M for the latest. Myfoxhurricane. Coplease head to friday morning. Florida coast friday morning. Please head to myfoxhurricane. Com for the latest. jen the video out of Hurricane Matthew slammed into the poor caribbean island with 145mileper hour winds, leaving a huge path of damage and human suffering in the southwestern peninsula. In fact, people stranded there are now cutoff by flooding. Many home are lost. And more than 10thousand people are still in shelters. Were hearing about several deaths as well. But its hard to get an exact number, and the full extent of the damage, because of bad travel conditions and downed power lines. wally after hitting haiti, and brushing eastern cuba. The storm is now heading toward the bahamas. Residents are boardingup tourists. Some three thousand of them. Are rushing to get out. There are evacuations in place. And those who cant get off the islands, are allowed to stay in shelters. The bahamas should begin to feel Tropical Stormforce winds today. T
Next on Eyewitness News a dam on the brink. Hundreds of people being evacuated right now were live on the scene. Plus a city in waiting whats getting done in goldsboro to prepare for flooding that could start tomorrow. And a barge could soon barge into homes on the outer banks. Whatll happen next. Eyewitness news starts right now. Breaking news right now in moore county crews are evacuating hundreds of people near the woodlake dam. Good evening from the breaking news cenetr im steve daniels. Theres a problem with the dam right outside the town of vass. Flooding has the dam near its breaking point. This is a map of showing the area vass is in moore county but the Cumberland County town of spring lake are being told to get out of town. Joel brown joins us live with whats happening right now. More breaking news this time news this time not involving the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew. Three people shot in downtown fayetteville. It happened tonight on adam street. Police say a man who goes
Abc 7 meteorologist has more. What a month it has been, and this morning just adding to those rain totals. Widespread rain. Right now the showers are scattered in nature, but theyre still out there. Live doppler 7 showing you get right down to street level mainly in the hills. Sunol, pleasanton, light showers to the north of san ramon. To the south we go, morgan hill and gilroy on 101 we do have morning rain to deal with. Everybody saw the drops today. A little bit less in the south bay, a lot more in the north bay, but everywhere in between generally about a quarter to a half of an inch of rain and this is adding on to totals from october that have just exceeded their monthly averages. Live doppler 7 showing you one storm exiting. A series of storms. The other already approaching the coast. We got new information on the timing of the storm. Well talk about how it may impact your trickortreat. Drew, thank you. The storm brought us muchneeded rain but created chaos in many bay area neig
Developing this morning the search for a hit and run driver that killed a tampa woman and sent a local deputy to the hospital. That deputy was helping that woman Early Saturday Morning on the side of a road in lake wales, when an unknown driver hit them both and kept on going. Fox13s Shayla Reaves is liv Health Medical center where the deputy is being treated. Just a horrible thanks, shayla. Thanks, shayla. An accused hit and run drivers escape from troopers is caught on camera. And deputies are still lookingor crushed metal, deployed airbags and broken glass left behind after troopers say the driver caused a fourcar accident at us 19 and roosevelt boulevard in clearwater sunday morning. Troopers say the driver ran from his car after the accident, then made ihs way through a carmax parking lot before ending up at the rodeway inn on frontage road. There cameras caught him the man stayed away from the windows until his friend got there and quickly makes an escape, driving right past the
New this morning. Hillsborough deputies are investigating after they found a person dead inside a home. Deputies responded to the home at the 12hundred block of camellia avenue in brandon just after midnight. No word yet on how that person died. Right now. Officials are working to get a search warrant so th investigate further. The fight over zika funding continues today on capitol hill. Governor scott is spending his second straight day in dc. Talking facetoface with lawmakers. The good news is. The long stalemate in washington over how to fund the zika battle. Appears to be almost over. During day one of his visit, Governor Scott met with senator marco rubio and House Speaker paul ryan. He told them the fact that congress cant put aside politics long he was refering to the link between zika and severe birth defects. Floridas congressional delegation also stood together tuesday. Both republicans and democrats. And demanded their collegues pass a bill to Fund Research and Mosquito Cont