Shore on the boardwalk in wildwood tonight. Plows are working to clear the roads after a really messy drive home. The snow hit at the worst possible time. Rush hour on a friday night. Delays for some folks more than an hour and tonight the big concern the freeze. Thanks for joining us tonight. Im chris oconnell. Im dawn timmeney. The snow caused serious headaches for folks today and we have Live Team Coverage for you with brad sattin in cherry hill, county, but lets start with meteorologist mike masco outside our studios in old city. Brrr, mike. It actually hurts to be out for long period of time. Good evening, guys. Good evening, everybody. Its a huddle and culled dell kind of night tonight. Youre looking at record speeds witness pedestrians moving down Market Street from point a to point b. Theyre getting warm as fast as they can. The next issue this evening and into the overnight hours is, of course, the refreezing. You can see this is just one of the many streets, of course, in phi
House. An historic threat to the united states. We dealt with charlie, francis, wilma. This is like none of those. Im Jim Rosenfield, and this is what matthew looks like right now on radar. A monster storm just off the coast of florida right now, and conditions are getting worse by the minute. Take a live look at the situation in west palm beach. Weve seen trees swaying in heavy winds there. The storm has killed at least 280 people in the caribbean, and that number could rise. President obama declared a state of emergency in florida and South Carolina today. 2 million americans are under evacuation warnings, and analysts say matthew could cause 200 billion in damage in the u. S. Tonight we have Live Team Coverage on the storm and its impact. We begin with nbc10s Randy Gyllenhaal live in stewart, florida, about two hours north of miami. Whats it like where you are right now . Reporter jim, i can tell you in just the past nine minutes or so, we officially lost power here at our hotel in
Cleared. Youre good to go eastbound, westbound on the vine street expressway. So far, thats pretty good right now. Just a few cars on the majors this morning. Checking travel times on 422 from route 29 towards the schuylkill, travel speeds in the 60s. Folks, it will take you eight minutes. Youre good to go. When i come back, well take a look at 95 and what you can expect traveling in south jersey. Lets recap the update we just got from the National Hurricane center. The storm is moving away from south florida and up towards the coast there. The storm is still a category 3 with sustained winds atc 120 miles per hour. The latest track shows a turn toward the north tonight or tomorrow. This is some is of the latest video were getting into the newsroom. This is from palm beach county. These first clips from jupiter where a lot of famous golfers live. Then you can see a down tree there. This is in jenson beach, along the coast. Rain and winds are moving out of this area right now, though,
The hurricane strength winds. Rain coming down. The first effects from Hurricane Matthew a storm the likes of which we have not seen in more than a decade. Weve already seen heartbreaking images of what this storm can do and the carribbean officials blamed it for hundreds of deaths. And the false scope of the damage is impossible to know at this point as the storm continues to churn at this hour. It continues to change. Leaving millions of people wondering whats next . Good evening, im lucy noland. Im iain page. It will be a long night for a lot of people. So far more than 280 deaths in the carribbean blamed on Hurricane Matthew. The storm is packing winds at 130 miles an hour forcing about 2 Million People to leave. First in the storms path florida where history was made in orlando earlier today. Disneyworld did something its only done four times before. It closed. Airports are closed. Thousands of flights canceled. Amtrak has suspended service between miami and new york. Already its
Seen heart breaking images of what this storm can and did do, there was a bridge collapse making it impossible for survivors to get help and the death toll continues to rise, into the hundreds. Good day it is a friday, tgif, october 7th, 2016 and this morning the storm is our big story. We have Live Team Coverage of the effects, time line and we have dave kinchen at Philadelphia International with the flight updates. Jenny joyce over at peco where volunteers are heading south to help those in the path but lets begin with sue serio with the forecast, sue. Karen, even though we are not getting the hurricane, itself, just about all of us know people down to the south, in florida, georgia, South Carolina, being affected by this storm and this is it, Hurricane Matthew, live 3t satellite picture and through can see the eye, it is still moving in the northwesterly direction but this thing has continued to move parallel to the coast all night, and continuing this morning, well it make land fal