in the morning, port st. lucie,

the problem, stephanie, is it goes from port st. lucie up the florida coastline. this is an incredibly destructive path. where that northern eye could be right along the coast. here's how it's going to look on radar. this is our future radar, shows you where the storm is this morning. you don't want to be in this, this is the eye of the storm, the center, the calm. the damaging winds are here, and the storm surge is north of that eye, so at 11:00 p.m. this evening, that eye could be doing catastrophic damage north of palm beach, to palm bay and the melbourne area. when we wake up tomorrow morning, could be over the top of daytona beach. backside of the storm weaker, but even there, 80-mile-per-hour winds in orlando, all the trees they have there, a lot of power outage problems even in orlando. as we go through the day friday, we worry about flagler county, st. augustine, and even brunswick. so i can't stress, this is our -- this is this decade's version of andrew, of a katrina, or of a rita. we haven't had a really horrible storm like this in at least 10 to 15 yea

quick look at forecast, gust, this is port st. lucie. 11:00 p.m. thursday.show landfall, that does not matter, we are talking about the core of the strongest winds, 130, 140 miles per hour stretching 200-3 miles. possibility of a major hurricane riding up coastline, tens of millions of people as we get into georgia and the carolinas and then what happens after that, we will have have to monitor it, but the worst of the storm really coming this evening overnight tonight. that's the track, stuart, category 4. we haven't seen a major hurricane make landfall across anywhere in the u.s. in ten years, i'm so concerned that people here don't know what to do when in a hurricane. evacuate if you have to. stuart: again this is not hype, this is not alarmism, this is real. tell me again. jab january we have not seen a hurricane of this strength move close to the u.s. like this in a decade and even the national weather service is using dire warnings like we could see catastrophic damage along the east coast, something we have never seen before. so no, this is not hype,

temperatures are, i will tell you about the cool down this dramatic rescue in south florida, two port st. lucie women getting stuck in a lake in the vehicle, the driver accidentally hit the gas instead of a break at the stop sign, the area usually does not have traffic but thankfully two men happened to be nearby and quickly jumped into action. >> when we got the window down we were checked to get them out the window. they were so scared. >> they managed to get both women out of the car, by this time more people jumped into the lake to help and it is a good thing by the time police got there the car was completely underwater. both women are okay. >>> cracking down on marijuana grow houses we are revealing some of the key signs investigators use to track marijuana growing operations. ryan smith is live in tampa to or lack thereof is a major red flag to discovering one couple stealing thousands of dollars worth of electricity than the utility company alerted law enforcement. >> if it isn't obvious which of these temporal properties is housing a marijuana grow operation, well, that is the point, d

emily: this is video from stuart, florida, just south of port st. lucie. you can see power lines exploding there. palm beach county and 20% of brevard county is in the dark. randy: to atlanta, georgia, where a state of emergency is in effect. traffic jammed the highways there last night. more than 500,000 people have been told to evacuate coastal georgia where they're expecting some of the most rain. matthew should be off that state by sunday morning. emily: there is new and grim news out of haiti this morning where crews are still assessing matthew's wrath. the death toll on the island expected to go higher. you can see the devastation in this video. authorities just now reaching some of the more remote areas as floodwaters recede. air travel hit hard by this storm. all flights are canceled this morning in fort lauderdale, orlando and palm beach. orlando stopped operations at 8:00 last night. the storm now impacting more than 4,800 flights nationwide. she's going to have a live update in our next half hour. randy: at this hour, we are taking a look at por

area, but the east coast we are shooting across the state, and we are finding the showers near port st. lucy and near melbourne as well, and to this morning. our temperatures, 71 in tampa, and 60s headed inland. dry air over the southeast, and aloft, and that has been responsible for squashing the rain chances, down to 10%, and with not much to cool us down, we warm up. average high is 84. jumping to 88 later today, and at 5:38, we will look at the 8- day temperature trend if you have been begging for cooler >> we have a good drive, and we have positive news on the road right now, and let's take a look. 275 at 20 avenue south it looks good over the bridge, too. state road 54, up to speed in new port richey. and also on u.s. 19 through the palm harbor area, state road 54, only 12 minutes, and that's a look at weather and traffic, now back to candace and ge vote, pubically defending her husband, melania trump reacting to the allegations of her husband's infamous tape. >>> news channel 8's meredyth censullo has more. what does melania trump have to say? >> reporter: mrs. trump says the only thi

