all right. that's it for us on america's election hq. thanks for joining us. i'm sandra smith. and here's shep. we begin with a fox news weather alert. mandatory evacuations have just begun in parts of florida. as massive hurricane matthew is strengthening and setting its sights on the state's east coast. forecasters say this storm could grind its way up part of the eastern seaboard and put millions of people in danger. we'll show you the latest storm track and give you the latest predictions from the national weather service and extreme weather center on exactly where it could hit. plus in politics, brand new reporting from our own carl py with his v.p. pick, mike pence, over his performance in last night's debate. we'll have the details from inside the campaign as trump holds a rally in henderson, nevada. also, a new poll shows just how close this race really is.

in the important battleground state of ohio. you'll see where the two candidates stand. let's get to it. now, "shepard smith reporting" live from the fox news deck. and first from the fox news deck this wednesday afternoon, donald trump is not happy with mike pence's performance in last night's debate. that is the reporting of our own campaign carl cameron after an earlier report from cnn's john king with the same information. remember, the polls show most people think pence won the debate. republican insiders certainly do. but it's pence's lack of a defense of donald trump that has the gop standard bearer and his team reportedly upset. again, this is from carl cameron and he reports, and i quote, "in trump tower, they are closely watching pence's defense of trump today because trump and some of his aides are disappointed that pence often did not defend trump in last night's debate when trump was attacked by kaine and instead immediately pivoted to

counterattacking clinton. that left many kaine attacks unanswered." remember, last night, senator kaine was seen writing down something during the debate then he confronted pence with this. >> six times tonight, i have said to governor pence, i can't imagine how you can defend your running mate's position on one issue after the next. and in all six cases, he's refused to defend -- >> no, no, don't put words in my mouth. >> many analysts suggested presence was preserving his own political career for 2020 and beyond, not wanting to own some of trump's more controversial positions or areas in foreign policy where they disagree. prior to the debate, remember, the clinton/kaine campaign told us, and we reported here repeatedly, that kaine would attempt to make pence defend trump's positions. today in the opinion of trump and his aides, according to carl cameron, he did not sufficiently mount a defense. politico takes all of this a step further reporting now the republican insiders believe pence didn't just beat kaine, but outflat donald trump.

that those insiders are having buyers remorse, wishing pence were the nominee instead. well, now trump is set to speak any moment now at a critical battleground state of nevada. a live look from the city of henderson, nevada, just outside las vegas. we'll listen in to see if he mentions this reported displeasure with his running mate when he speaks. earlier he said publicly that pence had done a great job and won the debate, but privately a different story. the republican nominee campaigned in las vegas earlier and he's set to hold that rally in reno tonight. very busy today. only one presidential candidate has clinched the white house without winning nevada since 1948, that was jimmy carter. here are the polls. they show donald trump and hillary clinton are neck and neck in nevada. the real clear politics average has clinton less than one point ahead of donald trump. we're also getting new polling out of the state of ohio, this is new this afternoon, one of the biggest prizes in the presidential race. it's a monmouth university survey that shows hillary clinton is now beating donald trump 44%-42%.

now, if that holds it would be a major turn in a crucial state for the republican because no republican has ever won the white house without first winning ohio. importantly, now, this poll's margin of error is nearly five percentage points for each candidate so this is a statistical tie. we'll have to wait for other polls to see exactly what's happening in the buckeye state. in any case, trump has a debate to prepare for for now and fox news has further learned trump plans to take time off from campaigning to do that preparation. we have team fox coverage, mike emanuel in washington with more on the clinton campaign. first john roberts live in reno. what more are we learning about trump's debate preps for this coming sunday? >> reporter: good afternoon to you. initially donald trump had a full campaign schedule this week with a number of events tomorrow then on friday as well, but because of the performance of the first presidential debate and what they've been seeing in some of these battleground polls where hillary clinton has turned around the fortunes for donald trump or extended her lead in some of them, ohio being the

