Hundreds of people dead after the storms rampaged through haiti and matthew forcing the largest mandatory evacuation since hurricaine sandy, more than 200,000 homes from florida to north carolina, at risk from the storm surge alone. That number likely to go much, much higher than that. More than 100,000 people already without power tonight. Our correspondents are stationed throughout the region and were start with cnns michael holmes, in palm bay, florida. Give us the latest where you are. Reporter palm bay, florida, were right in the melbourne area of florida, and this is an area where according to some of the tracks could be the hardesthit at the moment if things stay on course the way they are. Its been getting a bit rough around here in the last hour or so. Its coming through in bands i suppose, don, and we just had one come through, which was a little bit frightening. It doesnt look so bad now, but it did about five minutes or so. Were about an hour or so away from high tide and weve talked a lot about the surge, the surge that comes ashore, all that water, and people think of wind and the like when they think of hurricaines but more people are kained killed by storm surges than anything else, up to 12 feet. Off the coast youve got those Barrier Islands, those houses that are all out there right on the front edge of where this is all coming in, and you know what, i covered Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and saw what happened to the houses on those Barrier Islands and i just cant imagine what this storm is going to do to it. I want to read you something though, and you can see this is another one of these bands coming through nougw, which is sort of just rocking us around. We just got an advisory from the north Weather Service in florida, and the weather has some have pointed out in the Weather Department is remanentent remanen reminiscent in terms of what we saw, and locations may be uninhabitable for weeks or months and widespread, to devastating impact effects have not been experienced like this in Central Florida in decades. That just gives you a sense of how worried people are about this. Evacuations have taken place, but we heard from the police they were worried that People Living in of all things mobile home parks, some of them have not left and this is not sort of thing you want to go through in a mobile home. People on the Barrier Islands, they hope have been evacuated, theyre going to close the causeway any minute and anyone will be stuck out there and once the winds get over 50milesanhour, emergency services, First Responders, theyre not going to come get you, because its just going to be far too dangerous for them. Were looking at winds by in the next couple hours getting up around 75milesanhour, by 3 00, 4 00, 5 00, could be 110 sustainedmileanhour, gusts up to 120milesanhour. Were in palm bay, but its the greater melbourne, florida area. Theyre really theyre expecting the worst at the moment, don. Michael, i want you to stand by. I want to get to jeff piotrows, and i with twister chasers. Com, and he joins us now. I understand youre in melbourne. What are you see something. Over the last 15, 20 minutes, as i came north, ive seen numerous power flashes with weve got high winds with trees falling on the power lines and power grid and big huge green flashes in the sky sometimes last a couple seconds and just literally about 15 seconds ago on the outer island, outer banks, and it was in the melbourne area and the atlantic just southeast of melbourne, damaging winds coming in from the southeast of melbourne now and were going to have wind damage increasing looks like theyve got emergency vehicles coming southbound on highway 1. Any way, damaging winds are coming onshore near melbourne and damaging winds are coming ashore now and theyre going to continue to increase the intensity over the next four to six hours. So listen, take us there. What are you seeing the most, because its a little bit difficult to see. We cant see as clearly as you, but we can see it. Is it mostly power lines . Is it are you seeing trees or limbs down . Are you seeing debris . What is it . Water . Yeah, just tree limbs down. The waters very high, back at fort pierce. The local Officials Say the water is the highest theyve ever seen it. Its about five foot, only a foot or two below the rockledge, before it starts spilling across the roadway, and its rose about five feet since about noon today and is very huge, rough swell, in the riverbanks in there, and water right now, is just coming down the indian river on highway one, i can tell the waters flowing southward at a very high rate of speed, kind of northeast and east as the high approaches from the southeast here and thats pushing that water back southward in the inlet there. Thats what i observed north here on 1. Jeff, it appears to us that you are it looks like youre near a parking lot, or a gas station, or something. What area are you specifically . Coming into melbourne, really, the bridges here, im just near highway 192 and 1 now, and this is this is just basically its 192 and 1 is where im located and this is the area thats going to go this is the area im at right now, just observing from this area, as the hurricaine approaches from the southeast. You have seen one single soul besides Emergency Personnel . I seen what, snir. You seen one Single Person who is not supposed to be out besides emergency people . A couple, maybe one or two. Mostly, its