a deadly hurricane is sweeping the southeast coast, unleashing 100-mile-per-hour winds. and four people have died in florida. power knocked out to more than a million others as city streets are needed with several feet of water. look what s happening there. this is from daytona beach, florida. matthew now coming ashore at hilton head, south carolina, and threatening to spawn tornados along the coast there. joining us now from the cnn weather center, cnn meteorologist derek van dam. we keep talking about the wind and the rain. it s the storm surge, though, that is most threatening at this point. am i hearing up to nine feet in some places possibly? yeah, that s correct. look at the radar behind me, chr christi. you ll be able to see exactly why as that northern per referee eye wall of dangerous hurricane matthew continues to move ashore, right around the hilton head region. you can imagine the water piling
concerned about, why they asked people to evacuate. we took a tour this morning of the historic district just to see what was going on before the height of the storm. there was some incredible damage that we could already see. a lot of downed trees. the old, bigger trees. there s so much foliage that we just saw all across the streets. savannah is known for its squares and those squares have many trees. we also saw scaffolding that had flown across the city block. we saw transformers blowing as we were driving through. so we came back here to take shelter. the lights have been flickering here. we know that we re not alone, obviously. there are 200,000 georgians without power at this hour. as we watch on the radar as hurricane matthew moves up the east coast, christi. sara, go ahead and get some shelter. i see you having a hard time even standing in that wind. yeah, that seems to be getting
flooded on a normal storm during a normal storm. this hurricane matthew is anything but. stay safe there, will you, nick, you and the crew. you talk about these emergency vehicles. not only are you in need of help, then our emergency crews are in danger, as well. sara, what are you experiencing this hour? good morning, christi and victor. we actually have taken a little bit of shelter on the side of our hotel building. the building where our hotel is because those winds, those incredibly strong gusts of winds are being felt here, coming from the east, coming from the ocean towards inland as savannah continues to really see the heights, the brunt of hurricane matthew. we know that the eye wall of the storm is just east of here at this point. this is what officials are
dry. we were doing better five minutes ago. the east coast of the united states continues to get battered by hurricane matthew as it s working its way up. the last update we got at about 5:00 a.m. this morning is that the eye of the storm is 60 miles away from us moving at about 12 miles per hour. and you can see just the wind picking up. it has been relentless. this is in the middle of downtown. it is not really flooding here. our producer and i, devin sayers just took a pour around the battery, which is near the tip of that peninsula in charleston. some downed tree limbs. you can see behind us just how fast the wind is moving and swaying those trees. but no reports just yet of significant damages or injuries. we want to get out of the way here. you can see an emergency vehicle driving through the streets here. parts of interstate 95 are impassable right now. there are some road closures near us. this is an area that gets
morning, hurricane matthew. this is a category 2 storm. it s weak nd a bit, but forecasters say it s very dangerous as it tracks up the east coast. it s drenched and flooded parts of florida, blamed for four deaths there. but look at the people just on their porch. yeah. that s the water running dounl the streets in st. augustine. now the storm is heading into the carolinas. although we say it s weakened, the maximum sustained winds here are still 105 miles per hour. portions of i-95 in south carolina are impassable in each direction. this morning, more than 1 million people are without power across florida, georgia and south carolina. well, covering this hurricane, cnn has stations of reporters all along the east coast. sara is live along the east coast. nick, buddy, i m sorry. how are you doing? good morning, christi. we re doing well, we re not