Im jim donovan. More to come, storm surge is tearing up beaches along the florida coast. Marlie hall live in orlando. Hurricane matthew pomeling the floored coast with powerful winds and rain but so far the state has been spared a direct hit and Florida Governor rick scott is calling it a blessing. Hurricane matthew with 120mile per hour winds is lashing flooreds 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. Poe pen shale for storm surge, loss of life, severe property damage, continues to exist. More than half a Million People are without power after wind gusts approached 100 Miles Per Hour overnight. It is really important that we get power restored as quickly as we can. Matthews eye just off shore, moving parallel to the coast meaning the powerful winds of the eye wall could impact hundreds of miles of shore line, while the storms flooding rains spread well inland. The weather is jus
Following the death of a 2yearold boy. And a democratic senator has ended a 15 hour filibuster to push for gun control. But the big news is a car chase that led to a fire. In chain of events began at 5 30 this morning when a man tried to stop an alleged thief. Annie mccormick is live now with more. Reporter rick and sara, behind me you can still see the damage behind me this is where the van crashed in front of this hair salon. No charges are filed but both men involved could face charged. Surveillance video from a morrisville barbershop. Where police say the tables were turned on an alleged thief. The driver was chasing him jumps out fires at least two shots hitting the man in the arm. The shooter told him he was the original victim. A man observed a male breaking into a car in front of his apartment, he runs out and chases the male and he jumps into another car. It started at an apartment complex a mile away and the alleged thief tried to break into this honda. Can you see where the
Amboys. The wind blowing away here as it makes landfall 50 miles plus or minus from Atlantic City. Its so difficult to get your mind wrapped around the potential for this storm, and weve been watching it for days and days and days. Its going to be an 80mileanhour storm as it makes its way onshore. It wont move much for 48 hours. If its raining, it will continue to rain. If its snowing, it will continue to snow. If its blowing, around it will everywhere, trees are going to continue to blow down. As the trees blow down, theyre not going to be able to put line crews in the way 69 wind to put your lines back up. Once your power is out, its going to be out for a couple days no matter what. When its done, its done. Chad, stick around. Chad myers is going to help me out throughout the hour here. Were going to be here obviously until this is over. We may be on the air live here from this Vantage Point until midnight so chad myers, thank you very much. I want to tell our viewers, chad is not pl
School districts across the country are cancelling classes due to the outbreak. Im sandra smith. Jon im jon scott in for ed henry. The coronavirus cases cropping up in 27 states and washington, d. C. The number of deaths rising to at least 19 in this country. This comes as a grand princess cruise ship is expected to dock in oakland, california. Health officials warning americans the outbreak is starting to spread more quickly. Were having obviously an acceleration of cases now if you look at it. Every day we get more and more. Were seeing Community Spread in certain regions of the country. We dont want to alarm people but given the spread we see, anything is possible and thats the reason why we have to be prepared to take whatever action is appropriate to contain and mitigate the outbreak. Sandra live Fox Team Coverage for you. Alex hogan has is coverage in new york. We begin with Jonathan Serrie live in atlanta for us. Good morning. As we are awaiting the grand princess docking, two c
The president arriving early this afternoon with one of his most vocal police call opponents, former republican president ial candidate florida senator marco rubio. He flew down to florida with the president and the two of them greeted as they got off the plane on the tarmac by Vice President joe biden and by Florida Governor rick scott. Were going to have a live report from the ground in just a minute and also on the agenda, there will be votes. Senator Chris Murphys 15hour filibuster, now he and his fellow democrats are claiming victory with republicans agreeing to hold votes on gun control. If we had not stopped the senate from doing business as usual last night, the heroism of chris murphy followed by 40 democratic colleagues, if that had not happened, we would not be stopping business as usual to put these two very important terrorist gun safety pieces of amendments on the floor for a vote. Still up in the air though, which proposals will actually get votes and whether they could