notable exception, they've decided that they need to put much more emphasis on debate preparation. so donald trump has cleared most of his schedule for tomorrow. there will be one event later on in the day and completely cleared the schedule for friday so they can put a lot more emphasis into debate preparation. after what happened last monday at hofstra university, the trump campaign is looking for a couple of things. they believe he missed a lot of opportunities to come back and hit hillary clinton on that monday night debate. they want to work more on that. they also want to work more on the pivot and if you take a look at mike pence last night, he was brilliant at doing that being asked one question then pivoting to a question that wasn't even on the table. donald trump had said after hofstra, i wanted to talk about benghazi, they never asked me about benghazi. the skill as a debater is not to be asked about benghazi but somehow bring it back around toward that. though some sources inside the trump campaign are saying donald trump was unhappy with mike pence's performance last night, mike pence is playing the good soldier saying, who really won at last night's debate?

donald trump. listen to what he said a short time ago. >> some people think i won. but i'll leave that to others. you know, what i can tell you is from where i sat, donald trump won the debate. donald trump's vision to make america great again won the debate. >> reporter: another thing his campaign wants him to work on very hard in preparation for the town hall meeting in st. louis on sunday night, shep, is this idea that they think during the debate at hofstra, he took literally every piece of bait that hillary clinton dangled in front of him. they're trying to resist his tendency to do that. >> look forward to that one this sunday, thanks. hillary clinton taking a break from the campaign trail, spending her time at her home in washington, d.c., her home away from home to prepare for the

showdown with donald trump on sunday. before secretary clinton boarded a plane to d.c. this morning, a reporter asked her what she thought about tim kaine's performance during last night's debate. she gave two thumbs up. there they are. meantime, according to that new survey from monmouth university, most voters in the crucial swing state of ohio says hillary clinton has the better temperament to be president. 59% compared to donald trump's 33%. the poll also shows most voters in the buckeye state feel both candidates are out of touch with everyday americans. 51% say secretary clinton doesn't understoand their concerns. 6 0% say the same for donald trump. team fox coverage continues. >> preparations are under way for the next clinton/trump matchup because it is coming up on sunday. it's a different format from the first debate. hillary clinton is back here in washington. working with her debate prep team. her top advisers note clinton did a lot of town hall type events during the primaries and they suggest it should work well for her. >> she listens hard and relates

to people and that's a forthat that donald trump isn't as used to and so we'll see. i think that's natural format for her and she likes really engaging with people. so we're looking forward to it. >> we're also told clinton called her running mate, tim kaine, late this morning after last night dee's debate. an aide said she congratulated him for how he talked about the kmirk economy, immigration and criminal justice. they spoke about the next month of the campaign and will likely start doing events together soon. >> former president clinton out campaigning for his wife in ohio today, yes? >> that's right. the real clear politics average of recent ohio polls has trump up 2.4 points over clinton but no surprise it looks like it is shaping up to be a heck of a race. clinton has her husband, the former president, continuing the bus tour of the buckeye state trying to fire up democrats there. he has won voters there against venting their frustration with the economy, by using their vote, saying when we make decisions mad, we make bad

decisions. president obama was supposed to be out on the trail today in battleground florida with stops in tampa and the miami area, but with emergency preparations for hurricane matthew under way, the president postponed that campaign swing. the clinton campaign just announced the president will campaign for hillary clinton next week in battleground north carolina. >> mike emanuel, thank you. we're tracking hurricane matthew now. airlines preparing to suspend flights. cruise ships changing their plan. millions and millions of people may have to move to get out of harm's way. live reports coming from up and down the east coast with a look at how people are preparing. if you haven't seen the latest tracking map for this, remember, earlier we were reporting, and because national weather service was reporting -- look at this. matthew makes a loop. plus did last night's vice presidential showdown help you make up your mind about who to support? ahead the debate's impact of undecided voters who could make all the difference in november. that's coming up on a busy

