Heart of st. Augustine, florida. It used to be a property across from the water as one of our producers noted, it is a property in the water now. Ill speak live with the citys mayor just ahead. And a look here from st. Augustine, just a few moments ago. Well, this tells the whole story. You can barely see anything. Weve been checking back for live pictures for sometime now. The city is just one of dozens of communities feeling the full force of the powerful storm. Officials say a woman in lucy county died last night, after she had a heart attack and the form kept responders from reaching her in time. Hurricane matthew has been scraping along the coast of florida for hours now. Trees crashing into homes, electrical power out now, nearly a Million People in the dark. Theyre working on it. Forecasters in our Fox Weather Center predict the storm will slam georgia and South Carolina overnight and into tomorrow morning and while they have downgraded the hurricane to a category 3, they say it
Northern florida their say and he did not evacuate or t that war stay home is too dangerous more the 100 mi. Per hour when wind. Reporter that down across the state hundreds without power but despite repeated falls to evacuate the devastating storm surge will people in florida of a new back to hurricane andrew that the devastation could be all that level write about in jacksonville where several hours away from the direct impact there are ready to talk about clothes and the bridges in this city because of those when the dust james it is plenty working his way up to jacksonville where she is reporting for us this morning and arrested the latest or the local weather really your tracking back as well as we head into the wee kim hist. Rebecca 11 to report so far this morning the bay area a lot the only state that we feel the heat 1 4 fresno 91 and bakersfield 93 this is what the conditions are right now 52 degrees carly in San Francisco chef ship is one to be gorgeous weather to hit the be
More rain and as you take a look behind me, we are seeing a few whitecaps on the st. Johns river. Again, many people have to evacuate. The largest evacuation since hurricane stand in 2012, super storm sandy and 2012 but many decided they wanted to stay behind. The massive storm is moving up the florida east coast, bringing with it heavy rain. More than 100 Miles Per Hour wind. It is here. It is absolutely here. Reporter Officials Say that the effects of matthew will be unlike any hurricane in decades and that some places it may become, quote, uninhabitable for weeks or months. They are starting to see the impact and it is a monster. Again, our number one priority is protecting every life in this state park reporter power lines are down across the state, hundreds of thousands without power, but despite repeated calls to evacuate, and predictions of a devastating storm surge 11 feet of storm surge so in your house, if you are close, you could have the storm surge and waves over the rooft
Some were safe. A lot of people chose not to heed that warning and decided to board up their homes and hunker down. Our dave munsey tracking Hurricane Matthew still a very strong storm tonight, right dave . Very powerful storm, it is a category 3, but just barely. It is at 130 miles an hour. 131 makes it a category 4. Its a little bit east and a little bit north of miami, and it is drifting in the direction of florida. In fact, areas that we may see this thing find itself making land. Here we are at 130 miles an hour. Its moving northwest at 13 miles an hour and for a wet storm, thats not real good. Take a look at this. This is interesting. It is like the ferris wheel effect. Here you are. You have friday morning, friday evening, saturday morning, sunday morning or sunday evening, and heres monday evening. Look at this thing. Look at what this thing is doing. Heres miami right down here. Its coming back. Its going to take another shot at it. We are going to keep our eye on that. Not al
Some were safe. A lot of people chose not to heed that warning and decided to board up their homes and hunker down. Our dave munsey tracking Hurricane Matthew still a very strong storm tonight, right dave . Very powerful storm, it is a category 3, but just barely. It is at 130 miles an hour. 131 makes it a category 4. Its a little bit east and a little bit north of miami, and it is drifting in the direction of florida. In fact, areas that we may see this thing find itself making land. Here we are at 130 miles an hour. Its moving northwest at 13 miles an hour and for a wet storm, thats not real good. Take a look at this. This is interesting. It is like the ferris wheel effect. Here you are. You have friday morning, friday evening, saturday morning, sunday morning or sunday evening, and heres monday evening. Look at this thing. Look at what this thing is doing. Heres miami right down here. Its coming back. Its going to take another shot at it. We are going to keep our eye on that. Not al