In just a moment. But first marlie hall is in orlando. Marley . Reporter matthew is expected to come ashore or very close to it later today. The entire florida coast is bracing for a long day of punishing wind, rain and storm surge. You can feel the droplets hit your leg, hit your arm, hit your hands. Reporter Hurricane Matthew is making its presence felt across the florida coast. And this is only at half the wind speed that its supposed to be. Reporter overnight the outer bands of the storm gang pummeling the area with began pummeling the area with rain and winds. The category 3 storm sent boats rocking. Its quite a sight. Reporter storm shutters were ripped off the front of businesses in West Palm Beach. In Daytona Beach, police were left patrolling empty streets as most residents listened to evacuation warnings. We can rebuild homes and businesses. I want to personally plead with you to get out right now. Dont wait one more moment. Save yourself. Save your family. Save your friends.
Emergency. Good afternoon, im michelle griego. Kenny is off today. Marlie hall has the latest from orlando. Reporter Hurricane Matthew is still pummeling the florida coast with heavy winds and rain and so far, the state has been spared a direct hit. The Florida Governor is calling it a blessing. Hurricane matthew with its 120 mileanhour winds is lashing Floridas 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 that the potential for storm surge, flooding, loss of life, and severe Property Damage continues to exist. Reporter more than half a Million People are without power after wind gusts approached 100 miles an hour overnight. Its really important that we get power restored quickly. Reporter matthews eye is just offshore and moving parallel to the coast. Winds could impact hundreds of miles of shoreline while the flooding rains spread well inland. Part of South Carolina could have 12 of r
Okay but nobody knows. mos ive been through all the storms here growing up so this is just another one. Right now power lines are down across the state. Hundreds of thousands are without power. Lets get over to our weather expert right now. Greg . High pressure centered within colorado has extended its reach moderately stable midlevel air. This is keeping mainly sunny skies common along with mild winds between 5 and 15 mph and temperatures within the low and mid 80s. As we move though the weekend, high temperatures gradually climb back into the lower 90s and upper 80s; with sunday and monday ranging between 87 and 92 degrees. Clouds look to build moving into monday afternoon as a las vegas. Rain chances have dwindled down significantly for the valley during this time and now just clouds build are more likely. We will hold to partly cloudy skies moving into tuesday but as the front passes, cooler air will take its place and temperatures will begin to drop slowly. By wednesday and thursd
Destruction across the carribean. At least 478 people have been killed so far in haiti, the Dominican Republic and saint vincent. This morning. Over 28thousand homes have been damaged. And theres fear the death toll will rise as floodwaters recede. And take a look at this video. Taken by some hotel guests staying in the bahamas. The winds were so strong, it ripped a gaping hole in the wall of their room. Hurricane matthew is slamming floridas coastline. This is what it looks like from dayton beach right now. Millions of americans are currently in the path of this well continue to follow the latest developments with Hurricane Matthew. Dayna is monitoring live feeds youll also notice the radar on the bottom left of your screen. Lets get over to yasmeen for a check of your roadways. Right now. E at the scene of a fire that broke at a hom the Southeast Side of the valley. Marissa kynaston is fast and first near st. Rose parkway and eastern. What are firefighters saying marissa . Marissa ad
Good morning, im emily riemer. Randy and im randy price. We want to get to mike wankum with the storms tracking this hour. Mike the eye is 50 miles offshore, but the bands are within five to 10 miles, and you can see the trend, it is drifting closer to the coast, so these heavy bands, which have the strongest winds with them are going to start working inland. Daytona beach may be the area where we see the strongest winds moving on the shore. There is the eye, well defined just off of melbourne letting up as you head dto this point. We saw some wind gusts over a hurricane strength this morning. Those will settle back to 6 one mile per hour winds. Melbourne the winds are picking up, and were continuing to see this area of Hurricane Force winds move its way along the coast, and eventually off the coast later this afternoon. For the carolinas, kind of missing out on whats going to be happening. Today around here were going to be dealing with lots of sunshine all day long. High temperatures