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Suspending tolls in those counties dealing with evacuations. The governor of South Carolina activating the National Guard in the palmetto state and at one point major highways getting out of South Carolina at a dead stop today. So the guard had to come in and help direct traffic and buses picking up people in charleston today. Since people are listening to the warnings and getting out making a run on supplies like water gas and wood, the hotline to report price gouging is up and running look at the empty shelves, some reports of gouging on water is happening in south florida. Here is the reality of the storm it has taken the lives of 11 people, this is brandnew video coming in from the capital of haiti of the damage and they are still seeing rain as well. Look at the devaation in other parts of haiti as we get these images coming in. Island hit especially hard, massive flooding a problem, these pictures are from a group in the country trying to help children still struggling after the earthquake from six years ago. A lot of people talking about this satellite picture you are about to see, a picture of matthew as it made landfall in haiti saying that it looks like a scroll. We have crews where people are getting ready, the latest hurricane track from shay ryan right now. Reporter lets take a look at what we have got going on at the moment, we have a category three hurricane, 120 mile per hour winds moving northwest at 12 Miles Per Hour, bringing it over the island of the bahamas and then approaching this southeast coast of florida by friday morning. That should be thursday morning we will begin to see the eastern coastline and again we have got a cone of uncertainty, a lot of models bringing it ver not the eye wall along the coast, we are continui to watch the track of the storm, the closer it gets the more intense the storm will be and there is potential for it to barely reach possibly category four as it works its way along the east coast of florida and then pulling the way heading to the carolinas, lets talk about local impacts, we have Highlands County, polk count and Sumter County in yellow, that is because they are under Tropical Storm warning so what does that mean for your weather cracks for thesecounties, thsday evening to friday evening in particular you have a potential for wind gusts of 50 Miles Per Hour, as far as rainfall is concerned we are high amount, some locally higher amounts but this kind of rain we can handle. It is not too extreme, the winds we want to keep an eye on they will be very intense. Our local impacts, those three counties are the center of the focus they will have the strongest impacts of the storm as it works its way along the east coast of florida, we will talk about the east coast impacts coming up we have got a lot of friends and family on the side of we sure do, take a look at this, this is the southern tip of florida, you see the famous spot in key west, the east coast bracing for impact for this category three hurricane, him him county. Sendak stations are now open to other county we have talked with a few people taking what they can as a precaution 15 sandbags locations have been open. We are going to get bags and force winds in the next 30 or so hours. He predicts the county will see winds clocking in between 40 and 50 Miles Per Hour. That could damage trees causing power outages, but he said it will likely not to damage houses, mobile homes or bust windows, a lot of people stocking up on essential at home items in preparation for the storm at this publics a steady stream of customers purchasing Water Bottles and water jugs in bulk. So much so the shelves got better earlier on today, they are getting nine additional pallets of water to meet the demand. Sandbag locations are available 24 seven, if you do not feel safe at home, polk county is opening a special needs shelter at 8 00 tomorrow morning the emergency facility in lakewood, ryan smith for the now tampa bay. A couple or . Other notes, the garth brooks culture has been canceled. Tickets will be honored for the sunday show, the Tampa Bay Lightning canceling their preseason game in orlando. Other news. We have a name and a face of a person that a deputy shot someones front yard. The 31yearold threw a brick at the deputy before he was shot. This started after a car crash on gibson drive the suspect tried to carjack multiple people according to deputies. No one was hurt, the deputy who shot him is stuart gray, he was hurt but he will be okay. In pascoe county police are arrested near the school when he got away. Thought for a Violent Crime but for giving false information, the school was placed on lockdown and then moved to a controlled campus, so they are controlling who comes in and out of the school. Coveraane continue, have you seen is weather model . We will explain the likelihood of this actually happening when already claimed 11 lives, catastrophic devastation in haiti and cuba. The same storm headed to the bahamas and in the united states, some americans are stranded in the caribbean islands as flights are canceled, yesterday we were able to skype with a florida woman she is there trying to complete the adoption of her 10 yearold, her to see how they are doing. Words are cutting out. And the video is distorted. Vicki is from Central Florida and she is in haiti finalizing the adoption of her 10yearold daughter. Hello, i am doing fine. On facebook. We have tt a lot of rain 16o and our house is not flooded. The live feeds are not reliable. Where vicki is they are lucky because they are not getting the flooding like south haiti. I was prepared for that. I had a backpack ready to come up on the roof. She is not alone station in the bahamas under evacuation orders with this temporal woman at the atlantis resort. I am concerned i dont want to get stuck here. As ofrit now flightt of the canceled. For the now, im nicole greg. Take a look