Latest on matthews track. Reporter its so strong miles off the haiti coastline. We just got this video into our news room. You can see the dark clouds, the wind is picking up, and unfortunately we see worse and worse video out of the nation throughout the day. At least four people have been killed. Jamaica has seen heavy flooding. Matthew is the strongest storm to hit the island in decades this is a wider view, and thats relative to florida, and it really is getting very well defined. 35miles for making land fall in haiti, and the Hurricane Force winds are 30 miles out. This will impact the eastern portion of cuba, and its expected to remain a category 4 hurricane through wednesday afternoon, in the bahamas, when it makes the unfortunate west coastline here, and some of polk and Highlands County will remain under the cone of uncertainty before it heads up off the jacksonville coastline, and eventually off the carolinas. Most of the computer models did make the shift. Yesterday t looked
Decade. Haiti has seen heavy rain that can trigger deadly mudslides, this in a country that is still recovering from a deadly earthquake six years ago and it looks like earn cuba will be next. And lets send it over to julie phillips. Thank you. We are closely watching Hurricane Matthew, still a strong and powerful hurricane. You can see the eye defined and you can see haiti is being hit hard from this storm. It is going to pass over far eastern cuba tonight and then move toward the bahamas, at this point moving to the north at 10 Miles Per Hour, maximum sustained winds still at 145 Miles Per Hour. You can see the hurricane warnings posted from eastern cuba all the way up through the bahamas and as we head off through thursday. You can see this will likely be right off the east coast of coast of florida. As a strong category four hurricane. Remember, in the tampa bay area, were on the western side of the storm, and then it will continue to curve up over towards the southeast and potenti
Storm. Swelling rivers, pelting rain, and driving winds. It is headed to cuba and possibly florida. We have Team Coverage of matthew. We start with chief meteorologist steve jerve. I know that latest update to the forecast crack is out, steve. What does it show . It looks similar. We still have a category 4 hurricane with 140 miles an hour winds. Clearly category 4. It surprised us. It has not weakened as a result of the te kind of passing now between the eastern part of cuba and the western part of hispanola. Then haiti, the center of the storm, the eye of the storm. Overcast, a very small eye indicating high intensity. It has interacted with land close to 24 hours. And according to the National Category 4 status. The strongest winds will be east of the eye. These are hurricane warnings colored in red. In the bahamas and cuba. It is just east of of guantanimo we are located, does include in the cone of air, sections of polk county, high lands county. We have seen the shift wobble back
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More and more obscured. Its starting to work back out over water. It get into the eastern tip of cuba and by early tomorrow morning, it is working its way across the bahamas so this will continue to be a very powerful system. Its not really going to lose a whole lot of steam moving over this area. Theres a lot of warm water, light wind shear so conditions will continue to be variable that we will continue to see a strong storm over the next several days. But heres the coordinates, 18. 9 degrees north, 74. 3 west. Top winds are still at 145 miles an hour. Its moving to the north at 10 miles an hour. It makes its way through the bahamas and theres that shift, that bend more towards the west so still were keeping it off the coast of florida but were getting it closer and closer to the state and were certainly within that cone across portions oflori s and into friday. You can cross the west coast of florida, we could see some of these winds gusting up to Tropical Storm force in some of the