Lets go straight to storm team meteorologist. How this affects us here in South Carolina depends on a lot of things. A lot of thing and depends on where and if it makes land fall along the east coast. We were talking about this storm battering haiti and thats what its doing. Bringing that deaf staitding rainfall amounts to the island. Theyre expecting up to 25 inches of rain in those areas. Maybe even higher amounts. Maybe double that. Closer to 40 inches of rain. Lifethreatening amounts of rain. Youre talking storm surge and this storm is certainly a bit stronger than yesterday when we were talking. Now hurricane strength winds only extend out from the Tropical Storm winds extend further than that. 8 miles an hour. So picked up just a little bit of Forward Momentum overall. This storm is a very slow mover. I whether bring you back closer to home. A ways to go before we worry about our local forecast. This morning, we have to worry about a bit of fog just like yesterday. Two and a half
General. Its just 35 miles away from the southwestern portions of haiti. Barreling there close. Becoming more defined throughout the course of this morning. Winds at 145 miles an hour. Gusts as strong as 175. Its moving north at about 9 miles an hour. So its still moving pretty slow. It has picked up a little bit of Forward Momentum from yesterday morning. Starting to seat thicker bands starting to move across the eastern portions of cuba as well. Cuba will be the next to seat biggest impact from closer to home nsm the meantime before we get to this storm, you can see that our weather is going to be quiet. No rain to speak of, which is good. We need to dry up from last weeks rain before we could see some rain with matthew. We are starting off with a little bit of cloud cover. A big change from yesterday morning. 66 in wilmington. We have 66 in fayetteville. South hill the only spot on the map in the 50s this bit of fog out the lunchtime. We makit to 78 this afternoon. Plrnlt for this t
Its moving to the north at 9 miles an hour and thats one crucial problem with this storm. It is nearly crawling. Its going impact looks like the eastern portions of cuba later today and we move into the bahamas as we head into the middle of the workweek. But, there was one big shift west today and that has the storm potentially making land fall across eastern North Carolina over the weekend ahead. So saturday, it would still be off the coast of south carolina. Winds at 105 and then by sunday morning, could be hat coming up in about 10 minutes. Thank you. We turn now to campaign 2016. The president ial candidates had debated and now the running maitds mates are getting their turn. The first and only Vice President ial debate which is being monitored by cbsn. Mike pence and tim kaine are going head to head. Good morning to you. Tim kaine and mike pence not only have to introduce themselves nationally on the debate stage. They have to make the case that they can step in and be president a
Instructions of your local officials. And if you get an evacuation order, just remember that you can always rebuild, you can always repair property. You cannot restore a life if it is lost. And we want to make sure that we minimize any possible loss of life or risk to people in these areas. Areas. The storm is being blamed for at least 11 deaths since it made landfall in haiti. Mandatory evacuations are underway in parts of florida. Governor scott told coastal residents to leave if they are able to. If matthew directly impacts florida there will be mass destruction that we havent seen in years. Again n is a deadly storm approaching our state. Dozens of school buses lined up along the highways as a quarter Million People will be evacuated from the coast later this afternoon. National guard has mobilized. We have 700 Traffic Control points along the interstates. You will see lots of Law Enforcement officers as well as guardsmen. We will have the comfort stations which will have the bathr
Right now ill start with the satellite picture and the storm is a little weaker than it was when i first walked in this rning as a result of moving through two mountainous areas, haiti and eastern cuba. Winds dropped back to 115 miles an hour which, by the way, means its still a major hurricane. But now as itoves away from the coast of cuba, its beginning the process of wrapping tha convection around its center. I think this stormhens forward movement. Inf due north, now its moving northnorthwest which bnt baake it close to if nguchi the Florida East Coast by friday afternoon. This is going to be very, close. But then, this is new. If you havent been watching since last night, this is new now. The computer models want to loop this storm back around again. Conservatively the Hurricane Center has started that process with their fiveday cone. But you can see, and you saw at the beginning of the show, watch the computer models. There it is close to the coast. And then they loop it back aro