Approaches, florida, correct . Absolutely. You saw how close it will come to florida. Within a few miles, within the range of the Hurricane Force winds. The latest 115 Miles Per Hour. That is down from where we were. You would expect that as it interacted with eastern cuba in deadly fashion with the torrential downpours and the storm surge that is going to be approaching the bahamas. The chain will be raked the next couple of days with incredible amounts of rain an surge. They will get it all. 130 Miles Per Hour winds continues. As you see it move toward florida, a close up shot, you can see this is just this is as close as you can gee. As i said this morning, if i am on the east side of the peninsula, i would expect a landfall of a category 4, not the forecast but worstCase Scenario. You can see a bit of a jog to the west by a few miles and you parallels the coast up to eastern parts of jacksonville then into the carolinas. A lot of colors. We will focus in on our neck of the woods with Tropical Storm watches that are posted. This would be for nurse day night into friday, polk and highlands county, 60 Miles Per Hour winds. A prolonged event because of it paralleling the coast. We are talking about this continuing thursday into friday and a peak at what we have coming. This is friday through afternoon into the morning. Tropical Storm Force Winds by then. I will break it down and talk about the rain totals in a few minutes. People in south florida are taking no chances as Hurricane Matthew narrows in. Brevard county issued mandatory evacuation orders for the Barrier Islands. People flocked to Grocery Stores clearing shelves of supplies. Long lines formed at gas stations, ware hardware stores. Governor scott is supposed to come to the mic. He will hold a News Conference momentarily. He is expected to tell people to take vest evacuation orders seriously. Hurricane matthews path puts part of the bay area at risk. Polk County School district will make a decision whether they will Cancel School tomorrow or friday. If the hurricane shifts a little west will serve as hurricane shelters. They will give an update later this afternoon. Download the app for the announcement when it is made. Two bay area women are stuck in the path of the storms. They are in the bahamas and cant fly out. Behind say logue Lindsay Logue has their predicament. They are with hundreds of tourists stranded and forced to are. We have been watching the video feed from port nasa. A beautiful rainbow in the sky over the bahamas this morning. The calm before the storm. Its not going to last much longer. We will keep checking back on that camera. No time left for storm prep. We have seen people all week stocking up, boarding up. Now we wait as Hurricane Matthew makes its way to florida. Two big concerns are flash floods could top 15 feet. Two tampa women have no choice but way wait it out at the atlantic resort. I am concerned. I dont want to get stuck here. I have to go backtowork monday. Im scared. The main airport is shutting down at 11 00. The ports have closed as well. According to the National Weather service, the bahamas hasnt seen a remember stow of years. Thanks, lindsay. South carolina, one Million People are evacuating their homes and heading inland to escape the path of Hurricane Matthew. Some School Districts have canceled bus Services Today so the buses can head to the coast and pick up people and drive them inland. The states governor is telling people to take the warnings seriously before its too late. If you dont get out in time, you may get stuck. That is worse Case Scenario to be stuck no place to good. Hurricane matthew is expected to hit the carolinas by this weekend. You can follow matthews track any time of day by downloading the storm shield app. The free abc action news mobile app or visit www. Abcactionnews. Com hurrican e. Lets check in with Governor Scott holding a news area, on a Barrier Island or area prone to flooding, you need to consider making your plans now to leave. Dont wait for the order to do it. If you know that you are prone to flooding, you are in a Barrier Island, low lying area, ahead and leave. Current evacuations include brevard county, mandatory evacuations for Barrier Islands is at 3 00 p. M. Toy. Evacuations have started. I have spoken to all 67 florida counties and i stressed to them the importance of getting evacuation plans ready now. The state stands ready with resources to help with safe sheltering and evacuation if local communities need it. I expect to hear more this morning from coastal counties on the evacuation plans. Again, i fully expect to hear more this morning from our evacuation plans. Governor scott speaking to floridians to take the evacuation orders seriously, speaking to the state there from south florida. And especially folks on the east coast in lowlying areas need to Pay Attention to the track of Hurricane Matthew as it makes its way to the state. In other news, just in the newsroom, in the last few minutes, deputies identified the man who was shot and killed by Hillsborough County his name is isaiah