Alive. Stay with abc 11 for the latest updates on this breaking story. Also developing right nowthousands of families living in limbo. A week after Hurricane Matthew. Their homeare stil underwater and for some the water may not recede for several more days. From the raleigh Eyewitness News centerim dejuan hoggard. Heres the latest information just into our newsroom. Right now the death toll from Hurricane Matthew stands at 26with two new storm related deaths. The victims were found in submerged vehicles in cumberland and wayne counties. Tonight. Three townsprincevill e, fair bluff and lumberton remain underwater. The lumber river will remain above major flood level until monday. The neuse river isnt expected to drop until wednesday. Being used to remove wer out of the town of princeville. My coanchor Heather Waliga is there with a look at the relief efforts happening now in Edgecombe County. The National Guard brought in two more pumps tonight. Thats 6 total. That will allow them to dr
33yearold jessica enchautegui otero. This is the second one that i lost in this month. My son pass away the 2nd of this month. Now my daughter in the same month. Too much for me. Jessica got into a wreck on state road 60 just east of wales in polk county. Her car hit a driver. She was able to flag an officer for help. Deputy officer pennell turned on his while calling for aid, another driver veered into the median hitting them leaving them both for dead. Jessica later died at the hospital. The deputy suffered severe injuries and is in the hospital recovering. Weve been throughout the lake wales area east and west of this scene. Weve combed the median for any kind of evidence. We are looking for Surveillance Video that might be in the area and asking for the publics help in this case. Members for jessicas son 16 yearold xavier and 11yearold kenny, its tough to hold back the tears knowing their mother is gone. She was my best friend. She was there for me when i needed her the most. She t
Flit. This is video of the damage left behind in the outer banks of North Carolina, plenty of flooding, but place like newburn North Carolina still say the storm could have been much worse. The wind and rain damaging homes and businesses and knocking out power to thousands. Sit on my porch out on the back, big gust of wind you could hear sizzling popping and a kind of loud explosion. Some bad n weekend, Tropical Storm warnings have been issued as far north as connecticut. Hermine is being blamed for at least two deaths one in North Carolina and one in florida. Dozens of families are under an Evacuation Order in pasco county as the Anclote River is over flood stages. Residents of New Port Richey are asked to leave. Reports, some people are choosing to stay behind. Some people at New Port Richeys blue heron Point Community dont want to leave, their valuables that made it through the floodwater. We havent seen deputies out here and these people are worried about looters. Their homes are c
Right now at ten. Mandatory evacuations are underway for many people in right now at 10 00, mandatory evacuations are underway for many people in pasco county, for the rising river. It sounded like a big car crash to be honest with you. A home just built by for humanity for a needy family, has to start over again. And crews are searching for aman swept away when he jumped into the peace river to save his little sister. Youre watching fox 13 and the 10 00 news starts now. Im haley hinds. Im aaron mez mesmer for ld several neighborhoods in pasco county are under mandatory regulations to get out. Evan lambert is live in new port richey. Evan. Haley we are at the blue heroin heron point community. This park is still floodwaters. At new port richeys blue heron mobile home park, trailers look like islands. Paddles and boats are the only way to get around. The storm took it all away, took it over. The punishing rains from hurricane hermine pushed into i lost everything, i have nothing. Judy c
Live from the kgo tv broadcast center, this is abc 7 news. Healthy and hard shelled. If the rest of the crowd season is anything like this opening day fishermen should be very happy for weeks to come. Good evening, everyone, im katie marzullo. Cornell barnard is live in San Francisco, cornell, please tell me you have crab tonight for dinner. I did, it was amazing, you know what, the boats arriving here at the pier for the first catch of the day. Amazing dungeness crab, heading to a supermarket near you probably right now. The first haul from the crab boat marine is back at pier 45. And look what they caught. Almost 4,000 pounds of plump, healthy crustaceons, they have been chasing them since thursday when many set the pod traps. But nobody is saying. I havent even told my mother. Reporter i think they look great, theyre hard shell. Seem to be full. Reporter max is so impressed with the haul he bought almost 40,000 pounds of crab for his distributor. Thank god we got started on time. Th