted areas across southwestern part of haiti. When we get pictures back, i think they will be just astonishing. This is 145 Miles Per Hour storm that has made landfall often the Southern Coast of haiti with incredible amounts of rain and the winds, category 4 winds which by the way continue it made landfall over the end of the peninsula here, small strip. North. Continue to head to the one thegest hricanes ever to hit haiti. This is a big deal. It may make a second landfall later on this afternoon and evening across eastern cuba. There is the storm heading to and west not just the bahamas but now as well for us as we are in the cone. I will go closer here. We are now in the game here as far as this storm potentially affecting us with Hurricane Force winds, not in tampa but along the east coast. That is the biggest change in the last 4 hours. If this moves 20 miles to the west, we are dealing with it has been trending further and further west. For us the main impact will be across the interior counties anywhere from 40 to 50 Miles Per Hour winds. We are still, depending on the track right now, on the dryer side of the storm. I think the rain bands will be limited to the eastern part of the state then they will be accompanied by Hurricane Force winds. That is possible. I am expecting watches to be posted for parts of florida later on today. We will talk more about that and the local impacts in just a few minutes. The airport because, of course, this storm will be impacting a lot of folks getting in and out of the caribbean. For that the latest with rodney at tia. Reporter well, ivan, let me tell you a number of flights have been canceled heading to the caribbean. Southwest is sending out a warning to their passengers that service could be affected later on into the week. Plenty of passengers at Tampa International this morning. We spoke to a family heading to cuba unsure if conditions will allow them to make it. We believe it will hit the east side of cuba. Year we are going to the west. So, i dont think we go from here to cancun and then they will let us know if we can take the other plane from cancun to cuba. Reporter a number of travelers have been affected by the storm. A group just in from puerto rico stuck there following outages that delayed their flight. We were stranded in the sairptd. They told us it was airport. They told us it wane an electric storm. Our flight got canceled. We didnt know if it would hit the island because we were in the capitol. Reporter this is a massive storm. Forecasters with the National Hurricane center say computer models shift the track westward after three days putting much of florida in the cone of uncertainty. We got in late we were stuck at the airport. We didnt really see any of the emergency stuff until we were getting in. The cab driver 208d us about it. We67 told us about it. One of those things that we hope we get out in time. Reporter emergency Officials Say this is a good reminder for people across florida to always be prepared during hurricane season. Stock up on the essentials like bottled water, nonperishable airport Officials Say the most important thing for passengers to remember is always check that flight status ahead of time before you get to the airport to ensure that you do not run into any troubles. Reporting live at Tampa International airport, rodney dunigan, abc action news. Thanks, rodney. Governor scott already declared a state of emergency in florida. We are expecting an update from the florida live at 9 30. From the governor live at 9 30. Dont forget to mobile app. We will send out push alerts as wemonistorm. We want to head over and check in with jay nell. If you know someone heading up to tampa from north port in sarasota county, chances are they will be late. Major delays northbound i75. Crash after sumter boulevard. Delays of over an hour. We have a semitruck that jackknifed. They are trying to get the moved. Until they do, we wont see relief. Head to u. S. 41. That is moving a lot better right now. Reports of a crash southbound on i75 around mlk not seeing delays there. Back to you guys. Thanks, janelle. An update on the fsu student accused of killing a Martin County couple and biting the dead mans face. Austin harrouff is out of the hospital and in jail. He was in the the attack last august. Deputies say he stabbed to death John Stephens and michelle mishcon. The fbi is conducting tests to find out if he was on drugs during the attack. A violent brawl from inside a south florida restaurant geared to children. The brawl broke out inside of a chuck see cheese. This video shows men throwing punches, women pulling hair. The fight broke out between employees called police. Chuckie cheese released a statement saying the chain does not tolerate this kind of behavior. Miamidade police have not said if they made any are tornadoes any arrests. Gaff vin said they were victims of fraud and the bank froze the payment to the little league. Some parents are suspicious. To think that somebody would be okay with keeping money that is not theirs frustrates me because i work