Its strength as a category three at 120 Miles Per Hour wind. You can see how the eye is filled in with rainfall . I would not be surprised with the next update if we see it is weakening but the track will take it in a loop and the storm could move back to florida in the middle of next week. We have seen a lot of video from florida all original and winds have been pounding the coast all night. This is Daytona Beach,ed if, outages, and downed frees and damaged homes and buildings part of the devastation. Evacuation orders are in place for three million. The effects are unlike any hurricane we have seen in decades and could become uninhabitable for weeks or months. 300,000 are without power right new. Those are remaining in the pat are ordered to shelterinplace now. We are all scared and think we will okay but. Nobody knows. I have been through all of the storms grow up and this is just another one. Looking ahead to november election, and florida is a big swing state and Hillary Clinton w
Gust rip through. People hunker down to weather the storm. Few heading straight for florida. The brutal wind and pounding rain growing as the hurricane charges towards the coast. The National Weather service say matthew will be devastatin devastating. Potentially unlike any hurricane in the modern era. Florida governor calling it a monster. This is going to kill peopl people. Already it has. Matthew taking the lives of more than 100 people as it swept through haiti. The death toll there sky rocketing as the floodwater recede. In the bahamas the shore battered by damaging waves. The rain and wind whipping through the vegetation and the vacation of 3000 tourists. Unable to escape. Hurricane then heading for florida. Residents filling up the vinyl sand bag. Stores boarde upth the shelves bare. And fight to get fuel. I saw two guys fighting at gas station yesterday. Actually throwing punches. One and a half Million People ordered to evacuate. Jamming the roads but not flying. Time lapse ra
Emergency. Good afternoon, im michelle griego. Kenny is off today. Marlie hall has the latest from orlando. Reporter Hurricane Matthew is still pummeling the florida coast with heavy winds and rain and so far, the state has been spared a direct hit. The Florida Governor is calling it a blessing. Hurricane matthew with its 120 mileanhour winds is lashing Floridas Atlantic coast. The storm is bringing heavy rain and flooding tides to the northern half of the state. This is still a really dangerous hurricane that the potential for storm surge, flooding, loss of life, and severe Property Damage continues to exist. Reporter more than half a Million People are without power after wind gusts approached 100 miles an hour overnight. Its really important that we get power restored quickly. Reporter matthews eye is just offshore and moving parallel to the coast. Winds could impact hundreds of miles of shoreline while the flooding rains spread well inland. Part of South Carolina could have 12 of r
The eye is going right over Cape Canaveral and moving towards Daytona Beach. They are getting pummeled. There is Cape Canaveral. It is in titusville. 100 mile perhour winds. I have a friend who is that cocoa beach and they stayed. At last check they still have power. Which is incredible. As it moves north, the i will stay just offshore. Barely. But it is now jacksonville is the key. It is the storm surge. The reason is because the Continental Shelf off the coast drops pretty quick, but then as you head northward towards jacksonville and southeast georgia, it is cold it is a bomb that they are concerned about. The water cannot get to this place fast enough. Storm surge is a huge deal over the next 24 hours. The governor of florida is calling matthew a monster and is praying for everybody safety. The next day in the path is georgia. We have a report from savanna georgia. Reporter Hurricane Matthew is pushing its way up the coast as the most powerful storm the southeast has seen in a deca
Theres almost a stepladder that goes out into the atlantic there. As you move north, off of jacksonville, not only that, but might have big issues with the st. Johns riverrer, and some of that water surging back in towards that, butt its very shallow there, and that will be the huge concern. Maybe 11 feet. The wind will weaken, but they could get up to 13 inches of rain for parts of georgia and South Carolina. Hurricane matthew still hasnt made landfall, but we are seeing the damage those powerful winds are causing. Fears of major coastal flooding from florida up to the carolinas. As devastating as this storm has been so far, it clearly could have been a lot worse, so lets keep that in mine as the storm continues to make its way northward right now. Looks like the bulk of the storm has passed the southern part of florida. So far it is looking like the damage is not as bad as it could have been. Weve been monitoring the latest social media coming out of the area. The docks have been pus