that's a stork from the st. augustine's alligator farm and he's riding out the storm in the bathroom. and the lemur found his way up to the rafters. and the rest of the gang, you'll be happy to hear, safely indoors. i'm sandra smith. here's harris. >> busy hour ahead. we begin with a fox news weather alert. i'm in for shepherd smith. hurricane matthew battering the coast of northern florida and threatening to hammer georgia and south carolina with howling winds, pounding rain, dangerous flooding. >> do you guys run the restaurant? >> yeah. >> yeah? do you guys have phones you can call if you need? >> and this just coming in from our fox affiliate. amateur video here, showing people trapped at a hotel in the

heart of st. augustine, florida. it used to be a property across from the water as one of our producers noted, it is a property in the water now. i'll speak live with the city's mayor just ahead. and a look here from st. augustine, just a few moments ago. well, this tells the whole story. you can barely see anything. we've been checking back for live pictures for sometime now. the city is just one of dozens of communities feeling the full force of the powerful storm. officials say a woman in lucy county died last night, after she had a heart attack and the form kept responders from reaching her in time. hurricane matthew has been scraping along the coast of florida for hours now. trees crashing into homes, electrical power out now, nearly a million people in the dark. they're working on it. forecasters in our fox weather center predict the storm will slam georgia and south carolina overnight and into tomorrow morning and while they have downgraded the hurricane to a category 3, they say it still

remains extremely dangerous and potentially deadly. well, you saw the walters in st. augustine. forecasters say the hurricane could send a storm surge up to 12 feet in low-lying areas, pushing waves of water into homes and businesses. we saw this storm thing with superstorm sandy in jersey when it seemed like others had been fair. president obama warned families along evacuations and coasts to follow the instructions of their local officials. i think the bigger concern at this point is not just hurricane force winds, but storm surge. many of you will remember hurricane sandy where initially people thought this doesn't look as bad as we thought, and then suddenly, you get massive storm surge and a lot of people were severely affected. >> we have live fox team coverage, leland vitter is live for us in daytona beach,

florida. garret is in jacksonville, the most heavily populated city, still in the path of the storm. first, let's go to jana steen, live in our fox weather center. so janus, i know moments ago are learned that high tide in st. augustine because that's the example we've been talking about all day now. high tide is now. they started at about 1:00 so they're kind of in the midst of it right now. >> absolutely. the strongest part of this storm is pushing on shore. so the counterclockwise winds are pushing the ocean onto the shoreline. and you can see the eye is here, the eyewall is here and jacksonville earlier on today was getting at least tropical storm force winds and now very heavy rain on the order of we could see over a foot of rainfall. hurricane warnings are still posted for millions of people all the way up to north carolina as we think there is the potential for a hurricane to be offshore of north carolina and

even virginia by the weekend. that's the new forecast. let's take a look at it. storm surge, this is the most dangerous part of a hurricane is the water. the storm surge pushing into the coastline and because of the shape of the coastline, the counterclockwise winds is just pounding this ocean water into the coast. north florida, the vulnerable areas at sea level here, 8 to 12 foot storm surge. and that's why the national hurricane center is saying this could be a similar scenario to what we saw with hurricane sandy. because the big threat from hurricane sandy was not the winds but the storm surge that destroyed the jersey coastline and that's the big threat. also, harris, the rainfall, look at this. i mean, 12 to 16 inches along the coastline. that also could be potentially life threatening. so the second part of this storm might be the one that we remember out of hurricane matthew. flood advisories posted for millions of people here, and

then the forecast wind gusts, this is going to be with us tonight, overnight, saturday, into sunday, and perhaps still as a hurricane, perhaps still as a hurricane as eventually it exits the coastline. so i want the folks in north carolina and now virginia need to pay attention to the track of this storm system. >> you know, we learned with sandy, so many people. i had said it, thought they had been spared. and that was a blessing they had hoped for the best ask and it certainly happened. but we need for people to not let their guards down because they storm surge is fierce. we'll check back when we can. if you do not leave, you will be on your own. that's a quote, a warning from the mayor of jacksonville, florida. of course, it could be too late now. hundreds of thousands of people there are under evacuation orders, but a lot of people along florida's coast decided to take their chances, ride it out, and in that area, it's getting hit. team fox coverage continues now, garret tinny is live for us in

