We have been watching it overnight. Its moving up the florida coastline. Thats where we find it. It puts millions of people in imminent danger. Janice dean on this since the beginning. She is tracking the storms path. We begin with brian in the middle of it in sebastian, florida. Reporter we are in sebastian, florida, 20 minutes south of melbourne and an hour and a half west of palm beach. Everyone is saying we are lucky. Thats the consensus. But there is damage. This is a business sign that has fallen to the ground. Based on what we have seen because of the winds. When we turn over here, we have got damage over here. Leaves and foliage that has fallen down. Over here we have flooding on this side of the street. Think it gives you the idea of the kind of damage we are seeing in sebastian. Traffic lights are out around Palm Beach County can Indian River County and south florida. North of us in melbourne where the hurricane is still going, they are dealing with the effects of the hurrica
Some say a storm surge of 9 feet is possible in the capital of South Carolina, charleston. One boat owner is worried. Were concerned were going to lose the boat. You know, the reports are varying from 4 to 6 feet to 11. If were 11 feet, everything is gone. Nothing can survive. Fox news chief meteorologist rick wrightman is standing by. Where is it going . Likely making t 1200 its going to be very interesting to see what Barrier Islands look like when we get out in the morning. Whenever we get moving tomorrow were going go check that up, but were going have to let some of this water get out of the way first. We took a ride in downtown savannah and checked some things out. The city has faired quite well in this. I kind of put myself in the worst part and im just getting creamed right now. That was the strongest i felt when i started doing this tonight. We went out. I saw a lot of downed tree limbs. Its just like a dream when we drive through this. We didnt love any trees. Nothing came do
Know how miserable being without power can be. Catastrophic . These folks behind me lost their gas station. For folks driving around, the real issue, of course, is all the debris. This is a sign from the gas stain, boards with nails all litter the roadway, sheet metal wherever making it dangerous for folks trying to get around. Its the most dainch in terms of the actual damage right now. Places like st. Augustine, we cant even get to because of the storm surge flooding. This was the perfect storm as the eye of Hurricane Matthew moved up the coast of florida. It coincided with high tide, pushing all that water even higher. A number of rescues there in st. Augustine florida as people were trying to get out and the storm surge was happening so quickly. Going forward, biggest problem here, what you dont see to the untrained eye is what marco rubio pointed out yesterday is the beach erosion here where tourism is a life blood in Daytona Beach and its going to take a lot of time and money to
Some say a storm surge of 9 feet is possible in the capital of South Carolina, charleston. One boat owner is worried. Were concerned were going to lose the boat. You know, the reports are varying from 4 to 6 feet to 11. If were 11 feet, everything is gone. Nothing can survive. Fox news chief meteorologist rick wrightman is standing by. Where is it going . Likely making t 1200 its going to be very interesting to see what Barrier Islands look like when we get out in the morning. Whenever we get moving tomorrow were going go check that up, but were going have to let some of this water get out of the way first. We took a ride in downtown savannah and checked some things out. The city has faired quite well in this. I kind of put myself in the worst part and im just getting creamed right now. That was the strongest i felt when i started doing this tonight. We went out. I saw a lot of downed tree limbs. Its just like a dream when we drive through this. We didnt love any trees. Nothing came do
Know how miserable being without power can be. Catastrophic . These folks behind me lost their gas station. For folks driving around, the real issue, of course, is all the debris. This is a sign from the gas stain, boards with nails all litter the roadway, sheet metal wherever making it dangerous for folks trying to get around. Its the most dainch in terms of the actual damage right now. Places like st. Augustine, we cant even get to because of the storm surge flooding. This was the perfect storm as the eye of Hurricane Matthew moved up the coast of florida. It coincided with high tide, pushing all that water even higher. A number of rescues there in st. Augustine florida as people were trying to get out and the storm surge was happening so quickly. Going forward, biggest problem here, what you dont see to the untrained eye is what marco rubio pointed out yesterday is the beach erosion here where tourism is a life blood in Daytona Beach and its going to take a lot of time and money to