The western edge of the eye wall right now is just approaching the space coast. There is the space coast right there. The heaviest of the rains are moving to the north and the northwest of the eye wall. That trend is going to continue. Now the storm remains a category 3 and beginning to fall apart, especially during the day tomorrow, it is as transitioning to a 2 and 1 storm. Very big rain makers for it is circling around as a Tropical Storm and potentially may impact the florida straits again early next week. We have the current forecast and the weekend forecast coming up in a moment. Sal, thank you. Jacksonville. The camera is starting to shake a little bit here this morning. Federal officials are keeping a close eye on the storm. Obama has declared a state of emergency in florida, South Carolina and georgia. This morning as matthew roared ashore in florida it brought torrential r winds ahead of the storm. The governor of florida urged residents to move to safer ground. Our number one priority is protecting every life in this state. More than two Million People were ordered to evacuate along the southeast coast from florida to the carolinas. I am begging you at this point to understand the seriousness of this storm. President obama also tweeted out a warning and called the governors of the affected states. I did appreciate the call from president obama. We are leaning forward as much as we can right now to make sure that the survivors on the ground that will need any potential help from states or fema will have what they need. And that help will be needed as the National Weather service cautioned the impacts from matthew could lead to some locations being uninhabitable for weeks or months. In washington, im nikole killion. Of the sister stations from west melbourne, florida. Hurricane matthew is now 50 miles off shore and the winds are picking, we are seeing the gusts 90100 Miles Per Hour as the outer eye walls are coming in through the area. The wind is just blowing the horizontally as well. At 3 00 a. M. The National Weather service saw the first hurricane wind gusts, that is the strongest that the National Weather service has seen yet. Power outages in the tens of thousands. We are seeing lights on now, but there have been flickering throughout the morning. Transforms are blowing. The lights in the rooms that throughout the morning. We are seeing a big change in the rain, hard rain, big thick drops of rain in sheets. You get soaked the moment you step outside. The flood warnings through 5 45 today, 23 inches have already come down and expecting 23 coming hours. Sean, thank you. They are continuing to issue new warnings this morning. I have been following the National Weather service on twitter and they are posting the updates o on the rain and the wind in florida. So late yesterday, they tweet add major hurricane has not impacted this area in 118 years, since october 2, 1898, unlike any hurricane in the modern era. There is a new video. The plane was flying through the eye. This is when it was a category 4 storm. Monitor the conditions in the air and on the ground. We are tracking the power outages. This is a map here. This is the map for Florida Power and light. 270,000 homes and businesses are currently in the dark. Reporting live from the news room. Tim, thank you. Hurricane matthew is causing problems for travellers across the country. 4,000 flights have been cancelled, including some i this is a live look at mitchell international. There are four cancellations today. Flight aware. Com, of the flights cancelled are mostly today. Most of them coming and going to the southeast states. Happening now, dozens of red the south to help. Some are there and others are leaving today. Nine are volunteers from milwaukee. Some of them are loading up a truck with supplies at the red cross building on wisconsin avenue and headed out. Our Emergency Response vehicles go through the neighborhoods and distribute meals, district relief items, clean up kits, so the people can get their lives back to the red cross is saying that local volunteers are expecting to stay and help in disaster zones for at least two weeks. A company in waukesha is working overtime to get out generators. The Power Systems have thousands on stand by in warehouses in the southeast. The Company Tells wisn 12 news they may hire more workers to keep up with the demand. It is a little nasty out here and certainly in florida. Sal, we miebt need the umbrella this morning . You wont need it after the lunchtime today. We have a couple of showers rolling through at this hour. The morn showers are going to end, breezy and the temperatures are going to fall. It is chilly tonight for the