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during debates like last night's showdown between tim kaine and mike pence, a goal of each campaign is to pick up support of undecided voters. did the vice presidential candidates move the needle at all in any way? it's too early to know for sure. undecided voters in the swing state of virginia spoke to the "wall street journal" and they

say last night's debate did not help them make up their minds one way or the other. john is here, the associate editor, news editor at the "wall street journal." so they watched in virginia and said, huh. >> yeah. >> so our reporters found -- we had a group of undecided voters, found some liked it, some didn't. the types of reactions that you're hearing more broadly about, you know, both of them having been more prepared, knowing the issues, performing well. tim kaine interrupting too much. pence not defending donald trump. all of that kind of -- all that came out. but you didn't get a feel that this was moving the needle. mind you, undecided voters still in the high single digits. that's a significant number. pl particularly with a campaign that's this close in so many battleground states. you know, it tends to be historically the vice presidential debate doesn't move the needle so much, and probably we'll find that to be the case this year because you have such

very big personalities that are leading the two tickets. people are waiting for sunday in the next presidential debate. >> it's been interesting to me to hear from republican insiders today, it's the insiders who seem to be happier after last nigh night's debate. a lot taking deep breaths going finally there's some order might be restored, but that was done according to carl's reporting, again, without the defense of donald trump which trump might have won it. you wonder if that really does anything at all. i don't have a way to know. >> yeah, does it wrangle donald trump that he wasn't overtly defended all the time? pence did a pretty good job of defending the broad scope -- >> totally. >> -- of donald trump's, you know, agenda. he was there as the running mate doing his job. there were issues, though, like russia, for example -- >> syria. >> -- people pointed out that he didn't. so was pence running for 2020? was pence doing this to consolidate gop sort of support

behind donald trump? you know, he's -- in a lot of respects to the conventional member of the gop, the conventional republicans in the house and the senate, he's a pretty attractive candidate. so he's a way of consolidating that establishment power around donald trump. that's something good for donald trump. >> a couple of things are not up for debate. prior to that debate last week, the trend line was in donald trump's direction. all the polls that we saw, not just national polls but the state polls. >> that's right, the battleground states. >> all the battleground states. that debate happened then all of those polls, all of them, the big important ones, seemed to take a turn in the other direction. >> yeah. >> now you move toward sunday and if this didn't make any difference, then sunday is the big difference. >> yeah, and remember, a lot of other things then happened after that debate. right? >> so much. >> there was the carry-on of his criticism of the miss universe. and by extension, you know, his comments about women and weight

that got, you know, a lot of publicity. there was the tax story in "the new york times" that was sort of re-opened that can of worms for the trump campaign. so all of that gave -- was a pretty bad week and the polls that you're citing digest a fair amount of that negative news for the trump campaign. so what's going to happen this sunday? very different format. it could very well have a similar spin on the campaign, but i think that we're still in a situation having had last night's debate where it's still a turnaround for the trump campaign. >> all right. donald trump is now speaking -- i mentioned he was about to hold an event and i see him on the wall. he's been introduced. as we look at him while we wait to do that, i'm going to remind you of carl cameron's reporting, in trump tower they're closely watching pence's defense of trump today. donald trump and some of his aides were disappointed pence did not defend trump when attacked by kaine and instead immediately pivoted to counterattacking clinton which left many kaine attacks

unanswered. that's the reporting of carl cameron. interesting to see what donald trump has to say about all afof this. let's listen. >> and on november 8th, we must get out to complete the movement and then the work begins. okay? and then the work begins. thank you, everybody, very much. it's great to be here in the city of henderson. i know henderson very well. lot of friends. our fabulous, fabulous state that we all love. this is a special state. i certainly spent a lot of money on this state if it's not. and we have right down the road a very successful hotel, trump international. it's been great. really great. so i want to thank everybody. in 34 days, we're going to win this state and we're going to win back the white house.

so, how many of you watched the vice presidential debate last night in. >> mike pence did an incredible job. i'm getting a lot of credit because that's really my first so-called choice. that was my first hire as we would say in las vegas. i'll tell you, he was a good one. he was phenomenal. he was cool, he was smart. he was, i mean, you just take a look at him. he was meant to be doing what he's doing. and we are very, very proud of governor mike pence. thank you, mike pence. i'd argue that mike had the single most decisive victory in the history of vice presidential debates. i believe that. and last night america also got to look firsthand at my judgment, and that was judgment. you know, you need judgment for