locally, and the only issue is the east coast w the onshore flow, and there's showers back to port st. lucy this morning, and that's it. some will come into our area this afternoon. upper 60s and low 70s out there, and the humidity, a tad lower this morning, feeling comfortable, and an easterly flow across the area, and that will be a warm wind for us. 88 for the high today, and it's going to be a october standards, and down the road a big cooldown, and we will go through the day hour-by- hour in a bit. let's check on the roads. >> we have a good weather and good traffic. folks, we are kicking off to a nice drive. i-4 through polk county, looking fantastic. i-75 through the new tampa area this is a great drive from pasco through fowler, and as you continue southward, and that's where most of the traffic is headed, but traffic right now is so light, northbound, southbound, doesn't bridge, and we have that through palm meadow, and that's weather and traffic, and back to gene and candice. >> right now, fire crews are on the scene of a fire at a shopping plaza in tampa, and it destroyed several

once you get to port st. lucien south, west palm beach, that's where the railroad tracks for hurricanes begin. but because of the shape of the florida coast and the fact that they're a little bit further north, this looks to be an unprecedented event. a major hurricane striking from the atlantic ocean into that area, which is now the kennedy space center. and i cannot back up the governor more with any stronger words than to say listen and get the heck out of there because this is going to be a monster storm. multibillion-dollar storm. and the center of this is going to be just to the east, i think, of port st. lucie. and then it's going to ride the coast right up over top of the kennedy space center. and you can see the national hurricane center, there's nothing to argue or disagree with. they have it going to a category 4 again. by the time it reaches the coast. and indeed, that's likely. and that kind of storm, like i said before, in that area of florida is unprecedented. >> the issue too is not only the type of

so looking at that time space coast, vero beach, port st. lucie, then we rake it up the coast. excellent agreement for a landfall along the central florida coastline. we take it to the georgia coast as we go throughout our night, friday and saturday morning. i can't emphasize, time is running out for preparations for people to get out of the way for this. this will be historically bad. in the wake of hurricane matthew, haiti is yet again facing a humanitarian crisis. u.n. officials say it's the worst crisis since 2010. right now, 350,000 people need immediate assistance. at this moment, rescue teams are reaching to reach the island's most devastating communities. >> stranded, but determined, one by one, they fight a raging whichever. this woman almost swept away. rescued just in time this bridge two hours east of port-au-prince is a crucial lifeline. the end of the road is right here. this is where the bridge rushed away. they will get back the help it so desperately needs. >> homes flooded. the mayor says he's counted alone at least 14 people were killed, haiti's official deat

at least two hurricane-related deaths reported in port st. lucie, florida, with a warning that the life threatening impact of the storm may not be over. >> i want to emphasize to everybody that this is still a really dangerous hurricane. marci: that danger shifting to georgia and the carolinas. officials are urging people in coastal areas to evacuate as hurricane matthew makes its way northward. we're trying to reduce the amount of lives lost or harm done as much as we can. marci: here, some wind gust and light rain are left behind from matthew along with power outages and in some areas, a lot less to clean up. marci gonzalez, abc news, new smyrna beach, florida. patrick: and mark baden has the latest storm track. mark: if it continues on that pat it's expected to go north and then neevet. -- and then northeast. let's talk storm surge. that's the raising of the ocean level. that's what this flooding has been, in the just because it's raining but because it's been a hurricane for a long time and its movement to is to the north it pushes all this wat

. >> already, at left one hurricane-related death is reported in port st. lucie, florida and climbing deaths in haiti, nearly 300 killed and communities leveled. moving north to jacksonville. >> there is potential for significant flooding. >> officials urge evacuations in georgia and the carolinas. >> you need to be safe can get out. >> communities are bracing for the destruction of matthew. >> a lot of water. it is dangerous water. >> we are begging you to understand the seriousness of the storm. >> we do not have a clear picture of how severe the impact was here because the wind is still so strong, officials warn that right new, it is still too dangerous for people to be out assessing the damage. >>> now a look at charleston, south carolina. the worst of it is still to come. winds obviously are whipping, and the real problem, though, is going to be the storm surge. our meteorologist, drew tomb marks has the littest. they call that area the low country for a only. >> we got the latest information the last two minutes from the national hurricane center and hurric

