Now millions more in its path this morning. David muir, ginger zee and rob marciano and our team all across the storm zone on a special edition of Good Morning America. And good morning, america. That hurricane hitting florida right now. Lets look at the radar of the eyewall just touching the coast. Thats the east coast and look at port canaveral. It is right by Cape Canaveral. Officials warning high winds could bring structures down. Everyone on alert. And understandable why. Take a live look at cocoa beach. Fierce rain and winds there at this hour. Heres what we know right now. 3. 2 Million People from florida through the carolinas have been told the evacuate. At least 300,000 people are without power in the state of florida. More than 2,250 u. S. Flights nceled today and tomorrow. It is 350 miles wide. It covers an estimated 280,000 square miles. Just a massive storm. Our team on the ground all across the storm zone. David muir in jacksonville and ginger in the thick of the storm in melbourne, florida. Good morning, ginger. Reporter i think youre tossing to me, george. The last couple of hours have been wild here in parts of florida. I am, of course, in melbourne. Were in a protected area and per hour. I wanted to give you an idea of whats happening. Cape canaveral had 107mileanhour gusts and waves up to 30 feet. Waves have been reported up to 30 feet. The wind, the waves, thats what were concerned about. Each mile makes a huge difference. I have to tell you that were less than 15 miles from dangerous or even deadly winds and as that approaches areas like Daytona Beach and eventually jacksonville is what so many folks on those high wind or hurricane warnings up around the coast, and check this out. Still a Tropical Storm watch in effect for tampa. Look at the coast to savannah, charleston, thats all in the warning at this hour. Let me also take you through the timing. Jacksonville gets it tonight at 5 00 p. M. I wanted to leave with this, guys, just a moment ago the winds are only 60 some Miles Per Hour currently, a light just blew off the top of the hotel, debris can still fly at you and be dangerous. Please dont go outdoors. Stay in a safe place, information. You stay safe too, ginger. As we have said, more than 3 Million People have been told to evacuate the storm. This will be the most devastating storm to hit jacksonville in 118 years. David muir has more. Good morning, david. Reporter amy, good morning to you. As you heard ginger say, just as were on the air with Good Morning America this morning the western edge of this eyewall canaveral, and of course, the concern there was the Kennedy Space center. As we move northward, this is the area in jacksonville where they say the biggest threat is the storm surge. Theyre concerned about it up and down the coast and through the carolinas but right here where im standing theyre expecting up to 11 feet. Well show you the dangers on the map of that in a moment. First here this morning the pictures coming in of this hurricane already. Hurricane matthew slamming into Central Floridas coastline. Unfortunately, this is going to kill people. To 115 Miles Per Hour. Kind of almost a whiteout condition. Reporter the hurricane eye just a few miles now off Cape Canaveral. At least ten inches of rain expected. You can see the water out here. Its blanketed by this rain now. Reporter as over 300,000 are without power at this hour. These transformers exploding in vero beach. Supplies dwindling. Hotels overbooked. The National Guard now standing by. One in jupiter. Im concerned about whats going to happen when the house falls and were where were going to go. Reporter matthews path changing planning, even forcing disney world to close its gates for only the fourth time ever in the parks 45year history. Cruise ships docked and thousands traveled with airports empty and more than 3800 flights already canceled here in the u. S. More than 3 million americans now fleeing their homes from florida up to North Carolina. Fema officials preparing to provide relief with states of emergency now declared in florida, georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. The hurricane already devastating the caribbean. Running its path through the bahamas. Its force ripping the roof right from this home and in haiti, a nation in crisis. At least 122 dead. The coast guard now providing a clearer picture of home after home leveled. Morning, this is where meteorologists say be very concerned about the storm surge. You can see the ferocity of the waves whipping up behind me already. Take a look at the map this morning and you can see actually see the storm surge threat is up and down the coast but right here in the jacksonville area, 7 to 11 feet and keep in mind thats simply the water above land. That is the surge of water up to 11 feet. That does not account for the waves that are expected to come crashing in as the winds go co of matthew. As you saw 3 million americans evacuated in this storm. 2. 