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the latest. reporter: the latest is right on lehigh spann has the latest. reporter: the latest is right here. it s right on the border of haiti. jamaica already seeing heavy flooding, and matthew is the strongest storm to hit the islands in decades. this is where it is right now. look at the satellite imagery compared to tampa right here, and it s about to fall this is just for a brief period along haiti before it heads north this just came in 2- 3 minutes ago. 145-mile an hour winds. it s interesting it will not interact with a lot of land, and it remains a category 4 hurricane through the middle of the week, and then it is expected to take a westerly track, close to the florida coast, and this is early friday notice the cone of uncertainty. any deviation west or east will imact us locally. all computer models in agreement, making the shift unfortunately closer to florida s east coast before heading to new england. you think why the shift? this big area of high p ....
latest on matthew s track. reporter: it s so strong miles off the haiti coastline. we just got this video into our news room. you can see the dark clouds, the wind is picking up, and unfortunately we see worse and worse video out of the nation throughout the day. at least four people have been killed. jamaica has seen heavy flooding. matthew is the strongest storm to hit the island in decades this is a wider view, and that s relative to florida, and it really is getting very well defined. 35miles for making land fall in haiti, and the hurricane force winds are 30 miles out. this will impact the eastern portion of cuba, and it s expected to remain a category 4 hurricane through wednesday afternoon, in the bahamas, when it makes the unfortunate west coastline here, and some of polk and highlands county will remain under the cone of uncertainty before it heads up off the jacksonville coastline, and eventually off the carolinas. most of the computer models did make the sh ....
storm. swelling rivers, pelting rain, and driving winds. it is headed to cuba and possibly florida. we have team coverage of matthew. we start with chief meteorologist steve jerve. i know that latest update to the forecast crack is out, steve. what does it show? it looks similar. we still have a category 4 hurricane with 140 miles an hour winds. clearly category 4. it surprised us. it has not weakened as a result of the te kind of passing now between the eastern part of cuba and the western part of hispanola. then haiti, the center of the storm, the eye of the storm. overcast, a very small eye indicating high intensity. it has interacted with land close to 24 hours. and according to the national category 4 status. the strongest winds will be east of the eye. these are hurricane warnings colored in red. in the bahamas and cuba. it is just east of of guantanimo we are located, does include in the cone of air, sections of polk county, high lands county. we have seen the ....
guantanamo bay. tomorrow passing through the bahamas. into thursday rather, those are hurricane warnings in place. a tropical storm watch in place for portions of the east coast all the way down through the florida keys. you can see thursday at 2:00 p.m. this timing and position can change as the computer model data changes as well. you can see a portion of the bay area in the cone of air making it very interesting to us. especially, for the strong wind gusts, potential area. this is the weak side of the storm. still strong wind gusts could be possible. if the storm shifts further to the west, we expect much greater weather than that. and it is moving up into the carolinas. south carolina around also north carolina. that is a look at the satellite imagery. you can see the storm at the southeast tip of cuba and you can look at the visible satellite image ray as well. you can see the clearly defined with land interaction. and 140 miles an hour winds gusting at this point. ....
getting much closer. very important in terms of how this will impact east coast. and, the impact would be so much less than it would if it directly impacted it. and, the hurricane force winds all extended 40 miles. and, all of a sudden we are not looking at nearly the threat that we are now. and, that s another story, the entire eastern half of the state of flori tropical storm force winds. and, there s a chance that harlan county could get tropical storms. but notice, this is another model taking it parallel to the coast in doing so right there. that small area is where the heaviest winds will be. if there were to stay this far offshore, the damage would be significantly lower than if it makes it on shore. clearly, there is concern in terms of where exactly this facebook page. and, we are storm ready. and, this one is not to play with. and, this is not a storm for our area to freak out about. and, the winds potentially over 100 miles per hour late thursday into frida ....