up the east coast and we'll have preview of the big debate on sunday night. again, thanks for watching us tonight. bill o'reilly in washington. please always remember the spin stops here in d.c. we're definitely looking out for you. breaking tonight at this very moment the southeastern united states is starting to get smashed by what the national hurricane center is calling one of the most extreme and potentially deadly hurricane threats in modern history. welcome to "the kelly file," everyone. i'm megyn kelly on a busy night. hurricane matthew a category 4 monster packing maximum winds of 130 miles per hour. with gusts up to 165 miles per hour. is poised to potentially become the first storm of this magnitude to make landfall in this region since records began in 1851. if there is one word we are hearing again and again, it is catastrophic. right now severe winds and rain are whipping florida's east coast. the bulk of the storm is on

track for a direct hit on a highly populated vast stretch on the eastern seaboard. we may be looking at an extreme life threatening weather event right now. lasting 40 hours. these are live images from lake worth pierre in palm beach, florida. you can see the waves breaking around the pier there. it normally sits 20 feet off the water. look at that time it now. president obama declaring a state of emergency in florida. 1. a million people there are under mandatory evacuation orders but thousands are ignoring pleas to seek safety. we have reporters fanned out across florida for you tonight. we will be checking in with them throughout the hour. correspondent steve harrigan in sebastian. eric messimer is in juno beach. we will be joined by rick scott who just hours ago warned residents of his state that this storm will,

quote, kill you. we begin with chief meteorologist rick reichmuth live in the fox weather center for us. rick, what's the latest? >> this messaging is so important. we are talking about a storm that we have never experienced. normally we see hurricanes make landfall in a direct fashion. this storm looks like it is going to just skirt the coast line for about a 40-hour period. hurricane warnings in effect from north of miami all the way up now to north of charleston, south carolina. the very large stretch of land and the center of the storm right there around freeport, bahamas, been in that same spot for about the last hour and about to be moved back here. crossing the gulf stream. the waters very, very warm. current wind speeds are in the mid 40's in west palm, up to 48. it is about to get the first very strong wind band, hurricane strength coming on very closely. you see the white. that's where we have major hurricane force winds. radar very, very close. this band that is getting right there toward west palm is what we are talking about where we likely have a

hurricane force wind right here. probably 100 mile-per-hour wind and there in that center is that 130, 140 mile-per-hour winds. storm surge is going to be huge. anywhere to the north say of melbourne up through the georgia coast line into south carolina it's going to be a storm surge like we have never seen there before. not even exactly sure what potential damage happens with that we will see some spots 10 to 12 feet of storm surge. megyn a very scary depiction here. look at future radar, possibly landfall tonight around 3:00 a.m. watch what happens. center of this storm hugs the coast line all the way in throughout the georgia coast line into south carolina that's saturday at noon. we are talking about 40 hours of a hurricane right on the shores of the southeast. >> rick, we'll be back to you. thank you. in addition to the wind, a major they tonight and in the coming days will be a massive surge of salt water that could wash over communities stretching from south florida all the way up to south carolina. right now, steve harrigan is braving the conditions along the coast in sebastian, florida. he is about 100 miles away

right now from the center of the storm. steve? >> wow, megan, it is just pouring now as we are getting some of those outer bands. some of the heavier stuff might be four or five hours away. the rain is coming in sideways now. the camera is about 10 feet away from me all i can see from me and him is a wall of water. the owner of this hotel expects this building to be entirely under water when this is all done and through. and he might be right. right now we are seeing gusts here where i am of about 55 miles per hour. that's enough to knock down small trees and branches. about 25,000 people currently without power. of course, the real fear here across the state would be a direct hit of a category 4 hurricane with winds of more than 130 miles per hour and that 10-foot storm surge. that's what hasple really terrified. we have seen evacuations throughout the day. 1.5 million people told to leave. and they are leaving. i can tell you from seeing them on the move, it is not easy. a lot of florida's elderly,