jacksonville. garret. >> yeah, harris. you see the winds just picking up now over this last half hour. we've seen gusts up to 80 mile-per-hour. when you get over to the coast, about 15 mile-per-hour from here, those gusts go up to 100 mile-per-hour. this is a metal chain link fence that's already been blown over. add that to lots of debris you see along the street here and along the boardwalk. when you look out here in the st. john's river, this river is swelling. it's gone up several feet in the last few hours alone. you can see the water is becoming very, very rough out here. now, the wind, that's dangerous in its own right, but it's the storm surge that we've been talking about. jacksonville's mayor was just saying about 20 minutes ago, the worst of it is yet to come. two or three hours from now is when we will start seeing inworst. so this is really just the warmup for what we will see a little later, harris. >> yeah. i know from just what you've been saying, reporting, that

this has gotten bad very quickly, and you can actually feel the pelting now of the rain. so people farther south didn't get it as bad as it's hooking around. what is the latest on the evacuations? did a lot of people stay? >> well, officials say there's no way to be sure exactly how many folks stayed home. there were nearly half a million people under evacuation orders. they say they hope at least 50% or so got out. down on the beach, though, we already saw people who went back home and they're there now at least two blocks, the first two blocks of jacksonville bleach are completely flooded already, harris. >> wow. we pray for them. thank you, garret. let's go farther south to daytona beach. that was one of the first places we saw things whip up. emergency officials are now having trouble reaching people and reports of blown transformers, fires and downed power line. dangerous situation there. they did say they would do their very best to help in life threatening situations, in many cases risking their own to save

others. that's what they do. team fox coverage now continuing live in daytona beach. and look at the damage behind you now, leland. >> harris, this is the first hour or so people have been able to go out in the streets and by people, i mean the first responders who as you noted have been risking their lives over this storm to make sure everyone else was okay. the survey damage, not so bad. you see, this could have been a lot worse here a lot of torn off awnings, those kinds of things here. we're experiencing right now the counterclockwise winds janus has been talking about, and you get a sense of what happened here by looking at the debris field and what this storm did in terms of washing all this debris up here. we may have lucked out a little bit, especially in this part of daytona beach. as you notice, it just comes to the crest here of the beach access, and there's a reasonable thought that had this water surged, quite literally, up over to just where i'm standing now,

another foot, maybe, and you would have had massive flooding back down there into daytona beach on the beach side. in the mainland side, we saw flooding there. nothing too severe, but certainly the surge flooding that makes you really wish you'd kayak rather than a car on many of the streets in daytona beach right now. >> you know, i have to start to wonder. i mean, florida is so prepared for these things if maybe you're talking about a foot would have made a difference, if they've done things in florida that maybe haven't been done in other places to help people down there. are people still able to leave if they want to get out at this point? if you don't have electricity, it's a mess behind you. you may choose, even though you ro rode it out, to go someplace else. >> the roads are open. the issue is two things. one, where do you go? all the hotels within about 6 hours of here are sold out. number two, how are you going to get there? fuel. we've driven all up and down

here, and thankfully, we brought fuel cans with us. if you don't have those kinds of supplies, you're not able to get very far. gas stations in orlando had sold out pumps, as well. the difficulty may not be so much wanting to or the road ability but simply the ability of gas and finding a place to stay. in terms of the power, almost a million people with the lights out. most if not all of daytona beach has lost power here. certainly the place we're staying doesn't have any power. now comes the challenge for the pour crews to prioritize how quickly they can get the lights back on. we do know they've staged dozens if not hundreds of power crews all the way around who can move in as soon as the winds die down. and also just in the past hour, we saw national guard troops moving in, as well, and we know they can do magical work once they're given the order to mobilize. >> i hear it in your voice. we're going to let you get out of the way of some of that stuff that's blowing around. thank you, my friend.

major transportation disruptions for much of the united states. the number growing, but so far more than 4,000 flights have been canceled because of matthew. airlines are canceling 2000 today just alone and on the ground early on, we saw amtrak suspend service in the southeast because of the severe weather. they said no backup plan for that, they'll just roll the trains back on when they can. and this rare site today. do you know what that is at orlando airport? every flight and in out, grounded. airlines are canceling flights in georgia and south carolina, the storm's next stops. and we're there live. team fox coverage continues next as matthew is expected to put the ocean in play. surge danger, stay close. surge danger, stay close. what are you doing? getting your quarter back. fountains don't earn interest, david. you know i work at ally. i was being romantic. you know what i find romantic? a robust annual percentage yield that's what i find romantic. this is literally throwing your money away. i think it's over there. that way? yeah, a little further up. what year was that quarter?