hard for my money to pay for my kids to play ball. In june a Youth Football League in utah accused the same company of not paying them 45,000 in registration fees. Again the companys owner blamed the fraud case but would their funds. Winter haven police are liking for a man that made threats to blow up a bank. He went into a Suntrust Bank in Cypress Gardens to complaint about a tran action. He yelled at the teller saying he would come back and blow up the bank. If you have any information on the guy, call hartland crimestoppers. A man is under arrest and banned from after aquatica after he was accused of touching two girls on the lazy river ride he had been to the park several times this year without problems. We learned the punishment for a north Florida Deputy whose canine partner died after being left in the back seat of his patrol car. The deputy will keep his job but no longer work with the agencys dogs. Tommy wilcox will have to work about a week without pay and probation. His canine died from heat exhaustion after he was found in his car in july. He was left inside the car while wilcox was inside with his family. The agency is in the process of installing features in the canine vehicles. Still ahead, leading a double life. Why prosecutors say a georgia father left his car new developments out of georgia in a courtroom. Prosecutors say a father left on purpose to die so he could escape to another life filled with sexual obsession. Opening statements got underway yesterday in the murder trial of justin ross harris. On june 18, 2014 Officials Say harris strapped his son cooper in a rear facing car seat and left him there in the scorching sun for hours. Harris Attorney Says their client did not notice their son until it was too late. Prosecutors say harris sent about 30 phone messages mostly to women and mostly about sex on the day his son died. Attorneys for harris are scheduled to deliver Opening Statements this morning. Derrick rose is due in a los angeles courtroom for the start of his civil rape trial. He is being sued for 21 1 2 Million Dollars by his former girlfriend. She said rose and two of his friends gang raped her when she was incapacitated. The Jury Collection conflicts with the knicks preseason opener. Rose is expected to attend because he will be in houston for the game. Rose and his friends deny the allegations and say the woman invited them into the apartment and willingly had sex. The man accused of posing as an uber driver and assaulting a massachusetts check student is in jail. He was arrested last night. Last month he was accused of sexually assaulting a umass student. He was arrested for removing an ankle bracelet and disappearing over the weekend. Officers found he will be in court today. Police in new mexico are searching for the man behind this atm robbery. Take a look. The pickup truck was backed up into the glass walls of the store not once, not twice but three times before they get in the gas station. The atm was not bolted to the ground making it an easy target for the men. It was recovered the next day in a ditch. Police wont say if there was any money inside but they say it held thousands of dollars. Of that white ford pickup truck you see in the video. Take a look at this video. That is a dangerously close call at a car show in texas after a driver gets reckless behind the wheel of that mustang. Take a closer look as the car swerves to the crowd of people. A spectator was able to record the entire scary incident. Organize nears of the corrally say organizers say if not the street cub stopping the momentum of the car it could have been worse. Spinning tires and spun out and nearly hit children. Officers responded immediately. The car was towed away and the driver got a ticket. It was a dog day for officers in las vegas. They spent the better part of the afternoon chasing a dog down an interstate. Traffic was stopped for some time. Sprinting after the animal. It finally ran down an off ramp. The dog wasnt hurt on the highway but officers dont know what happened to it after it ran off. They hope someone caught it before it gets in more trouble. Pooches in pennsylvania have a restaurant to call their own. To make it more convenient for the fourlegged companions, its a drive in restaurant. It was opened in North Hampton county. Owners can pick between various meats, for their dogs. The owner is hoping to expand the business across the radio gough gone. Lets turn the attention back to Hurricane Matthew. Want the cat 4 storm is packing 145 Miles Per Hour winds wreaking havoc on haiti. 