Smyrna beach, florida. We are hearing so many reports of high winds and the damage is pretty incredible. Lets go right to lauren now. Reporter good morning. The eye of Hurricane Matthew is still 50miles or around there off the coast of florida but the impact of the category 3 hurricane with 120mile per hour winds is really being felt here with pelting rain, major gusts and power outages. Hurricane the brutal conditions intensifying as the eye of the storm pounds cities. Overnight violent winds along the beaches. Gusts in some places clocking in above 70 Miles Per Hour. The storm bringing the look and sound of fireworks in the form of downed power lines, thousands facing outages. Officials fearing up to 3 million may end up in the dark. The National Weather service saying matthew will be floridas governor making this dire warning. Unfortunately this is going to kill people. Reporter already, it has. Matthew taking the lives of more than 100 people as it swept through haiti. The death to
The death toll soaring overnight. Entire towns leveled. Now millions more in its path this morning. David muir, ginger zee and rob marciano and our team all across the storm zone on a special edition of Good Morning America. And good morning, america. That hurricane hitting florida right now. Lets look at the radar of the eyewal at port canaveral. Officials warning high winds could bring structures down. Everyone on alert. Understandable why. Take a live look at cocoa beach. Fierce rain and winds there at this hour. Heres what we know right now. 3. 2 million from florida through the carolinas have been told to evacuate. At least 300,000 people are without power in the state of florida. More than 2,250 u. S. Flights and take a look at the storm right now. 350 miles wide. And covers an estimated 280,000 square miles. Just a massive storm. Our team on the ground all across the storm zone. David muir in jacksonville and ginger in the thick of the storm in melbourne, florida. Good morning,
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 as quickly as we can. Matthews eye is just off shore and moving parallel to the coast, meaning the powerful winds of the eye wall could impact hundreds of miles of shoreline while the storms flooding rains spread well inland. The weather is just starting to go downhill in northern florida and on the georgia coastline. Matthew is already a in haiti, hit hard by the storm earlier this week, the death toll is approaching 500. Here in florida, damage estimates are underway in towns south of the storm but forecasters say this may not be the last the state will see of matthew. It will transition to a category 2 we think somewhere around georgia maybe transitioning to a 1 as it pushes through the South Carolina coast and then does this big loop pushing back down toward the bahamas. Is it possible that the same places could get hit twice . R
The u. S. , the death toll in haiti raising to 800. We begin with Lauren Lyster now live in new smyrna beach, florida. [ no audio ] reporter the deadly hurricane wreaking havoc as it moves up the coast. Overnight matthew bringing deafening rain, storm surge and destruction to South Carolina, flooding roads, downing trees and driving cars off the roads. An eerie light show on this highway as multiple power lines explode. The powerful category 2 hurricane has weakened but continues to show its force. States of emergency declared in georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. Really the best thing now is to just hunker down, stay in a safe place, dont move, dont try and move around. Pummeling florida. Sounded like a train hitting the house, thats all i can say. The wind was just so strong. Reporter as matthew barreled through palm coast, a Home Security camera captures the moment Rushing Water crashes into a home. Full roads getting washed away. St. Augustine one of the hardesthit areas w
The u. S. , the death toll in haiti raising to 800. We begin with Lauren Lyster now live in new smyrna beach, florida. [ no audio ] reporter the deadly hurricane wreaking havoc as it moves up the coast. Overnight matthew bringing deafening rain, storm surge and destruction to South Carolina, flooding roads, downing trees and driving cars off the roads. An eerie light show on this highway as multiple power lines explode. The powerful category 2 hurricane has weakened but continues to show its force. States of emergency declared in georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. Really the best thing now is to just hunker down, stay in a safe place, dont move, dont try and move around. Pummeling florida. Sounded like a train hitting the house, thats all i can say. The wind was just so strong. Reporter as matthew barreled through palm coast, a Home Security camera captures the moment Rushing Water crashes into a home. Full roads getting washed away. St. Augustine one of the hardesthit areas w