5 million schoolchildren home with their families this morning and i want to check in about a half a mile south of where i am right here with abcs eva pilgrim in st. Augustine, this morning. Eva, what are the conditions . Reporter david right now, we are really seeing the wind and rain pick up. When the gust, big gusts come, they are incredible. Ive already lost a hat. You can see the water behind me. Let me move so you can see it. Angry this morning, the water. The waves crashing in. Theres actually a tenfoot drop right behind me here where the beach erosion has already happened. Thats how much beach is already gone. You mentioned the storm surge worried about it here in st. Augustine because high tide is in the middle of the afternoon and thats when theyre expecting the hurricane to be not too far offshore. They are water to be well over my head in the st. Augustine area on the barrier islands. Law enforcement went door to door urging people to please get off the island to move further inland. They tell us a lot of people are planning to ride out this storm. Those first responders, they have all moved out. They say they are not coming back in until after the hurricane is passed and they feel strongly that it was time for us to move as well to get across that bridge before its not possible for us to get going to pack up and move to higher ground, david. Reporter all right, eva pilgrim, about a half hour from where were standing south of here, closer to hurt kricane matthew this morning. And you heard eva talk about the beach erosion theyre seeing already and that is the real concern here this morning. The winds theyre 115 to 120mileperhour wind gusts, its more the storm surge, these waves behind me up to 11 feet as i mentioned then the waves crashing in over it. Its a threat that well continue to watch. George, amy, michael . Back to you. Thanks very much. We also have our jim dolan from our new york station wabc in Daytona Beach. Jim, we can see the wind and rain right there and hear daytona is a ghost town. Reporter george, the wind is just starting to kick up. I cant hear you all that well. We mentioned the wind is kicking up. I dont know what this is, but this steel thing just blew up and almost whacked me in the way, but theres a lot of that kind of debris just getting blown around us. And the winds pick up in Daytona Beach. You can take a look. Joe showed me the palm trees which are blowing hard in this wind. We stepped away a little bit from the hotel to give you an idea how hard the rain is falling. Again, the muscle of this storm still pretty far south from where we are. But it is coming this way and youre beginning to see some gusts of wind here that are extremely high at Cape Canaveral seeing gusts up to 100 miles an hour, higher than that there. Cape canaveral, obviously important because thats where nasa launches spacecraft from their rockets, and so lots of heavy wind there, and the rain really picking up now. Were starting to see flooding here and mostly it has been raining much of the night but mostly we are seeing an increase in wind speed. The trees really blowing here in Daytona Beach. Going to get a lot worse over reporting live from Daytona Beach where it is really coming down now, im jim dolan for abc. George . Tobacco back to you. Earlier i spoke to Florida Governor rick scott. Governor scott, thanks for joining us. What can you tell us about the impact of matthew right now . Well, george, its about halfway up our coast off the coast of Cape Canaveral. About 40 miles. We have seen hurricaneforce winds up to 107 Miles Per Hour. Its still, you know, its not daylight so we dont know where the damage is. We have been blessed that woe we dont have we havent had a direct hit. Just hurriceforce winds, well see a lot of storm surge. If youre in jacksonville, you still have an hour or two to evacuate. Our concern is were going to have up to 12 feet of storm surge and waves on top of that. It will impact rivers, not just the coast so weve got to be very careful about all the flooding well see and often as with the storm surge itll come in fast and leave fast so thats why i saw with the hurricane we recently had in the panhandle the water comes in fast and goes out very fast and it can till you. Ill youkill you. Ill youkill you. That storm surge still is dangerous. Is it fair to say your state has been spared the worst . I have never seen anything like this. We have people in our shelters. Fortunately, no traffi a thousand people without power. Theyre starting to restore it in miami and in the ft. Lauderdale area, and still assessing the damage, though, george. And as you say Going Forward youre concerned about more flooding in the coast and inland. What things you brace for right now . Well, the biggest thing right now especially going north were going to see a lot more storm surge than weve seen in the southern or middle part of the state. Thats my biggest concern right seriously and evacuate . If you are in the jacksonville area, you still have an hour or so to evacuate. So do it if you have a chance to evacuate. I dont want anybody to be around the storm surge. I watched in the peninsula get ten feet of storm surge. Planning ahead has made a difference. We had evacuation orders for 1. 5 Million People to move west of the state and we have plenty of people preposi called up 3,500 members of the National Guard, and high water vehicles, food, water. So were ready to deal with this and well work in the aftermath. We already have 400,000 people without power. One final question, the state of South Carolina has extended Voter Registration because so many lives have been disrupted. Why wont you do that . George, look, we have the we have had plenty of time to register. Look, this is politics. On getting this done. Im focused on saving everybodys life. The Biggest Issue for me i want everybody to survive this. Governor scott, thanks for joining us this morning. All right. See you, george. And those high winds are also causing a lot of problems already in West Palm Beach good morning, gio. Benitez is. Reporter hey, michael. Good morning. We are on the back end of that storm so were still getting a just want to show you that overnight power of the