president and they are making him a symbol of her candidacy, it may not work. >> we'll see what happens sunday night. how this debate unfolds. anderson cooper is co-moderatoring. that is it for me. erin burnett oumpt starts right now. "outfront." this is cnn breaking news. good evening to all. i'm erin burnett. out front the break news: hurricane matthew. officials warn there is a storm of catastrophic proportions. it is a monster. a category 4 right now threat tong wreak havoc across florida and the eastern sea board. as the deadly storm. winds at this moment 140 miles per hour. officials warning there will be tornados. the death toll already 114 from this storm as it approaches the united states. 2 million people told to evacuate. you are looking right now at live pictures.

these are out of tall hast. govern governor. >> right there are no excuses. you need to leave. evacuate, evacuate. evacuate. this storm will kill you. time is running out. we don't have that much time left. >> he told people to get out and try to save your life. matthew is just hours away from land fall. this hurricane right now is only about 80 myelitiles from west p beach right now. jeffrey gray is "outfront" in melbourne, florida. and jennifer, what are the conditions right now. obviously you can see the surf already starting to rise behind you. >> yeah. we're already starting to see the water rise. we are right along indian river

and you can see it splashing over the wall behind me. earlier today wasn't doing at all that. and then when we get a rain band in it really gets thrown up pretty high. we're expecting storm surge where we are 6-11 feet. so up over my head. and dplou look out across the indian river you can yee the barrier island of the melbourne beach. storm surge is expected to get so high they have urged people there to evacuate. so hopefully the people on melbourne beach have evacuated. hopefully people took that advice. conditions will continue to deteriorate as the sun goes down. and then by the wie hours of tomorrow night -- tomorrow morning rather that is when we are going to be in the brunt of it. we have 140 miles per hour winds that are headed our way right around that eye wall.

so this is a dangerous situation and with it running up the coast we could see miles and miles of destruction, erin. >> thank you very much. a storm sort of going along the east coast for this long, perhaps the first time in history. let's go to nick valencia out front in west palm beach. this could be ground zero for the storm dorgt the current track. >> and this is what the start of a hurricane looks like. we've been out since very early this morning and it's been not as intense as in the last 30 minutes. debris like this is a huge concern for officials. it may not seem like much right now just laying there. but whipping around can be really really dangerous. it was at 1:00 p.m. we got a hurricane alert that hurricane matthew was well on its way here. it was approaching. the weather did take a brief turn. intense rain and wind. that ebbed and flowed out the afternoon and really the last 30

minutes things have gotten significantly bad. i just spoke to the mayor of west palm beach. check out the palm trees right here. the mayor tells me there are scattered power outages currently in the county. wind gusts are sustained about 35 miles per hour. she wants to stress to the viewers saying it is really important. they hope you evacuated. hope you got out of here. you heard government scott. he didn't mince words this morning. -- for the first responders when they two in, to have to pick up people who were left behind not only put their lives in jeopardy but a also those of the first responders lives in jeopardy. >> we can see that starting to take hits on his shot, you can see on that shot went down where nick was. they are saying the severity of this could be such that some areas become uninhabitable for months. that is something to think about

for a moment. uninhabitable for months. and governor scott saying the storm will kill you. get out while you still can. urging people to evacuate. as you look at the path of this storm, what do you see? >> where do we begin erin? after a humanitarian crisis in haiti. death toll still rising. no power, no communication. 35 homes on the coast of cuba washed away. and these were well-built homes with concrete. washed out to sea. but they evacuated. now the bahama island chain may -- >> we're going to come back to you. i want to interrupt you because the governor of florida is now speaking. let's listen. >> individuals up here with me from fish and wildlife. brian kuhn who's responsible for highway safety. and the national guard is

