Jack of all trades. Thank you. Katie, how is the weather . The weather definitely quiet here. But of course, we continue to talk so much about matthew. As you had mentioned it, has now been downgraded to category three storm system, still churning away, very impressive storm right now. So it is still very dangerous down across the southeastern shore line, specially for florida at the moment. With heavy rain bands, very strong wind, rolling into this region. As we look at the hurricane warnings, posted right now, they extends anywhere from most of the bahamas, Northern Branch of the bahamas, right up the eastern seaboard through florida, the state of florida, still again basically getting into the thick of things right now, still going to be another day and a half or so, before the storm gets, a, starts to weaken more, also starts to actually pull away from the region. They are expect to go see some very, very significant devestation down that way. Specially at the area beaches. Storm s
Reporter good morning. These wind and rains are really kicking in since 10 00 a. M. P. M. Have gone on all night long and will pretty much have them all day long. As you mentioned, the hurricane is off shore. Were still feeling 60mileper hour wind in parts of Volusia County where im standing. The good news is this hurricane apparently is not going to have the catastrophic impact initially feared. One side of that, for instance, the power is that maybe by now we wouldnt have power but, of course, obviously we do. There is a curfew in effect by this county that started last will go on until saturday morning. 3800 people are in shelters. By and large people did heed the mandatory order to evacuate. I did run into some holdouts, people that were going to ride out the storm in their homes. They thought they would roll right now, everything appears pretty good. People have their fingers crossed the storm will stay off shore and spare the east coast of florida, which is what everybody here wa
Morning hours for us. What is the latest on the hurricane . No major changes from last night. We are mainly going to see some very heavy rain and high wind gusts as matthew continues to approach the coast of North Carolina. Right now it is doing serious damage along the georgia and South Carolina coast right now. Highest wind gusts are about 125 miles an hour. Just off the coast of the georgia South Carolina line there. And this is what we are going to be watching very closely. Because some of these high wind gusts may push something we need to be on the lookout for today. Heavy rain. Potential flood problems on the way. For this afternoon. And this evening. Especially you can see some of those heavier showers pushing through parts of the area right now. We can expect this repeated heavy rain throughout the entire day today. So we are not going to get much relief from that rain that we will be seeing as matthew continues to cruise up along the coast. The National Hurricane center now i
We will get a touch warmer later on this afternoon but the story is this morning. You step outside, got to consider breaking out the light jackets. Good news, we are dry all over the region here with with the max defender 8 radar scanning the skies with a million watts of power. The story, not rain but the chilly temperatures. Theres the look at downtown again where it is now 57 degrees. We have light north, northeast breezes this morning but check out the number, 50s along the especially east of 75, it gets chilly. How about 50 for Wesley Chapel is lakeland. 42 right now in brooksville. And 50 in dade city. High pressure still in charge over the southeast u. S. Giving us the light, northeasterly flow. And overall, winds will be lighter today. And we will have the chilly start at 55 but the afternoon is looking gorgeous with full sunshine, temperatures stopping just shy of that 80degree mark. And long term, slow warming full forecast. Thank you so much. We turn now to breaking news thi
We will get a touch warmer later on this afternoon but the story is this morning. You step outside, got to consider breaking out the light jackets. Good news, we are dry all over the region here with with the max defender 8 radar scanning the skies with a million watts of power. The story, not rain but the chilly temperatures. Theres the look at downtown again where it is now 57 degrees. We have light north, northeast breezes this morning but check out the number, 50s along the especially east of 75, it gets chilly. How about 50 for Wesley Chapel is lakeland. 42 right now in brooksville. And 50 in dade city. High pressure still in charge over the southeast u. S. Giving us the light, northeasterly flow. And overall, winds will be lighter today. And we will have the chilly start at 55 but the afternoon is looking gorgeous with full sunshine, temperatures stopping just shy of that 80degree mark. And long term, slow warming full forecast. Thank you so much. We turn now to breaking news thi