Approaches, florida, correct . Absolutely. You saw how close it will come to florida. Within a few miles, within the range of the Hurricane Force winds. The latest 115 Miles Per Hour. That is down from where we were. You would expect that as it interacted with eastern cuba in deadly fashion with the torrential downpours and the storm surge that is going to be approaching the bahamas. The chain will be raked the next couple of days with incredible amounts of rain an surge. They will get it all. 130 Miles Per Hour winds continues. As you see it move toward florida, a close up shot, you can see this is just this is as close as you can gee. As i said this morning, if i am on the east side of the peninsula, i would expect a landfall of a category 4, not the forecast but worstCase Scenario. You can see a bit of a jog to the west by a few miles and you parallels the coast up to eastern parts of jacksonville then into the carolinas. A lot of colors. We will focus in on our neck of the woods with Tropical Storm watches that are posted. This would be for nurse day night into friday, polk and highlands county, 60 Miles Per Hour winds. A prolonged event because of it paralleling the coast. We are talking about this continuing thursday into friday and a peak at what we have coming. This is friday through afternoon into the morning. Tropical Storm Force Winds by then. I will break it down and talk about the rain totals in a few minutes. People in south florida are taking no chances as Hurricane Matthew narrows in. Brevard county issued mandatory evacuation orders for the Barrier Islands. People flocked to Grocery Stores clearing shelves of supplies. Long lines formed at gas stations, ware hardware stores. Governor scott is supposed to come to the mic. He will hold a News Conference momentarily. He is expected to tell people to take vest evacuation orders seriously. Hurricane matthews path puts part of the bay area at risk. Polk County School district will make a decision whether they will Cancel School tomorrow or friday. If the hurricane shifts a little west will serve as hurricane shelters. They will give an update later this afternoon. Download the app for the announcement when it is made. Two bay area women are stuck in the path of the storms. They are in the bahamas and cant fly out. Behind say logue Lindsay Logue has their predicament. They are with hundreds of tourists stranded and forced to are. We have been watching the video feed from port nasa. A beautiful rainbow in the sky over the bahamas this morning. The calm before the storm. Its not going to last much longer. We will keep checking back on that camera. No time left for storm prep. We have seen people all week stocking up, boarding up. Now we wait as Hurricane Matthew makes its way to florida. Two big concerns are flash floods could top 15 feet. Two tampa women have no choice but way wait it out at the atlantic resort. I am concerned. I dont want to get stuck here. I have to go backtowork monday. Im scared. The main airport is shutting down at 11 00. The ports have closed as well. According to the National Weather service, the bahamas hasnt seen a remember stow of years. Thanks, lindsay. South carolina, one Million People are evacuating their homes and heading inland to escape the path of Hurricane Matthew. Some School Districts have canceled bus Services Today so the buses can head to the coast and pick up people and drive them inland. The states governor is telling people to take the warnings seriously before its too late. If you dont get out in time, you may get stuck. That is worse Case Scenario to be stuck no place to good. Hurricane matthew is expected to hit the carolinas by this weekend. You can follow matthews track any time of day by downloading the storm shield app. The free abc action news mobile app or visit www. Abcactionnews. Com hurrican e. Lets check in with Governor Scott holding a news area, on a Barrier Island or area prone to flooding, you need to consider making your plans now to leave. Dont wait for the order to do it. If you know that you are prone to flooding, you are in a Barrier Island, low lying area, ahead and leave. Current evacuations include brevard county, mandatory evacuations for Barrier Islands is at 3 00 p. M. Toy. Evacuations have started. I have spoken to all 67 florida counties and i stressed to them the importance of getting evacuation plans ready now. The state stands ready with resources to help with safe sheltering and evacuation if local communities need it. I expect to hear more this morning from coastal counties on the evacuation plans. Again, i fully expect to hear more this morning from our evacuation plans. Governor scott speaking to floridians to take the evacuation orders seriously, speaking to the state there from south florida. And especially folks on the east coast in lowlying areas need to Pay Attention to the track of Hurricane Matthew as it makes its way to the state. In other news, just in the newsroom, in the last few minutes, deputies identified the man who was shot and killed by Hillsborough County his name is isaiah selgado. Deputies say he was involved in a threecar crash in riverview yesterday, took off, tried to carjack three people. When that failed, he tried to break into three homes. One of the homeowner watched him throw a brick at the deputys head and the depth fired is when weapon. Do you think the deputy had any other choice . No. Unless he had another weapon the deputy, stewart gray, 24 year veteran, suffered minor injuries. No one involved in the crash was seriously hurt. He has a long criminal history and they are trying to figure out why he ran in the first place. Pasco deputies are charging