high school football, but perfect en look at the temperatures mostly in the 60s. 68 sheboygan and port. That is the warmest all day. Out the door forecast, warm start. Patchy rain early. A kicking wind. The upper 50s by lunchtime. We continue to clear out this afternoon. The showers are light, scattered over the morning. But matt, it is feeling like a like fall later in the day. Right now it is wet headed out the door. The pavement is wet. The volume is light. There was a fender bender and now cleared up. It was southbound. Now the travel times looking good. Thank you, matt. Happening now, families are starting to receive the much needed food and water from the u. N. Right now the death toll is 283 people. Tim is here with new information. Tim. Officials in haiti warn that the death poll will likely rise in the coming days. This is new footage of the devastation in capital. The aid is yet to reach parts of continue to rise. The families are digging out from the mud slides. That area was hit the hardest and many of the homes washed out to sea. The trucks with the supplies have started arrive in haiti. There is flooding across the bahamas as well. Back to you. Tim, thank you. Hurricane matthew weakened to a cat 3 overnight. But that is still a very powerful storm. This is new video of the impact that the storm is having in cocobeach, florida. We have tracking the storm for the chase freedom unlimited card earns you unlimited 1. 5 cash back on everything you buy. Thats 1. 5 cash back on whatever these billboards are selling. What are they selling . The products not so subtly placed in this movie 1. 5 cash back. Shhhh the cash back is unlimited and you can spend it on anything. Like, whatever the next ad is selling. Get the chase freedom unlimited card. Gather is pushed by the winds in one direction, again, this started to pickup. Wow. Shes about to be blown away. Those are the concerns overnight innup jupiter, florida. This reporter her feet overnight the storm weakened to a cat 3. The winds up to 120 Miles Per Hour were reported just off the shores and sal, just because it is a cat 3, it is not less dangerous . Is absolutely not. We are talking about significant wind an rain. We still are talking winds sustained winds over a hundred continuing for florida. Hurricane watches up to the carolina coast. The eye wall is running par really to the coast at this point. The Hurricane Force winds along the space coast. The storm is continuing in the forward speed at 12 Miles Per Hour or so. That is at least how it is moving for now. The up date to the north with there is a gradual decrease in the strength. But a very big rain taker. Tim, you have updates on the emergency shelters for the families in florida . Yes. Overnight county leaders tweeted that two locations are full or at capacity but another five are still open for families trying to escape the high winds and water. Right now, a mandatory curfew is people are being told to stay off the roads except for emergencies. This was the scene overnight in West Palm Beach florida. Strong winds ripped down street signs and power poles and threatened to take down palm trees. Gusts clocked above 70 Miles Per Hour in some places. A big concern right now the storm surge. Its expected to be 6 to 10 feet or more in some areas of floridas coast. While florida is getting battered now, the georgia coastline is next. Many families on Saint Simons Island have boarded up their homes and left town. Those coastal islands are under a mandatory evacuation while a voluntary evacuation is in place for other coastal counties in the state. Meteorologists with the National Weather service say the storm surge expected from matthew is expected to be the worst since the late 1800s. Overnight, georgias governor evacuations. Heres the tweet. You can see it there on the screen. Ill be monitoring for new developments here in the newsroom. Melinda, back to you. Tim, thank you. Wisn 12 news time now is 5 17. Turning now to traffic, we want to help get you out the door on this friday. Matt salemme is keeping an eye on the morning commute. Good morning, matt. Good morning, melinda and everyone. It is wet out there but littl this is 41 and good hope road. The wet pavement. We are quiet. The volume is light across the freeway system and right now, easy ride. Thats a look at the morning commute, back to you. Matt, thank you. Wisn 12 news time now is 5 17. The packers are back in action this weekend. For the Third Straight game, cornerback sam shields has been ruled out. Clay matthews is expected to be back in the line up. Look at the fancy feet. He missed the packers home opener. The packers host the new york giants on sunday night. The