Hurricane matthew taking aim at florida. New numbers from haiti. A look at what the storm has done to the area. First a look at our weather completely different here for the Holiday Weekend. We are really looking out here. Kevin as the storm track stays to the south with matthew, it leaves us with an area of High Pressure and one cold front with big changes beyond us. We start off again with patchy fog in areas that had been seeing it play out over the last couple of days. Otherwise as the fog bus sunshine. If anything, temperatures today are going to be a couple of degrees warmer than what we had yesterday. High temperatures statewide will be up into the 70s. Were still looking at 60s out there tomorrow. A front approaches later in the day tomorrow brings in cooler air for sunday and for columbus day on monday. Much more on that coming up in a bit. Lets look at your friday morning ride. Join live by deb davidson. Good morning, deb. Deb good morning. All of the overnight wrapped up. Tr
The death toll soaring overnight. Entire towns leveled. Now millions more in its path this morning. David muir, ginger zee and rob marciano and our team all across the storm zone on a special edition of Good Morning America. And good morning, america. That hurricane hitting florida right now. Lets look at the radar of the thats the east coast and look at port canaveral. Officials warning high winds could bring structures down. Everyone on alert. Understandable why. Take a live look at cocoa beach. Fierce rain and winds there at this hour. Heres what we know right now. 3. 2 million from florida through the carolinas have been told to evacuate. At least 300,000 people are without power in the state of florida. And take a look at the storm right now. 350 miles wide. And covers an estimated 280,000 square miles. Just a massive storm. Our team on the ground all across the storm zone. David muir in jacksonville and ginger in the thick of the storm in melbourne, florida. Good morning, ginger.
Emergency. Abcs Marci Gonzalez is in new smurna beach with the latest on the storm. Marci good afternoon. We are feeling the effects of Hurricane Matthew. The choppy water you see behind me is not the ocean, it is the indian river. You can see how it is already flooding over the street. The wind has been intense through the night and into the morning, strong enoughbr and it is not letting up just yet. Hurricane matthews eye brushing and battering floridas east coast. Wind gusts surpassing 100 miles an hour, bringing down trees and power lines, leaving hundreds of thousands of people in the dark. But the major concern, flooding, starting in Central Florida already. With forecasters saying the president obama i just want to emphasize to everybody that this is still a really dangerous hurricane. Marci already at least one hurricanerelated death reported in port saint lucie, florida. And the death toll climbing in haiti. Nearly 300 killed, entire communities leveled. Matthew now moving nor
When you factor in this with high tide, this again could be some unprecedented flooding in some locations. Reporter forecasters calling for potential storm surge as high as 11 feet, with wind gusts surpassing 100 Miles Per Hour in some places. Bringing down power lines and trees. A big boom. Reporter the death toll in haiti climbing. The interior ministry saying nearly 300 people were killed, but with many areas still inaccessible, localff multiply. Meanwhile, at least two hurricanerelated deaths reported inport st. Lucy, florida, with a warning, the lifethreatening impactses from this storm may still not be over. I just want to emphasize to everybody that this is still a really dangerous hurricane. Reporter that danger now shifting toward georgia and the carolinas. Officials there are urging people, especially in coastal areas, to evacuate as Hurricane Matthew makes its way were trying to just reduce the amount of lives lost or harm done as much as we can. Reporter here all thats real
Their new home. We spoke with them and were live with more on whats happening there. Reporter jeff and debbie and theyre two teenage daughters moved to jacksonville just last week. Today theyre being officially welcomed to the area by Hurricane Matthew. But theyre taking it in stride. Trees are starting to go ahead and blow, the winds starting to whip up. The rivers starting to get really, really nasty reporter jeff and debbies new home is located 18 feet above sea level. The surge, you know, is supposed to be somewhere around seven to 10 feet. Were pretty far inland. Were about 12 miles inland from the ocean. Theres a choke point in jacksonville. So we feel like, you know, the surge is not going to be as significant this far inland. Reporter despite a flee by floridas governor to plea by floridas governer to evacuate, as a family they decided to hunker down. Water, so we feel like were pretty safe from that standpoint. Reporter but jeff says he does have some concerns about their new