people, for deals. we don't do deals like the iran deal. we don't do deals like that anymore, folks. we don't do deals like that. $1.7 billion in cash. and we're in las vegas. when you hear $1.7 billion, i think this whole stage would be filled up to the roof. whoever heard about things that are going on? unbelievable. mike laid out big and bold solutions for america. his opponent talked only of small and petty distractions. hillary clinton has been there for 30 years and hasn't fixed anything. she goes around, we'll do this, we'll do that, we'll do this. all these things, it's all wonderful. the problem is, why didn't she do them? in fact, she's just made things worse. she failed in upstate new york as a senator. promising to create in order to

get elected 200,000 jobs, but manufacturing is down more than 40% and the jobs have left. it's just the opposite. she failed overseas, producing only death and destruction. she unleashed isis. destabilized iraq, syria, libya, and put iran onto the path of nuclear weapons in less than ten years now, they will have nuclear weapons. one of the dumbest deals ever made. whether it's countries or any kind of a deal you can think of, one of the dumbest deals ever made. at home, hillary clinton failed latinos and african-americans, producing only more poverty in the inner cities. and you see that. you see that. wherever you go to the inner cities, nothing happens. it never happens. it's called give me your vote

and then they don't come back. four years later, they come back. she's merely the vessel for the global special interests, bleeding our country dry. they are bleeding our country. i'm running to represent americans and we are going to make america rich again. we're not rich. we're debtor nation right now. i'm going to end illegal immigration. stop the massive inflow of refugees, keep jobs from pouring out of our country, renegotiate our totally disastrous trade deals, and massively reduce taxes and regulations on our workers and our businesses. my economic agenda will be very, very simple.

it's called jobs, jobs, jobs. our jobs are all leaving. the problems we face as a country are immense and it's going to take bold action to turn things around. we need change. we need change. right now, we owe $20 trillion debt, $20 trillion. it doubled under president obama. our infrastructure is like that of a third-world country. the homicide rate last year experienced the biggest single-year increase in more than 45 years. does anybody know that? biggest increase in homicide in 45 years. our police are underfunded, understaffed and undersupported

and hillary clinton basically accuses our police of all being racist. our border is wide open and drugs and criminal cartels are pouring into our country on an hourly basis. thousands of refugees are being admitted with no way to screen them and are instantly made eligible for welfare and free health care, even as our own veterans, our great, great veterans, died while they're waiting on line for medical care that they desperately need. our veterans will be taken care of like they've never been taken care of before.

do we have some veterans in the group? stand up. stand up, veterans. wow. we have such tremendous support from the veterans group, from law enforcement. veterans groups from all over the country. we just had the endorsement from the fraternal order of police which represents massive amounts of police. almost every police group. almost every veteran group. and then i saw today, i left the room and i saw a commercial where it was really a nasty commercial, totally made up about me with vets. there's nobody that loves the vets more or respects the vets more. they're spending hundreds of millions of dollars on false commercials and it's a disgrace. so what we'll do, i guess we'll sue them. let's sue them, right?

let's sue them. unbelievable. they say, let's see, where's trump doing well? he's doing well with the vets. let's do a commercial on the vets. whatever's done popular, they'll j just put it in. we're going to take care of our vets like you've never been taken care of before. remember that. our annual trade deficit with the world is nearly, listen to this, $800 billion a year. you say, who's negotiabilityine deals, right? we have political hacks negotiating our deals. and we have the greatest businesspeople in the world in our country, why aren't we using them? $800 billion a year in trade. the federal budget is a total disaster. our state department mostly under the watch of crooked hillary clinton misplaced or

lost $6 billion in -- can you imagine this? they lost. you know, you lose a couple of bucks, they lost $6 billion in taxpayer funds. we have the worst so-called recovery by far since the great depression. we're a nation totally divided with race riots in the streets. our college students graduate, loaded with debt, only to discover they can't find jobs or certainly not the jobs they want or not the jobs they were trained for and worked so hard to get. those jobs have left. our allies aren't paying their fair share. foreign countries like russia and china do not respect us. you ever see hillary clinton when she wants to talk tough about putin? they say, donald trump loves putin.