a 12yearold for making threats to kill classmates. They are investigating a connection with the creepy clown scare. Detectives say the 6th grader posted a threat to media app. The 7 springs student created a page saying he would kill at the school. Parents and grandparents at the school are on edge. Its scary. You see nowadays you never know. We are not naming the student who was arrested because he is a juvenile. He is charged as an adult making a written threat to kill felony. They are concerned about our lives and the danger of the storm, we should be heading back now. Cruise ship passengers hoping to be in the caribbean are stuck instead in manhattan because of deadly Hurricane Matthew. How they say the cruise line deceived them about the trip. A manager tells me more supplies already on their way to south florida. What you need to make sure you have at your home and check to make sure condition. If you are a cruise ship, this is what you have to contend with, upwards of 30 foot waves being generated. The storm surge for the bahamas. For us, the wind threat as well as we track matthew through the bahamas and into our neck of the woods. I will break that down as far as wind, rain and local effects sour for thousands of people. The passengers, hoping to be in the caribbean are docked in new york city because of deadly Hurricane Matthew. Late saturday night, passengers received an email hours before they were supposed to set sail from baltimore, maryland, stating the cruise would be rerouted to new york city and then on to new brunswick, canada. When the ship docked yesterday, passengers were told they wouldnt even canada. They remained docked on the hudson river because of matthew. Many want their money back saying this isnt the trip they paid for. I want to go home at this point. There is nothing they can do to make this cruise if you want to call it a cruise better. The ship is scheduled to head back to baltimore tonight. Carnival says they gave guests a 250 credit on board and half off a future cruise but many have no intention of taking carnival are not making changes to cruise out of the port of tampa. Port canaveral rail, several ships are rerouted to avoid the storm including the Disney Cruise line. That includes royal caribbea ships now traveling to key west instead of the bahamas. The final minutes of keith lamont scotts life after he was shot by a charlotte area police officer. The majority of this ne handcuffing scott. Then you see they are attending to the gunshot wound on his Left Shoulder and sides. The tapes were released by Charlotte Police department. The old video showed scott slowly backing out of an s. U. V. Before he was shot. Police said scott had a gun but new video does not show him holding a weapon. An officer can be heard on camera in the new video telling another officer to, quote, watch the gun. Family to postpone his funeral. Services were set to take place today and tomorrow in charleston, South Carolina but the threat of the hurricane has put it on hold. They will post new arrangements after the storm passes. Going out in super hero style. Friends and family of the 6 yearold boy killed in a South CarolinaSchool Shooting came together to pay respects yesterday. Captain america, superheros of all shapes and sizes li respects to a life cut short. Superheros are someone is that does something extraordinary. Sadly his extraordinary was cut short but it brought the community and a lot of people together. A funeral for jacob will be held today. The pallbearers will be dressed as superheros to honor jacob. He died saturday at the turning our attention back to Hurricane Matthew. The storm track takes it on floridas east coast. Looking at the cone of uncertainty, it could have impacts on us in the bay area. Ashley yore is live at a lowes store where folks are stocking up on supplies. Good morning, ashley. Good morning, deiah. We are seeing stores supplies, like you see behind me, mainly plywood. I am with josh from lowes. Thats what you are seeing at some of your stores. You are sending more supplies. Im sure there is a plan set in place to deliver trucks on the hour to replenish as weather permits. You saw a photo of empty shelves. Yes, i have seen some of the eastern Stores Running out of play wood. Centers will be replenishing. We know plywood is one of the first things to go. What are the other supplies that people are going to first. A lot of things people are going to would be batteries, flashlights, goes plywood clips, people forget about those. Generators, sand, gasoline. And you said generators today in this store . How many have you sold so far. About 12 as i understand as of right now. Folks are getting ready in case there here. We are talking all morning. Make sure that your batteries are good, check them before you rely on them in any sort of storm. Right now i want to turn it over to ivan cabrera. Ivan, you know, we are talking about the effects we are feeling we may be feeling here, but where are you seeing the storm right now . Yeah, ashley, north of eastern cuba. The center of which, the eye is over water and has been the last self hours. Hurricane hunters were talking emerged over water. We know that is where the things get their energy. Despite the fact that cuba had an impact on the storm as far as intensity, now down to 115, a major hurricane, we are expect being it to ramp up. You see the thunderstorms wrap up around the center of the eye. The wave heights upwards of 30 feet. This will continue to go to the north and west. Along with that those are waves. The storm surge the islands will get hit hard here because of how flat some of them are here. But they are much better