. >> already at least one hurricane related death reported in port st. lucie, florida and in haiti nearly 300 killed and entire communes leveled. and matthew moving north towards jacksonville. >> there is potential for significant flooding there. >> they are evacuating parts of georgia and the carolinas. >> you need to get oust there. >> communities there are bracing for the destructive affects of matthew next. >> to understand the seriousness of this storm -- >> reporter: yes, we are seeing just how serious this storm is. though the extent of the impact here is not really clear because of all of this wind and flooding it's still too dangerous for anyone to come out here and assess the damage. live in new smyrna beach, florida. channel 6 "action news" back to you. >>> matthew is now moving north as marcy mentioned and still has time to make a direct hit somewhere in the southeast. melissa magee is track it's storm's path from the "action news" big board. >> the latest update has the center of matthew offshore and off the coast of florida. here is stormtracker

there is a hurricane warning that goes from just north of miami and it continues up through port st. lucie, jacksonville it's a hurricane watch at this point, but that likely would get upgraded to a warning if the hurricane remains as strong as it looks. what you're seeing in this circle is the wind speed, and of course at the center is the hurricane force winds. that looks like it could come right along that central coast there of the east coast of florida and then you're talking tropical force winds within that yellow area, that could reach even the west coast of florida. then i and then south carolina as we push forward here. this is a great way to break down the storms. so the storm as it comes into florida will likely be a category 3 or 4. so this is a look at some of the damage, a category one upwards of 75-mile per hour winds, category 2 is closer to 100-mile per hour winds. but this is what we're talking about for florida here, category 3 winds, over 100 miles per upwards of 130, maybe even 150-mile per hour wind gusts that will cause huge issues down in florida. thankfully we won'

the wind and rain picked up near port st. lucie overnight but the potential storm surge is the main concern. dangerous storm surge could raise water levels by 11 feet in some coastal areas and producing devastating flooding. wpec, a correspondent is there where flooding is a major concern. what are conditions like this >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. we are in the midst of hurricane force wind. we are now here in vero beach. boats are tied up here behind me. this is part of the intracoastal. the boats are doing a little bit of bobbing. this is actually good because looking at the position of the storm out in the atlantic, we could of definitely gotten storm and the damage could have been far worse. however, the concern is far from over. let me walk over here and kind of show you. this is the intracoastal and low lying area and the water is already creeping up to the edge. we will have tropical storm winds through this morning and heavy wind will continue and push the water inward and creating a potential for the surge and th

hurricane force winds through port st. lucieort pierce and melbourne by friday during the early morning hours and possibly seeing these strong winds at least 58 miles an hour winds going toward orlando by friday morning as the storm continues to skirt to the southeastern part of the country through savannah and charleston by saturday morning still feeling very strong tropical storm force winds. overnight locally it's pretty quiet. 53 in the city. 48 in the suburbs. tomorrow quiet, 75 degrees with mostly sunny skies. the area of low pressure in front that will help to kick this storm away us will provide us with a few showers on saturday. sunday looks dry behind a front. and then monday, tuesday for the holiday into wednesday cooler, feeling much more like october. so there is the very latest on the forecast locally. quite here lucy but our hearts go out to the folks in southeastern parts of the country. >> hoping and praying for them. all right, thanks so much kathy. >>> fox 29 weather authority staying on top of the storm. you

port st. lucie northwards, those are the area most at risk of the storm surge and still the possibility of a direct landfall. and you'll notice, we're still a gat 4 all the night tonight into tomorrow. it should go down possibly to a cat 3 near daytona beach. but by then, the water is already on shore. i mentioned, every little tweak here makes a big difference. i want you to watch the forecast here. this is the actual eye of the storm on the radar. and over the last two or three hours, it took just the slightest little wobble. you see it right there. that line kind of went a little northeast. now it's kind of corrected itself. but every little wobble to the east or to the north makes it make landfall a little further up the coast, as it approaches. that's why we're not thinking any longer a direct landfall in west palm beach is likely. you may still get in that western eye wall, but maybe not direct landfall. and these bands here, these are the bands that will start knocking out power. only 50 to 6

