Florida. The conditions are supposed to get worse in orlando within the next few hours. Cbs News Reporter marlie hall is in orlando with the latest reporter matthew is expected to come ashore or very close to it later today. And the entire florida coast is bracing for a long day of punishing winds, rain and storm surge. You can feel the droplets hit your legs, your arms, hands. Reporter Hurricane Matthew is making its presence felt across the florida coast. And this is only at half the wind speed that its supposed to be. Reporter overnight the outer bands of the storm gang pummeling the area with began pummeling the area with rain and winds. The category 3 storm sent boats rocking. Its quite a sight. Reporter storm shutters were ripped off the front of businesses in West Palm Beach. In daytona beach, police were left patrolling empty streets as most residents listened to evacuation warnings. We can rebuild homes and businesses. I think of my own family we cant rebuild a life. This stor
Pulled their kids out of school because of threatening social media posts from clowns. In some posts, the clowns have said specific schools they plan to target on certain days. Just today we saw one for Lied Middle School on friday today, ccsd Police Telling us there are no Credible Threats but they say the panic has caused rumors to run rampant and become a distraction in the classroom. Yo d terrorists or whatever. Thats scary. As the rumors drift, the presence grows as to what theyre going to do, when we get back to the bottom of the information, there never was a threat. Coming up at 6 hear how police are tracking these social media posts and why they coming up at 6 hear how police are tracking these social media posts and why they can be a challenge for them. 13 action news is learning new details tonight. About the man accused of setting a house on fire monday night. According to the arrest report. Tony fernandez believed. Drug dealers were out to get him. The report says. When he
Hurricane force winds snapped trees and destroyed the side of boat house at a marina in smyrna. pipe 1 11 48 00 all over the state debris littered streets. In jacksonville, huge waves crashed ashore. Officials are worried matthews storm surge could cause major flooding in low lying areas along the saint johns river. River. On top of those winds, the storm surge is going to be significant. 10 feet plus waves. Waves. The governor is expected to tour some of the damage today from this widespread and powerful storm. In south with holdouts to leave. Is nothing safe about what is getting ready to happen. Officials say more than half a Million People are without power in florida. show transformer on ground pipe 5 10 12 marlie hall, cbs news, orlando. 3 yesterday on the news at four we spoke to my former coanchor Sachelle Saunders reporting in Daytona Beach as she prepared for the hurricane to hit. And last night she was reporting from the thick of it. Against the wall as the water and wind co
South carolina, and curling very close to the coastline for them as well, so its the georgia coastline, the South Carolina coastline that are both going to be hugged by this, and even a part of the southern part of the North Carolina coastline, before a veers out to sea and weakens to a Tropical Storm. And this is sunday at 2 00 p. M. And into monday at 2 00 p. M. And look at this, this loop back around to the bahamas, yeah, its a very weak storm, a tropical depression, forecast to loop around. Whats left for us is not to see the storm come at us, but the tr us, can enhance the rainfall. Well talk about that coming up in a few minutes. Mark so far, haiti is dealing with the worst devastation in matthews wake. Reuters is reporting more than 800 people have been killed because of the hurricane. The poverty ravaged country has been struggling to recover from flood waters and now flood waters cut off many remote areas. The president today pushed for help. So i would ask all americans and o
Landfall overnight or tomorrow morning. Storm zone monitoring the latest developments. Scott says its here its absolutely here its not very far off the coast of palm beach. We are starting to see the impacts and its a monster. Hurricane matthew churning ominously toward the u. S. A catastrophic category four storm for most of the day been packing onehundredforty mile anhour winds. Roughly two Million People warned to head inland. In florida. Georgia. And south carolina. Officials in many areas. Shutting down twoway traffic on major highways instead turning them into oneway evacuation routes. And, president obama has now declared a federal emergency ordering federal aid to help respond to the storm. Already in the storms wake a deadly scene in the caribbean in hard onehundred people are dead. Haley says the winds are incredibly high and the rain haley says youre talking about 8 to 12 inches and getting higher numbers past that. Forecasters warn this hurricane could cause deadly flooding