area. you have to listen. you have a great governor. governor scott. while the impact of hurricane matthew remains to be seen, the politics of the disaster already paying out on the campaign trail. as of now sunday s debate will go on as scheduled. yesterday republicans were quick to pounce on hillary clinton after the democratic nominee bought $63,000 worth of ads on the weather channel in florida. the clinton camp later said the ads would be delayed until the storm passed. the storm may impact voter registration in florida. tuesday is the last day for new voters in florida to sign up ahead of the election. governor rick scott said last night that he will not extend it past the deadline. scott serves as national chairman of the pro trump super pack. robby mook said he hoped it would be extended. south carolina officials extended their registration deadline from october 8th to
surprised about was the storm surge. understand, first, what you re looking at, these are not the sort of waves you get on the beach here. second of all, this is low tide, and low tide is usually much further out. the storm surge didn t happen. i got off the phone with the national hurricane center. a couple things worked in the favor for this area and to the south. as the hurricane moved north, it stays offshore. then you had the offshore winds rart than the winds coming in this way. the offshore winds actually pushed some of the water back as it was coming in. part of the storm surge equation includes the wind blowing it on. so the storm surge didn t happen, which is great news. but that is not something that folks north of here should say, we re going to be okay. first of all, as the national hurricane center points out, there s the crook, the change, the hook in the way that the geography is in the state of florida, so the storm s moving,
shoreline 100 miles. storm surge kills more people in hurricanes than anything else. this is why we re asking people to monitor those live websites, monitor the emergency management. keep an eye on your cell phone. that s where you will receive that first warning that water is rising. thank you very much. we continue to follow hurricane matthew as it rolls up the florida coast. chuck todd knows the area well and joins us next with the storm s potential impact on the presidential race. we ll be right back right here on msnbc.
governor pat mccrory in north carolina who declared a state of emergency in all counties in his state. most of the action so far has taken place in florida. the first wind gusts to reach hurricane strength were recorded around 3:00 a.m. this morning. florida governor rick scott urged the 1.5 million residents in the storm s path to evacuate, evacuate, evacuate and many heeded the call. the latest count of power outages stand at 431,000 right now affecting customers almost entirely in florida. just moments ago governor scott pleaded with residents to get out of the storm s path while they still have time. we re going to have up to 12 feet of storm surge and we ll have waves on top of that. jacksonville area has a low lying area. if you have a chance to evacuate, you need to get out now. if your house is prone to flooding, if you re in an evacuation zone, you have to get
path of least resistance. it will go around these buildings and these seawalls and head into these access roads that lead back up to atlantic avenue which is the main north-south drive along the coast here in daytona beach and run as far as it will go. the real worry of all of the water inlets leading into the intercoastal waterway. that water is going to head toward the intercoastal waterway and will come up very, very quickly depending on how close that eye is to do daytona beach and how strong the winds are blowing at that hour. that s one hour we re really concerned about here in this area. looking at some of the radar loops here over the last hour or two, i m a little concerned that this eye is coming closer to daytona beach than we were led to believe with that ron, i can confirm that. i can confirm that. i want to leave your shot up and briefly take radar here. you re here in daytona beach. you are only 28 miles to 29 miles away from the actual eye