9 defenseless the defenseless island is recovering from a deadly ashley yore tell us about the video that you have. The storm made landfall about two hours ago. The video out of haiti is limited. Take a look at this. A pastor shot this visee that t whipping through trees. Here you are moving around a bit giving you an overall scene. This is south of portau prince. Take a look at the photos. Streets are already flooded. This was before the worst of the storm hit. The haitian government says the sea that didnt listen to warnings. They have been trying to get people to evacuate, especially from the lowlying areas. Here in tampa bay, one woman is worried about her Family Living in haiti. She cant reach her cousin and grandmother. Like we said, Cell Phone Service is spotty. She knows haiti could be in trouble. There are so many people out there. Some of them may not have shelter or housing and they may be living in the streets. They remember when that earthquake hit in 2010 it killed 200,000 people in haiti. Then another 10,000 people died during a cholera outbreak afterwards with the standing water left there. Now we know aid organizations are standing by because haiti will need help. Lets get the latest track with hurricane matt thank you. Ivan is they will need international help. This is one of the worst storms to hit them. We are on day 3 of a category 4 storm and that hasnt happened but a handful of times. Quite an event across haiti with 140 Miles Per Hour wind. Those extend only, about 30 miles but that was enough to bring some of the Populated Areas into play here as far as the catostrophic winds. The arrows, that is the on top of these folks here across the southern part of the shores. We are hoping folks were evacuated from here because, the bay is flat. We have higher terrain to the west. A couple of the bays here are just not going to be able to take that storm surge. 10 feet. The other thing we have been watching is the incredible rainfall. Talking feet of rain. This is the issue. See the difference . One island. Its a completely different story the dominican republic. We have forest here and forest that has been essentially chopped down because of fuel supplies that they need and they used it to cook. So, we got mud ready to go. That has been the issue in haiti every time there is a tropical storm, not even a hurricane, they get the mudslides down the hillside. That will be the secondary threat as well which will turn into the primary threat, i and makes the dangerous hook to the north and west impacting to the bahamas wednesday night. Then here we are friday morning, early morning, late thursday as a category 3. Now, notice the track. This is heading north, north west northwest and then last minute it will jog to the north, this could go into cape canaveral. The cone includes our Central Counties here. As it stands right now, i think the worst of the effects for us will be gusty winds, 40, 50 Miles Per Hour winds across the interior counties. We stay on the drier side of the storm. These are the models. This would be be one of the most historic storms in United States history if it pans out. This would be the equivalent of a dozen hurricanes moving and over water, maintaining its strength. We are hoping that does not come to pass. For us, we have to get through matthew first. It promises to bring 40 to 50 Miles Per Hour winds across the interior. Drier side of the storm. These impacts are if the track does not shift further west. If it does, we have a different forecast. This is what is knew. Hurricane force winds. That will be possible. The next advisory comes up at 11 00 a. M. I would be surprised if not have hurricane watches posted for the eastern part of the peninsula. The reason they didnt do it this morning, we werent quite issue the watcs. Southeast florida. Eas we are the broad circulation. Easterly flow todall bring us of thunderstorms. We had that yesterday. Over my shoulder you see the position of matthew. We will go with the forecast on futurecast. Storms continue pushing to the rain chance at 50 . We drop them down to 40. Depending on the track, windy but dryer thursday and friday. Behind matthew we clear out for the weekend. Good morning, everybody. Im lisa campos with positively tampa bay on week three of Domestic Violence campaign. We are showing how easy it is for you to become a hero. The super power you need is remember when dr. Oz complained that Weight Loss Companies were using his name and image without permission. The federal trade commission shut down some of the companies. Some of those products are coming back with new celebrity faces so you dont waste your money. Reporter face it people love products endorsed by celebrities, peyton manning, lebron james and valerie bertinelli. Some celebrity endorsements are fake and shoppers are falling for the rouse every day. Have you heard that joy behar is retiring from the view . That is true. This is not. Fake news web sites are claiming the real reason is to sell anniversary amazing cream. Fake news articles were everywhere five years ago until the fdc shut them down. Rachael ray and dr. Oz to peddle questionable Weight Loss Products that the celebrities did not endorse. The risk if you fall for the fake news reports. Believe that joy behar will sell her anticream you might signed up for a free trial offer that charges you 90 a month. Doesnt that stink. Beware of web sites like entertainment today legitimate names, entertainment tonight and today show to grab your credit card number. Be careful with facebook or online ads using a celebrity face. Read the