Reporter good morning the winds and rains kicked in about 10 00 last night. Theyve kept going all night long and were going to have them all day long too. Right now as you mentioned the hurricane is off shore but were still feeling about 60mile an hour winds where im standing. The good news of course is that thisri the catastrophic impact as was feared. People expected that maybe by now we wouldnt have power but of course obviously we do. There is a curfew in effect. It will go on until saturday mourn. Bridges are closed about 3,800 people are in shelters. By and large people did heed the mandatory order to evacuate. I did run into some going to ride out the storm in their homes. Right now everything appears pretty good. People have their fingers crossed that the storm is going to stay off shore and spare the east coast of florida which is what everybody here wants. A little bit good news. The latest gayle take a peek the satellite. Since states offshore. It is offshore. Zoom in tight.
Reporter good morning the winds and rains kicked in about 10 00 last night. Theyve kept going all night long and were going to have them all day long too. Right now as you mentioned the hurricane is off shore but were still feeling about 60mile an hour winds where im standing. The good news of course is that thisri the catastrophic impact as was feared. People expected that maybe by now we wouldnt have power but of course obviously we do. There is a curfew in effect. It will go on until saturday mourn. Bridges are closed about 3,800 people are in shelters. By and large people did heed the mandatory order to evacuate. I did run into some going to ride out the storm in their homes. Right now everything appears pretty good. People have their fingers crossed that the storm is going to stay off shore and spare the east coast of florida which is what everybody here wants. A little bit good news. The latest gayle take a peek the satellite. Since states offshore. It is offshore. Zoom in tight.
Reporter good morning the winds and rains kicked in about 10 00 last night. Theyve kept going all night long and were going to have them all day long too. Right now as you mentioned the hurricane is off shore but were still feeling about 60mile an hour winds where im standing. The good news of course is that thisri the catastrophic impact as was feared. People expected that maybe by now we wouldnt have power but of course obviously we do. There is a curfew in effect. It will go on until saturday mourn. Bridges are closed about 3,800 people are in shelters. By and large people did heed the mandatory order to evacuate. I did run into some going to ride out the storm in their homes. Right now everything appears pretty good. People have their fingers crossed that the storm is going to stay off shore and spare the east coast of florida which is what everybody here wants. A little bit good news. The latest gayle take a peek the satellite. Since states offshore. It is offshore. Zoom in tight.
Continues for a cargo ship with 31 americans onboard, last seen near the bahamas. J. C. dramatic images as the coast guard rescues a dozen people from another cargo ship as it took on water north of haiti. Joaquin is a dangerous category 3 hurricane at this hour. Phil stormteam 5s mike wankum joins us. Mike, youve got new information on its track. Mike it has not changed much, it is still a dangerous category three. Watch what happens. It starts to make little bit of a turn think of north. That is the turn we have been waiting for. That means things will start to happen quickly. You can sites category three. Gusting to 155 and now, moving to the northeast at 10 miles per hour. It had been sitting in one place for a long time. Going to maintain that category three stats that you looks like until we get to earllely sunday morning. Then, once it starts to move over colder with aer, starts to loosen that intensity. For us, about 426 miles offshore. Come pair that to the earlier that was on
A cold and wet day ahead of us. Flooding and erosion concerns along the south shore especially during the next tie hyde. Antoinette weve got some more of that wet weather heading our way, danielle. This cool, raw feeling is sticking around for a little while. Danielle antoinette and frank, this weekend unfortunately looks to be cool and raw pretty much all weekend lock. Were going to start to tend to dry out as we head towards tomorrow. I do want to talk about that Coastal Flood Advisory. Those same areas that saw the minor splashover yesterday could see it yet again today. Were looking at the high tide come inning the 4 00 hour. From 3 00 to 6 00 all the east coast is under that minor coastal advisory. As we go through saturday, that high tide is coming at 5 06 and watching a high tide on monday as well. Thats because we have strong northeast winds pulling in a lot of moisture. There are showers out there to contend with this morning. We definitely are socked in with the clouds and un