selgado. Deputies say he was involved in a threecar crash in riverview yesterday, took off, tried to carjack three people. When that failed, he tried to break into three homes. One of the homeowner watched him throw a brick at the deputys head and the depth fired is when weapon. Do you think the deputy had any other choice . No. Unless he had another weapon the deputy, stewart gray, 24 year veteran, suffered minor injuries. No one involved in the crash was seriously hurt. He has a long criminal history and they are trying to figure out why he ran in the first place. Pasco deputies are charging a 12yearold for making threats to kill classmates. They are investigating a connection with the creepy clown scare. Detectives say the 6th grader posted a threat to media app. The 7 springs student created a page saying he would kill at the school. Parents and grandparents at the school are on edge. Its scary. You see nowadays you never know. We are not naming the student who was arrested because he is a juvenile. He is charged as an adult making a written threat to kill felony. They are concerned about our lives and the danger of the storm, we should be heading back now. Cruise ship passengers hoping to be in the caribbean are stuck instead in manhattan because of deadly Hurricane Matthew. How they say the cruise line deceived them about the trip. A manager tells me more supplies already on their way to south florida. What you need to make sure you have at your home and check to make sure condition. If you are a cruise ship, this is what you have to contend with, upwards of 30 foot waves being generated. The storm surge for the bahamas. For us, the wind threat as well as we track matthew through the bahamas and into our neck of the woods. I will break that down as far as wind, rain and local effects sour for thousands of people. The passengers, hoping to be in the caribbean are docked in new york city because of deadly Hurricane Matthew. Late saturday night, passengers received an email hours before they were supposed to set sail from baltimore, maryland, stating the cruise would be rerouted to new york city and then on to new brunswick, canada. When the ship docked yesterday, passengers were told they wouldnt even canada. They remained docked on the hudson river because of matthew. Many want their money back saying this isnt the trip they paid for. I want to go home at this point. There is nothing they can do to make this cruise if you want to call it a cruise better. The ship is scheduled to head back to baltimore tonight. Carnival says they gave guests a 250 credit on board and half off a future cruise but many have no intention of taking carnival are not making changes to cruise out of the port of tampa. Port canaveral rail, several ships are rerouted to avoid the storm including the Disney Cruise line. That includes royal caribbea ships now traveling to key west instead of the bahamas. The final minutes of keith lamont scotts life after he was shot by a charlotte area police officer. The majority of this ne handcuffing scott. Then you see they are attending to the gunshot wound on his Left Shoulder and sides. The tapes were released by Charlotte Police department. The old video showed scott slowly backing out of an s. U. V. Before he was shot. Police said scott had a gun but new video does not show him holding a weapon. An officer can be heard on camera in the new video telling another officer to, quote, watch the gun. Family to postpone his funeral. Services were set to take place today and tomorrow in charleston, South Carolina but the threat of the hurricane has put it on hold. They will post new arrangements after the storm passes. Going out in super hero style. Friends and family of the 6 yearold boy killed in a South CarolinaSchool Shooting came together to pay respects yesterday. Captain america, superheros of all shapes and sizes li respects to a life cut short. Superheros are someone is that does something extraordinary. Sadly his extraordinary was cut short but it brought the community and a lot of people together. A funeral for jacob will be held today. The pallbearers will be dressed as superheros to honor jacob. He died saturday at the turning our attention back to Hurricane Matthew. The storm track takes it on floridas east coast. Looking at the cone of uncertainty, it could have impacts on us in the bay area. Ashley yore is live at a lowes store where folks are stocking up on supplies. Good morning, ashley. Good morning, deiah. We are seeing stores supplies, like you see behind me, mainly plywood. I am with josh from lowes. Thats what you are seeing at some of your stores. You are sending more supplies. Im sure there is a plan set in place to deliver trucks on the hour to replenish as weather permits. You saw a photo of empty shelves. Yes, i have seen some of the eastern Stores Running out of play wood. Centers will be replenishing. We know plywood is one of the first things to go. What are the other supplies that people are going to first. A lot of things people are going to would be batteries, flashlights, goes plywood