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a clearer picture now coming into view of just how devastating hurricane matthew was in the caribbean, especially haiti. the number of dead there now has been rising all day as they are trying to pick up the pieces after matthew's 10045-mile-an-hour winds. they took it as a category 4, just after it was a category 5. flattened palm trees, smashed walls, that's just the minor stuff, the rooftops. the problem is people were inside. and local officials told the news agency the storm killed more than 800 people. but emergency workers say they're finding more bodies as the waters begin to recede. among the dead, a woman and her

6-year-old daughter. they had abandoned their flimsy home in a desperate attempt to find shelter inside of a church. a local mayor said, quote, the wind took them. a u.s. navy spokesperson today said a transport ship is headed to the caribbean nation. he says it will provide tens of thousands of gallons of fresh-water to people of haiti every day. the ship also has helicopters and bull dozers on board. wow. they've been through a lot. south carolina people, their families and businesses are bracing for hurricane matthew now. good afternoon nicky haleigh making a final plea for people to get out, higher ground, away from the coast. there's still time. >> there is nothing safe about what's getting ready to happen. this is the last time you will hear my voice when i am asking you to evacuate. we need everybody to consider evacuating and really take this very seriously. >> well, we don't know exactly

the pinpoint, but we have seen this storm come through places like st. augustine which we showed you earlier this hour. so it's packing some heat. it could come close to charleston by the early hours of tomorrow. jonathan is live in folly beach, a barrier island. oh, boy, off the coast of charleston. i can see how the conditions are. they're whipping. >> yeah, they are. the winds are picking up. it's been raining. sometimes very intense. but the main concern for residents and officials here on the barrier island communities is the storm surge. what is the storm surge going to do? i'd like to show you video we took from the drone just before the rains began. and you can see the atlanta just really churning along the coast of folly beach, which is on folly island, one of the multiple barrier islands off the coast of charleston. these communities are very prone to storm surge. it's something that can also

affect places far inland because of all of the rivers and other tributaries feeding into the atlantic, the water systems are also connected here. and then further inland, there's still a potential for flash flooding caused by the heavy rains that are expected from this storm system. so as you saw, the governor very concerned about the warnings that she's getting from meteorologists tracking the storm. >> yeah, i'm going to be asking an expert this later in the hour, but it certainly seems like when the form first hit south florida, it didn't have the grip that it seems to have as we get along later in today. so now some people may have decided, yeah, we still want to evacuate. is it too late? >> it's not too late, but time is rapidly running out. and here is the concern. as the winds start picking up, especially once they exceed 40 miles an hour, there's tall bridges where it's just going to be dangerous to be driving way up high on those bridges. and then you have low lying

roads and highways and are prone to flooding. and so you're going to have a lot of these areas that could potentially become isolated from the mainland, even people takine this, they're going to be just fine from the winds in the storm, but the question is, how long will they have to wait before they can drive to the mainland if the area's surrounded by water? >> you know, most people have enough food in their fridge to last for a couple days, of course that's when you have electricity. but i worry about people with medicines and things. you're talking now, people having to make late, hard choices. stay safe out there. thank you. >> the director of the national hurricane center says the storm is not over. we can see that now. every time we go to a new place, look at it. and he's warning people not to underestimate it. that seems to be a theme this hour because it didn't hit as hard as we thought it might in earlier parts of florida. but we'll talk about that and really the reality of what's next. stay close. stay close. r the first time... gilman: go get it, marcus. go get it. ...coach gilman used his cash rewards credit card

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the federal government has hurricane hunters flying straight into the eye of hurricane matthew to get a real look at the storm and one of them recorded the bumpy ride yesterday. you got to see this video. this plane collects information on air pressure, wind speeds and direction, and pilots navigate through extreme winds, downpours and violent drafts from all directions. the late update from the national hurricane center, winds 115 miles per hour with matthew, still a category 3. boy, this thing holds together. dr. rick kbrks nabb is in miami, up for 72 hours straight, i'm going to ask. he's the director of the national hurricane center. and i don't joke about that. you don't walk away from this

until this thing moves on. i've seen it. i have a question about what people are observing. this seems like it didn't have the punch we thought it would in certain areas, yet other areas are getting really hit now late into the storm. why? >> well, the hurricane has had all of its punch all along. it's that some of that stayed far enough offshore to spare places like palm beach county from the brunt of the hurricane. and even when it went by veero beach and melbourne, florida earlier, the western eyewall was just a few miles offshore. they really dodged it closely. and unfortunately, the eyewall has been closer to the coastline and it's just pushing these windswins in the direction of the coastline, pushing the ocean onshore. and we've had not only a video you've seen of storm surges getting into places like st. augustine and jacksonville beach, but we've also seen gusts up above 80 miles per hour in places like st. augustine.