afraid and on the move. in hotels, going to relatives. packing up their cars. one woman at the best western was in front of me online. she is on the first floor. she is afraid that floor is going to be under water by the end of this storm. she wanted a room on the third floor. there was no room available. so people now are worried. they're worried about their own survival. and this has been a deadly hurricane. 250 people killed by it in haiti. a similar storm of this size in florida 10 years ago killed 2 a people in this state alone. so they are worried about surviving and they are worried about their homes. i had three people tell me today we live in manufactured homes. we're leaving, but when we come back we don't know if there will be anything to come back to. megyn, back to you. >> steve, standing there in the middle of it, does it feel like a storm or does it feel more foreboding than that? >> the scary thing about this is how wide it is. this could just drag on forever all up the coast. so you have a massive area

that could come under threat. and when you hear about the governor's preparations, 2500 national guard, that's not going to be enough at 2:00 in the morning with 110 mile-per-hour winds when you have this many people in danger. it's scary how big the area of danger is. that's what worries me about this storm, megyn. >> is anybody outside? >> it is a ghost town right now outside. stores are boarded up. people are not out on the roads. and now, in order to prevent looting, we have a lot of people, a lot of local officials in counties issuing curfews. they don't want people out on the street and even shelters now are closing their doors it is too difficult to move around. bridges are shutting down. they want you inside. if you are outside, you could get arrested. >> and before we let you to, steve, do you have a safe place, you and our photographer? >> yeah. we have a safe place. we're going to try to keep the shot up as long as we can safely and then we will shut it down.

but, right now, 55, we're pretty good here. >> what are we seeing behind you, steve? >> it's water right behind me. it's a dock of boats. and the last time this happened about 10 years ago, all the boats actually crashed in to this hotel where i'm standing. the trust thing is that when the water rises here and it could rise well above my head if we do get a 10-foot storm surge. it rises from two directions. you really is to keep an all at all times on the rising waters to make sure do you have an exit path. we haven't lost electric power here yet. i'm thinking of all the people out there up and down the coast. along i-9 a who could be losing power and who are going to have a scary night ahead, 2:00, 3:00 in the morning, megyn. >> indeed, the worse is yet to come. steve harrigan has done this many times for the fox news channel. we will keep an-on him as the evening progresses. thanks, steve. wow, in palm beach county, florida, the emergency shelters are now housing roughly 7,000 people. who either did not get out in time or who chose to stay

closer to home. for more on the situation there we go to fox 13 reporter aaron messimer live in juno beach. aaron? >> megyn, that's a good place to start right there. about 7,000 people decided not to leave. so we just heard some of those reports about folks getting out of here. 1.5 million people under emergency evacuation order. so many of them, there are a lot down here, who decided not to leave for various reasons that we are hearing. now, i want to show you over here, this is going to be one of the first spots that takes the biggest brunt of this storm. those trees, this is probably the best it looked within the last half hour or so. they were just bowing. and there was a point at which i thought that some of these trees were, you might see them uproot or snap. i mean, this is 140 mile-per-hour winds we are talking about that's coming. in we are not even close to being there yet. we were down at the beach -- i have got toll it you. we were down at the beach. the wind was so strong it was blowing the wind sideways. like it is right now.

stinging my face, you can't see, you can't hear, it hurts to even be out there. there are still so many people that we saw just there taking pictures of the water. but, yet, there are a lot of people who did stick it out and just like that previous report you heard, those people don't know what they're going back to right now. we just talked with a couple of people. [lost audio] >> you can see aaron struggling with our satellite hookup. forgive us. you understand why. hang on. i think we have him again. keep going, aaron. >> yeah. i don't know how much of that you heard but i will just start what i was saying there there was a couple peel of people in the hotel just down the road that we talked to. they said they don't know what they are going to go back to. they just are so concerned when they get back home, megyn, they don't know if that home is going to be under water. they don't know if it's still going to be standing. we saw a video of a roof getting ripped off somewhere along the east coast of florida. it is so dangerous. this is a storm as we heard florida governor rick scott

say, this a storm that can kill people. >> and he is our next guest. aaron, thank you. as we watch the tree trunks, not just the tree tops wave in the background. incredible to watches a the storm is not even there yet. joining us now by phone is florida governor rick scott. governor, thank you very much for being with us. what made you say it that way? this storm will kill you? so explicit and obviously scary. >> well, megyn, it is scary. we have 130 mile-per-hour winds with gusts to 165 mile-per-hour. we are going to have 12-foot storm surge. on top of that, we are going to have waves. we have rip current. we haven't seen this. and i have focused on trying to get everybody to safety. my biggest concern is i want everybody to survive this. and i just want to make sure everybody is evacuated. we still have further north prey brevard. melbourne north still evacuate. we have shelters open all

