category one, category two, category three. the difference between three and four, the kennedy space center under water. so the difference between a three and four when it comes to the storm surge is remarkable. we're worried about people inland off of the barrier islands, but the fact that this has been downgraded to a category three, that's good news. >> incrementally good given that category 3 is something authorities take very seriously. thank you to cal. for more now, we're going to go to fema. i wonder if you could pick us up on the conversation we were just having. what is the view of a category three and what is the biggest threats that fema would be looking at right now in this situation where you still have a huge weather front that could get closer to the mainland u.s.? >> well, i think the most important thing is for people to understand that right now the storm surge is probably the most dangerous thing out there. the category thee and the category four, it has a lot of wind implications. but there's also the storm

to a category 3. it's an eye-opening demonstration. >>> new at 11:00, a potentially explosive situation defused in gloucester county. skyforce10 over the gloucester county christian school where some world war ii munitions were uncovered tonight. the explosives were found during some excavation work. the county's bomb squad safely disposes of them using a controlled explosion. the cool is built on a former military base. classes have been canceled for tomorrow. >>> a new jersey transit train was going 21 miles per hour, twice the speed limit, when it crashed into hoboken's terminal last week. that's according to federal investigators. tonight crews removed the wrecked train car from the station. authorities also said the engineer hit the emergency brake less than a second before the crash. that crash killed one woman and injured more than 100 other people. >>> now to decision 2016. tonight, republican donald trump took part in a town hall in new hampshire with new jersey governor chris christie by his

we know it's a category 3, it had been a category 4. that can be deceiving, because people may think it's just a category 3 now. >> it is a category 3, just dropped a little. maximum winds 120 miles per hour, and it's very close to the coast. the system is only about 30 or 40 miles east of that florida coastline. >> okay. how large is the eye right now this and when that hit makes landfall, is that when you're going to have the greatest anticipation of problems? >> very good question. we're watching this on radar, watching it by the data samples that the hurricane hunters are investigating it. it has two eyewalls, which happens with these tropical systems. we have an inner eyewall that is starting to erode. that actually has the core winds, the winds near 120 miles an hour. then the outer eyewall that looks like it's becoming more dominant. because of that outer eyewall expanding and decreasing in intensity, we're starting to see the winds increase along the east coast of central florida. so that's quite significant. we think that edge

-- to a category 4 at any moment.s is the most powerful storm to threaten the atlantic coast in more than a decade. authorities have ordered more than 2 million people to evacuate from florida up through south carolina. you can see a lot of people heading inland as we's heat. in south carolina they have reversed the lanes on the highway to help to ease congestion. we are told that the gases in

category 1. here's your category 2. here's your category 3. and this then what we're expecting. the one thing i cannot simulate is the speed at which this happens. ron mott was talking about high tide coming in at 12:20 a.m. that's about an hour from now. the story during hurricane katrina was the speed at which the waterter rises. in a state like florida, this is where your sea level is. almost everything along that eastern coastline is either at sea level or below sea level. as we sort of correct these models and as we look at the storm perhaps ticking a bit to the east, the coast, that probably won't impact what will probably be the most devastating factor of this storm, which could be the storm surge, brian. >> cal, there's already talk about water levels, ocean encroachment at the kennedy space center. when you think about it, those are the relics, the monuments of our first missions into space, what became an extension of the cold war, really, where apollo 11 took off, where the shuttle program started, to say nothing of amerimercury, gemini. water levels were already dang

so this is still a strong category 3. category 4s and 5s are rare, so a category 3 is a major hurricane, and expecting it to sustain that strength, perhaps strengthen a little bit more by friday morning, and then weaken a bit. but these are just slight variations of five miles per hour. it's not until we talk about saturday that we see a substantial weakening. the track since the 11:00 p.m. advisory is somewhat offshore. that's good news. that will keep the core of the strongest winds offshore. not to say we're not going to see hurricane force winds offshore, as the storm is below the 50 mile marker closer to florida. we have hurricane force winds, winds that are 74 miles per hour or greater are extending out 60 miles. let's take a closer look at the storm surge threat i was mentioning. this has not changed. west palm beach to ft. pierce, 4 to 6 feet for storm surge. this is really the problem area, melbourne to savannah, 7 to 11 feet, familiarly here in coastal georgia, coastal south carolina, and into northern florida.

