Room and from what im imcyingt is a little bit to right and that would keep the strongest core of the winds just a little farther offshore. Every mile makes a difference. What that means is the Biggest Issue for Central Florida where the orlando will be more of a wind she want heavy rain with localized flooding and means less hurricaneforce winds for the coastline. Ill keep checking back with the Hurricane Center and talk about our shower threat this weekend coming up in you the death toll from haiti and Hurricane Matthew rose and the number is expected to rise even higher, its over 200 people right now. Lets refocus on our sister station wsb tonight. This is international drive, normally one of the busiest tourist areas packed with folks from around the country and even the world. Tonight by the time it got dark, almost every business had closed to encourage everyone to get back to their hotel to get ready earlier today we found some of the tourists scouring the empty shelves of groce
Hundreds of thousands without power. Reporter the eye of Hurricane Matthew is just east of us. This storm has arrived here in daytona beach. We are seeing the wind gusts come in waves. If you take a look at where im standing right now. We will show you some damage here. Part of the roof has been blown off this building. There is some debris as well. There are some downed trees. This is the front of our hotel. The worst of the storm has yet to come. Many people are preparing for yet another wave of Hurricane Matthew. Sunrise but no slowdown in lets remember, the storm has only passed half our state. This is not over. Reporter the eye expected to move dangerously close to shore as the storm marches northward along floridas east coast. Bringing the heavy rain at high tide and raising the risk and fears of catastrophic storm surge. We are very concerned ability storm surge. And the worst effects are still likely to come. Reporter overnight, Hurricane Matthew battered florida. The massive s
Hurricane center at 5 00 which will be an upgrade to the track, intensity and where its headed in the next several days and that will determine how it will affect our area. Here is what we are looking at, at the satellite images here around the area with the radar showing a spiraling effect now. Yellow and the reds of the persistent bands that continue to swing around on the west coast of florida. As it moves to the northeast at 14 Miles Per Hour, it will take the rain bands. The heavy rain. It will move them north and east. Top wind 75 moving north northeast at 15. Position wise by 8 00 tomorrow night it will no longer be a hurricane. It will be a Tropical Storm with 50mileperhour winds in the vicinity of charleston, south carolina. It will move to the outer bank and out to sea. But all along this way it will pull the waves in from the atlantic coast. Rip tide, huge waves erosion. What is more interesting, the latest guidance shows it will slow down and move slowly after that sunday a
And hamas after talks in egypt fall apart. This morning, i am declaring the current outbreak of the ebola virus disease a Public Health emergency have international concern. The world holt organization raising the alarm over ebola. The almost effort and longest in history. I authorized two operations in iraq. Targeted airstrikes to protect our american personnel and a humanitarian effort to help save thousands of iraqi civilians who are trapped on a mountain without food and water. The president says the u. S. Military would carry out airstrikes against the group that calls itself the Islamic State. His concern, americans in iraq could be in danger if the rebels advance toward the capitol of the kurdish region, where a u. S. Consulate in located in addition to a joint u. S. Iraqi security base. We intend to stay vigilant and take action if our personnel are threatened in iraq. He is trying to avert a cries he calls an act of genocide. Tens of thousands of iraqi families are a member of
Doing right now . Like, just, if youre looking across the world, what are your feelings about how we are doing right now . As a country, when you compare us to other countries, i dont think you can say we are doing great. I mean, were just not. The president fired back with a direct shot at fauci when asked about the state of the country. What do you make of these hot spots as we call them in florida and texas and other states, and dr. Faucis comments . Well first of all, dr. Fauci is a nice man but he has made a lot of mistakes. There are certainly signs that the u. S. Is not in a great place. Six states have set a record high for new confirmed cases or deaths yesterday alone. And the trends are heading up, not down. This as the nationwide fatality rate has now risen for the Third Straight day. The last time it went up for four days straight was in april, which means we could be headed for a situation exactly like what we saw during the first peak of this crisis. Joining me now, is ka