now we're in georgia, getting a gust to 48 miles an hour. so it's packing a punch. it's just that now it's getting closer to the coast and this is a taste of what is to come in georgia and south carolina. >> your honor, you talk about people letting their guards down and you hear floridians, say, yeah, glad we stayed where we were. it's a blessing. they wished for the best, and they actually got it. tell me what's really coming because some of the storm surges are going to come at high tide. be saw from sandy, i know i live on the hudson river. i thought we were out of the clear. and when that surge came, it wasn't even raining anymore, and it was a bear. >> yeah, and the video we've seen from jacksonville beach and palm coast florida, you can see how quickly the water can come in with the waves and the storm surge. and what we think has a potential of happening in places like georgia and south carolina is depicted here and our potential storm surge flooding map that accounts for the variability and the tide. so this is how high above normally dry ground the storm

surge flooding could get, the salt-water in places like charleston, south carolina, it could get as high as 6 feet above the ground and the water could be moving. this is why emergency managers in georgia and south carolina have told people to get out of storm surge prone areas. if they're telding you to go and there's still time, get out to save yourself from the deadliest hurricane hazard of all, storm surge. >> people hear you say that, and i just don't think they understand. this is not like a tsunami. nist the farther out or up the river or a tributary like a lake paunch train, after hurricane katrina, we thought everything was in the clear and then it wasn't, this is a slow moving event and it can be potentially deadly. >> it absolutely can, and i want people not to focus on the exact location we're forecasting for the center of the hurricane. don't focus on the category. if this weakens below category 3, you can see the headlines, oh, good news, it's only a category 2 or a category 1. but sandy, ike, many past hurricanes were not major

hurricanes, but they had major impacts due to the water. but you know what, we can write our own ending to this story by getting out of those storm surge prone areas and then when you come back afterward, you'll be alive and you can deal with the after math. but don't be in that storm surge prone area and end up one of our statistics in our report of the fatalities after this. we don't want that to have it. >> love the way you put it. just come back and complain later, but come back. >> yes, but hope for the best. >> i'm seeing what you're saying, and i can see the eye is starting to curve along the line that's behind you now, that coastline. so things are changing a bit. we'll come back to you as the news warrants, but we appreciate your time, doctor. thank you. obviously, we're watching hurricane matthew, the monster storm. and you just saw a really good explanation of why some felt spared and others are still bracing. we'll also head back to florida in a little bit and some of the hardest hit areas. i want to talk with the mayor of st. augustine. she'll join us later this hour.

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we have a fox report and some headlines from the campaign trail. we're just two days away from the second presidential debate. and both candidates are off the trail today. they're getting ready. tomorrow, donald trump heads to wisconsin where he will speak with paul ryan for the first time. ryan did not endorse trump right away, and he's criticized some of the statements. and then trump took his time endorsing ryan in his primary campaign. as for hillary clinton's team, they're getting ready to make a big push in battleground ohio after sunday's debate. clinton heads to columbus on monday for a voter registration drive. the deadline there is tuesday.

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>> resting in each other's arms until the end of time. >> a lot of years, a lot of news, and this is the big story today. we're following yet another major news story right now. hurricane matthew barrelling up florida's east coast, reaching up into georgia and beyond. and just into fox news, president obama has now declared a state of emergency in north carolina ahead of matthew. first, we'll check in with the mayor of one of the hardest hit cities so far, one of america's treasures, st. augustine, florida, known for its older architecture there and a whole a lot of water storm surge now. we'll check in with reports of people trapped inside a bed and breakfast. stay close. (music playing) ♪ push it real good... (announcer vo) or you can take a joyride. bye bye, errands, we sing out loud here. siriusxm. road happy.

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brand new amateur video showing waves from hurricane matthew crashing into a home in palm coast, florida. you got to hope anybody rolling on this? wow. stay safe, people, when you snap and roll on your cameras. we can see the water rising as it pushes up against that window. the man who took the video says he set up a camera to record it and that he was not inside the home at the time. that's how you do it. he says he plans to return once it's safe and to see whether his home has been damaged. let's hope everybody takes that note. wow. we'll watch it again. hurricane matthew is making its way up florida's atlantic coast now, nearing georgia and south carolina, one of the hardest hit cities so far we've been talking about it this hour because pictures and video coming in. st. augustine, that's about 50 miles southeast of jacksonville. >> how many kids are in there?

