i talked to my detective captain today and i asked him, do you have body bags? are you prepared for mass casualties? because if people do n and we get 140-mile-per-hour whipped gusts in some of our mobile home areas, we will have fatalities. >> we dealt with charles, frances, jean, will pa. this is like none of those. >> we can rebuild homes, we can rebuild business, i think of my own family, we can't rebuild a life. >> right now, matthew is having a superstorm sandy storm surge.

power as the extremely dangerous matthew moves close to the coast. that blamed for nearly 300 deaths in haiti. good morning, everyone. >> at this hour, the eye of hurricane matthew is growing dangerously closer to florida's east coast t. monster storm may have waned to a category 3, but it is still the strongest storm to hit the eastern seaboard in over a decades. damage of historic am proportions. their lives by hunkering down at home. just last loda sri william schneider gave this grave wa rning. >> people seem to not getting and are not lein i dy c theatrical. you know me. i don't lean to bravado.

body bags? are you prepared for mass casualty, because people do not leave, we get gusts in some of mobile home facility, we are going to have fatalities. >> it's prompted the close of nasa's kennedy space center and even the happiest place on earth, walt disney world closing its doors for the fourth time nn obama. 3500 national garld members buthr the isnlh thatn be done . over 200rida me to 15 the beginning.re inches of rain and deadly storm surges. the caribbean t. death toll is now at 283 and that's still expected to climb.

loss. >> gloets straight over to bonnie schneider. she has been tracking matthew throughout the night. give us an update. how are the conditions of the storm playing out? >> right now, we are watching the storm closely. even as it doesn't make landfall as florida. look at that we're getting those strong rain bands into melbourne at this hour. daytona beach you're next.

we watch for a storm surge going d.foar stm sge will b concer th wind will pile up the water in so many locations. not much of a conrn?!est ft. lauder. to stomes to storm this is the key. melbourne tosavannah, seven feet t. higher number concerns me. paicarll namhe way through smaller rivers and inlands, where the water can pile in.hrc carolina, four-to-six feet. look at the rainfall total, we are looking at a lot of rain, right around the border of north and south calina. even , 15 fchs throughsuay. frances, ayman, this will be a

make happenedfall. >> thank you for tt. nbc' r mott isthe. what's theatestthe? >> reporter: well, good morning from a breezy daytona beach, we have endured one band after another of increasingly nasty we yet to come. no we a l e update last night, which is forecast to push the eye a little further east oe it gets into the daytona beach area. >> that usually will mean we won't see the strongest winds around the circulation of matthew. the winds still will be strong. we are anticipating upwards of 90, maybe 100 miles sustained for a couple hours at least t. bad news is the eye is going to be a beam daytona beach right around the next high tide. that is expected to occur right around 12:45 p.m. this afternoon. that is when the biggest threat

flooding is to occur. it's always the storm surge in the water that typically is responsible for a lot of the deaths we see in these hurricanes. not so much the winds. so that is the hour people will be most alert here in the daytona beach area t. forecast at this hour is for upwards of 11 feet of a storm surge. >> that almost certainly will push water into some of the homes and businesses along atlantic avenue, which runs along north/south here, a block off the beach. waterway, which runs the length of florida. a lot of real estate there. a lot of expensive real estate. so folks hunkered down there might anticipate getting water into their homes, if they have not sandbagged around their homes. we know a lot of lines for people getting sandbags. also officials are telling folks, just because the eye passes doesn't mean the storm is over. this is a pretty large system. so we do anticipate that there

certainly tropical storm force winds that will blow around this area for hours after the eye has passed, possibly into late into tonight and maybe even saturday morning. and one last thing and a lot of folks are not thinking about this and for good reason, because it's a long way off t. first part of next week this storm could possibly reloop around the ocean right off of florida, reenergize and come back and hit some of these same communit t today, that would be cruel, just at a time when these folks are trying to clean up and especially get the power back on. that's very latest here from daytona beach, it will be a long friday, let's send it up to you. >> nbc's ron mott, thank you. >> now, let's go to ft. lauderdale, florida, 11,000 residents are without power. beheard bonnie say there was no storm surge. not like northern florida. let's talk to nbc's blake mccoy.

people there are coping without power? >> reporter: ayman, there is a sense this morning that ft. lauderdale really dodged a bullet with this storm. conditions have improved dramatically over the past few hours. overnight, we did see wind. we did see rain. nowhere near as 3w5 as expected. that's because this hurricane ended up staying 100 miles offshore as it patzed ft. lauderdale, which was further out than expected. we saw the outer through in waves in the i don't have night hours. all of that looks to move north at this point. 11,000 people are without power. you can see the lights on right now in ft. lauderdale. what we expect to see later this morning is a return to normal now this system has moved further up the coast. we can tell you that ft. lauderdale's airport, which had been closed down on thursday, plans to reopen this morning. miami's airport, we expect flights to resume this morning as well.

normal here as people turn their attention towards our neighbors to the north in florida. >> nbc's blake mccoy, thanks for that. let's go back to bonnie schneider and get a look at the journey it is making up the eastern board of florida. >> thanks so much, ayman. i want to show you the latest position. 80 miles southeast of cape canaveral, florida. so it is getting closer to the space coast. matthew has winds right now, maximu miles per hour. it was a category 4. it's still an intense storm. the movements to the northwest at 14 miles per hour. as we zoom in, we are watching closely, going through the afternoon, it will be working up, heading towards coast am georgia and the carolinas and turning away from the mainland,

orleans. so overyou'll, watching matthew, because it will be impacting areas of coast am georgia and south carolina particularly as we go into the weekend. ayman, frances. >> all right, thanks, bonn fi. just ahead, we will hear from the weather channel's mike seidel in ft. pierce, florida. out annuals as this special edition of "early today" continues. i'm here in bristol, virginia. and now...i'm in bristol, tennessee. on this side of the road is virginia... and on this side it's tennessee. no matter which state in the country you live in, you could save hundred car by switching to geico. look, i'm in virginia...