, category 2 off the georgia coast and category 1. the future cast showing how this moves out of the bahamas moving to the north and if the atlantic side. there is a big nascar racing charlotte and we have not heard anything on that but i would be surprised if that is on for saturday. russ clear skies, 40s and 50s on the temperatures, 44 at mineral park, los altos in there and a little warmer in the pacifica at 55. warm thursday in carrying it into saturday.>> when is the next rain? >> this time next week, looking better and better with temperatures getting back into the 80s, 50s and 60s on monday, a gradual warming coming. we could see a few areas near 90 on saturday, but if you don't like the heat, it will be out quickly next week. >>> this morning to folks can dress cooler in the morning and sunny and warm in the afternoon.>> we will continue to watch this situation in florida, unbelievable to see those people on the be. >> -- on the beach.>> they won't be there much longer i don't think there >> and i wonder how the roads are gett

a little to the south of the north carolina border, as a category 3 and then drops to category 2. it's moving north quickly. here is the payoff. this is where it may get when it gets to our latitude. it looks saturday night in the how many of the chesapeake bay at a category 2, and then a 1, if this work out heavy rain in our region especially new jerseyth delaware and strong tropical storm force winds especially at the ocean front and the track could go as far west as williamsport or out to sea. but that is the way it is looking right now. when we come back we'll look at the spaghetti tracks. even though this is not a sure thing four or five-d days out, it's something we should take seriously throughout the weekend. >>> check back often with stormtracker 6 live double scan, it's one of many resources available at 6abc.com/weather. and use twitter and facebook to stay connected to our meteorologists including the latest on hurricane matthew. >>> presidential politics now, hillary clinton is back in town today, voters are lining up to see her in delaware county. the democrat is hol

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that's where it is right now as a category three. it will get stronger and it is headed to florida in the next 24 hours. >>> secret files stolen from the nsa. more on the man accused of that crime. >>> all eyes on hurricane matthew this morning. it is closing in on florida. look at it right now. it already killed 15 people in the caribbean. the storm is expected to gain strength and hit parts of florida as maybe a category four storm. it has been more than a decade since a storm hit with that force. governor rick scott says people should be prepared for a direct hit. governors in south carolina and florida are urging millions to evacuate. we will have more coming up. >>> a contractor in the nsa is in custody for stealing top secret files. 51-year-old harold thomas martin was detained in august, but not announced until wednesday. the fbi said the documents he stole contain details of the hacking tool the nsa developed to break into other systems. so far, they do not believe he was acting on behalf of a foreign nation. >>> russia is de

still category 3 but i would think category 4 any time. 131 the gusts. it looks like it will be a category 4 when it arrives late tonight and early tomorrow. some of these inlets that stretch out are very low lying. and then you have areas that are only a few feet above sea level. and they go up towards cape canaveral, kennedy space center. space x is all right there. and then in orlando, you have disney world as well. if it coming in at 1:45, you can add it up. that will be devastation. it weakens but still off of the georgia coast. category 2 and then category 1. so there will be not only gusts 145 maybe 150, but torrential rain. i have seen something about 17 inches possible for some locations over the next five days. around fort pierce at a category 4. and then up towards melbourne and then again category 4 up to daytona beach. dave and i were -- dave lived there. >> yeah. >> very good friend of mine has family there. >> yeah. >> i've been there. there's sometimes by -- there's only one way out sometimes, right, dave? >> yeah. >> merit island by coco

category five and forecast to circle around toward jamaica as a category four boy, let's hope this is totally wrong. this is what our computer models are showing the latest reconsaunce data finding this a category five. where it goes from here is still anybody's guess. i'll have an idea of what the atmosphere will look like then. >> you can track the live radar on your phone any time with the fox 25 weather app. it's free to download in the apple or google play storm you can also get customized about this guy right here david ortiz. tonight he gets the game hitting home run against the blue jays to kick off his final regular season home stand. let's start off with butch stearns it. >> seems like we've been watching this forever, ock but he's got something left in the tank. for 14 seasons in boston people have been paying to go to games at fenway hoping that david ortiz would come up in a pressure situation and maybe do something memorable. when the first of his final three regular season games at fenway again in the clutch with the game on the line papi creates his latest fenway memor

