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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 ....
category 4 hurricane. it is category 3 right now. but strengthening again. this is showing a lot of resilience. it is impressive in that way as well. 130 miles an hour winds on friday. at 2:00 a.m. you can see that movement, right along the east coast of florida, the space coast, from palm bay through cocoa beach all the way up to daytona beach. 130 miles an hour winds. keeping in mind as we have said, the strongest part of the storm in terms of winds will be on the eastern side of the eye. most of the bay area is located. that is the weaker side, but still, if you are close to that eye wall, the winds could be very, very intense. that is why the folks in some of the inland areas are under the tropical storm warnings. long term, a lot of questions. the model trend was to loop this storm today. this was the current thinking but i guarantee you, this will change. but stay tuned on that forecast path. these are the warnings. tropical storm warning meaning within 36 hours y ....
than an eye opener. the message tonight, hope for the best, prepare for the worst. you can always repair property. you cannot restore a life if it is lost. good evening. newschannel8 is tracking hurricane matthew. we have coverage throughout the state. we begin with chief meteorologist steve jerve. he joins us now from the forecast center. this thing continues to be just a menace to florida s coast. absolutely jen. that s a category 3 hurricane forecast to become a 4. especially on friday, affect florida s east coast. some are estimating a landfall. some say just offshore. it is still a concern. we will start with max defender 8. a few showers continue to pass across the area. that s a live sweep picking up on showers in hillsborough county at the moment. they are drifting rapidly to the southwest. you can see a few lightning strikes involved with that. but these are really not at as well. we expect that to get much more active the next 24 and 48 hours. 120 mil ....
speak this morning. it went through to perhaps 3 rooms is the barrel through the home this morning. let s go to a photo of the suspect. this all happened at around 4:or 8 this morning. 24-year- old ryan talent of plant city barreled down its gerald road in a pickup truck. he lost control and slammed into the home. 76-year-old janice folds have walked i the front of the home and was killed instantly. her husband explains he was 10 seconds behind her when he heard an explosion. the sheriff tells us what happened next. the suspect who was climbing out of the vehicle, if you can imagine, while mister fold is trying to find his wife and he is saying, what you doing here? what have? he is going to leave, but neighbors have poured out into the community and they said no, you are not going anyplace. she said i have to go to my families house was close by. it looks like we have lost audio from ryan hughes out in polk county but we heard the sheriff speaking to us live a litt ....