at this, you see that bird at the bottom right of your screen that is a bald westfield century mall in clearwater, a car was hitting the road, firefighters block traffic for the bird did not get hit again, it was eventually caught with a net and taken to Busch Gardens for treatment. As a surprise, you probably did not know there are a lot of bald eagles we see in florida. We have one of the largest they are seen doing just that, what that bird was doing, feeding on roadkill. Soon it could become illegal to sell purple heart medals. A california lawmakers has proposed a bill to ban the sale. The story through the eyes of vietnam veteran. We did not know when we were going to get hit. Around 20,000 people earned a purple heart ring vietnam. I got rockets launched at them and they came back in body bags. It is meant to be earned, not bought, some guys who have purple hearts dont have legs or arms. Some give their lives. The one thing they have is the purple heart. The oldest of military award a symbol of sacrifice. But people upon them and pocket hundred. It is discouraging that people would do that. That is benefiting from someone elses misfortune. The purple heart preservation act would ban it named after an infantryman who was killed in action in 1944. An army captain founhis le heart and started Purple Hearts Reunited to get lost medals to their rightful owners. The cause is close to his heart, the retired marine colonel has two the bill does not allow the heart you should honor that. It cheapens the value. They are basically dishonoring what we did. That is showing they dont care. It is showing they dont care about america. That is freedom sometimes the price is an arm and leg or a life. This is proof someone paid the steep price for america. Back to the major storm matthew a lot of people talking about this model the storm going up the coast, and it circles back to florida, a lot me . People are actually worried i want to show you this model this is one Denis Phillips shared earlier today it does not ow the exact same thing it shows it missing North Carolina circling back around and hanging out in the bottom of florida than ck out this real . A lot of people are saying what if Something Like this happens. The models are real b rememberpa going all over the place, that is because different de show storms going in Different Directions we rely on the most reliable models so a lot of folks on the east coast are concerneduswee a storm headed our way. Should you be concerned about the second hit here is what is most likely to happen with the most reliable models, it is going to loop around back into the atlantic, why do we watch storms when youre looking at these projections . It gives you ideas of trends, it does not give you a guarantee of where the storm is headed, the most important thing to do right now is not worry about 5 to 10 days out it to be concerned about, lets talk about the east coast of florida and who was in an area of concern right now, Tropical Storm warning for the areas shaded in orange. Hurricane warning for areas shaded in red anywhere from broward county, Fort Lauderdale up to Daytona Beach, what you see in purple is where there is a hurricane watch and that extends to jacksonville. Be on high alert, if you have friends on the east coast yi iis a Hurricane Party i would encourage you to have a chat with them and let them know how serious this storm is for the east coast of florida from thursday night or friday night, look at the projections for wind gusts, we are looking at the area with these 40 mile per hour wind speeds this is what we see in the afternoon county watch what happens, we get into the 50 mile per hour range where we have the warning, orlando, titusville, melbourne beach, Daytona Beach anywhere from 80 to 95 Miles Per Hour wind gusts, this is one model giving the estimate, could there be variation . Absolutely, when you see this you know that have a hurricane coming to your direction. If y this is friday afternoon the winds settle down, it is a hurricane, so what happens, when speeds go up in the night, you get waves of hurricane or Tropical Storm force winds blowing through the area, so rainfall not really a concern, we are looking at thursday night into friday night possibly along the east coast of florida. Same area with strong winds is also the storm surge as this storm moves we are looking 3 to 5 feet above storm surge above tide levels so there is a potential for coastal floodings necessarily from the rainfall but from the storm surge above high tide. The east coast of florida is going to be impacted and we encourage you to let your friends and families know they need i have got our backyard forecast which is looking pretty nice into the weekend coming up in just a bit. Evacuations mean people need to grab some cash quickly. I am about to tell you why it could cost more to get cash on decade, tim mcgraw and faith hill will be on the same tour. They will make a stop in 65 cities. Welcome back to the now tampa bay, lets talk about money, hardly anyone carries cash around anymore but if you end up hitting any atm, listen to the fees they are going up again according to bank rate. This is the 10th Straight Year on average you will pay about 4. 