responsible for tooif stafive s the army corps of engineers. and of course we've got national guard. and we have jim boxlo who's making sure we continue to have our evacuation routes open and moving. some are not moving as fast as others but they are all moving. i've spoke on the all 67 counties, as part of our 5:15 call. the state along with all florida counties are focused solely on life safety. we want everybody to survive this horrible storm. most important thing we can do. i just think about my own family. counties that aren't in the storm's path are standing ready to help those impacted. i've talked to sheriffs. told sheriff, utility company, and county mrjts management officials to call me if any need anything. ive given them my cell phone. call me 24 hours a day. the goal is solve any problem as quickly as we can solve it. we're focused on protecting life

and the state stands ready to protect my community anyway needs help. i spent the last several days traveling the east coast and getting people ready to prepare for hurricane matthew. it is here. we are already starting to sea the impacts. and it is a monster. again, our number one priority is protecting every life in this state. i think about my grandchildren, my daughter, my son-in-law. my wife. i want everybody to survive this. we can rebuild homes. we can rebuild businesses, i just think of my own family. we can't rebuild a life. if your in south and central florida the storm is coming tonight. mrs. stay safe, listen to alerts. there may be tornados that come and if your cell phone will give you important messages. if your in brevard county or north you still have time to leave. get out. there is no reason to take a chance. it just doesn't make any sense.

at 5:00 p.m. hurricane matthew was located 100 miles east/southeast of 3swest palm beach. maximum sustained winds of 140 miles per hour. remains a account four. matthew is likely to produce devastating impacts from storm surge, extreme winds, and heavy rains along portions of the east coast tonight. this storm is a monster. again, protecting life is onumbr one priority. rain up to 12 inches long the east coast. and remember, you will get a wand and bet more. and when you get the band you will get immediate flooding. strong rip current, beach erosion. the risk of tornados. turn forced winds.

hurricane-forced winds. remember that. hurricane-forced winds. storm surge. think about this. 11 feet possible of storm surge. standing on the ground. 11 feet. stop and think about that. 11 feet of storm surge. and on top of that, waves. so in your house, if you are close, you could have the storm surge and waves over your roof. >> you're listening to governor rick scott of florida talking about the scale of the storm, referring to it as a monster saying people are going to die if you don't get out. you can't rebuild a life and there is no reason to take a chance. talking about the fact you are going to have a waves on top of a 11 foot storm surge. let's go back to tom in the weather center. what is the track right now? and when we talk about for northern parts of florida that this could be the worst storm in more than a century. what does that mean?

>> well we just received a haunting statement really out of jacksonville's national weather service. they have said that this is unlikely anything they have seen in modern times. that the last storm to effect jacksonville like this was in october 1898. but there is no one alive in that span that can give us any modern memory. what they are trying to tell us as well is they may have a surge much like that of super storm sandy in new jersey. and right now bahama island is getting hit and these storms rage through the bahamas all the time. freeport is getting hit so hard right now the 47,000 that live there are most likely without communication, without power, maybe without water. same thing in nassau. now it is within 80 miles let's say of west palm. the track again pushes it very close if not on land. land fall is if the eye is at

least half over land. take a look at fort pierce. melbourne has a high tied at midnight. worst possible outcome for this. west palm is going to have hurricane force winds but on the backside it should not have the storage surge. everyone from the eye northward is going to have hour of hour of pounding surge, heavy rain and hurricane force winds that extend from the coast inland 60 miles. that's well past i-95. here is jacksonville. never in the history of the tropical season in the tlabtic have a hurricane that makes land fall north of daytona. if the system stays over water it is going to continue the fuel the storm. that is its gasoline. if it moves inland it could create wild impact. catastrophic area but only for six or eight hours. this is going to stay over

water. it is going to be a long event, where it is not just the beach homes that get effected. it is several blocks in. flood and heavy amounts of rain and then the winds are going to karate all kinds of damage. the operation population, you can see from miami to jacksonville. you can imagine 40 foot high waves. so many aspects with the wind, the surge and flooding rains that are enough that are going to be a problem. this is going to be something that is in the history books. i hope everybody got out of way. >> we're going to be checking back in thank you, as this storm is going to be approaching, striking land in just a few hours here. talking about 40 foot waves and states and states north. "outfront" now, the m mayor of palm beach. talking about this being the worst storm since 1898.

