Now from abc news dbs 7 news. Tracking Hurricane Matthew, just hours away from making landfall on the florida coast. Tone, the National Weather service says the effects of the storm will be unlike any hurricane in decades. Thanks for joining us. Matthew is slowing down tonight but the hurricane could bring devastating storm surges and flooding. Weve seen heavy rains and strong winds. This is daytona beach, florida. Notice the deserted streets. Mandatory evacuations and a curfew are in effect. This was the scene in west palm beach, florida. Strong winds knocked down a powerline creating dangerous sports as you can see. We have team coverage. All of that in a moment. First lets go to meteorologist sandledy batell. The update on this storm just came down, right . It is. As you look at live doppler 7 right now, the storm is about 80 miles southeast of cape canaveral. It has weakened a little bit. Take a look at did outer bands of rain, the heavy ebb rain beginning to move in over melbourne
Now from abc news dbs 7 news. Tracking Hurricane Matthew, just hours away from making landfall on the florida coast. Tone, the National Weather service says the effects of the storm will be unlike any hurricane in decades. Thanks for joining us. Matthew is slowing down tonight but the hurricane could bring devastating storm surges and flooding. Weve seen heavy rains and strong winds. This is daytona beach, florida. Notice the deserted streets. Mandatory evacuations and a curfew are in effect. This was the scene in west palm beach, florida. Strong winds knocked down a powerline creating dangerous sports as you can see. We have team coverage. All of that in a moment. First lets go to meteorologist sandledy batell. The update on this storm just came down, right . It is. As you look at live doppler 7 right now, the storm is about 80 miles southeast of cape canaveral. It has weakened a little bit. Take a look at did outer bands of rain, the heavy ebb rain beginning to move in over melbourne
We have team coverage. All of that in a moment. First lets go to meteorologist sandledy batell. The update on this storm just came down, right . It is. As you look at live doppler 7 right now, the storm is about 80 miles southeast of cape canaveral. It has weakened a little bit. Take a look at did outer bands of rain, the heavy ebb rain beginning to move in over melbourne, fort pierce. Heres the lightest stats on this. This is a dangerous category 3 with the 120mileanhour winds. Warnings are up along the eastern portion of florida, South Carolina, georgia. Tropical storm watches on the west side. And the wind gusts, vero beach now 71 miles an hour. The driving wind and drenching rains are only expected to get worse as the storm moves onshore. Landfall is expected 3 00 a. M. Tomorrow as a cat 3. Grazing georgia as a category 3 and then continuing along the South Carolina coast, really it will veer back around over the weekend and coming back towards florida as a tropical storm. This cou
Florida. The conditions are supposed to get worse in orlando within the next few hours. Cbs News Reporter marlie hall is in orlando with the latest reporter matthew is expected to come ashore or very close to it later today. And the entire florida coast is bracing for a long day of punishing winds, rain and storm surge. You can feel the droplets hit your legs, your arms, hands. Reporter Hurricane Matthew is making its presence felt across the florida coast. And this is only at half the wind speed that its supposed to be. Reporter overnight the outer bands of the storm gang pummeling the area with began pummeling the area with rain and winds. The category 3 storm sent boats rocking. Its quite a sight. Reporter storm shutters were ripped off the front of businesses in West Palm Beach. In daytona beach, police were left patrolling empty streets as most residents listened to evacuation warnings. We can rebuild homes and businesses. I think of my own family we cant rebuild a life. This stor
Start. Cool again for wednesday. Rain though coming late thursday into friday starting up north in the north bay thursday. And then spreading south into the bay area friday. We are looking at soaking rain in the north bay which is great. The northern portion of the state where we have most of our reservoirs and thats where were going to see the highest rainfall totals. Also those Higher Elevations, mountains throughout the northern portion of the state could see substantial rainfall upwards of 15 inches possible again those Higher Elevations usually see more substantial rain. But our average for october say up north under 2 inches. We are expecting to get about 2 inches if this happens over 2 inches in santa rosa by the end of the weekend. So several little storm systems coming through. Well track that coming up in a just a bit. Im looking forward to a safe drive and safe report mostly. Well see. Lets talk about traffic. We have a big rig fire and the fire is out but crews are still bl