At the vine street expressway and the schuylkill. Right now, Hurricane Matthew is churning off the treasured coast of florida. Hundreds of thousands of people are boarded up inside their homes or left to take shelter elsewhere. Hurricane matthew has weakened slightly to a category 3 storm but the powerful storm, howling winds and driving rain continue to pummel the coast with its strongest winds of 120 miles an hour just offshore. First alert meteorologist erika martin says matthew is expected to make landfall sometime today. The latest numbers say about 100,000 customers are long the southeast coast of florida are waking up without power. This transformer in ft. Pierce along the treasured coast exploded around 11 00 last night as whipping winds and pounding rain fell, heading north, this is video is from somewhere around orlando and daytona. You can see the rain blowing sideways. This video taken from before the worst of the winds. You can see the boat in the water. Nbc 10s Randy Gyll
Thunderstorms. Francesca . Erika, were watching the majors this morning. More cars are starting to trickle on the roadways. Heres a live shot after the schuylkill expressway, our camera an montgomery drive, watching westbound traffic. We look pretty good so far. Were in the clear for nicer conditions, warmer than yesterday. Heres an accident that just came in in cheltenham on cheltenham avenue and tolphehocken street. Still watching 95 travel times, southbound travel times, travel speeds in the 60s, wood haven to the vine, 13 minutes. Within i come back, well take a look at the rest of the majors. All morning long weve been in contact with our sister stations in miami and West Palm Beach to get you the latest conditions and video from Hurricane Matthew. Hurricane matthew is moving up the florida coast right now still a category 3, packing winds of up to 120 miles an hour. Still a serious storm. First alert meteorologist erika martin says that matthew could make landfall in just a few h
Erika . Vai and tracy, its all about hurricane mapping, whats going on in the southeast. Hurricane matthew is expected to move across or parallel the georgiel the South Carolina shoreline and eventually push offshore right around North Carolina. As vai just mentioned, were not seeing anything beginning on right now. Were tracking the potential for moisture and these clouds to continue to work their way northward. Notice were starting to see some greens starting to move into the midatlantic region. Were also tracking this cold front. These two will meet up around new jersey. I do think well see showers and possibly one or two isolated thunderstorms by later tomorrow. We do have your local neighborhood forecast at the bottom of your screen. A quick look at the next five days. Temperatures topping out in the upper 70s and by tomorrow, seeing low 70s with showers in the forecast. 60s by sunday and monday, lots of sunshine at least to kick off the following workweek. Francesca . Erika, we
Haley is pleading with residents to evacuate. This is the last time you will see me before we are actually in storm mode. So please evacuate, even if its to a shelter. Even if you suddenly are sitting at home we have shelters in charleston and in every county on the coast that we can have and take care of you doing this process. But we are now getting ready to see really tough weather. Many areas want people off the streets from midnight until Early Morning on saturday. They dont want to risk anyone getting in the way of Emergency Responders doing their job during the storm. Meanwhile, in haiti, the death toll continues to rise. Officials say 842 are dead after the devastating hurricane. Meanwhile in our country, president obama warning residents as the hurricane works its way up the costa meeting with with fema the president said the weakening of the storm is still very dangerous and tens of thousands of homes and businesses are already without power in florida. President obama says t
Been watching the storms path. We are seeing the effects of both matthew and that cold front weve been talking about for days now. The cold front really is affecting the forecast. Because its also pushing matthew along this morning. Theres a look where 47 degrees in mount pocono. Mid 50s to lancaster. Then you look in philadelphia, at 57 degrees. And nearing 60 degrees atlantic city. So the cooler air not yet affecting us much but what i expect is that through your morning and even early afternoon, temperatures that you see now arent going to change much at all because of that cold front that is currently passing through our zone. Its going to extend by later today and thats going to help push out the rain that were currently tracking. Already were seeing that effect. The very light green is just drizzle or rain. So areas like allentown are in store for some sunshine through the afternoon. Then you see more heavy rains passing through philadelphia, the shore, and especially delaware wh