>> the storm is just off-shore from port st. lucie, florida, it will work its way up along the coast. it's taken a bit of a turn, a little bit more to the north as opposed to the northwest and that is a little bit of a hopeful sign because that storm continues to work its way farther along the coast, the eye is not going to come onshore. but it's battering a eastern florida with high surf. we're talking about storm surge that could be 6 to 12 feet and we could be seeing a foot of rain as it moves up toward the carolinas. it may take a track that will swirl it ?ut in the ocean and by next week remnants could threaten florida again. here, we have a freeze warning. temperatures dropping around 30 in the denver area. a full first alert forecast coming up. >>> and just in tonight, we now on the cu campus after he showed up with a machete. he is 28-year-old brandon simmons of thornton. police say simmons got into some sort of fight yesterday ann followed a patient inside the sports medicine facility on the cu campus. >>> and this denver mom

this is video from stuart, florida, south of port st. lucie. power lines exploding there. power out in parts of palm beach county. that meantime, in atlanta, georgia, a state of emergency is also in effect. traffic jammed the highways last night. more than 500,000 people have been told to evacuate the coast there. matthew should be off that state by sunday morning. and there is new and grim news out of haiti this morning where they're still assessing matthew's wrath. the death toll has jumped to 283, and it is expected to go higher. you can see the devastation there. some of the more remote areas as floodwaters there start to recede. emily? emily: air travel hit hard by the storm. all flights canceled this morning in fort lauderdale, orlando, and palm beach. the eye's sera congi is at logan with the impact on travel. sera? sera: very busy morning here, emily. good morning. take a look behind me at logan. folks altering plans because of flights have been canceled and some of the airports in florida as well are closed down. the ripple effect of what's happening in florida is

. >> here's what it looked like from behind the wheel of a police cruiser near port st. lucy in the heart of the hurricane zone. officers trying to keep the area safe but they're barely able to see what's outside their window there. the powerful storm forced millions to evacuate along the southeast coast. florida, georgia, south carolina are all under states of emergency. >>> we have team coverage with abc's ginger zee standing by in melbourne, florida, but first we head to new smyrna beach and abc's lauren lyster. lauren, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, mara and kendis. the impact intensifying where i am. that category 3 hurricane packing 120-mile-per-hour winds bringing major gusts to coastal cities like this. in some places clocking in at more than 70 miles per hour. hurricane matthew barreling towards florida. the brutal conditions intensifying as the eye of the storm taunts coastal cities. overnight violent winds along the beaches. gusts in some places clocking in above 70 miles per hour of the storm bringing the look and sound of fireworks in the form of downed

the man saying the dealership in port st. lucie rented him a car with a loaded gun left in the center console. that weapon belonged to an employee. >> a pilot made a difficult and dangerous landing look easy. experts say it took incredible skill to do that. the pilot was on the way from jacksonville to oklahoma city. he noticed the nose gear wasn't dropping. he notified air traffic control he was having a problem then diverted to an airport with a longer runway. he touched down, eased off the gas while keeping the nose up as long as possible but it did smack into the tarmac. >>> u.s. financial markets just starting five minutes ago. tough one on wall street. dow is down 104 points to 18,058. >>> parents in kansas are calling for a teacher to be fired after allegedly making razist come -- ra cit -- racist comments made in class. >> whites are more superiors than blacks and because of the color of our skin make the amount of money that other races made. >> some parents say their children reported previous incidents involving the teac

this is video of some of the damage of stewart florida, which is south of port st. lucie and sky lit up and heavy whipping through palm trees. take look at video from melbourne, florida. you can see the strong winds are causing rough surf, waves smashing against the rocks. mel burn supposed to be one of the hardest hit areas. roads in the area have been evacuated. further north in sanford, parts of sanford surrounded by two lakes and the city is 2 miles of the coast of florida and flooding some places already started stranding cars in this area. trees and power lines have not been knocked down and blocking access to some of the roads there. and this is what it looks like in daytona. this video is actually you could see the roads there impassable. emergency workers stopping cars and telling people to turn have evacuated but not all of them. they are concerned it will collapse a pier on the beach. now, this storm is far from being done in the united states. northern florida will be hit this afternoon and this weekend. georgia and south carolina also in the cross hairs, thou