named the category 5 in september of '07. max winds, 160 miles per hour moving west at 7 miles per hour as this continues to track to the west but then it will start to take a turn to the north now and as it does it is going to stay as a category 4 perhaps moving through jamaica they do have hurricane watches out at this time. by monday night moving passed jamaica towards the bahamas as ca gotten a little bit wider some of the forecast models putting this storm a little bit further west and that could mean we may have the potential for seeing some of the effects here in new england. we'll keep you up to date on that i'm tracking rain for tonight and tomorrow how much rain we could see in a bit. >>> tonight's rain didn't papi. fans coming for papi's incredible career. >> a celebration get off to a grand start. >> dan roach is live with us, david ortiz gave fans a lot to cheer about tonight. >> he is unbelievable. every time you think he's done something, he keeps going and going, crazy stuff, we know we are guaranteed to at le

when you left work to get sleep it was a category 4, now it's a category 3. the word just doesn't belong in there, right? >> no, not when you're talking majors, category 3s can be devastating blow, still doing significant damage. in terms of how the storm is going to be viewed overall. yesterday morning at this time i was leaning more towards historic. we were thinking category 4 on the coast, moving up the coast, so there has been some good. we have a category 3 major hurricane just off the coast and that's only a difference of about ten to 15 miles and that's fantastic. some people have been spared overnight. there are going to be people waking up this morning from about the melbourne, florida, area, ft. lauderdale, west palm beach, you are thrilled you did not get significant damage and this was a little further off the coast for you. that does not mean the storm cannot be historic for our friends from daytona beach northwards, but we are happy for our friends, a lot still don't have power, but you weren't destroyed. that's what we were fearing with the ca

we're looking at category three right now, but it looks like it's going to a category four before it approaches the coast. see what's shore line. so as we talk about late tonight, it is just brushing against the coast, continues that way through daytona beach. as we look towards jacksonville, we're talking about friday at 2:00 in the afternoon. so this is going to be just hugging right near the shore line. a movement one way or the other just a little bit will have a big determining factor as to what will happen. it will move to the carolina coast and loop around and fall this morning, look at this, 35 degrees in bedford. 35 degrees in norwood. chilly temperatures this morning, especially if you're away from the shore line. as you look at the day, it looks like we've got plenty of sunshine. coming up, we'll detail more precisely what's going to be happening in florida. they have a lot of things going on there. we'll talk about the winds and waves. around here, a sea breeze keeping things cooler at the coast. how about the traffic? >> so far, not seeing problems. volume starting to bu

category 4. 145, 145, 130. we're talking about 200 miles of florida beaches being just raked by a category 4 hurricane and that just didn't happen. the radar, you can now see it appearing here and here's the latest conditions from the hurricane center. up to a category 4 storm. now 25 miles west and 150 miles away from miami itself. so not a lot has changed. the forecast is just as bad. if i zoom in, they don't maybe have it, it may never make landfall. if we take it off the coast, there's a chance we could avoid this ka takacastrkas. catastrophe. >> going to nassau in a second with some of the conditions up in florida. but let's look at case scenarios here. you mentioned worst case scenario. category 5. that's something in your view. if that happens, what would be the conditions in that region? >> you would think that like 10 miles, it's supposed to be 145. to get to a category 5, the forecast winds would go up to 157 miles per hour. only a difference of 12 miles per hour, so it's really, it sou

it looks like fort pierce up to daytona beach, up to jackson, and that will be a category for -- category 4, a 3 and a 4 soon. but 50 miles and the atlantic to make a huge difference, going up toward south carolina, going back to see, and i see projections of that looping back around to miami and the next six or seven days. 40s and 50s in our area on the temperatures, a nice day with a few 80s popping up, 60s and 70s on the coast and the. -- bay. >>> we have a problem on 680, and it looks like a serious crash. it has been confirmed that this is a deadly crash, and there could be more than one. there is one reported southbound 680, another northbound 680 at the off-ramp, and it could be more than one, but the traffic will be busy. you can see the firefighters and investigators will be on the scene, janine de la vega is on the way to the scene and will have more for us at 4:30 am. >>> let's move along in take a look at westbound 580, 205 on the tracy super commuters, traffic moving along pretty well. 580 is still doing well into the livermore valley, no major issues. the morning commute doe

