Hundreds of people dead after the storms rampaged through haiti and matthew forcing the largest mandatory evacuation since hurricaine sandy, more than 200,000 homes from florida to north carolina, at risk from the storm surge alone. That number likely to go much, much higher than that. More than 100,000 people already without power tonight. Our correspondents are stationed throughout the region and were start with cnns michael holmes, in palm bay, florida. Give us the latest where you are. Reporter palm bay, florida, were right in the melbourne area of florida, and this is an area where according to some of the tracks could be the hardesthit at the moment if things stay on course the way they are. Its been getting a bit rough around here in the last hour or so. Its coming through in bands i suppose, don, and we just had one come through, which was a little bit frightening. It doesnt look so bad now, but it did about five minutes or so. Were about an hour or so away from high tide and w
Of it right now. I think this is probably as bad as its going to get for us, but it could be like this for quite some time. Just a consistent wind, consistent heavy rain is going to be a problem for the next couple of hours. We are quite a ways inland compared to where we were last night. We had to move for our safety right along the coast. Theres one of the gusts. We will expect a lot of storm surge and flooding. This is far from over, chris, as you know. This storm is continuing to head in your direction where you are and look at those gusts behind me. You can see the trees blowing. Incredibly windy here across melbourne and we are going to see the potential for storm surge and flooding, especially to our north as this storm just parallels the coast, chris. All right. Jennifer, well check back with you. You know the first prerogative is let us stay safe, let us know what we need to know and come back to you. Head to boris sanchez, just due north of where jennifer is in Daytona Beach.