storm, as we pull out here just so you can compare the size of this to me. Were talking about a tree thats at least three stories tall. It was just uprooted right out of the ground. The good news, nobody was here. People were indoors. They were protected. They were safe. Nobody was hurt here. But i got to tell you the power outage is a big issue. We learned weve seen more than 350,000 Power Outages in the state of florida. Continues up the coast, were going to probably see even more of these Power Outages. But right now theres this collective sigh of relief here in palm beach, one lieutenant telling us we prepared, we prayed and we were spared. Michael. Thank goodness for that thank you, gio. Up to North Carolina now. The white house is tracking the storm with president obama warning in a tweet Hurricane Matthew is as serious as it gets. Listen to local officials, prepare, take care of each other. Rob marciano in the low country of charleston, South Carolina, where they are prepari serious floods. Good morning, rob. Reporter good morning, george. Take a look at this. This boardwalk, this park typically filled with people walking their dog, taking a jog nearly empty. The governor calling for more evacuations, opening more evacuation routes, for those left today, it might be go time. This morning, time is running coastline. We need to be safe and get out of there. Reporter with Hurricane Matthews powerful eyewall on track to slam at shores Southern State license plates are heading into North Carolina. We are concerned. We took in everything before we left. Reporter many fleeing inland only to find hotels are booked up. The reverse highway lanes will last as long as necessary providing an escape from coastal towns leading to safe havens like this American Red Cross shelter. We are preparing for as many as 4,000, we can house if had this facility. Reporter at least 300 school buses sheltering them and 1900 National Guard troops are at the ready but officials are concerned too many have decided to stay put and ride out the storm. By thursday morning, only 175,000 people had evacuated. There is no excuse to risk your life. Reporter a risk some we have decided to stay, because our home and businesses are here. Reporter the catalan knows are waiting and watching. We need more information. Were not ready yet. Reporter well, they may be leaving today because the more information is that that track is likely to come closer to the official forecast now bringing that storm closer to georgia and the carolina coastline and by this time tomorrow, we could be experiencing a direct hit here. Michael. All right, thank you, rob. And matthew is also causing a lot of problems at airports this morning and Abcs David Kerley good morning to you, david. Reporter good morning, michael. Moving to safety and the number of cancellation growing, even here in washington, d. C. Seeing some flights canceled. Already for tomorrow, flights are being canceled. If you take just today and tomorrow, more than 2,200 flights canceled. In the past few days, Hurricane Matthew has led to the cancellation of nearly 4,000 flights and take a look at this. Just empty as all the aircraft are flown away from the hurricane and picture from miami airport shows terminals empty. Not an aircraft on the ground. But heres what American Airlines wants to do as the storm passes miami. They hope to start getting flights in there later this morning and maybe some departures this afternoon. It depends on how much damage has been done at the airport and whether it remains, so its going to take really the weekend to get the system back on schedule. All right, david, thank you. Matthew, affecting so many people but right now impacting florida the most so lets go back to ginger in melbourne, florida, with the latest, ginger. Reporter it is really actually very scary in moments here because our hotel was with power all night, just lost power. A light perilously hanging, exploded, and fell off and blew off. A lot going on. Trees coming down. Not even when the storm passes but i want to take you through along the coast it goes and just like rob said, just moments ago hugging a little closer to places like savannah and charleston. Jacksonville gets it later this afternoon and evening and then by wilmington going off the coast there, later sunday. Out by monday, and out of the Tropical Storm in parts of atlantic. Winds to winds and look at the timing. Friday 9 00 pak closing in on charleston and savannah in there and stays Tropical Storm force or severe close to wilmington. All right. Big waves well talk about in just a moment, but for now, we have to talk about your weekend good morning, its 7 19. Its cold. We have temperatures right now in the 30s. City park at 38. But most every other metro area locations is going to be at freezing this morning. Boulder, 31. 20s, even teens in the mountai we have a lot of sunshine to deal with this morning across denver. Northern colorado along i25 and up to the northeast, we have i know everybody is always concerned about our safety. Reporter we are definitely safe, protected by a very sturdy building, so we will not put ourselves in any danger, but we will be here covering throughout the show. Back to you guys. Hurricane matthew. All across the storm zone david muir, ginger zee, our whole team on the ground. Take a look at this footage. Storm chasers flying right into the eye of the hurricane. We will tell you what they are finding out about this monthser storm next. Well be right back. S storm next. Well be right back. 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