last time the green and gold hosted the giants at Lambeau Field was back in january of 2012 when the packers lost in the nfc divisional playoffs. Kickoff sunday is at 7 30. And later today, a tradition for fans of marquette basketball. Its marquette madness where years mens and womens teams. This is video of last years event. There will be scrimmages and a dunk contents. The action starts at seven oclock tonight at the al mcguire center. Oh, basketball is back. A sign of winter. And the temperatures are dropping . Yes, 42, 43 for tonight. We have not been in the 40s i have to double check that. It has been months since the 40s. A big change for today. This morning spring like, 6568. It is a warm rain overall. But then when the west winds are kicking in. The temperatures are tumbling to the 50s this afternoon. The storms beefy. They have diminished a good deal. Take a look at this. That that is a rain snow mix. But that is the cooler air. The cool front is situated to theest with. Between the two, windy today with the temperatures falling. This high is settling in for the weekend. While we are cooler, 60 tomorrow. 65 on sunday. Still really pleasant weather. The temperatures a few 40s across minnesota and iowa. 30s in the dakotas. Degrees inland. For the most part the temperatures in the low 40 overnight. 67 at the airport right now. We are staying that way throughout the morning. By the lunchtime the temperatures are falling into the 50s. We hold in the mid to upper 50s through the afternoon and the lows tonight into the 40s. If you are out and about tomorrow morning you are going to feel it. I will be here cool front sails through for us. The breezy winds are going to kick up. This afternoon a little sunshine in place. That is the dryer and cooler air moving in for us. This is tomorrow morning at 7 00. If outside, wear the light layers. Pleasant autumn weekend for us. The for forecast today, morning temperatures are at the current high. The temperatures are falling degrees. All right, sal. 5 20. October fest celebrations are in full swing. Wes and elizabeth are here with the weekend picks. Good morning. Good morning, we are headed to Harley Davidson for the weekend pick. October fest and weiner dog racing. Yes, this is the third annual. I saw the pictures, it is fun, cute. It i there is something about the legs going that fast. It is cool, it is a fun time. Coming up next, where can you see three acres of legos . We have that coming up. You are watching wisn 12 news im mrs. Obrien, and im mrs. Hemker at Johnson Creek elementary school. Our class wants to tell you have a great day Johnson Creek good morning thanks for this fantastic friday morning shoutout wisn 12 is stopping by different classrooms all across southeast if youre interested in getting a visit, just head to wisn. Com and click the School Shoutout logo. Then well try to schedule a time to have meteorologist Jeremy Nelson stop by to say hello. Look at the Smiling Faces this morning. It is quite a class. Yellow and blue with the school colors, i love that. Very, very cool. Thank you, guys. Wisn 12 news time is 5 25. We made it to friday here with their weekend picks are wes and elizabet good morning, guys. Good morning, and if you of legos over three acres happening at the wisconsin center. Did you play with them . I did. I have been to this before. It is insane. It is a play area of just legos. Creations are blowing my you can create the figures of yourself. I imagine kids walking in and their eyes are so big chl you see the adults doing the same thing. And you always step on the littliest of the one. Yes, we do that. Everything legos is happening. Back to you guys. I know that we continue to track Hurricane Matthew this morning. Here is a live look at mitchell international, we have a handful of flights cancelled and many more across the country. Mike anderson is joining us live right now on wisn 12 news this morning, we are on weather watch as Hurricane Matthew barrels down on florida. A state of emergency is in effect across most of the southeast. The storm as it makes its way up the coast. Good morning and welcome to wisn 12 news this morning. Im melinda davenport. And im ben wagner. Our top story this morning is Hurricane Matthew. Were in the Weather Center with meteorologist sally severson. Sal, it is weakened over night. In fact, Hurricane Force winds are still in place at 120 Miles Per Hour and gusts up to 150 Miles Per Hour. The heavy is approaching the space coast, that is where Cape Canaveral is located. This is the space coast. Keep in mind, this whole eastern edge of florida is coastal. Now, we do anticipate the storm is continuing to skirt parallel to the coast