didn t evacuate you now can t self-correct. this river, the st. john s river, one of the few cuts that you have off the east coast of florida. that means as the volume of water comes, it s going to raise the level here in st. john s and you ll have storm surge here. you already have a couple more feet to go for high tide. you re just about cresting in many areas, and that s the concern. once the surge comes there s nowhere for you to go. we ll be keeping an eye on it here and showing you live picture of daytona beach, florida, on your screen right now. that s the current kind of critical impact of hurricane matthew. they ve had gusting winds there in excess of 80 miles an hour. gusts onshore measured of over 100 miles an hour. stay with cnn and we ll bring you the latest.
issues. palm beach sheriff, no reported issues at this time. i talked to the palm beach mayor and she reports no issues. st. lucie sheriff, they re reopening beaches and have no major road closures. their emergency management director says no major issues. and the evacuations were very effective. that s what i heard from a lot of people, the evacuations worked. indian river sheriff, they are focused on power outages, clearing beaches and bridges and not reporting any structural damage. the brevard sheriff said they re just getting out. it s not completely out of brevard and he s starting to assess the damage. they have a lot of power outages. i made the following requests to the federal government. food, water, tarps. generators. water pumps. search and rescue teams, hazmat assessment teams, cots, blankets. food distribution vehicles, helicopters. at this time they are supporting all of our requests. if our local communities need
which is a faster rate of return than expected. there s still halfway to go. the big concern, st. john s river. storm surge is going to be the story of damage from hurricane matthew and this represents one of the few cuts in the eastern coastline so the volume of water and storm surge will funnel through making this river, which is already about cresting, plus storm surge and tide, another eight to ten to twelve feet of surge that changes the topography here. changes power. and makes things impassable. so that s the concern from here right now. the gusting winds, not such a big deal. they have picked up winds in excess of 100 miles an hour, especially in areas like daytona beach where boris sanchez is. he s been getting pummeled all morning long and keeping track of it for us. boris, what s going on right know? things are quickly deteriorating. after a bit of a lull we re starting to see the storm pick up. the wind moving stronger and stronger. we heard a loud bang just a few
through this dangerous period. we are obviously on alert everywhere. we ve lost power in the city. power outages throughout the county. we expect more. we turned our water off last night. so this is the time for people to stay put. this is an incredibly dangerous storm. and you know it. you ve been reporting on it for hours now. and our concern is really making sure people stay where they are, stay safe. we have our crews ready to move as soon as they are able but right now they re not moving anywhere. so the rescue workers are not out and about. they re, they re, thars absolutely not. and we expect i have not yet confirmed that our bridges will be closed. we are, as you know, connected to barrier islands and those bridges will close at 40 miles an hour sustained winds. we expect that to happen shortly. you re going to close the bridges soon. so are you asking people you re asking people to stay in their homes right now. you don t want them to get in
taking forever. we ve been here all night long waiting for the storm to go by but it s only moving 10 to 12 miles per hour and it s going along a 300 mile seashore all the way from jacksonville down to about daytona. and that s where it goes. eventually gets into myrtle beach. eventually moves out to sea. but the risk today is the water going up the st. john river, going into st. augustine, going into daytona. i think, and this is kind of i m calling this an audible off the cuff, we had a shot from daytona beach, it was a surf line shot. see if the control room can find that. there s a fence out there in the surf, and it was completely dry about an hour ago. now, those fence lines which are three feet tall, are completely covered with water. you can t find it here. go to cnn.com, we do have it here. here it is. there is the shot right there. this was completely dry beach for much of the day. now you can barely see those