across the state. we have evacuation routes open all across the state. we activated 3500 national guard for safety and evacuation efforts. and we are doing everything we can to get everybody to safety. but, it's coming on. it's starting to hit palm beach and it's going to go all night and through tomorrow afternoon up to georgia line and then, unfortunately, i just talked to governor -- hit georgia and hit south carolina and i talked to nikki haley a few minutes ago. this is a scary time. but we have done everything we can to prepare. now we are going to pray for the safety of everybody in our state. >> you are saying melbourne north can still evacuated and get to a shelter. what are the roads like in that situation? is it still drivable? are the wind gusts too severe? >> if you're further north you can. you know, if you look down at palm beach, you need to hunker down. but if you are further north, can you still get -- the roads are open. some of them have gotten

them unclogged. they are still moving. so you can still evacuate further north. but if you are down in palm beach, you are now -- it's time to hunker down and just pray that you did the right thing. >> and what about the national guard? you said 3500, our reporter said he thought it was 2500. it's 3500. do you think that's going to be enough? >> well, i have got another 4,000 that i can deploy very quickly. they are ready to be deployed. what we are doing now is evacuations they are helping our shelters. and then as we get passed this, and i can deploy the rest of them very quickly. can i deploy a total of about 6600 to about 7,000 right now. and so i will deploy as many as i need. >> governor, this is not your first storm to hit florida while you have been governor. how does this compare based on what you have been hearing from the experts who have been living in florida forever? how does this compare to the

others? >> meg megyn i was in business, i evacuated two hospitals and turned south and i had a hospital fully demolished with 154 patients in it. we were able to keep everybody alive. we have evacuated hospitals on the east coast. this is the worst disaster that i have had. i have never had to do 3500 members of the national guard since i have been governor. we just had a hurricane. it was a category 1 in the panhandle. this is nothing as compared to what we are going to see tonight. >> look at that monster on the satellite pictures. governor. >> it's a lot. megyn, you said the right thing, it's a monster. >> all the best to you all the floridians and south koreans and georgians watching this storm. take care, sir. we just got dramatic news from the national hurricane center. we'll have that for new a moment. plus, we have a storm chaser driving up the coast right now. he just told us the roadway is completely surrounded by water already.

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we're going back live now to florida as hurricane force winds start to hit the u.s. coast in what meteorologist rick reichmuth says could be a 40 hour stretch of hurricane along the eastern seaboard. joining me now by phone emmy award winning storm chaser and photo journalist jeff who i streaming live video as he had drives along the ground jensen beach, florida. what are you seeing so far. >> the winds are continuing to increase all afternoon along the southeast coast here, 40 and 50. i did have minor damage back at jensen beach a few miles ago. branches falling down. couple power flashes as the hurricane force winds are close to the coast line inlet here and hurricane

force winds will be moving onshore within the hour or two hours 10 to 11:00. you will see power outages and transformers blow. it's continuing to deteriorate rapidly as the eye is approaching from the southeast about 80 miles out in the ocean at this time. >> how does this compare to the other storms that you have driven into? because they are saying we haven't seen a storm like this in at least 10 years and well beyond, potentially. >> well, the tough part about this one, no two hurricanes are alike. this one is going to create its own problems and damage. the interesting thing is if we can get the -- if the eye wall gets close ter shore and makes landfall up near the cape or possibly north of daytona and up ward jacksonville area, if the eye comes ashore, then all bets are off. that's when you will get the core wind of 120, maybe 130. that's where you will have more significant damage. that's what the model keeps saying is going to happen.

going to make landfall in the cape area as well as up near cottageville and nasaville launch area. that's where it will come ashore and key will see what happens. >> governor rick scott says if you are in the southern part of florida palm beach too late to evacuate. if you are in the northern area you may still have time to get to one of those shelters. jeff, stay safe. thank you. >> thanks, megyn. >> i want to take a quick break now from the weather coverage to get to the campaign trail because we are seeing some evidence that a new donald trump may be emerging ahead of the critical second presidential debate. as we watch him holding just a handful of events over the last 48 hours and avoiding some of the more controversial teams that he has been known to hit on from time to time. adding to that is this headline from the "new york post." last night in which mr. trump suggested he will not mention bill clinton's past at the next debate. and that he would rather discuss issues like jobs, trade, and immigration. joining me now monica crowley served as former policy and julie.