i don't love, i don't hate. we'll see how it works. we'll see. maybe we'll have a good relationship. maybe we'll have a horrible relationship. maybe we'll have a relationship right in the middle. i can say this, if we got along with russia, and russia went out with us and knocked the hell out of isis, that's okay with me, folks. that's okay with me. so our taxpayers and us, all of us as citizens are sending troops and foreign aid all over the world even as their own cities can't provide the most basic services. we go to some of these middle eastern locations and we'll build a school and they blow it up. we build it again and they blow it up. but when we want a school here, or in brooklyn, new york, or in los angeles or someplace else, we don't have the funds.

we spent $6 trillion in the middle east. think of that. we could have rebuilt our country. >> donald trump at a campaign rally, henderson, nevada. fox news extreme weather alert. hurricane matthew moving closer to the united states as it leaves a path of destruction across the caribbean. estimates now show a direct hit on the east coast could affect more than 15 million people. in florida, the governor, rick scott, is now warning people in his state that they could face their biggest evacuation in history. telling people, and i'm quoting the governor now, "if you're able to go early, leave now." today, president obama reminded everybody in the storm's path to be very alert. >> everybody needs to be paying attention and following the instructions of your local officials and if you get an evacuation order, just remember that you can always rebuild, you can always repair property, you cannot restore a life if it is

lost and we want to make sure that we minimize any possible loss of life or risk. >> i want to get right to rick who's in the ex-freed freedotre center after looking at these videos, rick, is there a new forecast? i see this loop this morning. >> yeah, interesting. maybe in the long run of this. in the short term, it weakened as it spent the time over haiti and even this little eastern tip of cuba, weakened a little bit with the mountainous terrain. it's back over the water here and likely will strengthen. down to a category 3 storm. doesn't make that much of a difference. category 3 or category 4. you get the idea here. take a look at the water temperature. 89 degrees. the water is very, very warm across the bahamas and it is also not mountainous at all. none of those islands, about 700 islands in the bahamas, will break the storm apart at all. likely to strengthen. this is the future radar of one of the models we look at. this model takes it a little bit offshore. that would certainly be good news. the trend has been closer and closer to the shore. and this is a forecast here,

that orange tropical storm force winds, the red there is hurricane force. and then white which we're going to see pop up on here is major hurricane. take a look there. tomorrow afternoon, shep, we have tropical storm winds onshore in florida. >> rick, thank you. fox news palert. president obama speaking live at the white house, land mark paris agreement on climate change. finally today enough countries signaled that they are for the deal and it will take effect in 30 days. the mementos occasion for the obama white house. let's listen. >> set the world on a low carbon course. the result was the paris agreement. last month the united states and china, the world's two largest economies and largest emitters, formally joined that agreement together and today the world has officially crossed the threshold for the paris agreement to take effect. today, the world meets the moment, and if we follow through on the commitments that this paris agreement embodies,

history may well judge it as a turning point for our planet. of course, it took a long time to reach this day. one of the reasons i ran for this office was to make america a leader in this mission. and over the past eight years, we've done just that. in 2009, we salvaged a chaotic climate summit in copenhagen, establishing the principle that all nations have a role to play in combatting climate change. and at home, we led by example with historic investments in growing industries like wind and solar that created a steady stream of new jobs. we set the first ever nationwide standards to limit the amount of carbon pollution that power plants can dump into the air our children breathe. from the cars and trucks we drive, to the homes and businesses in which we live and work, we've changed fundamentally the way we consume energy. keep in mind the skeptics said these actions would kill jobs,

and instead, we saw even as we were bringing down these carbon levels the longest streak of job creation in american history. we drove economic output to new highs and we drove our carbon pollution to its lowest levels in two decades. we continued to lead by example with our historic joint announcement with china two years ago where we put forward even more ambitious climate targets, and that achievement encouraged dozens of other countries to set more ambitious climate targets of their own. and that in turn paid the way for our success in paris. the idea that no nation, not even one as powerful as ours, can solve this challenge alone. all of us have to solve it together. now, the paris agreement, alone, will not solve the climate crisis. even if we meet every target embodied in the agreement, we'll only get to part of where we need to go, but make no mistake,