>> there's 20 of us. >> 20? you guys own the restaurant? >> we showed you this video top of the hour. 20 people, including children, stuck inside the casa blanca inn, flood waters rising there. people there say by noon, you couldn't get anywhere in downtown st. augustine. joining us now is the city's mayor, nancy shaver. >> mayor, are you with us? >> yemen. >> first of all, i have to start with this video. what's the latest on this inn? >> well, what i think you understand is that the entire city was placed under an evacuation order, and that that included hotels. folks who chose not to evacuate really it was made very clear. we went street to street. they took the responsibility on themselves if they stayed. and i think from that video, particularly if you saw as the waters rose up over the steps, you can understand why that would be the case.

you can also understand why we are not able to send our emergency folks there. we don't have vehicles that will be able to assist people. it's a very, very unfortunate situation and hopefully it's an object lesson so that when there is an evacuation, don't play cowboy. >> and we know there are children inside that inn, too. i would have to think the good news is they will have resources for sustaining there, but what a situation. so i understood you got about 50% of the people to evacuate, outside of these people, who chose not to leave. >> yes. and that's one of the big challenges. and i think you probably heard the governor of florida say lives will be lost. and we certainly hope that's not the case, but there's a reason for an evacuation order. they're not put in place lightly. and it's really important for people to pay close attention. and right now what we're telling people is, if you are -- did not evacuate, you hunker down. don't move.

don't do what i think you saw people doing in that video, which was go outside in a category 3 hurricane. people need to stay inside, stay as safe as possible. we'll be assessing the damage probably starting sometime early tomorrow morning so that we can get vehicles in, get streets cleared, understand what the situation is. >> i want to ask you about this part of town. we're going to kind of go between live video and video that's been sent in, but all of this is recent. i mean, you guys are getting pounded right now. high tide started a couple of hours ago. mayor, you know, that's your main boulevard, the ponce ponce de leon boulevard. it's been many years since i've been down there, i mean, i was, a child, but i remember -- >> you can't really tell the you can't tell the difference between menendez and the bayfront. it reached the sea wall as you

pointed out. high tied was 1:30. we are looking for maxim maximum impact of surge in about an hour. the eyewall is going by us around 5:00. so we have a really tough situation and i think i'm sitting in the operations center where we have over 150 professionals, fire, police, health and safety, and we are obviously doing everything we can to have the most effective way of keeping people safe and as the storm end, cautioning people not to go out too soon. that's when the injuries occur. people believe perhaps they can start working on a tree that's fallen or something else. we encourage people to stay put until it is safe to move about. >> all right. mayor shaver, we are getting new pictures, i am seeing water around the wheel wells. this picture taken over an hour

ago. you're saying the worst of it hasn't come in yet because it is high tide now, the max coming in still. i want to ask you to stay with us. i have more to talk with you about. st. augustine, florida, its claim to claim is that it is the oldest city in america. look at it now. stay close.

the city of s florida nancy shaver is good enough to stay with us right now because the storm matthew is hitting her city now. we knew they would take the brunt of the storm surge. amateur pictures and video are coming into us and we're sharing those pictures with our viewers this hour. mayor shaver, i do understand the history of your beautiful city. spanish colonial architecture. if i remember correctly, you've got a stone fortress there

that's 17th century. castillo de san marcus. what's happening to your city at this hour? >> at this point i am expecting this is our 451st year, i expect to hit 452 and we will restore whatever needs restoring. we haven't been around for this long to let something like a hurricane shut us down. >> there you go. we are looking at pictures of people, and the only way you get these pictures is because some of them have chosen to stay behind. you have 20 or so people including children that are trapped now by rising waters inside the cast a blank a inn. i think it is a bed and breakfast. you've also gotten a lot of damage around the city and you said the maximum point of the storm as you're being told, because you're already in high tide now, is yet to come. tell me what's happening in terms of outages, what does your

city look like? >> it is quite dark, three quarters of customers of florida power and light are without power and our city is certainly a big piece of that. we also as a precautionary measure shut down our water service at 8:00 last night. we also put a curfew in place. we understood what we were looking at and we know it will be some time before all of that is restored. >> how frustrated are you to know there are people trapped now who could have gotten out? >> i would say broadly to me it's a great puzzle as to why someone would not evacuate when you're looking at a storm that you and other obviously media folks made everyone aware of the size, the danger and risk. i do, though, understand that it's really hard to get your head around something this big. we haven't had a storm like this since 1964 and quite frankly,

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