an outer eye wall and you are in the third one right now. you are having the wind come at you from the north and the northwest and just had a wind gust from the national weather service in melbourne to the north of you at a usair force tower of 102 miles per hour. that s not the same gust that was on cape canaveral about an hour ago. you at least saw 80 miles per hour where you were as this area of intense rain comes in. and, alisyn, this is what is going to happen. it is going to happen to chris and all all our reporters. when the rain hits them, that brings down the wind. when you re in the lull of rain, you lose the wind and then all of a sudden another band hits you. jennifer, yes, you just felt 80 miles per hour and the storm is at least 30 miles from you. could you imagine if you were closer? chad, you know what jennifer is asking. how long will this last and is it going taget any worse because everybody in a hurricane.
screen. we will be showing you daytona beach. the focus of impact right now. the big, gusting winds and heavy rain and even lightning which is an x-factor. that is where we have boris sanchez trying to wait it out for us. you had to move. how are you doing now, my friend. chris, we just had to move, again, because the wind keeps getting stronger. we just got another band of harsh, harsh rain. you can see right over my shoulder over there, the amount of debris that is in the street right now. the stuff is just flying all around. the palm trees swaying in the wind and bending pretty far. we had lights flickering on and off all morning. they were out for a short while and came back on just a few moments ago. we re dealing with just the starts of hurricane matthew. wind gusts upward of 60 miles per hour. it will continue taget worse. i mentioned earlier we were speaking with the chief of police and so far things were going well. so far we have have to feel the
strong winds that are being felt to the south of. people decided to stay in their homes and to hunker down and try to wait this thing out. the beach is right behind our hotel. fortunately we re protected from that right now. i saw the waves touching the very edge of our hotel and it s likely as the storm gets closer and the rain starts coming down heavier and heavier we will see some flooding here. for folks that have decided to stay home, they re really putting their lives on the line when you consider not just the storm surge but the amount of flooding that will likely happen because of this storm and aside from that, again, just these winds and the amount of debris that, you know, ends up on the street and in neighborhoods. anything can become a projectile. we were watching a fence earlier that looked like it was about to wind up on the street and as i m looking behind me, i m seeing some sparks over there. what looks like a power line is starting to show sparks. i wouldn t be surpr
and the wind passes or the rain passes and people want to come out and check out their neighborhood, i know that you have a big warning for them because just because they don t have power doesn t mean that the lines aren t still hot. what do you waurnt pent people ? bottom line is, if you see a line down, do not go near it. it could be energized. if you see flooded waters, stay away from it. there could be a power line down. again, we ve invested $2 billion since the past decade, but this is a force of mother nature that candidly we have not seen in a very, very long time. and mother nature has not done a clearing effort, either, in that time. so, we re seeing a lot of flying debris. a lot of trees down. things of that nature. so, there s no way to hurricane proof a system. we think we have a very strong and resilient system. but we re talking about a category 4 storm, category 3 now. we have a long way to go and