Plus, Vice President joe biden goes under cover in study or die. Got the moves. Are you ready, mr. Vice president . Lets rock n roll, man. Early today starts right now. Its good to be with you. Im frances rivera. Im ayman mohyeldin. The eastern seaboard is on high alert as Hurricane Matthew the strongest storm in years closes in on the u. S. Storm made landfall in eastern cuba with its strength in tact, a category 4, winds reaching up to 140 miles per hour. Eight deaths have been tolled so far. This after it tore through haiti, flooding streets, flattening homes in what could be the worst crisis to hit the nation since the deadly earthquake in 2010. Creating impacts on the eastern seaboard. Officials are taking zero chances. A state of emergency is in effect from florida to the carolinas. Evacuations are underway. South carolina, calling for a complete coastal shutdown. Our goal is to make sure you basically get 100 miles away from the coast. What i will tell those people thinking of f
Despite repeated calls to evacuate and predicks of devastating storm surge. You are close, you could be in the storm surge and waves over your roof. Some people say they are staying put. Were all scared. We think were going to be ok but nobody knows. We had a technical issue but coverage and the today show has a team of reporters in place. Tom we have report of an accident at 95 king boulevard. Thats reported on the off ramp. I think we spotted it. Looks like they may have just pulled it off into a parking lot. The freeway were just getting a little busier as we start to get jeff for the most part accident free on this friday. This is the radar imagery out of matthew. Sustained winds 120. Were seeing ate approaching Daytona Beach or offshore. Looks like some of that eye wall may be coming on shorere eight to 12 inches of rain in addition to the wind. This is something well continue to track throughout the morning. Hereby at home were looking at beautiful fall werth today. Lots of blue
Despite repeated calls to evacuate and predicks of devastating storm surge. You are close, you could be in the storm surge and waves over your roof. Some people say they are staying put. Were all scared. We think were going to be ok but nobody knows. We had a technical issue but coverage and the today show has a team of reporters in place. Tom we have report of an accident at 95 king boulevard. Thats reported on the off ramp. I think we spotted it. Looks like they may have just pulled it off into a parking lot. The freeway were just getting a little busier as we start to get jeff for the most part accident free on this friday. This is the radar imagery out of matthew. Sustained winds 120. Were seeing ate approaching Daytona Beach or offshore. Looks like some of that eye wall may be coming on shorere eight to 12 inches of rain in addition to the wind. This is something well continue to track throughout the morning. Hereby at home were looking at beautiful fall werth today. Lots of blue
Despite repeated calls to evacuate and predicks of devastating storm surge. You are close, you could be in the storm surge and waves over your roof. Some people say they are staying put. Were all scared. We think were going to be ok but nobody knows. We had a technical issue but coverage and the today show has a team of reporters in place. Tom we have report of an accident at 95 king boulevard. Thats reported on the off ramp. I think we spotted it. Looks like they may have just pulled it off into a parking lot. The freeway were just getting a little busier as we start to get jeff for the most part accident free on this friday. This is the radar imagery out of matthew. Sustained winds 120. Were seeing ate approaching Daytona Beach or offshore. Looks like some of that eye wall may be coming on shorere eight to 12 inches of rain in addition to the wind. This is something well continue to track throughout the morning. Hereby at home were looking at beautiful fall werth today. Lots of blue
Beach. Also move forward, what theyre dealing with right now and in the future. Reporter Hurricane Matthew, the eye of that storm, is northeast of us after a big gust of wind came through earlier this morning. Now were seeing quite a bit of a lull. It has brought a lot of damage to this area. And much of central florida. You can see this tree has been uprooted over here just behind some of these buildings here as it lays on its side. E these palm trees over here. As we go the roof to this building has been blown off. Parts are still in the street. Wind gusts have been coming now all morning long in waves. And we are expecting within the coming hours to get the back end of the storm bringing more rain and more wind. While were in a bit of a break right now, this storm is far from over. Sunrise but no slow down in only passed half our state. So this is not over. Reporter the eye expected to move dangerously close to shore as the storm marches northward along floridas east coast. Bringing