unlikely anything in modern times they are now saying from the weather center. you are right in the center of this. how bad do you expect this to be? >> well it is definitely scary. we are prepared for it to be the worst. we are certain we'll be getting hurricane-forced winds. -- places north of us will be getting but we are just doing our best to get ready for this. >> i want to ask you about the evacuations. governor scott has said this storm is going to kill people. is. what can you say to people still there in the last few hours they

have? >> at this point we are saying stay where you are. don't go out now. shelter in place. hunker down. they could have gotten out earlier today. many of the shelters are filled. we have 6700 people in the county who are in shelters. and, you know, it is going to be very difficult for us should they have a problem and need emergency services. once the wind is blowing our emergency crews will not go out and it might take a very long while for us to get to them. so we urge them all afternoon to go to the shelters, go o the a friends house a relatives house. just get out of that evacuation area. some people did but not everyone. >> and i know you have talked about that a lot of people now and you are downtown, younger people who perhaps don't have the perspective to know that they needed to leave and obviously thes were thing that can happen in trying to save someone that in an emergency

someone from emergency services could lose their life. that is a horrible thing. to the people that are riding this out, what do you say to them now? >> they need to find a safe room, as the governor suggested. a room in their house where there are no windows, that, you know, should we get high gusts and windows break in that would be in a place that would be safe. and if they have shutters, please put them on. if you haven't already, put them on. but be careful because it is getting rainy and windy. that is -- they need to stay safe. >> mayor muoio, thank you very much. and we wish you luck and that everybody in west palm beach is safe. thank you for talking to us and next we continue to follow this major breaking news. hurricane matthew now a storm, biggest storm in modern history about to slam the united states. the strongest to strike northern florida in more than a hundred years. most desperately trying to get as far as from matthew as

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if storm could make some areas un uninhabitable for months. already many without power. and that could be for a long time. look at the greaters storm in modern history possibly. the mayor said this is the most serious threat in the city's history. what are conditions like where you are right now as it approaches? >> it is raining for the first time and raining steadily. not hard but it was also blowing. the wind has been strong. it is getting stronger and stronger and stronger each half hour. we can also tell you we spoke with the police chief. we went for a ride with him up and down the main strip. and he said to me, look. we're going to have every single one of our officers, they are going to be on duty starting at 6:00 p.m. we are going to close the bridges so if you are not off by 6:00 p.m. you cannot come back onto the beach.

he also said if you decide to stay, if you make that mistake they will not be able to save you. he's not going to put his officers in the path of danger and potentially have them killed trying to get someone who's been warned to get out. very stern words from the police chief. i can also tell you this. this is the boardwalk. aushl fun place to be. you can see the wind, the trees starting to whip around. these are all the hotels where the tourists like to come. there are few, in any, tourists left. the boardwalk is boarded up. a lot of people have heeded the warnings and evacuated. but there are those who are staying. saying they are not going the leave their businesses and homes and they are going to try to hunker down. but this is an extremely dangerous storm. and even i thought you may want to rethink that. we've heard it from the police chief, the governor and many more and the mayor. this is a serious storm. and can we can start feeling it now. hearing the rain and wind come

in. and the waves are getting very very high. they are expecting the waves to be about 20 feet high at the moment, erin. >> pretty incredible. stop and think about that for a moment. 20-40 foot waves. 11 foot surge. as he said the worst storm in more than a century possibly. let's bring in jeff petroski, he's a storm chaser, live pictures from his car. he's in jensen beach florida. this is what you do is chase the storms. what are conditions like right now as you are driving around? and i'll make the point we don't see anyone else on the road. looks like a lot of people have gotten out. >> only people on the road over here is me and law enforcement. and they are out in full force. a number of county sheriffs as well. the state highway patrol is here in full force on the outer barrier island. a few elderly people staying in some mobile homes out here.