all clear, but we can go all the way over here to the east coast and we are finding rain in the port st. lucie area but just a few light showers. they may sneak into our area later in the day, but not this degrees at 8 am, 81 at noon. it is a really nice afternoon. there is the 10 percent chance of one of the showers making it from the east coast into our area. once the sun goes down tonight and tomorrow morning it is the peak of the meteor shower. we should have clear skies. the moon will be a little bit of right. that might hide -- bright . that might hide some of the meteor. another pleasant mild morning with just this 10 percent rain chance today. bigger story is the cold front that will be coming through tomorrow night in bringing in the cooler fall like weekend ahead. >>> some trouble in hernando county here to have been mentioning this accident, linden drive right at mariner boulevard. it has been tying up some lanes -- mariner boulevard. . overrun i 75 northbound and you are leaving pasco and entering into hernando county, possible fatal crash on the interstate. i will have more on tha

afternoon, southeast florida, miami, fort lauderdale, hitting tropical storm force wind gust there is port st. lucie. the hurricane will extend. now, they should be feeling hurricane winds at that point. skirting the coast. making landfall. now, hurricane-forced winds could hit with 130 mile-an-hour winds and then after 72 hours we will tend to lose the wind shield. the storms effecting a gust to phaourpb force. then the storm is expected to make that right turn into that atlantic. the coast, 50 to 60 mile-an- hour wind gusts. next half-hour, we will talk about how for us, rain, breezy now, 20, 25, gusts, 35. coast, stronger. and reduce the rainfall totals on the track. nice for sampson county and areas down east. now, middle 50s, cloudy, triangle, drizzle. heading out in the morning, watch out for the drizzle. mainly cloudy. during the afternoon. mostly, spotty light rain coming in from the coast like today. upper 60s to middle 70s the highs. there is your seven-day forecast. rain increasing. could be a cool rain on saturday. 67. then, we should be back to sunshine at some point on sunday and it la

meanwhile, at least two hurricane related deaths reported in port st. lucie, florida. with the warning life threatening impact from the storm may still not be over. >> i just want to emphasize to everybody that this is still a really dangerous hurricane. >>reporter: that danger now shifting towards georgia and the carolinas. officials there urging people in coastal areas to evacuate as hurricane matthew makes it's way northward. >> this is going to hurt. amount of lives lost or harm done as much as we can. >>reporter: and while here, all that's really left of matthew are some wind gusts, some really light wayne along with power outages and some areas a lot less to clean up. live in new smyrna beach, florida. marcy gonzalez. >> thank you marcy. >>> mark is here with some breaking new hurricane matthew. >> the winds are now pretty much completely offshore, surrounding the eye here maximum sustained winds 115 miles per hour. so it's tropical storm force winds, daytona to jacksonville, up towards saf in a, georgia but that's not going to be the biggest problem. it's going

joining me is eric gill, director in port st. lucie, florida. >> in st. lucie county, the storm has shifted a little bit off of our coast, about 20 miles further than it was supposed to be. which is a good sign for us and our residents in st. lucie county. instead of looking at maximum of 130 miles an hour, now 90 mile an hour range. brunt of the storm coming toward us but not expected to have impact of earlier today. >> still not out of the woods, i imagine nothing changes for evacuates or preparation? >> correct, starting yesterday looked like direct hit of category three or four storm and issued mandatory evacuations for coastline and low lying areas and mobile homes. we have roughly a thousand people in our public shelters and lot of folks have left the area to go to west coast. >> even though it's tracking a little bit further off the coast could be still major storm surge. >> that's one of our biggest concerns, see five to eight foot storm surge in some areas, florida is wet state and we're coastal county. there's a lot of water and concerns for flo

port st. lucie, melbourne, central florida, we have 10 million people under hurricane warnings.'re told to evacuate a category 4:00 storm should make you evacuate. there's friday all up the east coast of florida scripping the coastline with the worst of the rain, rest of the winds, then it's georgia and carolinas, right now we are dealing with hurricane warnings all up and down with millions of people, this state has no had a major hurricane in over ten years and a lot of people never experienced a major hurricane. a strengthening storm as makes closest approach to florida klose line. whether or not it makes a landfall. that's not the important component of the story, the fact that we are going to have at least 24 to 48 hours of major hurricane force winds battering wave, heavy rainfall, that is the story and the tropical models are coming into very good agreement that this is an east coast florida storm and into georgia and carolinas. what happens next, forecast models are pushing itself out ward again and perhaps affecting the southeast coast as we head into the workweek. majo