it is a category 2. i do not anticipate it going back up to 3, 4, 5, in terms of storm intensity, it has reached his peak, but it's a big engine. it's not like you turn the switch off and everything fades away. these things have a lot of momentum and energy. it slowly winds down rain. it does not encompass a lot of real estate. not much going on. a couple of showers, along the i the 5 corridor and it works up north through savannah and eventually, beaufort and charleston, myrtle beach, even further away. it's north overnight and perhaps try to land somewhere along the south carolina coastline. north of savannah, perhaps it is beaufort as well as charleston, somewhere in there tomorrow morning. strongest winds right at the coastline. anywhere between 70-80 miles. the storm surge. at one time, this was a category 4 storm. all of the water has been pushed ahead. even though the storm is downgraded, the going to end up along the georgia and south carolina coastline. the shape of the coastline is working agai

category 3. major hurricane. the outer rain band, some of the surge, some of the wind really starting to impact some of the bahamas now as matthew makes its way to the north. eventually take the curve and restrengthen into a category 4 hurricane, parallelling the

has gone from a category 4 to a category 3. well, in hurricane terms when you talk about the damage of hurricane, category 1 to 3 is a substantial increase. it is not 3 levels up, it is actually 50 times worse. here at home, though, with redry. we won't see the direct impact -- we are dry. we won't see direct impacts from matthews. in fact, the temperatures will be in the upper 70s. very similar we have a front coming into play through the weekend bringing us rain. we will get to that shortly. i will keep an eye on matthew. i know it is impacting a lot of people. kristin, you are from florida. you have so many friends and family down there? >> yes. praying for the best for them. >>> the highways looking good. no issues or accidents. 90 eastbound over the innerbelt bridge still closed but another p.m. to 6:00 a.m., 90 eastbound over the bridge will be closed, same thing. and the maps here, 76 and 77 checking in fine. here is 90 and fulton, a comfortable, smooth ride. >>> breaking news overnight, a cleveland police officer hit wh

1 destruction, or category 3 or category 4.'s the 3d graphics and you can see the projected path looking if that storm was to pull inland, that's the stop or the corridor starting to wobble. if that 15-or 30-mile stretch moves westward you can see where the strongest winds will be. inland and along the short line f. that wobble is eastward we see the winds stay offshore and we spare the east coast of florida from the strongest, most destructive part of hurricane matthew. to say the least though we've got a rough next 24 hours along the florida, georgia, and south carolina coast. you can see the computer models hugging the coastline accident running parallel with florida. needless to say this is a formidable storm and conditions will deteriorate from daytona beach to jacksonville this morning, and riding up the coastline from savannah, to charles s charleston, into wilmington. >> what a bizarre storm. that a little bit just north of melbourne that is titusville and cape canaveral. that looks like it may be hit harder than anythi

this projection model shows the wall of the storm near daytona category three- tangibly category far as it moves up to the georgia and south carolina coastline with potential of rainfall between five and 12 plus inchesit as it continues t storm path over the next 48 hours. those are asked to evacuate in the area, that's a list of date , and, also our hometown folk as coming up a few minutes.n >> the impact is felt here. >> lots of lives to florida have been canceled and for many it was a run to get out of barry gibb for airports closed, as roosevelt leftwich joins us fro hopkins airport. >> has been a day of headaches, vacation plans, looking at the big board of hopkins there is a flightlaer canceled to fort lauderdale also fly to miami canceled and the frontier flight to orlando also canceled that was supposed to leave at 6:00 o'clock. look at some video we took earlierer, some of the flights out of southern florida arriving today in cleveland, any people left early and head of the storm, miami is a major hub for many airlines they said the traffic to central america coul be shut do

