Whipping wind and rain and the eye is still 50miles offshore. We have Team Coverage of this historic storm. You see it right there. Lets go to Lauren Lister in florida. Reporter the category 3 storm is packing winds of up to 120 Miles Per Hour. We are feeling the winds impact with gusty winds, pelting rain and our power getting knocked out. We are having technical difficulties. Lauren lyster live from North Carolina, South Carolina, georgia and florida all under a state of emergency. Yes. They havent seen a hurricane this strong in an decade. Somara theodore has been tracking the storm all week. It wont good giving us a direct impact up here in ahead but i want to show you the magnitude of watches that have been lighting up along florida all the way through South Carolina, georgia and North Carolina. Here is a look at matthew in its entirety. 50miles off the shore is the eye. We are going to zoom in here. I want to show you, this is where the Hurricane Force winds are. Greater than 74m
Report. So many States Affected by this. Lauren lyster is in florida with a look at the conditions right now. Reporter good morning. The center of the storm is now just 50miles off the coast of florida. The category 3 hurricane packing 120mile per hour winds and we are feeling its impact kicking up here with major gusts, pelting rain and all power getting knocked out. Hurricane matthew barreling toward florida. The intensifying as the eye of the storm pummels coastal cities. Overnight violent winds along the beaches, gusts in some places clocking in at above 70 Miles Per Hour. The storm bringing the look and sound of fireworks in the form of downed power lines, thousands facing outages. Officials fearing up to 3 million may end up in the dark. The National Weather service saying matthew will be unfortunately this is going to kill people. Reporter already it has. Matthew taking the lives of more than 100 people as it swept through haiti. The death toll there is skyrocketing as the flood
Smyrna beach, florida. We are hearing so many reports of high winds and the damage is pretty incredible. Lets go right to lauren now. Reporter good morning. The eye of Hurricane Matthew is still 50miles or around there off the coast of florida but the impact of the category 3 hurricane with 120mile per hour winds is really being felt here with pelting rain, major gusts and power outages. Hurricane the brutal conditions intensifying as the eye of the storm pounds cities. Overnight violent winds along the beaches. Gusts in some places clocking in above 70 Miles Per Hour. The storm bringing the look and sound of fireworks in the form of downed power lines, thousands facing outages. Officials fearing up to 3 million may end up in the dark. The National Weather service saying matthew will be floridas governor making this dire warning. Unfortunately this is going to kill people. Reporter already, it has. Matthew taking the lives of more than 100 people as it swept through haiti. The death to
Hundreds of thousands in what is normally the Sunshine State of florida have been left in the dark, powerlines are down all across the state. We know that and we also know much more. Overnight matthew was downgraded to a category 3 but is still a monster of a storm. It is nearly 300 miles wide. Fema reports it is not it has not seen a storm so strong in a decade. The damage is expected to be severe as that of hurricane andrew. The storm wrecked the island nation of haiti. Its death toll is now up to 283 and expected to grow there in haiti. We have Live Team Coverage of this massive storm and the impact it is having but first heres meteorologist tara blake tracking math right now. Winds at 120 Miles Per Hour, lets go through the track as us here in northeast ohio are east coast. You can see the mileage there moving off now, expected to move northnorthwest at around 12 Miles Per Hour dumping as much as nine to 15 inches of rainfall along the coastal areas of florida, georgia, north and S
The u. S. , the death toll in haiti raising to 800. We begin with Lauren Lyster now live in new smyrna beach, florida. [ no audio ] reporter the deadly hurricane wreaking havoc as it moves up the coast. Overnight matthew bringing deafening rain, storm surge and destruction to South Carolina, flooding roads, downing trees and driving cars off the roads. An eerie light show on this highway as multiple power lines explode. The powerful category 2 hurricane has weakened but continues to show its force. States of emergency declared in georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. Really the best thing now is to just hunker down, stay in a safe place, dont move, dont try and move around. Pummeling florida. Sounded like a train hitting the house, thats all i can say. The wind was just so strong. Reporter as matthew barreled through palm coast, a Home Security camera captures the moment Rushing Water crashes into a home. Full roads getting washed away. St. Augustine one of the hardesthit areas w