Preparing for the worst. Whats it like . Reporter yeah. Good evening. Actually just within the past few minutes we learned from florida officials that more than 1. 5 Million People alone in this state have been told to leave their homes. Ahead of matthew for the most part. It appears that most people are heeding those dire warnings. And not taking any chances. People along the east coast are the screens around the porch as, hurricane screens. Well be prepared. Reporter floridas governor issued mandatory evacuations for the barrier islands. If matthew directly impacts florida there will be massive destruction we havent seen in years. Reporter drivers waited in lines to fill up at gas stations while supplies flew off the shelves. Tourists are also preparing. This family is cutting their vacation short and heading back to canada. I think we should get out four, but everyones telling us yes, we should start heading home. Reporter matthew is being called the strongest storm to threaten this
To make landfall overnight near cape canaveral. Powerful winds whipped up the bahamas, tearing the roof off this house. In haiti, hundreds are dead. And roads remain flooded. But even scenes like that cant convince some floridians to leave. Weve been through so many of these and not had any serious alter occasions. Hopefully it will be the same thing. Reporter but the police chief in Daytona Beach worries for their lives. What would you call because this hurricane is unlike any other hurricane weve seen. Reporter tonight the airports in miami, fort lauderdale, and orlando are all closed. Airlines canceled more than 3,000 flights through saturday. Ed greene in colorados Weather Center tracking this hurricane. When is the worst of it going to hit and where . Its kind of a monster right now. You can see the eye right here. On land. Heavy bands of rain around the area. Its about 100 miles north northwest of freeport, grand bahama island. Thats the eye of the storm right there. As we take a
Miami has been spared the brunt, but areas to the north are in for a long couple of days. Already reports coming in of Power Outages in florida. Storm now blamed for nearly 300 deaths in haiti. Emergency officials in florida are trying to make sure that number doesnt rise in their state but not everyone is listening. This storm is a monster. Im going to pray for everyb band started pounding floridas southern Atlantic Coast with heavy winds and wave late this afternoon. Forecasters expect the big storm to make landfall overnight near cape canaveral. Powerful winds whipped up the bahamas, tearing the roof off this house. In haiti, hundreds are dead. And roads remain flooded. But even scenes like that cant convince some floridians to leave. Weve been through so many of alter occasions. Hopefully it will be the same thing. Reporter but the police chief in Daytona Beach worries for their lives. What would you call those people . Youre a fool. Because this hurricane is unlike any other hurri
Veteran i should say, who was set to retire in december. He was working overtime on his day off when he was killed. Tropical storm matthew has been downgraded to a post tropical psych clone. It continues to cyclone. It caused billions of dollars of damage and has killed at least 10 people in the United Statesand nearly a thousand more in the caribbean. There is a high risk of flash flooding through the morning across north southeast virginia. And good morning i am Kelly Werthmann lets check our forecast with Dave Aguilera. Good morning. You have to feel for the folks on east coast. Especially while we are basking in the nice weather around here. We have a cool morning for some and a not so cool morning for others. Its 34 here and its 50 here and 45 in sedalia this morning trailer the weather watcher there. Satellite and radar has high cloudiness from a little system over new mexico. Still, much like yesterday, gigged to be a mix of sun shon its going to be a mix of sunshine and high cl
People coming outside of this bar located on 27th and larimer. It was a bit of a challenge to try to deal with so many people coming out at once. They were able to talk to many of them although some do not cooperate, and they did have to close office area immediately. It is still close off as part of larimer are closed off with crime scene tape. We are working to hear from Denver Police in terms of who that person was who was killed in the other person in the hospital with critical injuries. For now it is going to be quite some time before they open up the area so expect to run into the roadblock. Shawn chitnis, cbs4 morning news. Morning whether, ashton. Temperatures are starting off mild for the first half of october with 30s throughout the colorado high country and 35 in aspen right now with 36 in avon. Here in the denver metro area most of us are in the 60s with arvada and westminster reporting 50 degrees right now. Some the sun 7 05 this morning with temperatures staying or above