both fox news contributors. great to see you. >> great to see you. hi. >> what we are going to see a more disciplined trump that we saw in that sort of six-week period during which his poll numbers rose and people started to really believe he might be able to do this thing. >> right there. are two possibilities here. number one, he is rope-a-doping all of us including mrs. clinton come out swinging not about bill clinton's infidelities but about mr. clinton's role about smearing a hot these women who either were involved with him or accused him of sexual assault or rape or he really means. this and he is going to stay focused on his four core issues of law and order, economic populism and job creation, strong national defense and defeating the corrupt rigged system. that's what i would suggest he do going into the final two debates unless is he provoked. >> she raises the woman issue again you think he should do it? >> absolutely. >> is it too late? because we have seen donald

trump's poll numbers slide precipitously over the last couple of weeks since that first debate. is it too late if he goes in and has a stellar debate. >> not too late. everybody lost a come back story. on the other hand not like he is idol. crazy tweet storms with alicia machado talking about her being overweight. mocking hillary clinton falling down after her pneumonia scare. is he able and capable of doing what monica crowley just so aptly pointed out how he should behave. i don't think is he constitutionally capable. shoe tweaks him. whatever plans he has will go completely by the wayside. in the 70 years he has been alive no indication that he has any self-discipline to do anything otherwise. >> the thing about trump is he do d. so well over that six week whatever it was period in part because he had teleprompters and he stuck to them. trump, part of the charm of trump when he is off script and says what he feels entertaining, that's a danger to him as presidential candidate. in this town hall there will be no teleprompter.

tonight is he doing hall with conservative moderator hugh hewitt that will not be the case on saturday night. >> that is true. one thing that truly scares donald trump is the prospect of losing. so we saw him get his act together, remain disciplined and focused and staying true to his core issues right after the democratic national convention where you're right, megyn, his poll numbers really did start to slide. that's really what scared him straight. i think after this first debate with the slippage in his poll numbers, that is also now scared him in to realize that if he doesn't go back to that more disciplined approach to addressing the issues that really concern americans, i mean, this country has some serious problems. he needs to make this less about himself and more about the american people in the future of the country. if he does that eagle win. >> you are assuming he actually thinks he is losing. >> i have seen him tweeted tennessee and georgia. i don't think he thinks he is losing. the polls are rigged. rigged all along throughout the primary in his mind.

he won the primary. can he continue being trump and win the election. >> realistically, do you believe it would be enough for him if he came in and disciplined trump, would that be enough at this point or does he need something big and bold, a game changer? >> he needs to maintain. so he can come in and be disciplined trump and then stay disciplined trump through november 8th. i think that's virtually impossible for him to do even if he puts on a fabulous monica crowleyesque performance on debate night doesn't mean the next day or the day after he doesn't start having mental fights with her. >> that's what we saw undisciplined and very smug hillary. it may appeal to democratic pace not appeal to the people in the middle. does she need to be a little bit humble and less shimmying with the shoulders. >> she has lulled herself into a place of complacency. she going it put herself in a really unfortunate position. remember that donald trump really comes to life when he is in a room full of people.

whether it's a business transaction, a rally or town hall. >> feeds off the energy. >> feeds off the energy and he really does. >> although i have to say there is not a lot of energy when you sit in these presidential -- they have been told to keep your mouth shut. oh my god. i have got to leave it at that great to see you. >> see you later. also extra the campaign trail tonight hillary clinton had a memorable moment town hall this week. perhaps you saw it. now there are questions about whether it was staged. trace gallagher reports on what may have been an oscar winning performance. plus, dramatic new scenes coming in from florida where this storm is now starting to lash out at the coast. watch. stay tuned.

