Get out. Absolutely. Its going to affect a lot of people in its path, disrupting transportation across the country already, talking about amtr amtrak and greyhound busses. Airlines cancelled 1800 flights nationwide. Just today. Meaning planes may not be available for trips in other parts of the country. We have more now on that from eva pilgrim. Reporter the grinding air travel to a halt causing a Ripple Effect through the country. Were complacent, and this is not turning. The one day we planned to leave, theres a hurricane. Reporter midmorning, the ft. Lauderdale airport shut down since katrina 11 years ago, a rare move. At 1 00 p. M. , all flights in and out of miami stopped. Orlando international away from the coast stopped commercial flights, nearly 4,000 flights busy florida skies clearing out. Our original flight was canc cancelled. Reporter visiting from oklahoma now driving away from the storm and hoping to kind another way out. We are actually going to clearwater and then driv
Once it hits, its too late to get out. Absolutely. Its going to affect a lot of people in its path, disrupting transportation across the country already, talking about amtr amtrak and greyhound busses. Airlines cancelled 1800 flights nationwide. Just today. Meaning planes may not be available for trips in other parts of the country. We have more now on that from eva pilgrim. Grinding air travel to a halt causing a Ripple Effect through the country. Were complacent, and this is not turning. The one day we planned to leave, theres a hurricane. Reporter midmorning, the ft. Lauderdale airport shut down since katrina 11 years ago, a rare move. At 1 00 p. M. , all flights in and out of miami stopped. Orlando international away from the coast stopped commercial flights, nearly 4,000 flights busy florida skies clearing out. Our original flight was canc cancelled. Reporter visiting from oklahoma now driving away from the storm and hoping to kind another way out. We are actually going to clearwa
Hundreds of thousands in what is normally the Sunshine State of florida have been left in the dark, powerlines are down all across the state. We know that and we also know much more. Overnight matthew was downgraded to a category 3 but is still a monster of a storm. It is nearly 300 miles wide. Fema reports it is not it has not seen a storm so strong in a decade. The damage is expected to be severe as that of hurricane andrew. The storm wrecked the island nation of haiti. Its death toll is now up to 283 and expected to grow there in haiti. We have Live Team Coverage of this massive storm and the impact it is having but first heres meteorologist tara blake tracking math right now. Winds at 120 Miles Per Hour, lets go through the track as us here in northeast ohio are east coast. You can see the mileage there moving off now, expected to move northnorthwest at around 12 Miles Per Hour dumping as much as nine to 15 inches of rainfall along the coastal areas of florida, georgia, north and S
Unfortunately, this is going to kill people. Reporter already, it has. Matthew taking the lives of more than 100 people as it swept through haiti. The death toll there skyr skyrocketing as flood waters recede. In the bahamas, the shore battered by damaging waves, rain and wind ripping vegetation, and the vacations of 3,000 tourists unable to escape. With the hurricane then headed for florida, residents thursday stores are boarded up, and their shelves bare. A fight to get fuel. I saw two guys fighting at a gas station yesterday. Yeah, it looked actually throwing punches. Reporter 1. 5 Million People ordered to evacuate, jamming roads, but not flying. Time lapsed radar showing the normally busy florida skies clearing out as nearly 4,000 flights cancelled over the next and major concern here now, the storm surge. Where i am, its expected to be 610 feet or more, meaning waterways like that behind me could rise and flooding is a concern for residents here. You can see the water is already
Seeing people panic where i am, you know, in other areas that are taking a more direct hit sooner, perhaps they are, but here, people are just weathering the storm, and with cautious on the optimism, not super concerned, but not taking it lightly. Talk about a hundred thousand peopleou youre in an inlet there off the coast, but have you got a sense whether or not that area has gone without some power . Reporter i can tell you that we are operating on a generator, and we have been taking hits to the power for hours now with it going out intermittenly. Absolutely feeling that right now. Right now, were good. Its late and the area around me has lights, so we have not lost power, but, absolutely, you know, as you mentioned, 3 Million People would be without power as the storm hits, so thats absolutely one of the big threats in addition to the cause of the power, the downed power lines, seeing f iing foot the power lines going down and look and sound like fourworks. Thats the fireworks the