been a presence of law enforcement, and theyve done been excellent job in securing the area and theyre in full force all along the coast tonight. Jeff piotroski, a storm chaser out for thus evening. Well get back to you. I want to get jack parish, the flight director for noah, and he joins us by phone. I want to tell you, jack, weve been monitoring the Hurricane Center, sometimes its up and down i would imagine its getting tremendous traffic. Do you know anything about that . I dont know what the situation is right now. Were having the swim problem. I have other ways i can get radar imagery and that sort of thing, but you can imagine the flood of interest in that direction. Tell us, youre tracking this hurricaine, what are you seeing . Yes, sir. We took our p 3 aircraft, noahs p 3 aircraft through the secent of the storm today five times at the tip of the spaer for tear f forecasters and we made passes five different times to totally map out the wind spelled thats going to be impacting the coast. We seeing some we very rarely see here, which is a doubleeye hurricane, or a concentric eye. When you see that outer ring, that outer ring has hurricaineforce winds as well as the tinyinner eye, so anything in that inner eye will see hurricaineforce winds along the beach. What sort of data are you collecting on this . We have a tremendous amount of data, but the important thing, every time we go through the center woor, we want to knot the lowest pressure is, of category four standards and we have a downward looking instrument that maps out surface winds. You want to know how strong the winds are blowing when youre a coastal resident so we map out 105 mile radio legs all around the storm, all directions so we provide that wind field to the hurricaine center, they turn it over to the Emergency Managers, the local officials and if everyone will just please heed the advice of those people, and when they can get to the hurricaine center site, get to it, because its the best information you can get, noaas national hurricaine. The question many people is ask is who is doing this . Is this done with instruments . Through computerized . Or are people doing it themselves . Collecting this information . Oh, no, we had an airplane with 17 people on board. We had a combination of noaa, noaacore officers flying the aircraft. Im noaa civil service, meteorologist, we have data people, scientists on board, especially from the noaa hurricaine Research Division and these are flesh and blood people flying through the center of the storms. We had a pretty bumper pass on the northwest side, number two were all reminded its not your standard line of work but its such Important Information and we have to be looking at the data in real time. We have to make sure its extremely high quality data so we dont give anybody bad information. So your data is all from the air, nothing from the ground is what im asking . In this particular case, weve seen directly over fr freeport, and nassau, but our aircraft was flying standard, Hurricane Center reco pattern, so we were getting all of our information from that altitude. Jack caparish, flight direct there. I want to go to the phone, an accuweather extreme meteorologist. What are you telling us . What do you know . Reporter im in cocoa beach right now. Probably had winds gusting to 50 miles to 60milesanhour and the hurricaine is still 100 miles to the southwest, so thats a sign theres lot more to come and i observed power flashes to the south of me, down the barrier island, which is consistent to what jeff piotroski was saying. Maybe well catch a power flash, but as the hurricaine moves closer youre going to see a lot more of these explosions, and it definitely illuminates the sky before the power goes out. The storm is just getting started, approaching from the southeast, and when that eye wall comes in thats when well get the winds gusting to hurricaine force. Well probably have the power go out. Right now were in a concrete structure right on the coast and we feel confident in that structure but were at about three or four feet of sea level. We may have to move the vehicle to high are ground or go up in elevation above that storm surge level. So youre not stationary there, you can walk around a little bit and show us what youre seeing . Reporter yeah, i prefer to be on foot, stay mobile. Im on the road that parallels the coastline and its a little bit sheltered from the beach. If i could get a spotlight on the beach, youd see those winds ripping. A lot of sand getting picked up by the dirt. Its almost get an exfoliator out there. So the winds have increased. We keep going out to the beach, incramently, and examining how strong the winds are increasing and we really expect conditions to deteriorate in cocoa beach and in fact this whole area could be under water especially in if that eye goes a little bit to the south. Its not a spot id want to be on foot. This likely will be under a few feet of water, maybe several feet of water if that eye goes to the south. All right. Reed timer out in cocoa beach for us this evening. Reed, well get back to you. Thank you very much. Coming up, much more on the breaking news tonight. 