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♪ breaking tonight, dramatic video coming in right now from our affiliate wtvt. lock at this as the leading edge of the storm starts to rock the palm beach area. take a look at some of this. you can see some -- a tree with significant damage. some of these trees we have been seeing are basically horizontal. the tape is going to get a little bit more dramatic as we watch it this is the latest track as we watch the satellite feed of hurricane matthew nearing the florida coast. just moments ago, the florida governor rick scott telling us that this storm is a, quote, monster. likely to have quote,

devastating impacts. and if you are in the southern part of florida, west palm beach or below, you better shelter in place is what they say. rick reichmuth with an update in the fox weather center. rick? >> and to the north of that as the storm moves to the north tonight. winds at about 48 miles per hour in vero peach. that's enough to make those trees and palm frawns when down. hurricane force winds and major hurricane in the center that will be very damaging. if we end up with major hurricane winds on shore, that's what's going to cause all of the wind damage. right here tropical storm conditions and red is hurricane conditions. expect to see red, hurricane conditions move within the next hour or two on shore and stay on shore all up and down the florida coast line in throughout georgia and across areas of south carolina. rainfall totals are going to be extreme. lots of florida in the 7 to 10-inch rain. then going in to georgia and south carolina. that's where we will be seeing some spots maybe up

to about 15 inches of rain. because of that obviously and the wind we have all the hurricane warnings. i want to point out it goes inland as well, likely see hirk force wind gusts even inland toward orlando. that's going to cause a lot of inland damage as well. >> rick, do we know whether this thing is actually going to, quote, make landfall. and are you seeing any trend with the storm? it's getting worse? it's getting better than predicted? what? >> we have been saying right along the coast for a number of days in that 10, 12 mile-per-hour move in one direction or the other. that's what we can't say. i will tell you the models have been very consistent for that to happen to stay right along the coast line. and i think we're going to. landfall, though, is defined as the center most point crossing land. so that is the center of the eye. it's a place where the pressure is lowest. i think there is a good chance. most of our models is still bringing it landfall especially where the land sticks out right there in cape canaveral. that little piece of land sticking out might be the thing that makes that 5 or

10 mile-per-hour difference. damage is going to be extreme either way. but, yeah, people talk about landfall. it is the very center most point crossing over land. that's what we are going to be flirting with tonight. >> monster storm. killer storm already unleashing terrible devastation. rick, thank you. >> you bet. >> back to politics now for a minute. also developing this evening, new questions about whether or not the clinton campaign may be planting questions at her events. it all started this week at a town hall in pennsylvania. a young girl asked mrs. clinton about body image and donald trump's treatment of women. the medias was quick to highlight the story. but not so quick to report what could be key details about the person asking the question. trace gallagher picks up the story from there. trace? >> and, megyn, the setup here is key family town hall with arrangely female crowd in a philadelphia suburb of a major battleground state. hillary clinton was sitting between daughter chelsea and actress elizabeth banks.

first question from 15-year-old brennan leach just happened to fit right in to hillary's latest narrative concerning donald trump's treatment of women. watch. >> i see with my own eyes the damage donald trump does when he talks about women and how they look. as the first female president, how would you undo some of that damage and help girls understand that they are so much more than just what they look like? >> oh, thank you. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. >> the "new york times" called the question, quote, the most potent. it went on to mention that 15-year-old brennan leach's dad, a state senator, helped her craft the question. but the "times" left out that the dad is a democratic state senator. in fact, day lynn leach is the chair of the senate democratic campaign committee who endorses hillary clinton and frequently posts anti-trump messages. the clinton campaign denies investigating the question but it is certainly fair to ask considering hillary clinton was caught planting questions during both her run for the senate in '99

and her run for the white house in 2007. and it turns out that during a february interview on the steve harvey show, harvey's plussers not only gave hillary clinton the questions ahead of time, the show allowed clinton campaign to help word the questions. steve harvey admits supporting clinton but says if trump was a guest, he too would get the questions early. this all comes at a time in the campaign when hillary clinton has been criticized for doing a litany of softball introduces including for extra, "the tonight show," between two ferns and what many call an awkward appearance on the mary j. blige show where blige held clinton's hand and sang to her about black people being killed by police. afterwards, clinton said it's the first time anyone has ever sung to her during an interview and that she was touched by it. megyn? >> trace, thank you. joining us now dana loesch host of dana on the blaze tv and crystal ball fellow and clinton supporter. dana. >> great to see you, megyn. >> your thoughts on whether

