Lets go over to abcs Lauren Lister in new smyrna beach. Good morning, lauren. Reporter good morning, the center of Hurricane Matthew is 50 miles off the coast of florida packing winds up to 120 Miles Per Hour and feeling the impact pick up with gusting winds and pelting rain and our power getting knocked out. No audio. Rricane matthew barrelg toward florida, the brutal conditions intensifying as the eye of the storm hits coastal cities. Overnight violent winds along the beaches, gusts clocking in above 70 Miles Per Hour, the storm bringing the look and sound of fireworks in the form of downed power lines. Thousands facing outages, officials fearing up to 3 million may ends up in the dark. The National Weather service says matthew will be devastating. Florida governor making this dire warning. Unfortunately this will kill people. Reporter allalready it has, matthew taking the lives of 100 people as the swept through haiti. Matthew battering the bahamas before heading for florida, reside
Forecast. Taking a closer look at Hurricane Matthew. Its still a strong category 3 hurricane. The eye is off the coast of florida it will come close to areas like Daytona Beach before it heads up the coast. We may not see landfall, but heavy rain and storms coming in along the coast and big problems for florida. Ill have the the track of the hurricane coming up in a couple of minutes. Reporter we have a couple of accidents coming in North Coventry Chester County at catfish lane. Montgomery county we have an accident cheltenham, cheltenham avenue at wingn street. We have a touch of fog, but not a big deal. I95 southbound looking live approaching cottman, traffic is moving nicely, easy 1 minute ride from 13 minute ride from woodhaven to the vine. We have a downed tree in doylestown at alms house road add dirty lane. Stick to bristol road. Hurricane matt that you is push matthew is pushing up the coast of florida. There are power outages, even though the storm has weakened to a category 3
On whats happening there right now, lauren . Reporter good morning, the eye of Hurricane Matthew is still 50 miles or around there off the coast of florida, but the impact of this category 3 hurricane with 120mile an hour winds is really being felt here with pelting rain, major gusts and power outages. Hurricane matthew barreling toward florida, the brutal conditions intensifying as the eye of the storm pummel coastal cities. Overnights violent winds along the beaches, gusts in some places clocking in above 70 Miles Per Hour. The storm bringing the look and sound of fireworks in the form of downed power lines, thousands facing outages. Officials fearing up to 3 million may end up in the dark. The National Weather service say matthew will be devastating. Floridas governor making this dire warning. Unfortunately this is going to kill people. Reporter already it has, matthew taking the lives of 100 people as it swept through haiti. The death toll skyrocketing as the floodwaters recede. Ma
It has weakened to a category two hurricane maximum sustained winds 110 Miles Per Hour. The good news is with this off shore track it means the strongest part of the storm, the Northeast Quadrant remains over the ocean but its very close, its only 40 miles east of jacksonville so this track also keeps hammering the coast and we do have some about he what wases we can zoom in give you some live data. This shows right near jacksonville winds gusting up to 52 Miles Per Hour and a big concern with georgia and South Carolina will be the storm surge. As far as the peak wind gusts, the peak wind gusts reported in Cape Canaveral 107 Miles Per Hour but got to kind of qualify that. That was taken from a tower 50 feet above the surface. Surface winds generally right along florida about 65 to 75 Miles Per Hour, so those Hurricane Force winds right now its moving north at 12 Miles Per Hour. Now, if it kept that course, it would be hitting the coast of South Carolina. However, it looks like it will
Seen heart breaking images of what this storm can and did do, there was a bridge collapse making it impossible for survivors to get help and the death toll continues to rise, into the hundreds. Good day it is a friday, tgif, october 7th, 2016 and this morning the storm is our big story. We have Live Team Coverage of the effects, time line and we have dave kinchen at Philadelphia International with the flight updates. Jenny joyce over at peco where volunteers are heading south to help those in the path but lets begin with sue serio with the forecast, sue. Karen, even though we are not getting the hurricane, itself, just about all of us know people down to the south, in florida, georgia, South Carolina, being affected by this storm and this is it, Hurricane Matthew, live 3t satellite picture and through can see the eye, it is still moving in the northwesterly direction but this thing has continued to move parallel to the coast all night, and continuing this morning, well it make land fal