For impact. The North Carolina coast boarded up. And counting down the hours to a brush with Hurricane Matthew. We have Live Team Coverage from the storm zone. And. The uninvited guest. A local couple isnt letting matthew rain on their big day. How they moved a coastal wedding inland in just 72 hours. Starts right now. Hurricane matthew blasting the southeast coast. High waves now breaching the georgia shore. The dangerous storm churning up theast coast and now posing a serious threat to North Carolina. Good evening everyone, im tisha powell. And im steve daniels. parts of the North Carolina coast under a hurricane warning tonight. We have live in oak island. Angelica alvarez is in Wrightsville Beach. And. greg barnes is tracking conditions in an already rain soaked Cumberland County. But first lets get the latest on matthews track from chief meteorologist Chris Hohmann in the first alert storm center. Chris . Here in the breaking news bringing in all the live feeds. And the latest vid
Polar bear used to enjoy. We begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. This storm is lifethreatening. We are going to have significant winds, significant power lines down. We are going to have a lot of downed trees. Hermine smashes into the southeast. Flooding potential right up through georgia, South Carolina. Across eastern North Carolina. Its pretty nerve wracking. You see the trees bending. He said im not paying for the wall and i said you are paying for the wall. Give me a break. This is a guy born with a silver spoon in his mouth but now is choking on because his foot is in his mouth, along with his spoon. The first time infected mosquitoes have been found in the United States. In the final preseason game of the year, Colin Kaepernick, the 49ers quarterback, refused from now on. A mother is demanding an investigation after jetblue put her 5yearold son on the wrong flight home. In florida, the Spacex Falcon nine rocket was preparing for a test
Rain likely. Also much cooler. We are at 76 at lunchtime. 78 for an afternoon high. Wet and windy conditions really starting to pick up at 6 00 this evening. 76 there. More on when all of this rain and wind will move out of the area when the sunshine will return coming up in your storm team forecast. All right. Thanks a lot. Now, along the shores, many of people have spent the last couple of days bracing for the impact. Cbs North Carolinas a. J. Joins us now from oak island wit now, when we first got to oak island, the waves were not what theyre like right now. Weve been talking to people who live here. They are saying thats the one thing noticeable with this storm coming is just the intensity of the ocean. We are actually having to move up on the beach because this storm surge is just continuing to push up the coast. Now, friday is the day that people within Brunswick County say that they are ready for this storm, specifically Officials Services have specific hours on friday they are
Alyssa, whos closely monitoring the storms path. We are closely watching this path. Right now, the storm has winds of 70 Miles Per Hour, has been downgraded into a Tropical Storm since it made land fall as a hurricane moving to the northeast at about 14 Miles Per Hour as we head right now. Throughout georgia is where the storm is. It will continue to move through georgia, South Carolina, moves into central or eastern portions of North Carolina late tonight into first thing exiting the outer banks as we head towards tomorrow morn tomorrow afternoon losing a lot of tropical characteristics. As far as what that means for us, the outer bands already starting to approach us. Closer look at this storm across the southern portions of georgia. You can see the bands really extending through tampa and Daytona Beach and up towards South Carolina, columbia, charleston area really seeing some heavy rain at this point in time. The coast will be a threat for isolated tornados today. Weve seen some is
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