prepared, the bahamas are than, say, haiti and eastern cuba. We are hoping for the best. This will be a big deal with 130 Miles Per Hour winds. Then the forecast, i must say, at the end of the forecast period here, this thing is going to go east and perhaps loop back. Lets not talk about that. We will focus on what will begin to feel the effects. I think thursday night would be the time. There it is as a cat 4 in the bahamas with 130 Miles Per Hour winds. That would be for thursday afternoon and then on thursday night, it will continue moving to the north and west still as a cat 4, still with 130 Miles Per Hour winds and the proximity to the beaches here is mild. You can take a boat and be in the eye of the storm in minutes. Thats how close we are talking about. So, there is the potential for this to make landfall. The forecast doesnt do that. It has it going up the coast and weakening from a 4 to a 3 to a 2 by the time we get to saturday, friday night into early part of saturday. For us, the timeframe would be, as far as the strongest winds, thursday night and through the entire day on friday because it will parallel the coast. A lot of colors. Hurricane watch to the north. Hurricane warning to the south. For us, as far as our inland counties here, Tropical Storm 60 Miles Per Hour. The further east you go, the closer to 60. The further west, 40. All of what i have just told you is essentially because of the current forecast track. If it shifts a few miles to the west, we change the numbers here. This is the potential wind gusts through friday morning. Tropical storm force wind gusts across the interior counties. Along the coast, tampa, st. Pete, upper 30s as far as the gusts 100 for the beaches. Here is the current wind field. This is important. The yellow depicting Tropical Storm force wind and the red the Hurricane Force winds. Those get close. The western edge of those will be clipping i95 thursday into friday. The rain, you dont have to worry about it. We will get downpours but nothing to do with matthew. That is the tropical air masson top of us. Futurecast in motion, you can see something that we dont see very, long time, a cat 4 hurricane approaching florida. Notice on the western side of it, we wont get the heaviest of the rain. That will be for the coast with the current track as i see it now, 6 to 8 inches plus, perhaps a foot on the coast. Then we diminish the rain chances or totals, 4 to 6 inches, 2 to 4 and 1 to 2 inches. We have gotten that with a thunderstorm in st. Pete. Today 89 with conditions. And then drying, right, the opposite what you would thing, the drier side of matthew thursday and friday so diminishing rain chances. Then behind matthew we clear out and quiet down saturday and sunday. By the way, lower humidity, fall temperatures especially at night early next week. Shifting from the weather, we go to community support. Good morning, im lisa campos with positively tampa bay. Army Domestic Violence program of west pasco. They need more volunteers and could use your help in the if you couldnt stay up last night, you missed an exciting night on dancing with the stars. This is the moment talking about. I wanted to do this for such a long time. I love you so, so much. Will you marry me . And the crowd goes wild. Getting engaged to her pro dancer. He knew emma was the one three or four months after they met. So sweet. Was that on alongside the vp debate . Wonder who got the better ratings. Lets check that. Forecast today, upper 0s to near 90. Showers and thunderstorms between 4 00 and 6 00. Nothing to do with matthew. This is just the sea breeze thunderstorms with a lot of humidity out there. We will talk about matthew coming up at the bottom of the havertys furniture helps your home look perfect even when life isnt nice pick. Pops, your pick. Art monk retired. Ill take him over these fools playing today. Aw come on, man. Thats not how this game works. Art monk i want to change my name to hot mamma lame. Youre lame. No im not writing down somebody whos retired baby, im changing my name to hot momma. Now at 9 30, extremely dangerous and powerful Hurricane Matthew is churning to the east coast. We are tracking where it is and when it could affect the state. Up the east coast prepare to evacuate. They are anticipating the worst. People in the caribbean are just starting to clean up from the damage that matthew left behind. Good morning, thanks for joining us at 9 30, im dan shaffer. Im deiah riley. We have a lot to get to. Ivan is monitoring the storms path heading to the bahamas. And eventually to us. We will continue to track it the next couple of days because it could intensify into a category 4. That is the official forecast right now. 115 Miles Per Hour winds. That was all the weakening that we had in the storm. Still a major hurricane despite the fact that it went through the mountains of haiti then across eastern cuba. You can see the eye redeveloping there. The thunderstorms will wrap around and that will allow for it to intensify into thursday and then friday. We dont have much time to dillydally, especially on the east coast. You have to get prepared now. And highlands county, power will be the issue for you, if this forecast verifies, if it parallels the coast we will talk about strong winds. Thursday into friday. For us the event will be thursday through the entire day on friday because of the forecast having it go on the coast as opposed to inland which would mean it wouldnt weaken that much as it passes close to us. Tropical storm watch in effect for us thursday into friday with 40 to 60 winds. My brother is a firefighter for orange county. They talked to them about holding them for 72 h