still as possible a category 3, category 4 hurricane. then it is going to get very dangerously close to the east coast of florida. that would be thursday-esque. still as a category 3 hurricane. then it's going to kind of travel parallel to the east coast traveling very close to the east coast of georgia, south carolina could as we head toward late saturday into sunday morning. now it's important to not necessarily focus on the exact track of this storm making land fall but more so on the yellow cone because a wobble to the left could mean more rain for us here in central north carolina, a wobble to the right could mean less impact for us here around central north carolina. of course, we're hoping that it gets pushed out to sea but we need to start interests along the coastline. let's go ahead and talk about some of the watches and warnings. look at this. all of the bahamas now under a hurricane warning. national hurricane center says it's possible they can issue hurricane watches for the florida. we have eastern portions of cuba, western

and could easily be category for his approaches florida and maybe closer to a strong category 3 inches north of west palm beach and tomo the entire coastline before moving outll towards the bahamas. the storm eye is where the president obama zakaria state of emergency as they prepare fo the storm to make landfall. >> miami florida, and the state is preparing for impact, runyonesque, is there with more. high winds are hit in the florida coast. >> of not trying to be negative but i would be amazed if any of this is left tomorrow. >> some 2 million people are urged to move away from the coast,t, 3,000 checking into shelters in florida for the arrival of hurricane matthew an the national guard is returning for rescue missions. >> if you are watching our infant arrogant, get, get out now do not take a chance.at >> is the most powerful storm t made landfall in southwest florida with winds of 120 mph killing five. forecasters, at the hurricane center anticipate that impact of the storm the united states is going to be quite significant.t it is privilege of as deadly force asde it moved throug

3, to a catastrophic category 4. winds at 140 miles an hour, sheering roofs off houses. an enclosed balcony offering little protection. look at this wind. these are more than a hundred miles an hour. there's an enormous tree that has come down on six, seven cars over there. boats in nassau harbor lifted straight out of the water. the driving rain flooding streets. officials shutting off power across the island to protect the grid. all flights canceled. vacationers forced to ride out the storm in their hotels. >> it's been a really bad storm. >> reporter: at the atlantis resort on paradise island, guests took refuge in a conference room, sleeping on mats. >> hi! >> reporter: this honeymoon. >> we'll make do. >> reporter: tonight, the bahamas still being battered. there are people still trapped in their homes tonight, unable to get out because of flood water. we drove through neighborhood after neighborhood exactly like this. trees down on houses, roads completely washed away. lester? >> tammy leitner, thank you. >>> s

matthew, a category 3 storm could rise to category 4 by tonight or early tomorrow morning. it's the biggest storm the area has seen in more than a decade. >> my plan is to head to columbia, stay with a co-worker. wait out the storm and hopefully be glad i left. >> i think he met columbia, south carolina. nbc10 meteorologist erika martin will have an update on matthew including any impact on our area. >>> it's 67 degrees, 6:03, we're following breaking news locally in salem county where a homeowner tells us two men broke into his home, tied him up before he do escape. he woke up to find two men standing over him in his bedroom on pearl street. both intruders had guns. >> i thought it was a dream. i really thought it was a dream. they just said, be cool. we'll kill you, we'll kill you, we'll kill you. i just cooperated. >> when the intruders went into the basement, the homeowner broke free and ran into out of the house to call police. he wasn't hurt. neither was his father sleeping in the house during the intrusion. >>> meantime, a student at st. joe's university is concerned

4 since friday category 4 the whole time. that is amazing. wind has we can tonight down to 130 miles per hour. preciousness come up a little showing the hurricane has we can but as it heads into the bahamas it doesn't have a lot of land. it has warm water. lot of humidity. no mountains in no disruption of flow. it will most likely maintain its category 4 status through the bahamas and all day thursday and then can you believe this? for the first time since katrina eastern florida could have a hurricane strike. they have not had one since katrina. that is a very likely possibility heading into thursday and friday. that is the updated track. we showed you this earlier. there is the new center line compared to the last forecast track. you can see it has nudged a little to the west down by florida and georgia but also pivoted away from our coastline that it has also slowed down so instead of saturday morning or saturday afternoon, it is now a category 2 hurricane saturday night off our coastline and again it is a wide path that s