that was organic moment or staged. >> no. >> and if it was staged, do we care? >> it was completely staged. if hillary clinton had any sense this is, megyn her response would have been i think your mom or women in your family can teach to you have enough self-he is stem that you don't have to depend on what a presidential candidate says. it's ironic when i was brennan's age i was learning about oral sex from hillary clinton's husband that was all the headlines because it's kind of ironic. >> crystal, do you want to take that one on? >> okay. well, the writer is obsessed with this idea that hillary clinton is not possibly smart enough or prepared enough or articulate enough to handle questions that are asked to her in an impromptu way. first we had the commander-in-chief forum where this was this conspiracy theory that she had the ear piece and lester holt debate on monday where first she got the questions in add violence and then, no, she actually had a

secret hand signal worked out with holt. >> dodging the media a lot. >> all we know here is yes this young woman's father was a supporter. yes, she got help from him on crafting the question. but we also happen to know that one of her friends committed suicide last year and i don't think it's crazy to think that a young woman watching this campaign unfold last week would have had some concerns about what donald trump has to say about young woman and her body. >> we don't know why her young friend committed suicide. let's not go out on that limb. >> the reason why it matters are we watching something real or are we watching theater? if we're watching theater, we should know that with all due respect to steve harvey who i like, it should have been disclosed that she had been given the questions in advance and helped craft them. >> i agree. >> and if she worked to get this question given to her or her campaign did, we should know. is it theater? i mean, because when i'm watching, you know a river run through it, i know i'm watching drama. >> exactly.

how fairy is steve harvey. >> he is the sweetest guy. >> he is the friendliest guy in america. how scary is he if you can't handle steve harvey you can't handle vladimir putin. it's completely orchestrated. total theater. everything with the clinton is complete theater. i can't tell if i'm watching politics or realtime television broadway show. nothing organic about it or hue she is going about it. >> as we watched it on steve harvey, crystal. they unveiled that question from her 1961 she is like oh, oh. meanwhile we now know that they told her they were going to show it they had given her a copy of the picture and showed her exactly where in the show they are going to pop it up. and the oscar goes to. [ laughter ] i mean, megyn, come on. no one thinks that steve hayashi is a hard hitting journalist. everybody looks at that as entertainment like everybody look at i didn't meany

fallon's interview entertainment. campaign rallies are theater. they are tightly scripted and staged and the music is selected. now, she says this question wasn't vetted and i don't see any reason why we shouldn't take her at her word. >> you don't? really? >> i think it's fine to pick the questions that you are going to have that are going to highlight your candidate in the best light here. >> the reason not to take her at her word is because she has a 70% dishonesty rating among the american people. >> that's a huge point that was just made, too. hillary clinton is not connecting even with some of the most base democrat supporters. that's why they are losing and they are so worried about losing all of these other voters to the libertarian party and people like gary johnson. she is not connecting with individuals. >> scary. >> that's what she needs to roll back on some of the mill theater. i think all politicians should. but hillary clinton is -- she is like video killed the radio star. now it's lake television and new media and they have created like this frankenstein's monster.

it's crazy. >> gary johnson is honest to a fault. i think we can all agree on that. >> what is aleppo? >> we will leave this segment on that honest note my ladies. good to see you both. >> yes, good to see you, megyn. >> back now to weather as we take a look at live pictures from lake worth, florida where in the last 40 minutes the conditions have worsened to the point where you can hardly see the end of that pier anymore. remember the one we showed you at the top of the show. the national hurricane center says the storm is expected to blow ashore early friday, north of west palm beach in an area that is about -- that's home to about 1.1 million people. we are talking about a couple of hours here. we're back with steve harrigan again in the middle of this mess in two minutes. don't go away. >> if you are in an evacuation zone, get out. this is not something you should take a chance with. time is running out, leave. there's no excuses. the roads are open. you should get out. evacuate, evacuate, evacuate.

