Any time on wral. Com but right now we want to know what elizabeth thinks of all this. Boy, we do. This is so interesting. This storm has been affected so much by the steering currents in the upper levels of the atmosphere and sometimes, its cut and dried. But in this case, there has been a lot of moving parts, and we are trying to figure out which one will affect us, and even now, the track of the storm has shifted and in this case, potentially shifting back closer to North Carolina. This is a look at the the storm, and we get a new track update at the top of the hour and little has changed, moving northeast at 14 Miles Per Hour and coming past Cape Canaveral with reports of 107 wind gusts, 101 Miles Per Hour for the wind gusts in Cape Canaveral and strong winds stretching across a good bit of florida. Taking over the satellite goes. It will continue to hug the coast of george georgia and South Carolina. And here is the forecast track, closer to the coast of North Carolina saturday night into sunday morning. Well drill down on that more closely and zoom in in a couple of minutes. Heres a look at the zoomedin version here. The eye of the storm only 10 miles off Cape Canaveral right now, so they are feeling the worst of it. Around here, were looking at heavy rain potential, 5 to 10 and a Flash Flood Watch for the southern part of the viewing area until sunday, and well see rain this morning and on and off through the day today and a high of 73 and bryan , with this kind of rain we see accidents. Have we seen any . We havent had anything major, a couple of minor in the last bit on i40 in durham county. Lets take you out there. Not seeing any evidence of the crash but there was a reported incident here earlier. It doesnt look like i40 was affected by that at all. But here is another situation i 40 in johnton county at the clayton bypass, what appears to be a disabled vehicle, and not see anything issues whatever on 540. Here is a look at the driveheim heading into, 16 minutes, 6 minutes from wade out to i540. Bryan, thank you very much. And we are getting into the newsroom at the damage from florida, melbourne, florida buffeted strongly. And this incredible video showing a reporter blown away by the hurricanes winds. She is still reporting. Kudos to her to get people the information they need but she has to hold on to a tree to be able to stand up there safely. Obviously, we want all of these reporters and everyone on the field to remain safe. Hurricane matthew is a category 3 storm and still packs a serious were getting estimated of 340,000 power customers without power and its still a massive storm. Were still awaiting confirmation on landfall in florida. Jay gray reports up the coast at Daytona Beach. Reporter moving along the florida coast, matthew is in many areas overwhelming. Starting to see the impacts. Its a monster. Reporter violent wind, sheets of rain, and a growing surf with the potential in some feet. I am begging you at this point to understand the seriousness of this storm. Those types of storm surges, that is not something you want to get caught up in. Reporter electricity has become a luxury for many in the strike zone. Tens of thousands have lost power and that numbers expected to grow. More than 11 million along the east coast are currently under a hurricane warning. Airports, closed. Businesses boarded up and shelters filling up. Like ive been in it can get. Reporter bad now and likely will get worse. Emergency Officials Say the storm is an extreme threat to life and property and warn that the impact am be devastating to catastrophic in areas with as many as 10 million possibly losing power for weeks. The extreme conditions in florida a warning for those in georgia, north and South Carolina as matthew continues beach. People along our coast in North Carolina are doing all they can to prepare for matthews arrival. Wrals leyla santiago joins us live from Wrightsville Beach. Leyla . Reporter lena and bill, rain is coming down and its very windy, and you can see how things sway because of the wind that we have seen this morning and now that the sun has come up, i want to turn around and bring you over to the see how choppy it is given the winds that were seeing here on Wrightsville Beach this morning and heres something that will put it in perspective. This from the National Weather of service, Hurricane Matthew could set new local records for the wettest 40day period in history for wilmington, potentially beating floyd and last octobers flood. So that is really putting in perspective how much wind and next to new days. So Emergency Management officials have declared many in the area a state of emergency and calling for voluntary evacuations for surf city and Brunswick County and we are talking movement of people as officials are making sure priorities such as special needs will have arrangements for transportation. Well be out here and monitor the situation and bring you updates as they occur. Thanks, leyla. As Elizabeth Gardner told us earlier, the area where leyla is right now, Wrightsville Beach, wilmington could see as much as 15 of rain which could be a devastating blow to the port city area. You can keep up on the storms have interactive tracker. The Florida Governor is saying that the impact could be deadly. See how the Hurricane Force winds impact your body. And we have the satellite governor mccrory is attacking roy cooper on the state crime lab. Well, we know roy cooper and we know the problems he discovered when he became attorney general. Roy found a backlog of over 5,000 dna test kits and years worth of shoddy investigations. But he cleared the backlog. And roy cooper helped us solve over 2,000 crimes and put 165 killers and rapists in prison of course, all eyes are on Hurricane Matthew as we track as right now its pounding Cape Canaveral. Nasa scientist dr. Scott brown joins me not from there but 1 of our best tools are the satellite pictures. Thank you for being with us, and tell me. We are getting word of 107, 101 mile per across Cape Canaveral, the launch pad. What is that do there in Cape Canaveral . A lot of the satellites are there, the other facilities expected it closed down the base and they have people on site to monitor the situation and deal with issues that come up. Fortunately, the center has remained offshore, so we are not getting the worst of the bad as what we feared last night. Reporter thats good to hear, definitely. And i know you use satellite to help to determine the strength of the storms. How does that work, exactly . Nasa has a variety of satellites to measure the earths atmosphere and one of the most important one is the hurricane that measure the global position measurement, the gpm. You can see the heavy rainfall near the center in and in the outer rainbands, and we can use some of the information to get clues about whether or not a storms likely to