this area of coastline has not seen a direct hit of a category-4 or a category-5.o first of all, this is uncharted territory. we have had storms in florida, no doubt, we have had hurricanes. we know what can happen with even a category-3. you go back to the 2004 season to know when we had that crisscross of charlie and gene and francis to know that when you have power outages that happen after a storm, it's not just for hours or days. it could be for weeks. so you need to make sure people are ready to deal with that situation. >> all right, stay safe. head inside. i'm going to stay on the beach and take you to -- actually, we're not going to stay on the beach. when we return, we're going to go to west palm and speak to the mayor as well as go up the coast to juneau beach giving you an update on hurricane matthew, the storm we're preparing to make its way up the east coast of florida, and it could potentially be a category four. stay with us. you're watching msnbc. here at outback, the steaks have definitely been raised! we've taken our tender, center-cut sirloin, a

a category 4. we have to prepare as if it's were going to have landfall and clearly hurricane force winds. storm surge, unbelievable waves, i want everybody to be safe. my focus is protecting every life in this state, we have 26 million people, i want everybody to survive this. jenna: i was looking at an article and one of your residents said this, the hype is going to be worse than the actual storm, i feel like i can do quite well. what's your message to somebody who might have that perspective still? >> well, i will give you a story. we had category 1 about a month ago and there was a lady who did the same thing, i have four pets i'm not going to leave out. storm surge there, she waited until the foot and a half and says i'm not going to survive this and got to her house 3 to 4 feet when she evacuated. if there habit been a high-water vehicle a couple of doors down, she would have died. whether it's 150-miles-per-hour winds, 10 feet of storm surge on top of that wave. if you think about you're tr

that's not a place i'd want to be in a category 4 or category 5 hurricane. that's why we're hearing the governor -- he's been holding press conferences it seems every two or three hours now, urging people to take this seriously. because he's well aware of what you see behind me, which is that some people aren't. they say it's not going to be that bad because this time this coast of florida had a major storm was 11 years ago with wilma. andrew before that in 1992. it's not fresh in people's minds so that's why the governor has been sounding the alarm seemingly every few hours. >> blake mccoy in ft. lauderd e lauderdale. stay with us as we get set for hurricane matthew. announcer: todd's's great guy i mean, look at m. at. a. swetheart. attaboy. how tolly selfish and unoddlike of you. come on, todd, come on, man. trusnumber o docto recommended dulcolax nstited? use dulcax tablets for gtle overnight relief suppositors for relief in minutes d stool softenersfor comfof of hard stools. dulcolax, desied for df >>> hurricane matthew is expected to make landfall tonig

big, big storm, a category four. an update from the national hurricane center and keeping it at that category four status. this is really going to be devastating the areas around haiti towards cuba. as you look at jamaica, a fringe effect out of this whole thing. calm. it's around it, the eyewall, where you see your strongest winds. this eye is only 12 miles across. the whole storm is over 500 miles across. winds and rain and everything else with it. we know it's going to be cutting its way through the bahamas. where does it go after that. this is a little change, closer to the coast, as we talk around the charleston area. this is early saturday morning, friday night, as a category two storm. this way be skirting the coast all the way through the carolinas as we head toward us? it's really uncertain about the track of the intensity, but the time frame for us, if it does, big if on that, if it does, would be as we head toward the weekend. i think really focusing more on sunday than anything else. the one thing i know

if i am on the east coast of florida, i'm preparing for a landfall of a category 3 or category 4 storm. it's just too close. we are talking 25, 30 miles and we are not good as far as the forecast errs to this period. when you have a cat 4 offshore like that, you must prepare for the worsest. the official -- worst.

by 2:00 in the morning we could see it as a category 4. fort pierce could be right near there and moving up the coast line to orlando, daytona beach by the afternoon hours tomorrow. possibly still as a major hurricane. that would be delivering a lot of rain. hurricane force winds. not good conditions at all. then up to the georgia coast line. then the south carolina coast line. weakening. that is by early saturday and in to saturday afternoon. we then expect it to take the really sharp turn. there is that loop that you heard that allows the forecast model to that i can loop, possibly hitting the bahammas again for a second time. this time would be weaker and that would be the beginning of next week. >> the yellow is showing the forecast for tropical storm force winds. they could be around the orlando or the daytona beach area going in to parts of georgia and see a tropical storm force wind. either way it is a major hurricane for much of the southeast. we do have rain in the force cast to start off your weekend. saturday, all because of a c