endorsement carefully. Any question, do more research. Im john matarese, abc action news. Still ahead, the latest on the path of Hurricane Matthew, island nations are bracing for impact as Hurricane Matthew churns across the caribbean. The storm making landfall in haiti in the last hour unleashing torrential rains. Lets get to ivanka ivan cabrera. Three i think that will be on the low end. Ashley yore brought you video out of haiti, i have been looking online. We have to vet them before we show them to you. We are just beginning to get some devastating pictures here from just the rainfall associated with matthew. We have the wind as well, 145 Miles Per Hour winds. That is the current wind at its core. Those winds extend about 30 to 40 miles which is a good thing threads between cuba and the island of hispaniola the next 12 hours then heads to the north and west through the bahamas. Notice on close up here, we are dealing with a cat 3 storm and winds between 120 and 25. What happens, when you get an intense storm, 4 and 5, the winds are close to the center. When the storm quote unquote weakens two to three the wind field expands. Then the expand well out from the center. Just because this is still offshore, keep in mind we are likely now at this pointing to involve parts of the eastern peninsula and Hurricane Force wind gusts heading into thursday and friday as it makes the sharp turn to the north and then the east. More on the impacts for our area and local forecast coming up in a few minutes. All right, thanks very much, ivan. We are waiting on the florida in the keys to give us an update on Hurricane Matthews potential impact in a few minutes. The red cross is preparing for the devastating storms. Teams are in jamaica, haiti, dominican republic. Thousands of food items and water for families that need help. If you would like to help, donate your blood. One blood says its better to donate sooner rather than later. We today is a big day in politics locally and nationally. Vice president ial nominees mike pence and tim kaine are set to face off in a debate. Pinellas will mail Record Numbers of ballots. James tully is live at the supervisor of Election Office. Why are they issuing a Record Number of these . Reporter deiah, one of the reasons the Election Office gives me, the convenience factor. Here is a ballot. The front. You have the president and United States senator among them. On the back 11 amendments and the fact that there could be this Record Number of ballots could mean record voter turnout. We are talking pallets full of ballots. In the last president ial election, more than half of all ballots cast in the nation were mailed in. In Pinellas County more than half of the votes cast in all elections were mail in ballots. This shipment will be the largest lk Pinellas County in any election. 41 of registered voters in Pinellas County are going to request this mail ballot. The election is starting right now. This is it. Half of the voters are going to have their ballots in their hand by the end of the week. This is an increase of about last president ial election. There will be more requests and they anticipate having over 300,000 than the 260,000 they have currently. To obtain a ballot, if you are in Pinellas County, go to the county web site. You have one week to complete it after you receive it in the mail. James tully, abc action news. Tonight is the Vice President ial candidates turn to take tim kaine will debate mike pence in virginia. This debate could be critical for pence who is challenged with defending donald trump days after the billionaires 1995 state income tax returns were published. The indiana governor hopes he and kaine get to talk about their records than spending time defending their running mates. You can watch it tonight at 9 00 and streamed live on our free mobile app and our donald trump remains under fire this morning over his 1995 new york state income tax return that showed a loss of nearly a billion dollars. The republican nominee addressed the controversy during two rallies yesterday in colorado. He told supporters the media is obsessed over a tax filing from a brutal real estate year when millions of americans are paying an unequal share of their income to the government. The unfairness of the tax laws is unbelievable. Its something that i have been talking you heard me talking about it despite being a big beneficiary, i must admit. You are more important than my being a beneficiary. We will straighten it out and make it fair for everybody. Thats what Trump Supporters want to hear. According to a poll, 79 of people that plan to vote for the billionaire believe paying taxes is a civic duty. Hillary clinton pounced on nair billionaire gained the system for his benefit and will continue to do so if he wins next months election. He claimed he brilliantly used the laws to avoid paying taxes. The well, that just shows number one he is the poster boy poster boy for the same rigged system that he would make even worse. Today clinton will be campaigning in eastern pennsylvania. She will attend