florida, georgia, south carolina, but the orange and the red here, right along the coast, talking port st. lucie, melbourn, orlando, daytona, jacksonville in the worse projected to be hit worse by this storm. now, as of 5:00 we saw some strengthening of the matthew, still category three, but higher category three now, only 60 miles away from nassau in the bahamas, here is a look at where the eye of the storm s there is is nassau, little more well defined last time we looked at it, in the process every strengthening, also at some point factor in tropical storm nicole, look a -- almost a hurricane, out to the east of matthew. but here is the projection with the spaghetti models, which kind of does really look like spaghetti. but everything is -- we could see multiple landfalls really from this storm. and that may weaken it a little bit. but we'll have to just wait and see what happens. look at the project the path taking the u-turn moving southward, all thanks to the high pressure system that is going to be affecting us, over the weekend, after a cold front comes through on saturday. so we have 57

. >> reporter: already, at least one hurricane related death reported in port st. lucie and the death toll climbing in haiti. nearly 300 killed and entire communities leveled. hurricane matthew now moving toward jacksonville. >> there is potential for significant flooding. >> reporter: as officials urge evacuations in parts of georgia and the carolinas. >> reporter: communities they are bracing for the >> is a lot of water and it's very dangerous. >> i am begging you at this point to understand the seriousness of this storm. >> reporter: we're seeing just how serious this storm is. the full extent of the impact still isn't clear because with all of this wind and rain, it is still too dangerous for people to come out and really assess the damage. ?ew smyrna beach, marcy racing to help people affected by the hurricane, passing out water and sandbags in the u.s. some of those volunteers are from right here in denver. four have been deployed. another major concern is places for evacuees to go. hotels are struggling to keep up with readings for evacuees. airbnb has created an

port st. lucie wind and take look at this from melbourne, florida. strong winds causing rough surf, rocks. melbourne is supposed to be one of the hardest hit areas and roads in this area have been barricaded and and sanford surrounded by two lakes and 30 miles from the coast of florida, flooding in some places already stranded many cars in the area. trees and power lines have been knocked down and blocking and miami dade county trees have been knocked down and storm far from beingtion with the u.s. northern florida hit this afternoon and georgia and south carolina are in the path. hundreds of thousands of people in both states are evacuating right now. julie? >> julie: devastating impact that matthew had on haiti really starting to come to light this morning. official estimate some 300 number is expected to change. 30,000 people are in shelters across the country and bridge that connects port-au-prince to southern haiti broke apart cutting off islands in the rest of the controversy and worst disaster in haiti since earthquake six years ago. the power

we have one person confirmed dead in port st. lucie county.ou go, let's have a look at that. that's dramatic indeed. and that is transformers exploding as the storm hit. that was from amy in merit island, florida. with us now, a varney viewer who did not evacuate his home in south florida. on the phone line from jensen beach on hutchinson island, welcome john. can you hear me? >> good morning, stuart. how are you? >> i want how the storm hit you. you're on an island, urnihunker down, what was it like. >> 1:30 this morning it was getting pretty crazy and you could hear the wind and rain hitting the building. stuart: which kind of structure are you in? in your house? >> i'm in a condo, a 31 unit condo. stuart: any damage? >> just a couple of gutters, then the, you know, the palm fronds all around the yard. stuart: has the worst hit you yet or the worst still to come? >> the worst has hit us. no worries about storm surge or anything. we do have electricity and the water was turned on by the county this morning. stuart: do you think yourself lucky

at least two hurricane-related deaths in port st. lucie florida. >> i just want to emphasize to everybody that this is still a really dangerous hurricane. >> reporter: that danger now shifting towards georgia and the carolinas. officials there urging people especially in coastal areas to evacuate as hurricane matthew makes its way north ward. >> this is going to hurt. we're trying to reduce the amount of lives lost or harm done as much as we can. >> reporter: while here there's some light rain and wind gusts left behind from matthew along with power outages and in some areas, a lot to clean up. >> it's time for a check of the forecast. >> melissa magee is at the big bored. >> we continue to track hurricane matthew as it moves out of georgia into the carolinas. all of today we had been noticing that the center of matthew has been well offshore or at least off the coast of florida. right now it is between jacksonville and daytona beach at this hour. still a major hurricane, a category 3 storm. it has been paralleling the coast. in fact will