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breaking tonight, throughout the hour, we have been updating you on hurricane matthew's path, which is now 70 miles east off the coast of florida. the storm making waves not just on the florida coast but also in the political world. the head of the commission on presidential debates, which this sunday's will be in st. louis, just announced that the debate will go forward as planned on sunday night. this is the first we were hearing that it was even potentially in jeopardy. for a sense of what is happening with the storm on the ground in florida, we turn back it our correspondent steve harrigan who is in sebastian, florida. steve, what's the latest? meg megyn three threats right now. wind is coming in sideways. wind has picked up. 40 mile-per-hour gusts this afternoon. then auto mile-per-hour. now we are hitting 60 miles per hour. so we are seeing small trees and limbs come down. the real threat isn't going to be the number. it's going to be that blackwater behind me. it's rolling up steadily. the real threat could be

from a storm surge of 3 to 7 feet. that's what's got people concerned here. the other thing they have done differently now. several counties issuing a curfew. really two main concerns with this new wind burst knocking down trees, knocking down power lines, there are power lines down there. is a concern about the water and the power lines together. and second, a concern about lotting. you have 1.5 million people who have been told to evacuate. many leaving their homes behind. there is real concern in several counties about the possibility of using this tragedy as a means for looting. they want to make sure it doesn't happen. so, for two reasons, a curfew in effect at 10:00 for several counties across florida. megyn? >> steve, there were some complaints that the highways were too packed for people to evacuate. those under mandatory evacuation orders. are the shelters there full? we're told some 7100 people are in them tonight in that area. >> there are more than 100 shelters opened up. when the first one filled up they had to open more. it's clear that's not going to be enough for people. there were shortages

throughout the day. long lines at home depot, three hours long. i went to wal-mart. no water on the shelves. even the expensive stuff was gone. as far as the highways go though, if you do look at current pictures of i-9 a. not a car on the road. good reason for that as well. there is really a sheet of water on those roads. and the heavy rain being blown around. you do not want to be on the road now in florida. many of those shelters that were open earlier have now closed their doors. they don't want people moving around in this. the next four to five hours could see if we get the storm surge as predicted water well over my head, 5 to 7 feed here with the waves on top of that. that's what could kill people. that's what the governor has warned about. 250 people dead in haiti from this storm. a similar storm 10 years ago in florida killed 25 people in this state. $30 billion worth of damage last time. this one could be worse. megyn? >> and they just, as you were speaking, updated the death toll in haiti to 283 people. 283 people are dead in haiti

as a result of this storm. and your sense today, steve, as you walked around, obviously given the differences between the situation in haiti and that and florida, people's sense of urgency. they d. they understand. weather forecasters overblow. this i have overridden every storm and i will ride out this one, too. >> you do see a lot of those sound bites that get a lot of attention. you see the people surfing. i get a different impression from people that i talked to today and saw in the hotels here today. it's a major heartache for people. people who have put their live savings into their homes now fear losing them. one first responder told me i know i'm going to lose my front porch. i just hope i don't lose my whole house. have you people out there tonight trying to save people and knowing at the same time they could lose what this worked their whole life for. people for the most part taking this very seriously. life threat on one hand and

real financial threat on the other, megyn. >> a lot of folks think palm beach and think of beautiful mansions and march largo. west palm beach isn't like this at all. this area that you are in, it's not necessarily ritzy and rich and full of big mansions. there are a lot more humble homes that are very much in danger. >> you are right. a lot of people mentioned to me i call them mobile homes. people live in them and own them calling them manufactured homes. those are under mandatory evacuation. a lot of those people in manufactured homes realize they could lose part or all of that home. they still do what they could to particular doo what they could to take out of those homes and board them up and save their lives. move to higher ground. in hotels now booked up across the state. or to relatives to try to get out of the way of this. i think people here are taking this deadly seriously, megyn. >> nearly 25,000 people are without power in palm beach power alone. they are there. those who will not evacuate

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storm, go to face book.com, follow me on twitter, let us know what you're experiencing. stay safe and thanks for watching. i'm megyn kelly, this is "the kelly file." up next sean hannity, my friend. this is a fox news alert. hurrican matthew is closing in now on matthew. a category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds. ste steve harrigan is on the ground tonight. the wind and rin are picking up. what's going on. >> reporter: some brachblgs down, small trees down and some power lines down. 25,000 people without power. it makes your knees buckle a little bit at this point. but the real stuff is three or