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carolina coast friday night into saturday. we have already seen wind gusts here over 7 miles per hour and over 1,500 customers without power. it will be a long night here and a long couple days up the coast. we will keep you covered on the weather channel, back to you. >> mike seidel struggling there to keep his balance with the wind. we want to bring in steven hyman with florida power and light. it's good to be w give us an update here on how many people are out of power? we just we heard about 150,000? >> sure. well, as this storm makes its way up the eastern coast of florida, we're seeing an increase of some out annuals. currently, we have about 275,000 customers out of power. mainly our largest customer bases in the south florida region, broward county, palm beach county, that's where the

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downgraded to a category 3, but it is still a major threat. heavy rain and dangerous winds topping 120 miles per hour. they're already devastating the state of florida, leaving 200,000 residents without power. >> you think it's downgraded, many may have a moment of relief and say we cleared it. the officials aren't ready to give release the alarm bells. bonnie is saying there chance it may whip around early next week. i know that will be something officials will be watching closely. >> now with especially 2 much,000 people without power -- 200,000 people without power. they anticipate 2 million people. we are in this with the eye of hurricane matthew approaching florida's east coast. another concern, too, is storm surge with all of this. with knowing how much the winds

>> 11 feet by some stills in some parts of melbourne and north of that. >> this is the situation now as we are covering this overnight and forming it closely with very dire warnings, grave warnings from florida officials for everybody to evacuate. hopefully, that is the case for those who chose to stay in their homes and ride it out. hopefully, they will stay safe. >> those in haiti that lost loved ones, they're going through picking up pieces of the stay with us. we'll have a lot more on hurricane matthew. you are watching "early today." see me. don't stare at me. see me. see me. see me to know that psoriasis is just something that i have. i'm not contagious. see me to know that... ...i won't stop until i find what works. discover cosentyx, a different kind of medicine for moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. proven to help the majority of people find clear or almost clear skin. 8 out of 10 people saw 75% skin clearance at 3 months.

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people are looking at this probably saying, oh, this is nothing. i have been through a hundred of these. this is not what we're talking about t. worst is yet to come. get out. just get out. we can't save you. power is going to go out. you will lose your cell phone and internet. when you realize you will say, i need it. we can't >> jacksonville will be the less affected as hurricane matthew makes its way into coastal georgia. jacob soboroff, give us an update on what you are seeing out there, what are conditions like? >> reporter: we just got to jacksonville driving from atlanta, opposite the way of people smartly evacuating. these areas, we are a couple hundred miles away from the

headed in this direction. we drive across on our way to town the st. john river, we're seeing a sort of steady but light rainfall t. river we are driving over is expected to see surges of six, maybe nine feet. which would not be a good thing for the city of jacksonville. ki see from my van tage point the river looks quite high. don't forget, there are 800,000 people in the city of jacksonville. hopefully, they heeded advice of the mayor. winds are expected to whip up and be quite strong once the storm reaches here later on today, especially, hopefully, people have heeded these warnings out by the coast, where there are many people, particularly military members of the u.s. military at naval station may port the third largest navy base in the country right here on the coast of the atlantic ocean here in jacksonville.

in a matter of hours, ayman, it will be a different scene. >> you can see from your windshield, the wind doesn't look to bad. the trees don't appear tore whipping around too much as well. >> that's right, frances. yeah, i think and like i said, you know, we have seen how of the course of the last 24, 48 hours, conditions change with what seems like a moments notice here and we expect within probably 12 hours here in worsen considerably and it's something nobody here wants to see. >> jacob soboroff, thank you so much from jacksonville, florida. >> it's good to see that at least people according to jacob are making their way out of jackson victim, heeding that had advisement still a long way from the all clear to go back into the neighborhoods. stay with us. we will hear more on hurricane matthew, now a category 3 but

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good morning. i'm..vincehere's what's coming up on "live at daybreak"... matthew's wrath. the category three hurricane batters the florida coast. the danger emergencey officials are most concerned about this morning. also... back in custody. how authorities found an inmate mistakenly released in waukesha... and... why they

good morning. i'm ann sterling. i'm vince vitrano.let's start off with a check on the weather... with meteorologist brian gotter. despite clou showers, yesterday was warm and humid with highs in the lower 70s. t'showers developed late last evening and overnight ahead of the cold front with heavy rain at times. there is still a chance for showers this morning, then it clears out for this afternoon. temps this morning are in the upper 60s, and that will be the high for the day as a brisk nw wind increases to 20 mph, and drops temps into the 50s by noon. tonight