New at 11 00 a state of emergency. The governors of florida and North Carolina both declaring one as Hurricane Matthew churns this way. Good evening. Im wendy ryan. Im paul la jamison uhler. This is some of the heavy rain people in jamaica are already seeing. The storm is expected to hit haiti the hardest. Lets go right to chief meteorologist denis phillips. This is going to be a devastating night for haiti. This will be moving on shore right on the western tip of haiti with winds of about 145 Miles Per Hour, a surge of incredible rainfall totals. This is a nasty hurricane, category 4, Even Stronger now than it was earlier on. The lowest pressure thats been recorded at 934 millibars. Where is it going . The new track that just came out has given us a little bit of a change compared to the 5 00 track. And as we expected it is a little more to the west. Our computer models have been trending that way for the last day or so, so we kind of figured the Hurricane Center would go a little bit
Western side of haiti there. Storm surge will be significant. The winds will be destructive and the amount of rain on hilly terrain will lead to mudslides and life threatening conditions the next couple of days. The track has shifted. We are moving it further to the northwest. That was the case yesterday but now its more of a turn to florida. Now as i close up on here, we have the cone that involves hurricane watches will be posted for the east coast of florida. We could have Tropical Storm watches for us as the storm makes its closest path on us thursday and into friday and then to the north and east. What are we expecting . Winds of 40 to 50 Miles Per Hour across the interior is a possibility thursday and friday. That would be Tropical Storm force. We still with the current track are on the drier side of the storm, we shouldnt get involved in the tampa bay area where the heaviest rain. Hurricane force winds are possible across the eastern side of the state. We will talk about that an
What will happen now is we will enter this kind of blackout period where we wont get a lot of information out of the most impacted areas across southwestern part of haiti. When we get pictures back, i think they will be just astonishing. This is 145 Miles Per Hour storm that has made landfall often the Southern Coast of haiti with incredible amounts of rain and the winds, category 4 winds which by the way continue it made landfall over the end of the peninsula here, small strip. North. Continue to head to the one thegest hricanes ever to hit haiti. This is a big deal. It may make a second landfall later on this afternoon and evening across eastern cuba. There is the storm heading to and west not just the bahamas but now as well for us as we are in the cone. I will go closer here. We are now in the game here as far as this storm potentially affecting us with Hurricane Force winds, not in tampa but along the east coast. That is the biggest change in the last 4 hours. If this moves 20 mil