water. that s where you re going to get gusts up to 130, 140-mile-per-hour gusts potentially. right along the immediate coast here is where we still could get some of the gusts in the 90 to about 110-mile-per-hour range. and this is what we need to closely watch during the day today. this is the daytona beach area here. you re now down to 19 miles from the worst of those winds. it is going to be very close call if this actually makes it into the daytona beach area or if it remains about 10 miles just offshore. the titusville area where we re getting reports of damage, i just saw on social media, i just retweeted a picture of a house that lost its roof in the titusville area. you can see that there, and i ll clear that and go in closer. there s a lot of small communities. we get the space coast in here. the space coast kind of ends here. that s the military area. the first population centers are oak hill. oak hill, if there s any really significant damage done to any populated area, it
winds as it moved past titusville. right now, these conditions, as you can see, are getting much more much more hairy, so we re going to fall back a little bit. these cities were prepared. by 6:00 a.m., the storm was moving up the coast, causing problems as far as 20 miles inland. an hour later, a gust 107 miles per hour was detected at cape canaveral. just north of there, daytona beach, where the worst is yet to come. we still could see sustained 100-mile-per-hour winds here for several hours. that s the scary part about this storm. let s go live to cocoa, florida. msnbc s mariana joins us again. mariana, the wind there, just a few minutes ago, you were showing us a hotel sign completely ripped apart on the ground. what does it feel like? that s right, stephanie. you can see the wind gusts
orlando. but right now, these conditions, as you can see, are getting much more hairy. so we re going to fall back a little bit. we ll have an update in just a bit. all right. that s an update from gahdi overnight showing us titusville, florida. from about 1:00 to 2:00 a.m. right now we re watching as the storm makes its way up north. 600,000 people without power in the state of florida. governor rick scott is saying, remember, only half the state has seen this storm. it continues to rage on. stay safe. if you are in your home, be calm. my name is barbara and i make dog chow natural.
hurricane matthew making its way up the coast of florida, i want to share with you some video taken overnight. our own gadi schwartz from titusville, florida. when the storm first passed other. check it out. you can hear the impact the storm pelting down as it hit the area. reporter: here in tye vitusv, you can see the wind picking up and debris on the roads. we re not going to go any further just because we ve seen blowing off and very, very heavy right now. it s hard to see but over here, there s some different boats battered by this storm. and just down the road, there is a mobile home park. down this road, there is a senior citizens home that has been evacuated about 100 senior citizens taken to, we believe,
businesses or the homes in titusville. but there are some sandbags out and people have been boarding up for quite some time. there aren t many people out. we ll take a left over here on main street. there aren t many people out and about there. mostly hunkered down and many of them have evacuated this area, actually, let s go forward a little bit. you might want to be really careful because it looks like there s a stop sign that is just blowing in the wind there. not sure if you see it up ahead, but yeah, that stop light is just dangling. let s take a left behind this. this fire truck. and you ll see these buildings completely boarded up. but yeah, this is the scene right now. in this community, just like so many communities. everybody is still hunkered down as the storm passes over. back to you. our own gadi schwartz. that area followed the