and we re still waiting to hear more from haiti. and the impact hurricane matthew has had. most comm roads and bridges are impassable. there are reports coming in of destroyed houses, and at least one hospital with its roof ripped off. about ten thousand people have been staying in shelters. this storm has caused deaths - but we won t know how many until communication is restored. the storm also hit the western tip of cuba. but that area is mostly uninhabited. next in line for the storm. the bahamas. people there are boarding up windows and doors. more than three thousands visitors island-wide evacuations are taking place and those who can t get out before hurricane matthew hits are allowed to stay in shelters. the islands will begin to feel tropical storm-force winds today. the bahamas has not experienced a storm of this magnitude since 1929. in brevard county: an evacuation has now been ordered for port canaveral. it affects campers, the marina, and all port businesses.
leaves florida could it loop back? welcome everybody. sorry to start with that. it is wednesday, october the fifth. i m russell rhodes. i m laura moody. good morning and all eyes are on the right no keepinan eye on this very oddtr. ttws nowning some structure. looks like it s getting stronger. there are plane flying around inside now. the pressure is beginning lower. stronger again. which is exactly what it was forecast to do once it left the land areas of cuba. notice the top part of this eye wall is still kind of ragged looking it kind of fell apart a bit as it went over country of cuba. moving north, northwest. forward movement for this storm, we started that westerly component. 115 mile per hour winds. so still, a major hurricane. projected to once again ge drarngsly close. governor scott is talking right now a little update on what they are doing in preparation for this storm. so let s talk to him current weather at 11:15 i will speaking with national hurricane cente
along so we can see nature the blockage looks like a single lane pass thing. expect some delays here or avoid area if you can once again congress at ridge in pasco county involving a pedestrian from what we can tell. we have a live look here we want to get back time. -4 westbound which has been pretty slow through entire portion of eastern hillsborough county. a pair of crashes one we are look right alex and der street which is mostly con find to that sould they are poking partial blockage in right lane. so day alexander back to a county line. a second crash which is on shoulder as well. closer to mcintosh causing delays back towards alexander. so dealing with about 24 minutes to get from the buck man to 75 pretty jammed up in the area. looks like they are starting to clear the scene a little bit more. some good news and just releasing a trooper op that right happened side they are moving everything over to left where you have more room. truck overturned lots of debris in n
who is apparently in the road or trying to cross the road. so more information on this to come. but in the meantime we want to get our next big incident involve overturned dump truck out tampa area 50 street under selman expressway we have that overturned. we have debris in roadways you can see that blocking northbound lanes in also hindering folks from exiting the selman expressway at 50th. second of all we have we want to get, my apolo traffic jam on north bunked 75 in manatee at state road 64. where we have a vehicle that s on fire. so please avoid that area. now we want to get to this, a vehicle into a home out lakeland area. we have a live look from the ground here. and this is happening off the fitzgerald road. what we re hearing from the sheriff s office is that this is actually happening at orange valley. but that s off of fitzgerald. so shutting down fitzgerald east from ken suarez in just a few minutes in update from sheriff in polk county. just a little bit after
slammed into the guardrail. his body went flying and came to rest good 20 or 30 yards away. he was speeding at such a high velocity that motorcycle kept traveling onto the onramp. toward 275. at least another two, 300 yards. again, it looks like, from what i can tell right now, they are almost done providing the scene. typically when they remove the vehicle it is because they are for medical examiner to remove that body. you know, praying for him and his family as well. in terms of the traffic. you said it right. it is a traffic nightmare. especially when you re coming i-4, westbound. it is backed up for several miles. from what we understand. past selmon expressway. so if you typically take i-4 to downtown area. or westshore or tampa international. remember southbound 275 is closed off. so is the downtown exit east and west. they will remain closed for another half hour. possibly more than, that that s why we are seeing backups for miles. so again avoid this area. but you sa