57 in fees, they co and the bank itself, there are ways around this, so you dont have to pay, i will drive 10 miles out of my way to avoid it. This is something easier, get an app your bank probably has the app and it will show you the closest atm. This one is td bank it gives you these green dots, they show back at go into a grocery store, a gas station, get something you might need. Go get some gum and ask for cash back. And then you are good. So i dont have to drive 10 miles out of my way . You just changed my life. This heartwrenching video out of saniego. The canine that was stabbed multiple times you can see in this incident, the return to catch a guy on drugs, his family was calling for help, the suspect had a barbecue fork on him he refused to drop it so th scanine is expected to be okay. Now looking live at th bahamas, you know the big story, the rain has started as this category three storm is right now 4 30 on the now need to know. In our area schools are closing for tomorrow and friday in poke and Highlands County, word coming down today, right now Hurricane Matthew moving into the bahamas, people have been getting ready filling up sandbags boarding up buildings these are pictures of the destruction in cuba where the hurricane hit earlier today, dozens of homes destroyed. So far the hurricane has killed at least 11 people, five of them in haiti, the death toll could be areas cannot be reached in haiti. Evacuations are underway in florida, georgia South Carolina and North Carolina. President obama asking people to Pay Attention and take any evacuation orders seriously. In florida there are mandatory evacuations in Brevard County and voluntary evacuations in st. Lucie, flagler and to vall countys. Where matthew is headed, we dont have the camera that could mean some of the wind is kicking up, pele in six coties under evacuation happening today. More counties will be evacuated tomorrow, you can see from the pictures, a lot of people getting out last night ahead of the orders. With all of this in North Carolina there is a mandatory evacuation happening popular tourist spot. Students at the university of North Carolina wilmington are being urged to leave campus will later than noon tomorrow. The state is also monitoring and closing roads were flooding is likely. There are no evacuations in georgia but the state is telling people to get ready. Shay ryan with a look at our forecast and how it will change in the next few days. At least right now we are the main beach you can see blue skies and sunshine. As we look across the radar we have patchy rain across northern Pinellas County and also as we move furer north we have had some heavier downpours around san antonio across i75 inland south of i4 across polk county we are seeing hit or miss showers and storms, nothing extreme, this is the typical weather, no big surprises, we have a stalled front to the north and we are getting that flow off the atlantic bringing a few showers and storms, this is east to west so if youre looking at your storm shield app and you see some rain to the east you know it is headed in your direction. This is typical weather for us tonight, we will have a few showers or storms overnight it will be hit or miss in this general east to west flow, no big surprises and then into higher and it is going to be breezy but we will get sunshine in the mix topping out at 88, still typical for this time of year, we are waiting any moment for an update on the path of matthew we are trying to see if we will see a trend of its shifting farther to the west again, that is important if it does happen for the impacts on the east coast of florida. We will watch that closely and we will a few minutes. Meanwhile deveping now a possible terror related attack in brusss, this is a look at the scene where tw Police Officers were stopped, prosecutors are treating this as a suspected terror attack but they are not saying anything about why this happened. Both of the officers will be okay. Belgium has been on high terror alerts since the bombings back in march. A contractor accused of authorities arresting 51year old Harold Martin after his as sech and documents with highly classified information were found. The arrest happened inugt but we are just learning of it today, martin worked for the same company that edward swden worked for. But there is no known connection betweth another train derailing in the northeast. It did shut down today, this happened this morning in the bronx at least eight empty seat carts derailed, the Amtrak Service is now back up and running but passengers are experiencing delays, thankfully no one was hurt. If you buy the prepaid visa cards forgives dose . Or gifts welcome back to the now tampa bay, those prepaid cards are getting more popular soon he will have protections when you use them. Everything from visa prepaid cards to starbucks to paypal. Protection bureau they have new rules today first off prepaid Card Companies will be required to tell you about the fees coming up including the monthly fee for the card and the cost for loading cash on the card. The Card Companies will have to give you Liability Protection similar to what you already get with your credit card. If your card is lost or stolen and you let the company know about it, you will no longer have to pay for unauthorized charges. Right now most prepaid cards dont charge overdraft fees. The new rules would make it harder for them to do that in the future. The protections go into effect one year from now, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau estimates the amount of money americans put on prepaid cards will double by 2018. 112 billion. The government today says in car crashes on the roads within 30 years. That is the goal, self driving cars on the road is a big part of how they will meet the goal. Campaigns against drunk and distracted drivings are another part. New numbers show traffic deaths are up more than 10 from this time last year nearly 18,000 people have died in car crashes so far in 2016. We are looking into how you can protect your emails after the report yahoo allow the government to scam its user emails, one step to take right now. We will have that any minute the 5 00 advisory will be out on Hurricane Matthew. We are tracking that, we will let you know if this is moving further west stay with the now now at havertys furniture, its our fall Savings Event. Where you can create the perfect home. Om now until october 10th, everything is on sale. Save on furniture and accessories for every room. Plus enjoy thirtyh, nointerest financing. With havertys, your home can be perfect, even when life is come in today and