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Were also told theyre doing it to make sure there arent people roaming around trying to loot businesses or homes, so they want everyone off the streets and back into a safe place, whether that is a shelter or your home if you are off of the coast, there is no time to evacuate that. Time has past to get somewhere safe. They are telling people if you are though on the coast, you can still go over the bridge to get away from the coast, but you cannot go from the inland areas on to the beach. Those bridges have been closed coming towards the water. I can also tell you, this you know, as these bands come in, were seeing all sorts of animals sort of coming up, crabs and anded t toads and frogs. The animals certainly know whats going on guess, but we can hear the surf and it is getting really angry. We can hear it slapping the shore and we can tell you we hear the waves could get about 20 to 25 feet high. Im 59, thats basically four of me standing on top of each other and were talking, you know, the first floor of a building, so a lot of people have taken their cars on a hotel, on the higher floor. This area, daytona beach, kind of sits in a bowl and so there will be some flooding theyre expecting, and what kills people more than anything else, it is flooding. Not the winds, and not the rain, but its the flooding and people making the mistake of going into standing water and not knowing how deep it is and how fast that water can move so they want everyone to be sure not to do that and to sort of huchgnker d now because the storm is getting closer and closer. These bands of wind and rain are no joke. Thats what i want to ask you about, michael hoellmes, where is tonight, youre seeing the bands come through occasionally. Ow quickly or is it just upon you now . Reporter yeah, one just passed through and we keep getting them. They come every half an hour or so. Theyre starting to pick up in intensity, and so youll notice at all sudden it just starts dumping rain and the rain starts going a bit sideways, and you know that you are in yet another band and then it calms down and this is typical of a hurricaine. I remember i was in college when hurricaine andrew hit, the largest storm, most devastating storm for florida, my mom lived here and i remember thinking my goodness, is she going to make it. Came home and i didnt recognize anything and that is what authorities are warning people that if this storm does what they think its going do to this area there may be street signs down, trees down. You may not recognize even where you live because things will look very different if the storm slams this coast as hard as they think it will. Its going to be a couple days, and could be as many as months before things get back to normal. We know the Florida Power and light folks, theres about 500 of people coming to the local totals because they want to make sure to restore power as soon as possible, but they are expecting power to go out for millions of floridians and they want to try to get that back online, but people need to be prepared with things like water and bread just in case that power goes out and is out for a while, you want to be able to sustain yourself for three days. Sara sidner in daytona beach, well get back to you. I want to get back to the Weather Center for us. Sarah, shes getting wave, after wave of it coming through every 30 minutes. Tell us whats going o derrick. I believe shes in daytona beach, so shes still several hundred miles away from the worst of the storm, but you have to listen to this ominous, if not dire wording from the national Weather Service out of melbourne and jacksonville florida. Locations may be uninhabitable for weeks or months. Widespread to devastating wind impacts will be felt, airborne debris losted by extreme winds will be capable of breaching structur structures, unprotected windows, effects such as these have not been experienced in Central Florida in decades. This is similar wording to what we received prior to katrina in 2005. What youre looking at behind me is the current radar and you heard from the noaa hurricane hunter, jeff a few moments ago, on one of your interviews, talking about two different eye walls and youre really starting to see that pek up across the imagery. Youre seeing one larger eye wall and one a coeccentr krirc wall. Especially on the northern periphery, and what the national hurricaine center and the noaa Reconnaissance Aircraft that have moved through the region have done have really read wind readings in excess of 100milesanhour. I want to bring in ed rapport, good evening to you. Busy time for you. We appreciate it. Where exactly is Hurricane Matthew now and where is the storm headed . You can see pretty clearly where the center of the storm is located, and thats about 50 miles to 75 miles off the south florida coast a little bit north of palm beach. The center is forecast to move close to parallel to the east coast of florida, maybe approaching it a little bit and thats going to be really key because the most intense part of the hurricaine is very close to the center. As that pulls in towards the coast, the conditions are going to deteriorate, particularly in the northern part of the coast and we should expect to see hurricaineforce winds move ashore in the next few hours and progress farther up the coast and those winds are going to drive a storm surge that could reach seven to 11 feet if the core of the hurricaine does get to the shoreline. 11 feet at the worst you believe, but just how powerful will matthew be at its worst . Matthews probably reached its peak and intensity. Winds are on the order of 130milesanhour or so and the winds may gradually come down a bit but not enoug