intensify or weaken depending on how it interacts in the environment and in the core. Reporter and you pass that information along to the National Hurricane center . We make that data freely available in near realtime to any user. Our data is put online. Typically, the Naval Research website so users like the National Hurricane center can have access as quickly as possible. Reporter in North Carolina, the big thing will be rainfall and satellites can measuring rainfall. We typically think of radar for that purpose. Yeah. So the gpm satellite has a radar on it, and it has another instrument called a microwave imager that is able to map out over a position of the storm. The gpm is a linchpin of regional satellites that provide information on the rainfall accumulation and storms to especially measure rainfall in areas that dont have radar like in haiti. We got an order of 20 of rain during the passage of matthew. Reporter dr. Braun, all of that is really, really important and so relevant to what is happening. Thank you for taking the time appreciate all that you do in nasa. Bill and lena . Excellent information, elizabeth, thank you so much. Investigators release new information on a deadly commuter train crash. The sequence of event that is unfolded before the crash. The sequence of event that is unfolded before the crash. And but i spent my whole life fighting back. So you can imagine what i thought when i saw donald trump say. I dont know what i said, ah, i dont remember that reporter he is talking about suffers from a chronic condition that impairs movement of his arms. I dont want a president who makes fun of me. I want a president who inspires me, and thats not donald trump. 7 16, and, gosh, were all talking about Hurricane Matthew and not only the affects in haiti and florida but in the carolinas. And Cape Canaveral, seeing the images, the wind and rain, they are getting pounded. Because of the center of the storm. Its maybe 10 miles offshore and this is a live view of Daytona Beach. Yeah. And this is just north of Cape Canaveral. And its worse than this at Cape Canaveral but you can see the storm surge happening. Just incredible, and very strong winds. One thing as this storm continues to trek northward t will gradually weaken. Its as strong as it will be as it heads up to South Carolina and North Carolina, get weaker. Lets go to that radar picture of whats happening around Cape Canaveral. We have it zoomed in nice and tight and there is a heavy rainband swinging around almost through Cape Canaveral, and i will get over there and point that out, right here, Cape Canaveral sticking out, and literally, the center of the storm is 10 miles at best from Cape Canaveral. And because this sticks out spot in terms of wind. It has the most wind damage. In terms of rain t wont matter so much why you are. Why where you are. Heavy rain even on the west coast of the florida with tropical stormforce wind there is. But in the last 30 to 45 minutes weve had reports of wind gusts at 107, 101 Miles Per Hour, so theyre really feeling it. And the true eyewa right on top of folks there. As it continues towards Daytona Beach, it will hug the coast and may not move away from shore any more than it is as it continues to move up north. And you can see the storm spinning and the rain, really the rainbands extending up to South Carolina now. And this over North Carolina, not technically the rainbands from matthew but certainly, its pushing moisture from the atlantic into North Carolina well continue to have rain on and off through now and sunday morning. This is typical as the hurricane is ahead of it, and thats critical to North Carolina. If most of the rain with the storm were south of the center, we would have much less to worry about but its pushing the rain ahead of it, and the center isnt likely to make landfall in North Carolina but well feel the brunt of the heavy rain and look how close the center does get to us. The gpm 60 Miles Per Hour off the coast of North Carolina with all the rain pushing in. Winds will probably not be a huge deal even though well have patchy Power Outages. Tropical storm warning in effect for the wilmington area now and heres a look at futurecast. Watch what futurecast does with the center of the storm. It brings it to South Carolina and follow long with me as it continues to move and it really carolina. Thats one of the computer models. A lot of them are trending in that direction, so 5 to 10 of rain from raleigh southward to raleigh northward, looking at 3 to 5 of rain and heres more specifics on what were expecting for impact, 10 to 15 of rain, and winds gusting at 50 to 60 Miles Per Hour with the center coming a little closer. 5 to 7 from Elizabeth CityCape Hatteras and in our area, 2 to 5 of rain and critical here, down south, 4 to 7 and it could be more than that. This morning, its raining and youll run into messy conditions on the roads and well get into the heavy rainbands on saturday. 73 today and temperatures in the upper 60s on saturday and sunday and well likely have rain on sunday morning and then start to see clearing. Coming up in half an hour, well talk more about the winds chances are of Power Outages. Bryan mims in for Brian Shrader and i have a feeling as we get into the 7 00 hour well have bad conditions. Well, we have a few accidents on the map, nothing serious and wet roads and elizabeths right. We probably will see more problems in the next hour to hour and a half and i have an accident on highway 54 at William Moore and hillsboro western parkway but it doesnt appear from the sensors that any traffic is backed up because of those accidents. Heres a look at i40 out of Johnston County, the i40 and clayton bypass and jones sausage road, building of traffic westbound 15 minutes from highway 42 to 440 and i40 to lake wheeler road, not too many delays this morning. Back to you. The commuter train that slammed into a packed terminal in jersey last week was traveling at twice the speed limit according to data obtained from the ntsb and it sped up for about 30 seconds, and then it appears that the engineer hit the emergency brake less handle it 1 second before impact. 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Rain becomes very heavy saturday and flooding is a possibility. We could see 5 to 10 of rain in parts of the viewing area. Heres a look at your futurecast as we head through the day today. Notice the showers will continue on and off today and it may not but we really get into the heavier rain on saturday. Expect highs of 73, and a very rainy and windy day saturday and winds gusting up to 30 myers 30 Miles Per Hour and 50 Miles Per Hour around goldsboro. With the rain we are seeing this morning, bryan, seeing accidents because of that . We are seeing them pop up. Look at the map. They are popping up every like. Glenwood avenue at i440 causing a backup on glenwood. Not as bad