Destruction behind me, matthew is still very powerful. This is something completely different. This is the worst hurricane i have ever been in. Reporter Officials Say more than half of the hill people are without power, in florida. Don champion for cbs3 Eyewitness News. And meteorologist kate bilo has been following matthew all day long as the storm moves up the florida coast, shes here now with the look at where math the you is heading next and updated information, kate. That is right, we did get an update on matthews status and track, it has been downgraded to a category two hurricane but still a are dangerous hurricane. This is a live shot, from jacksonville, wjxt our affiliate there and you cannot see much of anything. It is completely blacked out with rain, very heavy rain, gale force wind, still Tropical Storm to possibly Hurricane Force wind in that area. As the eye remains just off of the coast, of jacksonville, florida. That is where worst is right now. Take a look at storm sc
Matthew, kate. It is very important on those Barrier Island because if you missed window of evacuation you have to stay. Once through are not getting out until storm is gone. This is a potentially life threatening situation. Heres matthew. You can see center of the storm. It is horrific. It would be worse if the eye of the storm had been closer to land. Florida actually had some good news as eye of matthew stayed off shore, did not make land fall in florida and look at how bad it was even without the land fall. As we head through it this, still tracking to the north, heavy band of rain, yellow, orange, in the area right around 95 from jacksonville to savanna into southern South Carolina as well and storm continuing to push north possibly making land fall between savanna and charleston later on tonight and into early tomorrow morning. And then, it could bring again Hurricane Force wind slight liz weakened from a category four. It is now category two. It will bring a threat for wind and
Im jim donovan. More to come, storm surge is tearing up beaches along the florida coast. Marlie hall live in orlando. Hurricane matthew pomeling the floored coast with powerful winds and rain but so far the state has been spared a direct hit and Florida Governor rick scott is calling it a blessing. Hurricane matthew with 120mile per hour winds is lashing flooreds atlantic coast, the storm is bringing heavy rain, and flooding tides to the northern half of the state. This is still a really dangerous hurricane. Poe pen shale for storm surge, loss of life, severe property damage, continues to exist. More than half a Million People are without power after wind gusts approached 100 Miles Per Hour overnight. It is really important that we get power restored as quickly as we can. Matthews eye just off shore, moving parallel to the coast meaning the powerful winds of the eye wall could impact hundreds of miles of shore line, while the storms flooding rains spread well inland. The weather is jus
Destruction behind me, matthew is still very powerful. This is something completely different. This is the worst hurricane i have ever been in. Reporter Officials Say more than half of the hill people are without power, in florida. Don champion for cbs3 Eyewitness News. And meteorologist kate bilo has been following matthew all day long as the storm moves up the florida coast, shes here now with the look at where math the you is heading next and updated information, kate. That is right, we did get an update on matthews status and track, it has been downgraded to a category two hurricane but still a are dangerous hurricane. This is a live shot, from jacksonville, wjxt our affiliate there and you cannot see much of anything. It is completely blacked out with rain, very heavy rain, gale force wind, still Tropical Storm to possibly Hurricane Force wind in that area. As the eye remains just off of the coast, of jacksonville, florida. That is where worst is right now. Take a look at storm sc
Matthew, kate. It is very important on those Barrier Island because if you missed window of evacuation you have to stay. Once through are not getting out until storm is gone. This is a potentially life threatening situation. Heres matthew. You can see center of the storm. It is horrific. It would be worse if the eye of the storm had been closer to land. Florida actually had some good news as eye of matthew stayed off shore, did not make land fall in florida and look at how bad it was even without the land fall. As we head through it this, still tracking to the north, heavy band of rain, yellow, orange, in the area right around 95 from jacksonville to savanna into southern South Carolina as well and storm continuing to push north possibly making land fall between savanna and charleston later on tonight and into early tomorrow morning. And then, it could bring again Hurricane Force wind slight liz weakened from a category four. It is now category two. It will bring a threat for wind and