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that s not stopping drivers. now police departments are getting creative to catch getting creative to catch drivers in the act. captioning funded by cbs good morning from the cbs news news rude at studio 57, here in new york, good to be with you. i m anne-marie green. the national hurricane center says the threat to the southeastern part of the united states to hurricane matthew has increased. the storm is surging through the over or near the island of haiti. matthew is headed north with life-threatening wind, rain and surges, with winds of 145 miles per hour. hurricane warnings are in effect for haiti, cuba and the bahamas. haiti to get up to 40 inches of rain. pounding flash floods, mudslides and storm surges are possible. the blunt of the storm is set to winds, the makeup took a hit. schools have been closed indefinitely, some turned into shelters. this is matthew as seen from the national space station. the governors of north carolina and florida have declared sta ....
and leo goes south. i m frances rivera. i m ayman mohyeldin. mathi ma mathep has authorities bracing for a humanitarian disaster. thousands of coastal residents have reportedly refused to evacuate their homes. many still struggling to recover from a devastating earthquake six years ago. they face the risk of deadly mudslides and flash flooding. at least three people have been killed in the storm as it turns past colombia and jamaica now. cuba is bracing for a major blow. even the governors of north carolina are declaring a state of mortgages and urging residents to be prepared. right now the projected path is a little off the coast. it can change in a moment s notice. when that happens, we re not going to have a lot of time to be ready. be prepared ahead of time. nbc meteorologist bill karins is tracking hurricane mathieu for us. lots to cover. the destruction is under way in haiti. close to the southwest peninsula and haiti. wind directions at 45 miles per ho ....
let s start with meteorologist krystal klei with the nbc 10 first alert weather. we ve seen in the traffic cameras the fog that people are dealing with this morning. we expected more fog this morning because we have that moisture hanging around, although we have started to fall under a bit more dry pattern which is why yesterday we were able to see sunshine in the afternoon. here s what we re looking at, areas of fog, hazel down to three-quarter mile visibility. this is an extremely dense fog, patchy fog. four-mile visibility in reading and five miles for blue bell, dropping into philadelphia. northeast philly looks fine. we have low-hanging clouds. some of our top of tower cameras are starting to see the gray out you see sometimes. four miles visibility in mt. holly and actually as we look through new jersey we see some areas where the fog is a little thicker. millville is at four mile as well as atlantic city outside. drive with caution out there. not as rough as ye ....
and it could save yours. nightly news begins right now. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. a state of emergency has been declared in south carolina where officials right now are taking steps to begin evacuating coastal towns in communities, as the likelihood grows tonight that hurricane matthew will make landfall along the carolina coast this weekend. plans call for the evacuation of a million people there, starting tomorrow with residents to be sent a hundred miles inland. meantime, the death toll has risen to at least eight in the caribbean. the category 4 storm has caused widespread damage in the southwest tip of haiti, where it hit this morning. and tonight, with computer models predicting a u.s. landfall, people from florida to the carolinas are stocking up and preparing for the worst. we begin our coverage with nbc s miguel almaguer. reporter: bracing for matthew. tonight, this is the sc ....
between cuba and haiti. remember, it s not just the eye. it s the entire area we re talking about. a lot of tremendous wind with this. this is the positioning at 8:00 tonight. it will then work its way through the bahamas as we head through wednesday, thursday, and eventually on friday starting to work its way toward the southeastern part of the united states. where does it go after that? it s starting to look like it s going to skirt right along the coast as a category two hurricane. how will that impact us? as we look at our spaghetti model, tracking the various coer happens. it s tracking into our area as we talk of this weekend. this is a bit of a change. yesterday it was looking like it would be here. now it s looking like it s going to be a closer run. we have to keep a very close eye for later this week. nothing happening until the weekend. happening right now, a lot of gray skies, drizzle, and temperatures today, they re going nowhere. just holding pretty much a ....