this agreement will help delay or avoid some of the worst consequences of climate change. it will help other nations ratchet down their dangerous carbon emissions over time and set bolder targets as technology advances, all under a strong system of transparency that allows each nation to evaluate the progress of all other nations. and by sending a signal that this is going to be our future, a clean energy future, it opens up the flood gates for businesses and scientists and engineers to unleash high-tech, low-carbon investment and innovation at a scale that we've never seen before. so this gives us the best possible shot to save the one planet we've got. i know diplomacy can be easy and progress on the world stage can sometimes be slow, but together with steady, persistent effort, with strong, principled american leadership, with optimism and faith and hope, we're proving that it is possible and i want

to embarrass my senior adviser, brian deese, who's standing right over there because he worked tirelessly to make this deal possible. he and john kerry, jina mccarthy at the epa, everybody on their teams, have done an extraordinary job to get us this point. and america should be as proud of them as i am of them. i also want to thank the people of the very nation that has moved quickly to bring the paris agreement into force. i encourage folks who have not yet submitted their documentation to enter into this agreement to do so as soon as possible an in td in the coming let's help finish additional agreements to limit aviation emissions, to phase down use of hydrochloric carbons, to create a world that's more prosperous and more secure and more free than one that was left for us.

that's our most important mission to make sure our kids and our grandkids have at least as beautiful a planet and hopefully even more beautiful than the one that we have. and today, i'm a little more confident that we can get the job done. so, thank you very much, everybody. >> the president speaking in the rose garden. that was a live statement. the details of this are a little bit complicated. the paris climate agreement had to have at least 55 nations and 55% of all the carbon pollution nations in the world on board. they now reached both of those plateaus today which means 60 days from today, this new climate change initiative will go into place and the president says the paris deal will help delay or avoid some of the worst consequences of climate change. the scientists are almost unanimous on this. the climate is changing and certainly we're expecting to see many more enormous weather phenomenons as a result. we've had some of the hottest years ever recorded in recent

years. storms seem to be growing stronger according to the scientists who study these things. and as it so happens, we have a very strong storm today that's threatening the united states. and it's one of those storms where if the meteorologists are right, things are going to probably mostly be okay. if the meteorologists are wrong by this much, 50 miles sway to the west of this storm, we have a whole new situation. and meteorologists have been very clear for as long as i've been in this business, at least 25, 30 years, they can't know exactly what a hurricane is going to do. there's no way to exactly predict it. they can get very close, they can give us warnings based on their predictions, and that's it. hurricanes do as hurricanes do. and the concern is that this hurricane won't do what the meteorologists think it's going to do and if it doesn't, florida's got a mess coming. that's the reason florida's governor has sent out such extreme warnings today. the reason south carolina's governor ordered mandatory

evacuations of 1.1 million people along the coast of south carolina yet. our chief meteorologist is not downplaying the storm. in fact, you're reporting now the conditions are ripe for to get stronger, not weaker initially. >> i think as it moves across the bahamas. water is really, really warm. i want to add on to what you were saying there. we're really good, we know if the storm is going to be in a certain direction generally but you said it, 20 miles one direction or 20 miles another direction, we cannot get that specific. and sometimes that 20 miles makes a really big difference, and this is one of those storms that that is the case. so i want to kind of explain why. there's yellow or orange there, tropical-storm-force winds. the red is hurricane-force winds. tomorrow, midday to midafternoon, we start to see tropical-storm-force winds in south florida. tomorrow night, 9:00 p.m., maybe the first hurricane-force winds and then you go into the overnight hours and that right there is major hurricane just off the shores here of florida. now, 20 miles, 20 miles this way, 20 miles that way, makes

huge differences and that's what we're going to be watching with this storm. we cannot say exactly 20 miles one direction or another. we know that it's going to be right here in florida. we know we're going to have impacts along the coast. we know we're going to see -- i shouldn't say we know, we're almost sure we will see hurricane-force winds along the coast. but do we have major hurricane-force winds right on the coast? that i can't tell you, but it's going to be very, very close. our models that you look at, they have changed. you mentioned this loopdy loop, shepard, a little bit ago. here you go. yesterday all of these models were pulling off toward the north there and that has changed. our atmospheric setup has changed a little l bit. this is a super kind of a sciencey map, shep, i want to explain this. that red, that is our hurricane. see that red up there in canada, that is a weakness in the atmosphere that we thought was going to pull this storm up toward the north. that is not as strong as we had