very concerned about those people. i'll tell you. we're having some light damage. some telephone polls. tree limbs that kind of stuff off the big trees out here. and that's about the extent right now. hurricane forced wins are only 20 miles off the coast from my location at the coast of palm beach and just to the east of jensen. and by the way. freeport grand bahama, they were in the northeast eye wall for about the last four hours and they have taken a major hit. the damage will be extensive and possibly catastrophic at freeport. the eye wall is passing them now and on its way to the northwest for the coastline here. the winds will continue to increase especially as we get towards the 9:00 all the way to about noon tomorrow along the coastline. and specially towards thomas vil

and that area of the cape is where we expect the most damage. >> when you hear the governor say you are talk about death. people need to get out because the storm will kill you. look at a storm like katrina. which hit has a category three. moving more slowly but of course significant water damage. nearly 2,000 people lost their lives in that storm. the governor is very serious when he says this. we are now talking about a stronger storm. perhaps the worst to hit parts of florida in more than a century. on the ground what does that mean when people hear that? >> you know -- problems in hurricanes is people -- [indiscernible]. survived katrina or --. charlie. francis. gene. ivan and people try to relate. each hurricane is totally

different. different angle of approach and also the speed and intensity. so just because you survived in the past, just because your house wasn't damaged in the past or you didn't have damage your location doesn't mean you won't have damage when this comes ashore but i'll te you looking at live doppler radar all afternoon and everything in the eye when this eye, this eye comes ashore there will be catastrophic damage in the western eye wall, if it comes up towards melbourne and --. off the coast a close call then the damage will be a lot less but if it comes short the damage will be catastrophic. >> thank you very much. and next donald trump preparing for the live debate on live television, getting ready for this debate. we're going to see it right here "outfront" this hour. and more on the news of hurricane matthew as you heard miles now from land fall in florida. [burke] at farmers, we've seen almost everything, so we know how to cover almost anything.

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and that storm surge going to be at least 11 feet. think about that with waves on top of it as much as 40 feet in some areas. worst storm for some in a century of modern history. and donald trump going to be taking is it stage in a town hall. really this is what his campaign says is a dry run for the debate which is just three hours -- %-p. the first time we've ever seen anything like this. he's doing his debate practice so we can all see it on live tvrgs. sarah murp sarah murray is "outfront" at the town hall in new hampshire. >> reporter: donald trump is doing debate prep behind closed doors as well. but he and his advisors have always felt that his time on the campaign trail is a little like

debate prep for the candidate. and today they are taking that to a new literal sense. he's holding a town hall right here in new hampshire. one of the smallest venues we've seen donald trump in. and in fact it looks more like a throwback to the republican primaries. that republicans that donald trump ran against did dozens in some cases hundreds of town halls in spaces like this. not donald trump. he held the big rallies during the primary. and even though his campaign is calling this sort of an opportunity for him to take unfiltered questions from voters, it is not going to be exactly like that. people in the room have submitted their questions ahead of time. they have written them down on an index card and donald trump will be asked the questions by a conservative radio host who's going here to moderate. so it is not entirely unfiltered but it is an opportunity for donald trump to sort of test his back and forth when it comes to dealing with members of the audience so we'll be looking for not only how he answers their questions but what his body language is like.

what his tone is like when he's talking really any question you could imagine from voters here in new hampshire erin. >> is a are. thank you very much. david, let me start with you. only trump dwould something like this. debate prep on live television but nonetheless it is extraordinary that he's doing this at all. he was supposed to show up about a half hour ago. so wore waiting for him to come to the stage. but this is trying to mimic what he'll face in just days at the town hall with hillary clinton. >> yeah i think is right. nothing that's par for the course with donald trump. he understands the stakes are high here. we saw in the first debate a real swing in the momentum for hillary clinton. it got her base more excited. it got republicans more anxious about donald trump. he's got do something about it. and i think he's got the