category 4 hurricane matthew. not a category 5, but still very strong. the latest advisory i will have for you coming up in a few minutes. i do want to point out that the latest information on this system shows 55-mile-per-hour winds. keep in mind a category 5 is 157. so it really has only weakened a little bit. headed for jamaica and cuba, and the track at 5. 30% chance of storms today more numerous storms building west for sunday. high a little above average in the upper 80s. >>> all right, lindsay, time is 6:33. a look at some of today's top stories. a st. pete man wanted for attempted murder has been found nearly 700 miles away. 19-year-old marcus phraseer is accused of shooting two men on august 24 at bay vista park. friday, police in statesville north carolina found frazier and he was arrested and expects to stand trial here in pinellas county. the department of justice is suing the owner and managers of a lakeland mobile home park. they claim the maygrove mobile home denied home buyers based on their race. according to their lawsuit, african-ameri

category 3 storm. brand-new update coming. we will get new co-ordinates, the track of the storm and how powerful it is. there is a sign it is still strengthening. we are going to deal with the storm on friday for the georgia coastline. storm surge and flooding. as we get into the weekend, perhaps a recurve. for now, we have hours and hours to go of this huge hurricane, category 3 hurricane. they have no record of something like this happening across the florida coastline. it's really unprecedented. the storm surge, this is the number one killer, water, when it comes to hurricanes. storm surge of 10 feet plus along this vulnerable coastline especially georgia and the carolinas, that could be devastating for them. we have the most dangerous part of the storm to go the next 12 to 24 hours. >> thank you, janice. in georgia, you heard janice mention residents along the coast urged to leave immedia immediately. >> homes and businesses boarded up. with a few hours until impact waiting out the storm could have deadly consequences. >>

category 3, threat to the florida east coast maybe even back up to a category 4 by the time it hits, if it does strike land. the right turn that we have been talking about for days, is going to be even farther south than what we thought yesterday. which means little or no impact around here. the showers we get on saturday are from a cold front, not from matthew. 120-mile-per-hour winds, at the last advisory, moving northwest now, that is the change and the forecast takes it as a category 4 very close to the florida east coast. we'll talk more about the path, more about our weekend too, in just a few minutes. >>> our team coverage of hurricane matthew continues now, with nbc 10's keith jones. >> the united nations has actually dubbed this the worst humanitarian crisis to hit haiti since the devastating 2010 earthquake, this is video from cuba. 140-mile-per-hour winds, destroyed dozen of homes there. container cars, tossed around like paper bags, roads blocked by the storm, leaving the city cut off from the surrounding province. this storm was described as catastrophic in parts of hait

category 4 storm. it's moving toward free port, bahamas, then making its way closer to land where it could make a landfall just to the south of jacksonville, maybe around st. augustine. that's somewhere we're watching. notice, it's not losing much strength according to the forecast models. expected to stay category 4. wall replacement cycle where it collapses in on itself and regenerates. if it goes the right, that's great news. that means the coastlines these tropical-storm-force winds. if it goes more left, that's when we're going to see some of the most damage. when this starts making its way on shore. it continues to travel its way to the north. it's going to hook its way east. so georgia, south carolina definitely feel something of this. but now watch what happens. but it's coming back around for florida again. this time as a tropical storm, possibly even a tropical depression. but regardless, the fact they're going to be doing a lot of clean up in florida. here at home, conditions obviously much,

what's the latest. >>> it has restrengthen today a category iv storm. the picture right now is the bahamas. they're going to be getting better in terms of their conditions because matthew is going to be slowly moving away over the island. the worst is yet to come in florida. matthew category iv storm right now it is now sitting to the west northwest of bahamas, the outer parts of florida and the seas already building. hurricane warnings have been extended now to include extreme parts of southeastern south carolina. so all up and down the coastline from southern florida and even through the interior even parts of the west coast of florida are in tropical storm warnings because the winds extend 160 miles from the storm center whereas the hurricane force winds are concentrate closer to the storm center by about it is expected to stay a category iv hurricane as it approaches and may make landfall north of melbourne florida tomorrow morning and hug the coastline up to jacksonville and by the time we get to saturday morning at 8 a.m. will have weakened to a c