forecast. this is stiomething when you go days and days out, we're talking about systems that are thousands of miles away that end up having an impact here. that's why we can't get it that precise. this not as strong as we thought it was going to be. that means it's not going to pull it up toward the north and we end up with high pressure here. that starts to block this storm and pull it back around, maybe a little bit toward the south. again, we are in this case eight, ten days out of the way. this might change, again, in the short term. we know florida's going to get it and it's going to get it tomorrow night. shep? >> rick in the weather center. difficult days, especially for floridians. team fox coverage continues as we track this monster storm, live to the east coast of florida where there are big fears that after a decade of false alarms, some people may not take these warnings seriously. and later to south carolina where the governor has ordered hundreds of thousands, in fact, 1.1 million people to leave their homes. it is a monster storm. expected to strengthen. team fox coverage right after this. hi!

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more now on hurricane matthew and its threat to the united states. hundreds of thousands of people along the east coast are heading inland due to mandatory evacuation orders. 1.1 million in south carolina alone. others are planning ahead by stocking up on the essentials. this may look like broken record hurricane coverage from the last 30 years, but this is the news and what's happening. all over florida and up the east coast. images in our slide show to show you this afternoon. this is the town hall, whatever, in tidy island, georgia, about 15 miles east of savannah. see it's been boarded up as a precaution. they always get out of there early. this woman doing a bit of multitasking in a lowe's in oakland park, florida, keeping a close eye on a generator she's purchasing while feeding a 6-month-old there. lots of work to do. same store, gasoline in high demand. north of there, deerfield beach on the east coast. see two brothers at home depot got to put the plywood up on the

house. this last photo from south carolina outside charleston, gas lines are very long. getting a chance to fill up a car after waiting in line at a gas station. see all the cars waiting along. common scene in the northeastern united states. it's everywhere. phil keating has covered hurricanes, he's 80 miles north of miami. roads clouded? >> reporter: roads are about what you would expect at 3:30 during rush hour. that's the westbound traffic going from screen right to left. see the i-95 signs right there. heading north toward daytona beach, you're heading into the worst situation. here in martin county, east of us on the coast, jupiter island, as well as hutchison island, currently only under a strongly encouraged voluntary evacuation. the mandatory evacuations up in brevard county, florida's space coast. these are the cities of melbourne, coca beach, satellite beach, cape canaveral as well as merit island.

mandatory evacuations began exactly 44 minutes ago. 3:00. so the only other mandatory evacuations that have been ordered are up in nassau county, that's the one county north of jacksonville before you get to georgia. that's 6:00 a.m. for the amelia island zones. here's what nobody wants to see when you're in this situation in florida. we have been seeing long lines of cars at every single gas station. and unfortunately, many of the gas stations have already run out of gas. the ports are reportedly so busy with tanker trucks, gasoline tanker trucks, trying to refill their tanks and then get out to the state and disperse that fuel just in case residents are going to evacuate. you got to have a full tank. they're having trouble getting full and then bringing it on out here, so the delivery was supposed to happen about three hours ago at this gas station. as for the cone of uncertainty, well, the governor spoke this morning and said don't even pay

attention to it. take a listen. >> we should not focus on the exact track. the storm continues to move closer to our state. for now, some forecasts have put a direct hit on florida. >> reporter: yesterday, the governor had activated 200 guardsmen and women. that has now changed as the trajectory of this monster category 3 hurricane, possibly going to be a cat 4 when it strikes florida, has now upped that to 500 national guardsmen and women in the state of florida, not only activated but already deployed. utility companies, florida power and light, as well as duke energy, have already alerted the state that they have pre-deployed extra utility trucks because it is widely anticipated there could be widely seen power outages. everybody, of course, as usual, in these hurricanes hoping for the little, but it could be a lot. now, long lines at grocery