capacity to do it. he started strong in the first debate. showed signs of discipline. was able to mount a clear, well-articulated change message. took the fight to hillary clinton and then he unravelled as we've documented i think so well up until now. this is different. he's got to be able to interact with voters, make a change message and show that he's got some empathy and ability to listen and ability to be present in these moments and show people a different side of him. i still don't know what to expect and i still think at the end of the day no matter what his advisors are telling him he's going to do what he wants to do and ride his gut wherever it takes him. win or lose. >> maggie. one thing you pointed out though is donald trump is a quick learner in some ways which is relevant when in this sort of live practice session that we are about to watch live. >> there are certain aspects he's picked up very quickly. i do however agree with david that i think a couple of things,

number one, one mock town hall, which is this or mock debate prep which this is is not going to get you where you need to be in basically a week and a half after the last debate which was, you know, the aftermath of which was calamitous for him in terms of the polls. also being interviewed by a very trump friendly moderator. the questions are pre screened. so this is not at all like what the conditions are going to be like on sunday night. and both trump and hillary clinton sort of struggle to emote, struggle to connect. that is challenge for both but trump has done smouch less of this than clinton has. his town halls during the primaries often felt coarsed. strained. his interactions -- he got better at the later ones but he didn't do many of them. retail politics is not his thing. so he has a couple of

challenges. he has to both pass a commander in chief temperament test and see if he can connect to average people and not talk about himself and talk about them. so i'm not sure that this is going to be precisely what he needs but we'll see. >> mark preston, it is interesting, i remember doing a town hall with donald trump. i was very much surprised at that time. we all know -- if you know donald trump he doesn't like to tump people. he likes to -- purell sort of guy. he's gotten over that a lot on the campaign trail. but i remember someone coming out touching his hair. he interacted with people. he could be rather engaging and charming with them. but as maggie points out, on this campaign we have not seen a lot of that. one night is what he's got. you see governor chris christie there who's been helping him and of course was one of the kings of town hall, did 76 of them in new hampshire alone. >> no doubt. and what i heard about chris christie today is they continued their question and answering back and forth. him and reince priebus were asking donald trump questions.

reince would ask, chris christie would ask a follow-up. the room donald trump is in doing these sessions now i'm told is much smaller than the last time. there were a lot of voices and there was a lot of confusion. but to your point donald trump has seemed to have thrived at these big events where he gives these big sweeping speeches, where he makes a lot of promises and he revs up the crowd. but he is somebody in a one on one atmosphere you can get a totally different vibe from him. he's more warmer and more friendly, no doubt about that. but as we've been talking about here, this is really not enough preparation. hillary clinton embraced the fact that she has prepared so much. and it helped her. and she turned around in the polls. donald trump really needs to focus in on policy because at these town halls, if somebody asks you a question from the audience and you don't answer that question. that person might ask again and say you didn't answer my questions. and i think donald trump who's light on the details of policy, that could be problematic for

him. >> what do you think about that? there is something different as a viewer when you watch someone interact with another citizen as opposed to someone like us, a member of the media. there might be antagonism to the media but not to another system who's in there just asking their question as a voter. >> you can't blow off a voter. you have to answer those questions. chris christie is going to be his mentor and tutor in tedeali with the town hall and prepping. he certainly is the king of town halls. he often used humor in engaging with voters. of course chris christie had that courtroom experience. so he was very good in those instances. he's going to have to figure out how he connects policy to people but also kind of keep it grand and large in terms of tapping into that vision he talks about in terms of where he wants to take the country. i talked to a couple of republicans who acknowledge that trump isn't a policy guy. he's not going to get into the

granular details on what he would do on drum policy which might pap up in this debate but he has to keep it broad and abig and also avoid talking about himself because he's someone who likes to talk about himself. who likes to talk about how great he is. so he's going to to have to not do that so much and it is going to be about interacting with that audience there and also body language in terms of how he's relating to hillary clinton. you remember john mccain was very good at these town halls as well but times in some of these town halls he'd be wandering across the stage and led to an snl in spite of of that because it just looked on camera. -- snl spoof of that. >> donald trump is coming in. let's listen in. >> some commission that is. let me tell you. i want to thank everybody. this is great.

