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
Facetime is a recovery addict himself. He got help and has the cyber attention he never expected. Im not going to lie. I dont regret it. No, i dont. Reporter the video getting tens of millions of view a mix of supporters and haters arguing he exploited his son. He says his son is well aware of his parents drug problems, knew he was being recorded for some reason, and after watching the video together, dad says they agreed to share it and understood why. I just figured if i could help save at least one life, make one difference, i figured it would be worth it. Reporter is that video was recorded on monday and dad tells me his son is doing surprisingly well right now. He also says he wants that video to be a reminder to himself and his son for the rest of their lives how important it is to stay away from drugs. Bosley, cleveland 19. Romona thank you. Some are questioning the fathers actions after posting that video and with millions of views, there is a lot of reaction. Dan deroos is in
Caused people to maybe not turn out. Or at least, you know, wait until the very end to make a decision. Reporter and if you are going to vote tomorrow expect to wait a half hour, hopefully you wont have to wait much more than an hour. Getting answers at the board of election lacy crisp cleveland 19 news. Denise lacy, we want to welcome you, the newest member of our team. Thank you, lacy. Hillary clinton and donald trump are both hitting the campaign trail at a feverish pace with a focus of critical battleground states and clinton hopes to make history as first woman president and trump hopes to stop her with his populous message. A live report from d. C. Is at the bottom of the hour. One of the big local issues on the ballot is in parma. Chris thats right. The School District is asking voters to remove an emergency tax levy coming at a controversial time for the School District. Catherine bosley getting answers catherine . Reporter the parma School District is depending on passing the
Civics lesson. This is not just about the popular vote. At the end of the night you will look at the number of votes each candidate has gotten. It is possible that someone will receive more votes but wont win the election. How is that possible . I always like to use california as an example. Here is california. They have it colored blue. Hillary clinton will win california. It is a california state. See that number thats the number of electoral v whoever wins the contest in california pick up 55 votes in the Electoral College. Lets look at ohio. Ohio is worth 18. Why are we worth so few . Not as many as california, it is populationbased and much more population in california than ohio and thats why they dole out Electoral College votes. Obviously, it is whoever can get to 270. Which candidate can win enough state and Electoral College here is how real clear politics has it broken down. If you were to take the likely Clinton States and all the leaning Clinton States she is at 203 at thi
World leaders, russian president putin sent him a tell firm congratulating him. And uk Prime Minister sent her wellwishers saying that the u. S. And the uk will remain close partners. And lets go to john kosich. It is exciting and historic for the nation and for ohio too. Reporter no question about it. Looking at a 2 clear applicants average of donald trump leading the state of ohio. He took it by eight and a half points that is something that no one saw coming. And the other thing that was historic. He won the state by 354,000 votes. That is something that obama could not do in 2008 or 2012 and clinton could not do in 92 that big was when george w. H. Bush one in 1988. Trump won pennsylvania and leading in michigan. Another interesting number looking at when you see it come into play, and that is something that weve been watching during the course of the morning much this is a popular vote in the United States. And were looking at only 150,000 vote difference in the entire United Stat