save. The fall Savings Event is on now, at havertys. Right now, shay ryan telling us she is getting in the 5 00 advisory on Hurricane Matthew is moving a little more west. We have got the update for you check video from moments ago the roads in South Carolina interstate 26 in charleston, they have changed the highways to flow in the same direction away from Hurricane Matthew that is an indication of how serious the situation is. Earlier the traffic was bumpertobumper heres a look at the hilton head reach you can see those flights to the right of your screen the wind picking up inthe area, parts of South Carolina, coastal evacuations expanding that two more counties tomorrow, the National Guard mobilizing as well. Check out this store getting ready r the hurricane they are boarding up the windows off highway 27. We want to think our reviewer for sending this in. Just west in orlando the major theme parks are putting out erts on their websites, check with them before going to disney world. Possible rain and wind in Central Florida at this point, see world posting online they are anticipating altering their hours because of the hurricane. They want you to check their park hours for the latest times. Air b b has activated their disaster page offering free and safe places to stay. At last check it was available in South Carolina for the florida could be added. Shay with the 5 00 advisory, what do you have. The path has shifted to the west. Which means closer to the florida coastline, let me zoom in and you can see the storm on the center of the line it will be moving over cape canaveral, cocoa beach and then skirting the florida coast before moving into the atlantic, tighter line closer to the east coast of florida that is not what we want, at this point it is packing 120 mile per hour maximum sustained winds it could strengthen as it makes its path across the bahamas and in floridas general direction, so for the weather tonight we are looking at hit or miss showers and storms across the area nothing out of the ordinary we have an east to west flow so we will see their way across polk county, nothing too extreme and the coverage isnt great as we look at the futurecast through 8 00 showers and storms continue and even that midnight we have moisture working its way across the state it will be hit or miss , but we will have a chance for rain overnight early tomorrow morning mainly the inland counties by noon it starts bubbling up closer to the coastline and you can see it more widespread across tampa bay t thwe have experienced today, as we look at the forecast for tampa bay this is what we will see. A pretty typical day tomorrow although the winds will start picking up throughout the day and it will get breezy, on friday we will have higher coverage of showers and storms, we will also have windy conditions so we will have wind gusts into the thg extreme and to what the east coast will be seen and the conditions turned beautiful through the weekend we are looking at low chances for showers and storms saturday and sunday, we will have more on matthew and the sevenday forecast coming up at 5 00. Breaking news about the yahoo email search, we just found out what yahoo was looking for under orders for the justice department, the New York Times reporting yahoo was searching for terrorists use. Yahoo modified a system that was in place to scan incoming emails for spam, malware and child per note if you, yahoo was not supposed to tell anyone about it. We were inlkg to about a security expert about how to protect the information you send all my. This is a typical day managing the working space he emails. Email is critical, it is the backbone. 90 of his communication is done through email that is why even though he doesnt use yahoo he was alarmed to read reports the company allow the government to scam users incoming emails. According to a report yahoo complied with a classified Us Government demand scanning hundreds of millions of accounts last year. The company even built a Software Program to do it a move that is unprecedented. Yahoo called the report misleading saying no such program exists, still it is unsettling. I dont know where to turn to. If email was compromised, i dont know where to go. I asked security expert steve fox he says one thing to do now is get your emails encrypted. If they get intercepted they have to come up with a password or encryption key in order to decrypt the secure message. A move that is already being made. I will check out my privacy settings and i will make sure i encrypt it. Mitigating and living with risk while keeping convenience, back to your. Microsoft and google both issued statements saying their email services are safe from us and government spies. 34 days to go untith november election, donald trump is wrapping up his Campaign Swing out west finishing a rally in henderson, nevada. This is where we are hearing from the former tax advisor for trump who was not involved in preparing his taxes, a Financial Team did it and that millions of dollars in losses, close to 1 billion allowing him to not pay federal taxes for 20 years, it was all legal. Trump has been under the hot seat for not releasing the returns, he says he will do it when the irs finishes his audit. Youre looking at Hillary Clinton making her way back to washington. She was at a fundraiser today, now she the second president ial debate. The sunday town hall debate is a natural format in her favor something donald trump is not accustomed to. The Vice President ial debate may end up not swing voters. But that doesnt mean the showdown between clinton and trumps running mates shouldnt matter. We explain why it does. The Vice President debate they had fun with tim kaines many interruptions. And the Hillary Clinton campaign caught governor mike pence repeatedly denying things. Donald trump and mike pence said he is a great leader. He is a great leader for russia. He is a strong leader in his country. That