strong category four hurricane. that western eye wall over the south of west palm beach and ft. lauderdale. this would be all through the space coast. the tmelbourne area, new smyrna beach, all are going to be decimated by the storm with the path. let's move it further to the north and see what the update has for you. we're at the space coast at 8:00 a.m. 145 and with that path they come at with now, the last one is further to the coast and had it weakening down to 110 when closest to jacksonville. they still have this at a category four just off the jacksonville coast. this is horrible news for people in the georgia area. just got word they evacuate the coastal sections of georgia for good reason here. st. augustine, flagler county, flagler beach to daytona beach. worst case scenario forecast for you and it does weaken slightly. further to the north, we take it now. saturday, 8:00 a.m. as this white line right in here. that's where near the savannah area and headed to beaufort, beautiful hilton head is highly impac

it will be a category 4 when it hits florida. >>> with hurricane sandy, it was a category 2 and a category 3 when it hit cuba. >> it wasn't effecting near as big of an area as this will. because it is going right up the coast it will cause damage over a much wider area than sandy. the storm surge that caused all of that damage will cross many more beaches. >> all right. we'll get more coming up in a few minutes. stay with us. y24kny y5yy >>> this weekend it will transform into german food, culture, dancing and of course got to have beer. doug is here with rebecca from volunteers of america. they are both here to talk to us about the 23rd street oktoberfest. you celebrated this for the last seven or eight years. why did you move into the 23rd street. >> >> that's right. we just had it two weeks ago. it has grown and grown. on top of that setting up a successful in south street we had to be up abdomen down nd do day. we can spend a good quality week. >> this is about as authentic as you can get. >> yes. i have not seen anything like that in the united states before. >> you have german beer?

that is a wobble and potential between a category 1 hurricane and category 3 or 4 hurricane. explain a little further with this 3 dimensioned a map below me and let's say we bring matthew in by 30 miles westward and means the wobble takes place. if that wobble makes its way eastward of the atlantic seaboard, it will bring the bulk of the devastating winds with it. a couple ways to think about this in an analogy, if i may, let's call it a spinning top or spinning quarter on a desk. if you rotate it, it's eventuallily going to slow down and wobble, as it does show. that same thing happens with category 3 and category 4 hurricanes as their intensity allows them to move back and forth like this. >> i take it the biggest concern here is where it's headed and whether or not that high tide and that storm surge are going to converge to create just pandemonium wherever that hits. >> that's it, miguel. as the storm moves northward to the florida and georgia border, the strongest part of the storm will bring winds in and coincide with high tide which is this morning or this afternoon ra

the category 3 storm could ramp back up to category 4 making its way to the united state tracking the latest developments. this would be the strongest storm to hit the united states in more than a decade. >> it would be. it's been more than ten years since florida has seen a category 3 storm. matthew could be a category 4 before it reaches that state. at one point, it reached category 5 across the caribbean. high winds in the bahamas and before that, it hit haiti hard. dramatic damage as people tried desperately to fight flood waters nearly gets swept away this is what people in the states are trying to avoid. officials are warning several states to get out. emergency evacuations in carolinas, florida, georgia. 12 million people could ben the path of danger. state leaders are urging people to evacuate now. so many are trying to drive out of the storm's path. fuel is hard to come places. they're heeding the warning to leave. >> my plan is head to columbia and stay with a coworker and wait out the storm and hopefully come back and be glad that i left. >> glad he's getting out. this is t

and it looks like it will make landfall in florida as a category 4 storm. little in north ca the forecast band but we're looking at heavy rain and impact with windy conditions and possibly flooding in the southern part of the viewing area. we have a nice hole in the clouds in downtown raleigh making for a beautiful shot. we're likely to have drizzle and patchy light rain. we get into the rain tomorrow, and it will be fairly wet friday and saturday with 2 to 3" around here. bryan? >>> i-40 is a headache this morning through south raleigh. big delays this as you head there is a stalled vehicle on the inside lane before gorman, causing major backup. all lanes blocked there. it's like a 44-minute trip from the beltline split all the way to wade avenue. you are not getting anywhere quickly there. i-540, capital boulevard, traffic funneled into one lane and there are the drive times as you head in from garner. back to you. when i was one year old, i was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer on my spinal chord. but i spent my whole life fighting back. so you can im