stores, kmart, walmart, costco. empty shelves. people stocking up on water, food. anything that they'll need to survive trapped in their house for three to five days. so that's a promising sign, shep. >> yeah. in the years after andrew struck down in kendall in south miami-dade, every time there was a warning, people got out. they understood that meteorologists can't get this exactly right. but they watched an entire landscape reduced to rubble so they paid attention. for the last ten years or so, the warnings have come but the hurricanes haven't and i wonder how concerned they are about hurricane complacency this time around. >> reporter: shep, there are also millions more new residents to florida who were not living here back in 2004 and 2005 during those two horrendous hurricane years. so that's been a major concern of the governor, emergency operators, of the county and local level making sure everyone heeds these warnings, takes this situation seriously, pays attention. the president even weighed in on

this today advising all residents on the entire east coast of the united states, all the way from florida to maine, to pay attention because especially in the coastal communities, impact could be great. in florida, the rain amounts could be 5 to 10 inches. storm surge could be anywhere between 1 and 5 feet. of course, more people die in tropical cyclones because of flooding than they do from wind damage or any other kind of debris flying through the air. so the good sign is that all of the gas stations and grocery stores appear to have been hit hard. i can tell you in miami-dade and brevard county, there certainly seem to be an elevated sense of concern today, especially, so hopefully everything works out all for the better tomorrow. >> we can certainly hope. we got to prepare. phil keating in south florida for us. if anybody who's ever lived in florida understands the predicament, when you go to evacuate, it's difficult, you got to deal with kids, you got to pack up the house, got to find a place to stay.

it's very expensive. you have to eat out while you're away if you don't have someplace to stay. then you have to get back in all that traffic and if nothing hits it's like man, we did this again. then one will hit. and then everything changes. everybody who lived through hurricane andrew in south florida knows, they don't all hit, but when they do hit, as a resident of coastal united states, you have a responsibility when the leaders say get out, you got to get out. it's expensive, it's horrible. isn't it nice living on that beach on the rest of the year? really is. a family who did it for 25, 30 years on the horrible coaflorids horrible. team fox coverage ahead. the team barrels toward the southeast, we'll go live to south carolina. a new broadcast now. the governor ordered hundreds of thousands of people out of their homes as of just yesterday, i mean, well, look at this.

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extreme weather alert and our coverage continues as hurricane matthew takes aim at the southeastern united states. a live look. this is an incredible -- one of those traffic cameras that wherever you live they probably have traffic cameras that show you the big backup areas in your neighborhood. well, this is traffic on interstate 526, which is an extension of interstate 26. it's the main way out of

charleston, south carolina. and it is bumper to bumper. the state's governor, nikki haley is telling hundreds of thousands of people along the coast to get out ahead of a possible category 3 storm. let's get to jonathan serra. in summerville, south carolina outside charleston. hello, jonathan. >> reporter: hi, shep. you can see behind me state troopers redirecting traffic. and then as we pan over here you can see i-26. this is something that we have not seen since hurricane hugo in 1989. every lane of i-26 heading west. they reversed the eastbound lanes just minutes ago, and now you can see traffic in all lanes moving away from the coast. take a look at this video from earlier in the day to give you another perspective, even before they reversed the lanes traffic was most heavy in the westbound lanes. many people heegd the warnings, wanting to get an early start on the evacuations.

governor nikki haley is calling for the efrkss of the greater charleston county area and greater buford county area today. georgetown county and ohrie county with an h which includes myrtle beach can expect evacuations tomorrow morning. >> and for those of you that are wondering whether you should leave or not, i again will tell you that if you do not leave you are putting a law enforcement officer or national guardsman's life on the line when they have to go back and get you. >> reporter: and for residents without transportation more than 300 buses will be carrying charleston residents to upstate south carolina. >> classes at the university of south carolina columbia canceled today, tomorrow, and friday. lots of people getting ready for this thing. >> reporter: yeah, they are indeed. they're taking the warnings very seriously. we spoke with the manager of a hardware store who said as soon as the governor made her announcement people started stocking up on supplies at his store. we've also seen people gassing up their cars. the governor says although there

may be some spotty shortages at some of the smaller stations by and large there's plenty of gasoline in the supply chain. so people don't need to worry about that. and we've also seen a lot of people flock to area supermarkets, stocking up on food and water, shep. >> jonathan serrie in summerville, south carolina. the top stories just moments away. stay with us.

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