Head into the upcoming weekend. This storm has strengthen just a bit and is still a category 3 storm, winds at 120 miles an hour, gusts as strong as 145 miles an hour pickets moving to the northwest at 12 miles an hour burke if you have been paying attention to the storm, you know this is the fastest it has moved in the past 48 hours. Its quickly approaching the bahamas who are under a hurricane warning at the me image of the eye of the hurricane. We will continue to see if this goes on and it could continue to strengthen as well. Here is a closer look at the forecast track and what that could mean for us. Remember i said, it takes more of a southeasterly turn. Long the area of charleston, South Carolina is where it looks like it will bend to the east. We are still looking at one mylan 100 mile an hour winds but this yellow cone of uncertainty no longer includes this means less of an us less and less of a factor for us. We will have the complete forecast coming up. Right now we are loo
Emergency to all 100 counties to allow for more resources to move south. School system in the area being proactive, not taking chances. Cumberland and Harnett County schools will close two hours early today. Thousand are leaving their homes ahead of matthew and many ending up in North Carolina to ride out the storm. Leaders still warning people to get out of for the latest on the path of matthew, lets go to Alyssa Corfont. Good morning. Good morning, guys. Good morning to you at home. The latest information from the National Hurricane center, this is still a category 3 hurricane with wind and rain spreading across the east coast of florida. You can see orlando, Daytona Beach on 95 near port canaveral, cocoa beach area. Theyre seeing the worst of the weather right now, very feet there. Jacksonville, florida, and closer to savannah, georgia, southern portions of georgia already starting to see the wet weather. This is not associated with Hurricane Matthew yet. Matthew starts to come into
Reporter good morning. These wind and rains are really kicking in since 10 00 a. M. P. M. Have gone on all night long and will pretty much have them all day long. As you mentioned, the hurricane is off shore. Were still feeling 60mileper hour wind in parts of Volusia County where im standing. The good news is this hurricane apparently is not going to have the catastrophic impact initially feared. One side of that, for instance, the power is that maybe by now we wouldnt have power but, of course, obviously we do. There is a curfew in effect by this county that started last will go on until saturday morning. 3800 people are in shelters. By and large people did heed the mandatory order to evacuate. I did run into some holdouts, people that were going to ride out the storm in their homes. They thought they would roll right now, everything appears pretty good. People have their fingers crossed the storm will stay off shore and spare the east coast of florida, which is what everybody here wa
Never actually made landfall. The coast continues to get battered, as do georgia and South Carolina coastings. The heavy rain shields extends to the north some 150 miles. For us today, we just got light rain from matthew. Its not until before sunrise tomorrow that the heavy rain arrives here, because the storm will continue to move north being off the around for us. Theres the center line of the system. Ill put in the earlier track. There could have been a shift west toward georgia but not much for ughs. That shift this morning made us change our forecast. Now 7 to 9 inches of rain, 7 to 9 in the sandhills. That is dangerous flooding potential, especially with winds of 50 miles an hour. So a serious event is on the ill break down the satellite and radar hour by hour coming up in a few minutes. And this is a live look at South Carolina just south of charleston. A curfew goes into effect there midnight tonight as the worst of Hurricane Matthew is expected along the coast of South Carolin
Morning hours for us. What is the latest on the hurricane . No major changes from last night. We are mainly going to see some very heavy rain and high wind gusts as matthew continues to approach the coast of North Carolina. Right now it is doing serious damage along the georgia and South Carolina coast right now. Highest wind gusts are about 125 miles an hour. Just off the coast of the georgia South Carolina line there. And this is what we are going to be watching very closely. Because some of these high wind gusts may push something we need to be on the lookout for today. Heavy rain. Potential flood problems on the way. For this afternoon. And this evening. Especially you can see some of those heavier showers pushing through parts of the area right now. We can expect this repeated heavy rain throughout the entire day today. So we are not going to get much relief from that rain that we will be seeing as matthew continues to cruise up along the coast. The National Hurricane center now i