we won new hampshire in the primary, big league. for a exceeding the numbers that everybody thought. and now i hear we're winning by one and tied and winning by two and tied in another one. how are you? i want to thank everybody. this is great to be with you. o so this just came out. remember whenever we won i like to talk about polls. if we're doing badly i don't talk about polls. when we do badly, i don't know about polls. right? but when we're doing well i know about polls. i used to drive chris christie's here. our friend. where is chris? over here. and he was a tough competitor. and he said you used to drive me crazy when you talk about those polls. why did you talk about the polls? i said because i was number one. but if i was number two or something, we wouldn't be talking. but first of all, thank you everyone. and new hampshire is where we had our first victory. remember that? and then we went on to lots of other places. lots of other places.

and we had tremendous support from so many of our friends. and tremendous compliments. tom brady and coach belichick. and so many people we just have great relationships with and great relationships up here. so these just came out. just literally came out. rasmussen. that is national poll. trump, 43, clinton 41. los angeles times national. great poll supposedly. well that is because i'm leading. trump 46, national. clinton 42. upi, national. trump 49. clinton 47. reuters ipsos, south carolina, trump 49, clinton 44. south carolina is great. that was where we had another great -- i'll tell you the results in south carolina during the primary were amazing and it

was fantastic. great people. colorado, trump 45, clinton 43. i just left. that was a good one. and wisconsin, where i'm going tomorrow. wisconsin they have trump at 42 and clinton at 42. and that is okay because i was about 15 points behind three or four weeks ago. i think right? so that's one. all right. anybody can check them. you can check them. now here's one that's a biggy. upi. just came out like a little while ago. virginia. i love virginia. tremendous properties in virginia. lot of employees. i think all my employees are voting, i'll tell you. trump 50, clinton 45. upi. that's a big one. that is a big one. a little surprise. look at the media here they are going crazy. they don't know. they can't believe this. they are not happy.

i want to tell you. this is not the way it is supposed to be happening. the american people. this is not what they had in mind. crooked hillary with the crooked media. new hampshire. 48, 48. i don't like that. we're gonna win new hampshire. we're gonna win new hampshire. these all just came out a little while ago. arizona, 52, clinton 42. up by ten. here's a good one. north carolina upi. north carolina. trump 50, clinton 46. look at this one. the state of pennsylvania where i went to school, went to

college. pennsylvania, trump 50, clinton 46. and here's another good one. great state. i love the people of georgia. trump 52, clinton 43. send them back to the press so they can examine them. so i just want to thank you very much. it's really amazing and i want to thank chris for being here and all of my friends. so many. steve i see over here and all of the friends that i have. it's been incredible. you know, i wanted to be here because we have lots of energy and we love the people. and we love the people, in particular because it was my first state, it meant so much for me. -- >> [ inaudible ]. >> thank you. i feel the same way. but i used to come up and we used to have meetings with people. and they kept talk about heroin, heroin, heroin. i tell the story all over new hampshire. because it's so different than the little valleys and the

trees. >> so trump giving a lengthy preamble here. we're going to be talk to the governor of florida in a moment. donald trump will be taking questions but i want to go to you maggie. what we saw was vintage donald trump. talking about polls. most don't match any of the polls out there. this is not what the town hall is going to be like on sunday. this is more of a stump speech before he takes questions on what you have pointed out is a friendly pre screened audience. >> trump does very well in mediums he controls and rooms he controls and he's used to and matches a certain criteria where he can take the reigns. that's what he's doing here. he's doing his comfort zone. and polls -- this one shows me winning because it is the aggregate polls. he's insulting the media. he's talking about quote/unquote crooked hillary. he can do this and does do the