rallies outside of the mayor of a small pennsylvania town is under fire for a racist post on his facebook page. One image shows a wagon of orangutanned and refers to moving day at the white house. They are demanding the mayor resign. The town Council Voted to censure him and also order the towns lawyer to find out how they could legally remove him witch hunt. A paint bottle lead police to a vandalism suspect that may be responsible for graffiti all over downtown at nine different businesses and homes in when the area. A Security Guard spotted this man reportedly painting a building on first avenue north a few days ago. She confronted him, he dropped the paint bottle and took off on a scooter. Evidence from the bottle lead them to julian grimes. They believe he is for graffiti at nine locations. A rally for Global Stock Markets today. Asia and europe are posting gains. The dow is up 36 points. The dow lost 54 points monday. Happening today in tampa, you have a great opportunity to find a better job or more fulfilling career. Job news usa is hosting a megacommunity career fair at stein broken near field. It starts in about 20 minutes dozens of Companies Looking to fill jobs in the bay area. If you plan to go, make sure you dress professionally and bring plenty of resumes. Verizon wireless is hosting a hiring event today. The Cell Phone Companies is looking to add more than 70 inside sales jobs in the tampa bay area by the end of the year. If you are interested in applying, head to the Contact Center on West Hillsborough between 10 00 and 6 00 today. Two big outdoor reta arent rivals any more. Bass pro shops is buying cabelas. The cabelas chain has 84 stores. Bass pro shops has 99 stores. There is no word whether the deal might mean the closure of some locations. Cabelas was falling behind some retailers forcing the decision to sell or reorganize. National taco day. Tuesday. We have more deals posted on our free mobile app. Still to come on abc action news at 9 00 rather a sunscreen say luges. The three common solution. An out of shape Police Recruit desperate to earn his strips paid a friend allegedly to pass the physical exam. Now he is facing chars criminal impersonation and wont join the force. Justin payne took the written part of the exam but not quite fit enough for the physical requirements taken on a different day and place. He had another man shut in for him. The man accidentally put his name on one of the forms. The Department Takes fingerprints at both tests. When they noticed the names didnt match they checked the fingerprints that didnt match either. This morning we are hearing from a new jersey man the victim of a brazen burglar. Running errands, he found an intruder in his home. He knew something was wrong when he walked up and saw the living room window smashed. He walked in and a whiskey bottle was out of place. He kept walking through the house and couldnt believe the brazen burglar was in his shower. He called police. He said the guy had his clothes laid out on his bed like he owned the place. I saw him, watched him, gave while i was watching him making sure he didnt escape. Police arrested the 28year old man and he is facing burglary charges. Living in florida, we know the importance of sunscreen. Experts say there are three big mistakes that we are making. One california woman says she found the solution, a sunscreen machine. She calls the machine the snappy screen. Basically she redesigned a spray tanning booth so it prays an even and full layer of the three big mistakes that we make when putting on sunscreen, we dont put on enough, dont give it time to absorb and dont reapply. A volcano that erupted in mexico is highly active. Now mexican Authorities Say hundreds of families that evacuated their homes will have to remain in shelters at least for another day, maybe longer. This is known as the volcano of fire. You can see why. Its about 400 miles west of mexico city. Most active volcanos in mexico and central america. The earth is dynamic. No question bit. We will focus in on matthew. Folks are wondering will it rain today . We have been hit the last couple of days. We started out like this with a lot of sunshine. Then at the beaches late in the afternoon and evening we get the storms rolling in like july not october. This is a bit unusual for this time of year. Fall is coming and, in fact, we have to go past mat into next matthew into next week. Cooler temperatures and lower humidity. We have a lot to get to before that happens. Upper 70s with blue skies as you saw with temps across the rest of the tampa bay area jumping into the low 80s. We will manage about 87 for the daytime high. Titan doppler radar, the case well, good Tuesday Morning to you. Thanks for spending time with us tampas morning blend. We have a busy show for you this morning and we have a couple of critters im nervous about this morning. Creatures of the night at the zoo here and the food over there. I was going to say, i got to good side of this, the food. They have this burger, if you

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