this is something for mel bourn up to jacksonville has not seen for a long time. tropical storm forced in the bay area but this is clearly off to the east from miami to west palm into the treasure coast and into the space coast they will have the worst of this. i will have more in a couplef of minutes. sending ships to haiti. i people in south and east florida are bracing for hurricane matthew some people in the bay area going to haiti to help there. >> they need donations and donations like protein bars because these are the supplies that those people are going need days after this hurricane. >> this is the greek word for god's unconditional love. the sooner we can get through the better. >> the first stop we make -- it is a nonprofit organization that travels to places like haiti to supplies. >> their mission this time is dedicated to dropping off emergency supplies. many families will need them to get by because the hurricane. >> the southern part of haiti is a mess. >> by phone earlier today he described some of the damage he has heard about so far. >> the wat

we're here along the inter coastal in mel bourne, florida, about 6:00 o'clock tonight we were over at beach checking out the waves there which were getting huge and it was definitely getting pretty windy. i was talking to a police officer and he warned my photographer and i if gets any windier it's time to head over the bridge before the conditions get too dicey so that's exactly what we did. we took a slow drive over the bridge. getting blown around little bit and we decided to come mainland where we're now here along the inter coastal. since we've been here it's gotten progressively windier and rainier. you can probably see it look like the rain is almost coming in sideways. if you take look behind me, this river is typically full of boats sailing. people water skiing, wake boarding in fact i grew up in this area and used to spend my time after school and on weekends doing just that. typically, this is a pretty calm river. it's great for water sports but if you could see it right now, it's white caps from one side of the river to the other, and it's really really really rough. every