Im deiah riley. A hurricane watch is posed for some central counties. Residents on the eastern seaboard are stocking up to prepare for the storm. If you think you will have to evacuate go do it now before the roads get clogged. Governor rick scott we expect impacts from reporter roadways are clogged in south carolina. Governor nikki haley issuing a warning. If you dont get out in time, you may get stuck. That is worstcase scenario to be stuck on the coast with no place to go because you didnt meet the evacuation time. Mandatory evacuation orders were issued for parts of north carolina. All three states plus georgia declared states of emergency through the caribbean. Matthew will brush up againsted east coast of the United States this week, residents are preparing and stocking up on everything from groceries and water to fuel and cash. I am hearing a lot of screeching of tires. Im waiting my time. I know it will be worse tomorrow. As people along the eastern seaboard brace for Hurricane
Per hour. A lot of colors but we will focus in on our counties where we have the Tropical Storm watch. Thursday night through the entire day on friday, the potential is there for 40 to 60 Miles Per Hour winds. The reason as i mentioned, this thing is paralleling the coast as opposed to going in. This will be an entire day event plus. Highlands and polk county will be in the worst of it. The path of the storm takes us on a drier side. I dont think this will be a big rain event like hermine. We are looking at rainfall tallies of 1 to 3 inches at most. We got more in the last few days with thunderstorms. This is a wind deal, not so much rain. The rain will be a problem along 95 along with the fact that they will get Hurricane Force winds as well. So, we have to watch the track. If it shifts further west we have to increase the wind speeds and potentially the counties impacted by Tropical Storm force winds. The day on friday. I will talk about the exact path where its heading and rain chan
Paralleling the coast. Thursday night, i paused it, not just because we have a cat 4 east of florida but i think this will be the impacts. Beginning thursday night into friday. We are talking about polk county, Highlands County. You are the ones that will experience the worst of it as far as the winds as the track is now. 40 to 60 Miles Per Hour winds thursday into friday because of that parallel. You see that line close to the coast and then heading up friday across the northeastern part of the state. These are the watches and warnings but we focus in on our counties. Polk and Highlands County thursday night and into friday, 40 to 60 Miles Per Hour winds. Power out tables, if you are watching from lake wales, lakeland, place sick lakes, you there could be power disruptions, especially on friday. Lets talk about the rainfall associated with this in a few minutes. Good morning. Wesley chapel, a crash in your area on bruce b. Downs at 56. Northbound lane is blocked. We are working to get
Trading jabs over immigration and their running mates. The insultdriven campaign im just saying facts about your running mate and i know you cant defend him. Both clair victory overnight while Hillary Clinton and donald trump prepare for their next faceoff. Our Powerhouse Political Team here to break it all down. And good m and two big stories developing this wednesday morning. Starting out with that debate last night. Tuesday night fight night for the Vice President ial candidates. They shook hands there but feisty throughout the 90 minutes and right now that massive storm barreling towards the u. S. Thats right, george. All eyes on matthew. Look at this picture. The storm stretching 700 miles wide taking aim at the southeast. This is a huge storm and four states, florida through the president obama will meet with fema today as millions of americans now prepare to evacuate. Yeah, already on the move and the deadly storm slammed into haiti and cuba. Team coverage from the center of the
That is why it is a watch and not a warning, heres a look at Hurricane Matthew, winds of 120 miles per hour, the storm looks ragged right now, when it went over cuba it did a number on the inner core. There is a decent probability over the next 24 hours ideal conditions for redevelopmento it could g stronger but were hoping it wont. That is a possility, that is usually the part of tracking a rr in terms of t track both models have been in this camp bringing good close to the east coast of florida. That is where the hurricane centaser h its track wch means anywhere from melbourne, cocoa beach, vero beach especially to the north from daytona, Saint Augustine really watching this closely because right now this is no longer and hurricane is going to hit the coast of florida and but they will be seeing damage like they have not seen in a long time. West palm and miami have gone through this, areas north of melbourne, not so much in terms of the next 48 hours there is one of the computer mod