narrator: independence usa pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. all right, there is another 60 minutes of "7 news"state ahood. >> "7 news"at 5:30 starts right now. >>. >> hurricane matthew slamming the east coast. team coverage. >> a run away van plow home after the driver forgets to put the vehicle into park. >> one man hits the roof when a solar company does damage to his house. when customer service did not respond, he called us. >> we begin tracking hurricane matthew. a live look at what is going on in florida, strong winds, rain, destruction caused by the now category 2 hurrican hurricane. it continues to surge up the east coast.

from high above, that's ground level, right there, alot of the damage. i mean that building is torn apart. roofs on the ground, all coming from the storm. >> wind the big issue. nicole is in daytona beach with much more on the swaying there, nicole. reporter: i want to first give you a little bad news, first, we have learned that a woman in deland florida, volusia county has died as a result of this storm. she piece of falling debris, a piece of a tree landed on her. i want to show you something else. this right here. east international speed way boulevard. this is where we are. this demonstrates what officials have been talking about. this is very heavy, if you imagined something like that hit you if you were out washingtoning around during all of this, you would be seriously injured at the very least.

debris out here. even though hurricane matthew is on its way out of this area, still, they are asking folks to stay inside. how many kids are in there? >> 20. reporter: who officials are afraid of, people opting not to evacuate now trapped in hurricane matthew's path. >> it is really too late. it was too late probably around 8 o'clock this morning. there was where people could have evacuated. we have capacity at shelters. we were hopeful as many as possible people would have moved. it they have not moved, they need to stay as quietly as they can. we'll get to them when we can. >> a man posting this video showing how much is pumping through the streets, president

>> and then suddenly, you get massive storm surge and a lot of people were severely affected. reporter: that's not the only punch matthew is pumping. a marina, roof shredded. the happiest place on earth turning into the empty kingdom evacuated. palm trees fight to be in place and the treasured beaches, eaten away. anything not tied down is at matthew's mercy. reporter: back here in volusia county, we are getting rain, high winds, there is a curfew in place until 7:00

>> parts of florida are recovering, georgia and south carolina are preparing. reporter: hurricane matthew continues to pound florida and head towards other coastal states. here, you can see a home that caught fire after being hit by matthew. this is one of many homes and buildings destroyed by the storm. this is storm surge washing up at a 15 inches of rain and storm surges up to 9 feet are possible in some areas, saint augustine, some roads are so flooded by rain and salt water, they are impassable. georgia is bracing for the storm, more than 5 hundred thousand people are under a mac order mandatory

track shows the storm towards the south carolina coast and myrtle beach officials say if the storm makes landfall in south carolina, the storm surge is expected to be over 8 feet. people there are now preparing. in the newsroom, "7 news". >> we are going to take more live pictures right now. this is the latest on what is going on in daytona, still jeremy to get a look at what is going on all over. reporter: we are talking about the storm surge through brunswick, georgia, savannah. and then you work into south carolina, much of the same, beaufort as well as charleston, south carolina, 6-93 foot, north of charleston, the number is not at high, but a 6 not storm surge is nothing to

jacksonville. thankfully, the eye wall has remains off shore for the entire afternoon. it has been hugging the coastline. occasionally, we have seen wind gusts in jacksonville, saint augustine upwards of 60 miles an hour and the norm will continue on the northerly path. it has not made landfall in the united states it changes, beaufort, charleston, south carolina. where it may graze south carolina tomorrow morning. the damage is done, leaving the country to pick up the pieces. more from the bahamas. reporter: early thursday morning, hurricane matthew a category 3 storm smashes into nassau. for hours, the town is pelted and when it was all said

hundred, one hundred mile-an-hour winds. reporter: everywhere you look, trees are down. that's not the worst part. cars crus crushed, this marina rocking in the waves, but just as fast as they got ready for this storm, they were cleaning up from it, raindrops falling from the sky. patrick hall was out with a hand saw. >> it's normal that a few trees come down here. no major damages. reporter: i have never heard it before in any storm. but i made it, god kept me. reporter: nassau will be cleaning up for months if not more, but all indications is that no one was seriously injured. trees grow back, houses can be fixed, matthew did not get the best of this

reporter: this was one dramatic moment, behind us, a van was at the top of the hill, now, the police say the driver that got out, left the car running, suddenly, the car was going down through an intersection, down this roadway before it struck the stairs in front of this house. just a very, very strange incident. reporter: residents recounting when a run away

careening down here before plowing into this man's front steps. >> my wife just left. the bus stop is just up the street. reporter: the driver with the co-worker in a passenger's seat stopped on a steep hill and got out. instead of putting the van in park, he left it in drive and the van hit the road. >> when he tried to get back in when he realized it was still in drive, he by the door and my understanding he may have been run over. reporter: we caught up with the driver at the hospital with bandages on his hand. his colleague suffered are more serious back injury. reporter: you are okay? >> yeah, okay. reporter: inspectores were able to determine the house was structurally okay. some neighbors thankful the street wasn't filled with kids.

