Nearly 300 people were killed. But with many areas inaccessible, that number could multiply. At least two hurricanerelated deaths in port st. Lucie florida. I just want to emphasize to everybody that this is still a really dangerous hurricane. Reporter that danger now shifting towards georgia and the carolinas. Officials there urging people especially in coastal areas to evacuate as Hurricane Matthew makes its way north ward. This is going to hurt. Were trying to reduce the amount of lives lost or harm done as much as we can. Reporter while here theres some light rain and wind gusts left behind from matthew along with Power Outages and in some areas, a lot to clean up. Its time for a check of the forecast. Melissa magee is at the big bored. We continue to track Hurricane Matthew as it moves out of georgia into the carolinas. All of today we had been noticing that the center of matthew has been well offshore or at least off the coast of florida. Right now it is between jacksonville and
Gallagher in Jacksonville Florida. Reporter fierce winds, gushing waters, and flying debris. Hurricane matthew whips into floridas coast forty two morning battering areas like Daytona Beach Saint Augustine with more than 100 Miles Per Hour winds. Northeastern florida now braces for impact. Were very focused on jacksonville. Potential for significant flooding there. Reporter coastal communities in georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina are also on notice as Hurricane Matthew continues on its path. Storm force winds that are affecting the state of georgia and will continue to do so were told for about the next 24 hours. It is getting worse and so we are looking at major storm surges. Were looking at major winds. The greatest impact to North Carolina will be saturday through sunday morning. Reporter president obama is urging residents in those areas to be on guard. Those of you who live in georgia i think should be paying attention because theres been a lot of emphasis on florida but
It has weakened to a category two hurricane maximum sustained winds 110 Miles Per Hour. The good news is with this off shore track it means the strongest part of the storm, the Northeast Quadrant remains over the ocean but its very close, its only 40 miles east of jacksonville so this track also keeps hammering the coast and we do have some about he what wases we can zoom in give you some live data. This shows right near jacksonville winds gusting up to 52 Miles Per Hour and a big concern with georgia and South Carolina will be the storm surge. As far as the peak wind gusts, the peak wind gusts reported in Cape Canaveral 107 Miles Per Hour but got to kind of qualify that. That was taken from a tower 50 feet above the surface. Surface winds generally right along florida about 65 to 75 Miles Per Hour, so those Hurricane Force winds right now its moving north at 12 Miles Per Hour. Now, if it kept that course, it would be hitting the coast of South Carolina. However, it looks like it will
Another notch. The storm path is still headed towardan the caribbean. And may even circle back around to touch cubit or perhaps even florida. Interested to see how that bears out, rainfall amounts could add up to 1 foot or more , causing tremendous flooding along the shoreline. Computer models show all of tha rainfallll, moving through e for us just a spotty shower or two with temperatures dropping , 58 degrees cleveland, toledo 46, is 11 degrees cooler than yesterday at this time, yesterday a high of 81 degrees , todays forecast will keep some pretty cool numbers in the offing, a slight chance of a shower early this morningng the 8 day forecast also shows some changes for the warmer coming up. Its always us against the world,d, lets go. Lebron james part of the crowd and lonnie baseball sent them into a frenzy, theyre ju one away from advancing to the alcs. A sellout crowd, observe the victory over the red sox. Now just one more when they have a chance to close out the series at fenwa
And will it be a boston suite party . The indians had to fenway park, hoping to say adios to big papi and the redo sox. We will preview tomorrows game three from boston. Fox 8 news at 6 00 starts right now. Clevelands own fox 8 news. Matthew has been downgraded to a category one hurricane, but that is just the number two People Living along the carolina coast. Good evening and welcome to fox 8 news at 6 00. Im bill sheil. And im jennifer jordan. The massive storm made north of charleston this morning, bringing storm surges near 5 feet. Fox joel waldman is tracking the storm and joins us with the latest. A fast weakening Hurricane Matthew continuing its march along the east coast on saturday. Ng tt the most powerful atlantic stormsc since 2007 left major flooding07 and when damage in is wake. We still are in a dangerous situation. Matthew knocked out power to more than a milliono people as t another. It is being blamed for multiple deaths in the us. Hopefully as people get their power b