the wind and rain picked up near port st. lucie overnight but the potential storm surge is the main concern. dangerous storm surge could raise water levels by 11 feet in some coastal areas and producing devastating flooding. greg angel, of our west palm beach station, wpec is in vero beach where flooding is a major concern. what are conditions like this morning, greg? >> reporter: good morning, as you see just from our shot, a little bit of moving around. we are, right now, in the midst of hurricane force wind. we are now here in vero beach. in indian river county along the east coast. i want to show you behind me here. you see boats tied up here. this is part of the intracoastal. the boats are doing a little bit of bobbing. this is actually good because looking at the position of the storm out in the atlantic, we could of definitely gotten a more targeted hit from this storm and the damage could have however, the concern is far from over. let me walk over here and kind of show you. this is the intracoastal and low lying area and t

the longer you have a storm and it takes days to work all the way from outside of port st. lucie to jacksonville that, is a threat that's particular with this storm. another thing that's unusual about this one and making it so dangerous is that it's coming on the periphery of some large population centers. it's not just hitting one space and then dissipating over land. it's kind of riding the coast. that's one of the reasons that matthew is unusual and particularly dangerous. >> all right, bonnie schneider. thank you and we'll coming back for updates. i want to turn to titusville florida. how do things look there right now? >> ari, you guys were just talking about that radar. i want to show you where we are in relation to that radar. this is the hurricane churning toward us and this is us right here on the outer bands. i wanted to show you that because i want to give you a sense of what it feels like to be out here, right now we're being sheltered. you might lose me for a second. the wind out here is very, very temperamental. so i apologize if it gets hard to hear. the winds may

and port st. lucynd cape canaveral, and kennedy center and then you've got the fun coast with dabytona beach, nicknamed the spring break capitol of the word. then jacksonville. cargo activity supports nearly $27 billion in annual economic output and just north into georgia, the port savannah, is the second busiest container exporter in the u.s. it's got the largest concentration of import distribution centers on the east coast. so you can see here, from these maps how devastating matthew may be to florida and up and down the east coast. power could be out to over 7 million for several weeks. we'll be watching it closely as i'm sure you will, as well. >> tom, thank you. you know it's bad when disneyland closes. you've been watching cnn's breaking news coverage. i'm john vause in los angeles. >> and i'm michael holmes in palm bay, as hurricane matthew continuous its path "effort sta start" is next. upgrade your phone system and learn how you could save at vonage.com/business sweet sun no artificial flavo

there in fact is where our futurecast data takes it to jupiter and port st. lucie with it making landfall today in the early-morning hours. >> it's inland. either way it's going to be a destructive, powerful storm for the east coast of florida, particularly to the space coast area. we'll keep tracking it, plus i have warning for showers for our weekend just ahead. >> and the conditions are quickly deteriorating along florida's coast. ahead in 10 minutes we'll take you live to daytona beach where tonight's florida's governor is urging people to leave the area immediately. >>> developing tonight at 10:00, police tell us someone murded wheelchair bound wife badly injured. on fox 25 news at 6:00, we told you it was part of a violent home invasion here on east river street in orange. jacqui heinrich live at the scene of the crime. jaqui, police have not released any information about the killer what is still out there tonight. >> vanessa, that's right. no word on the suspect's name, and still officials have not confirmed the names of the victims involved here. although,

now my father used to live in port st. lucy until moving up north here, but she still has many friends, and they're wind reports we've seen from the area through the evening, and these are the latest wind gusts. gusts between upper 30s to low 40s for south florida, fort lauderdale through miami. grand bahamas island, the highest gust was 89 miles per hour i've seen so far, and right off the cape canaveral, 49 miles per hour, and the numbers will go up through the evening. and here's our weather close to home. we have a little boundary sitting offshore. we'll show that in a moment, generating some rain, and inland, so rain will increase overnight, and when you venture out tomorrow morning there's the likelihood of rain in the morning. so what's ahead, our rain chances growing, umbrellas required during the day tomorrow and especially saturday. saturday sees great impacts from matthew with gusty winds and steady rain fall. sunday should be dry in the afternoon though, so we'll salvage i think part of sunday. and locally we're loo