will be what this debate will be remembered for. We shouldnt take anything they said lightly, after all Vice President s have turned out to be some of the most consequential president s. Lyndon b. Johnson followed through on jfks agenda. And there was abraham lincolns Vice President Andrew Johnson who resisted civil rights and reconstruction after the civil war. They be like . It is kaine mahes his running mates on social issues pence conservative record is a contrast to trump. Voters could end up with a president as different from trump as Andrew Johnson was from abraham lincoln. I mike sacks. Breaking news out of lancaster, a college. That is what we are being told, no word on how badly they are injured, this is a Police Involved shooting at least one person at large no word on what led up the shooting. Live picture showing police presence. We have not seen anyone driving down behind the car perhaps taking cover. This is an active situation in california, we will monitor this as breaking news unfolds. A superhero themed funeral for jacob hall, the little boy who died after being shot at a South Carolina Elementary School last week. Captain America Power ranger, iron man they were all there, everyone there dress the pa here is some of the video. His mom says superheroes, he was dressed in a batman costume for the funeral, jacob died saturday three days after being shot outside of his South Carolina Elementary School. A 14yearold boy facing charges in his death. A teacher and another student were hurt in the shooting. A group of surgeons have performed the first living donor uterus transplant ever done in the us. A team at Baylor University Medical Center did it, they say the first three patients but it is working well for the fourth. The first uterus transplant of its kind in the us happened in february from a donor who had already died. The transplant proved to be unsuccessful. The largest mall in the country taking a stand against the growing trend of shopping on thanks giving day. The mall of america in minneapolis tweeting out a message that they will be closed on thanksgiving this year. Workers be with their families. The mall has been opened on thanksgiving since 2012. It will reopen friday morning after thanksgiving. In the recent times, now you enjoy your turkey. Get the tissues ready, you see that little boy that is oscar being escorted by miami Police Officers. He is going to take your dad to because oscar doesnt have a dad his father was deported three years ago and one year later he was murdered in honduras. Oscars mom posted the video to facebook to show the world how kind the officers were to her son. Saying it was a day he will never forget. To see more of the video just search the now tampa bay. A detroit area woman making history as the first the cover of a National Fitness magazine. She has run several marathons but now she can add modeling to her resume. We look at how a comment on social media led to her being the cover girl. Something about crossing finish lines. She is fairly new to running, this wife and stayat home mom of three wanted an four years after taking her first run she is on the r of womhit job be runner ona fitness magazine. I feel like i want to change this. It started because she wrote a comment on womens running magazine facebook page. I said it would be great to feature my community of runners so they replied back and there were so welcoming. Within a few days she was booked to be on the cover of the october issue. You will ge have to look at the love and how much the story has spread. Not only does she recommend dose represent american muslims but she represents detroit. I didnt start running to speak about my community. There are so many stereotypes in this negative atmosphere, so i want to inspire muslims and marathons. She has an Instagram Account named run like. She hopes to motivate people around the world. Runners are runners no matter your shape size race religion. We are crossing the same finish line. The october issue of womens running has hit stands, she brought this home from berlin last week after completing a marathon and she will add to her collection because she is going to do the this is abc action news. Millions of americans on alert as Hurricane Matthew creeps to florida. Parts of tampa bay are now to prepare you for the storm. We will look at the biggest threats lastminute preparations and what to watch out for, lets begin with chief meteorologist Denis Phillips and the updatetrmahew. Denis we have got a lot to talk about, first of all what you are oking ere, this yellow area the Tropical Storm watch for the coastal communities. I got off the weathe and they have to physically issue the watch for the rest of the area which they are going to do. Once the issue it the entire bay area will be under Tropical Storm watch with the exception of sumter, polk and highlands which are under mornings. Now, that does not mean our forecast has changed whatsoever, truthfully it hasnt. The track is now coming much closer to the coast which is what we have been saying for numbers we have been giving you pretty much are the same. If you live in polk county or Highlands County were Sumter County you can expect winds of 55 to 65 Miles Per Hour. That is the kind thing later tomorrow night into friday morning that you could see some damage. Some trees could come down. Nothing close to what will happen in the east coast but it is a possibility but those are warnings, the reason this watch was issued for the entire area is because the Hurricane Center notched the track along the coast of florida. That should come as no surprise that is what the models have been saying and what the forecast has been showing, so that should not make any change. This is lets say it goes more to the west than the bay area. That is not the forecast i dont believe it will be the forecast but it is better safe than story in case matthew decides to misbehave and go