any day of the week. that is not what the debate is going to be like. if it is, talking about hose own poll numbers again and again while voters are asking real question about their lives, that would be problematic. we saw in the town hall forum we did with bill clinton and matt lau lauer. a female veteran asked questions about ptsds and suicides and he corrected her and his correction was actually wrong on the number of suicides per year. and you saw her shake her head and she was clearly not pleased to be corrected by him. that is what he needs to be working on. this is not it. >> and david dpregry, as we're getting ready here. we want to hear him take questions. here he is, still giving his stump speech essentially. >> look, this race is in a settled position. there is not a whole lot that is going to change. as we goat into the final weeks. donald trump has a huge opportunity to get a second look at the first debate and he

squandered it. he's losing voters. a lot of and key groups, he's losing ground. he's in a precarious position, as tight as the race is. so the notion he's going to show us fundamentally different is not going to happen but donald trump has the ability to make a fundamental change argument and an argument against hillary clinton. he's not doing this on our air right now. and he's going to have to find a way to do it in the course of this town hall debate. and deal with a lot of the concerns that voters have about whether he's qualified to be president and has the temperament to be president. you have majorities of both of those categories who think he is not. and he's yet to really start to address those things and he's certainly not doing this right now. this is donald trump from the primary days talking about the polls and not where e wants to take the country and in that town hall there are going to be strong up froms on these points as well. >> and of course we're

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the detd toll rising tonight. right now it is less than 80

miles from west palm beach. 26 million americans in the path of hurricane matthew at this hour. poppy harlow is "outfront" in jacksonville. poppy, national weather service is now saying jacksonville has not seen a storm like this since 1898. you are talking about storm surges here. like super storm sandy. >> yeah. or worse. it is a remarkable statement from the national weather service. what they are saying is it's been 118 years since a storm this bad has been expected to hit jacksonville. the river, 6-9 foot storm surges. to put it in perspective. no one alive in jacksonville tonight as ever felt a storm as bad as what is expected to hit this city the most populous city in florida if it makes land fall. and they say the storm surge here will be worse than the storm surge that hit after sandy. think about that for a moment.

that is what they are expecting and why you are hearing catastrophic. the mayor going to the beach town today personally begging people to evacuate because it is that dire erin. >> poppy, thank you very much. the storm is hours away from where poppy is standing right now. storm surge and waves where times her height. "outfront" now on the phone the governor of scott. governor scott you have said this storm will kill you. you have told people to get out. it does not surprise you do hear the national weather service saying this is going to be worse than any storm in living memory. 118 years. this storm truly will be catastrophic. >> erin. this is a monster. and we haven't seen something like this in. clearly in my lifetime i've never seening in like this. more than 10 feet of storm surge, on top of that the wave, on top of that 140 miles an hour wins. i called up 3500 members of my

national guard which is over 50% of the ones available. you still have a chance of evacuating. pushing people to evacuate. if you are brevard county. north melbourne going north you have the opportunity to evacuate. i hope you still have. we have shelters open. this is all about keeping people alive. how we keep everybody in the state safe. how we keep them alive. we have shelters open around the state and we're doing everything we can to keep people alive. >> we were talking to a storm chaser driving by some mobile homes. people were still in them. that is pretty terrifying when you think about what you are talking about. we hear about first responders. the mayor saying we're not sending first responders for people who did not evacuate when told to evacuate. hurricane andrew, and hurricane katrina. nearly 2,000 people died. are we looking at something of that magnitude if people do not get out? >> look, i can't send people in, first responders in during the storm to save your life. so, if in a barrier island on

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and breaking news. hurricane matthew right now approaching florida.

hurricane winds up to 106 miles from the center and the storm. after it hits, perhaps the longest stretch of coastline in known history. then could circle back and hit florida again. our coverage continues right now with ac 360. good evening. millions of people right now are in the path of potentially life-threatening storm. it is just that simple. this is what hurricane matthew has been doing to the caribbean and as it takes aim on eastern florida. governor rick scott, and these are his exact words, this storm will kill you. and it is a monster. the golf telling wolf that if you have not followed evacuation orders and trying to ride this out it is going to be -- his words -- e quote, very lard to save your life. laying it out in no uncertain terms. >> i talked to my detective captain earlier today.