going to go around around being afraid of run away vans. >> the investigation into all of this is kwroepb/ tkpwoeu/ ing, tonight, but everyone around here, including the police are thankful the injuries were not life-threatening. live in arlington tonight, steve coope cooper, "7 news". a woman struck in the street. the victim was seriou injuries are not life-threatening. the cause of the crash is under investigation. >> at least 4 coaches have resigned following a practice drill some thought were proeptd/. in a statement, the school superintendent said the situation does not reflect the core values of the district. >> it's a little messed up how she was singled out. >> it's too bad that's the

>> the team's head coach insists he didn't do anything wrong and he has received and outpouring of support. >> ahead, at 5:30, police on the hunt for a suspect after an elderly man is murdered in his own home. his wife is badly injured in the hospital. >> tom brady and the team back

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a local homeowner geting a solar shock when his roof is left in a wreck. the damage comes from workers. >> when the company wouldn't pay up, he hit the roof and that's when he called "solve it 7 "they are not sun worshipers, getting outside to soak in the golden rays. sunshine is the big reason they built their dream home in sut/ ton. >> when we saw this lot, we saw the potential because they get sun all day long. reporter: lots of sun can translate into a lot of money saved on electricity. ray decides it was time to go sola solar. he contacted solar cit

>> they got back to me and said they are potential for a solar customer. we picked a spot. reporter: solar city sent 2 men onto his house who climbed onto his house, they were using something that got ray's attention. >> s+ufpl/ sort of belt. reporter: with a strong ray said was somehow attached to his roof and. >> my contractor was finishing off so s thing er s that had caulking on it. reporter: they nailed the safety harness into the shingl shingle. inthey used caulking to close up the holes. ray caused solar city and said the representative kept promising someone would call him back. but his feelings of hope on the horizon were eclipsed when he said no one returned his calls. reporter: we took the case

>> to leave holes destroy shingles isn't in any way can't be determined like that. reporter: hoping to provide ray are a ray of hope. we contacted solar city. after some back and forth messages, we received an e-mail ray was waiting for. >> they agreed to send m check for repairs to my roof. >> ray got his roof fixed and solar city sent him this check to cover the costs. >> i want to thank you guys for all of the work you did. >>reporter: if there is a problem you need help with, give us a call 617-367-7777 or you can send an e-mail to solve it 7 at whdh.com. chris

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fridge and let that sit for 4 hours. >> now, grill that staeubgs/. >> 2 minutes and you turn it clockwaoeus/, 2 minutes, flip it over, do the same thing. >> grill the pineapple. >> take it off, put it on the resting rack for 10 minutes, by the time they are done resting, the pineapple will be done. >> he starts with fresh squeezed lime juice. >> do equal amounts of fish sauce and garlic clove. >> and finish it off with chopped cilantro. time to mix up our salad. >> i do cilantro, they basil. you don't want to leave it whole and mint. >> you put mint in it? yummy. >> you do twice around the bowl

reporter: to plate, top the greens with steak and pineappl pineapple. garnish with sesame seeds. that's what's cooking. >> that's amazing. >> that's amazing. >> i'm sara french, "7 >> sunday lingering showers. monday, we can salvage that with sunshine. boston, 65, norwood, 74. there is the hurricane, it does not bother new england, but the cool front will. as it is moving east, it may grab some of this moisture. as the cool front presses through new england, certainly, we'll have clouds, not as

tomorrow is dry and we'll have a couple of sprinkles and showers and the change from the last couple of days i thought the cool front would keep on moving sunday. that's not the case. sunday, we have clouds, i think there will be a couple of isolated showers. in any event as we work into monday, here comes high pressure with lots of sunshine on despite clouds on the increase, sunday, cloudy skies with a few ice i lateed showers. >> as you work toward the metr metro, you may get these out of here by noon or early afternoon. i don't think you will have showers wooster,

northern new england, probably a little sun. a few showers, temperatures running into the 60s. sunday, monday, numbers in the 50 50 -z/. tomorrow, partly sunny skies, mornin afternoon. much cooler on sunday. red sox will feature cloudy skies and sprinkles likely. i don't think it will be more than that. there may ab couple of showers at fenway in the early part of the afternoon. first pitch, should begin to dry things out. 7 on 7 forecast as we look into next week, a lot of sunshine with temperatures running in the low

onto the sunshine and try to warm things back up again by thursday and friday, much more on hurricane matthew at the top of the hour. ahead at 6:00, a murder mystery. police are on the lookout for the suspect who!woe killed an elderly man an injured his wife. >> a show of support for hilary clinton, berniey sanders back in new hampshire, going one-on-one joe plaia: every three days, wsomeone in new hampshire is killed with a gun. mothers, sons, friends. and yet kelly ayotte continues to play political games instead of making new hampshire safer.

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hurricane matthew has been downgraded to a category 2. the waves are ripping up there in myrtle beach. >> florida is bracing for another damaging blow, a devastating storm surge, strong windsnd rain continue -- -- right now, more than a million people are without power. >> the worst storm in nearly a decade has left its mark. it has taken a deadly toll since it s caribbean earlier this week. the death toll at 800, we'll go live to the area jacksonville, florida. >> hurricane matthew a strong category 2 storm. if it was one mile of the winds more, then it would be a category 3. we are still talking about a big storm. it has done nothing but slap the east coast of water with a wall of water. jacksonville, the eye 50 miles