clips, people forget about those. Generators, sand, gasoline. And you said generators today in this store . How many have you sold so far. About 12 as i understand as of right now. Folks are getting ready in case there here. We are talking all morning. Make sure that your batteries are good, check them before you rely on them in any sort of storm. Right now i want to turn it over to ivan cabrera. Ivan, you know, we are talking about the effects we are feeling we may be feeling here, but where are you seeing the storm right now . Yeah, ashley, north of eastern cuba. The center of which, the eye is over water and has been the last self hours. Hurricane hunters were talking emerged over water. We know that is where the things get their energy. Despite the fact that cuba had an impact on the storm as far as intensity, now down to 115, a major hurricane, we are expect being it to ramp up. You see the thunderstorms wrap up around the center of the eye. The wave heights upwards of 30 feet. This will continue to go to the north and west. Along with that those are waves. The storm surge the islands will get hit hard here because of how flat some of them are here. But they are much better prepared, the bahamas are than, say, haiti and eastern cuba. We are hoping for the best. This will be a big deal with 130 Miles Per Hour winds. Then the forecast, i must say, at the end of the forecast period here, this thing is going to go east and perhaps loop back. Lets not talk about that. We will focus on what will begin to feel the effects. I think thursday night would be the time. There it is as a cat 4 in the bahamas with 130 Miles Per Hour winds. That would be for thursday afternoon and then on thursday night, it will continue moving to the north and west still as a cat 4, still with 130 Miles Per Hour winds and the proximity to the beaches here is mild. You can take a boat and be in the eye of the storm in minutes. Thats how close we are talking about. So, there is the potential for this to make landfall. The forecast doesnt do that. It has it going up the coast and weakening from a 4 to a 3 to a 2 by the time we get to saturday, friday night into early part of saturday. For us, the timeframe would be, as far as the strongest winds, thursday night and through the entire day on friday because it will parallel the coast. A lot of colors. Hurricane watch to the north. Hurricane warning to the south. For us, as far as our inland counties here, Tropical Storm 60 Miles Per Hour. The further east you go, the closer to 60. The further west, 40. All of what i have just told you is essentially because of the current forecast track. If it shifts a few miles to the west, we change the numbers here. This is the potential wind gusts through friday morning. Tropical storm force wind gusts across the interior counties. Along the coast, tampa, st. Pete, upper 30s as far as the gusts 100 for the beaches. Here is the current wind field. This is important. The yellow depicting Tropical Storm force wind and the red the Hurricane Force winds. Those get close. The western edge of those will be clipping i95 thursday into friday. The rain, you dont have to worry about it. We will get downpours but nothing to do with matthew. That is the tropical air masson top of us. Futurecast in motion, you can see something that we dont see very, long time, a cat 4 hurricane approaching florida. Notice on the western side of it, we wont get the heaviest of the rain. That will be for the coast with the current track as i see it now, 6 to 8 inches plus, perhaps a foot on the coast. Then we diminish the rain chances or totals, 4 to 6 inches, 2 to 4 and 1 to 2 inches. We have gotten that with a thunderstorm in st. Pete. Today 89 with conditions. And then drying, right, the opposite what you would thing, the drier side of matthew thursday and friday so diminishing rain chances. Then behind matthew we clear out and quiet down saturday and sunday. By the way, lower humidity, fall temperatures especially at night early next week. Shifting from the weather, we go to community support. Good morning, im lisa campos with positively tampa bay. Army Domestic Violence program of west pasco. They need more volunteers and could use your help in the if you couldnt stay up last night, you missed an exciting night on dancing with the stars. This is the moment talking about. I wanted to do this for such a long time. I love you so, so much. Will you marry me . And the crowd goes wild. Getting engaged to her pro dancer. He knew emma was the one three or four months after they met. So sweet. Was that on alongside the vp debate . Wonder who got the better ratings. Lets check that. Forecast today, upper 0s to near 90. Showers and thunderstorms between 4 00 and 6 00. Nothing to do with matthew. This is just the sea breeze thunderstorms with a lot of humidity out there. We will talk about matthew coming up at the bottom of the havertys furniture helps your home look perfect even when life isnt nice pick. Pops, your pick. Art monk retired. Ill take him over these fools playing today. Aw come on, man. Thats not how this game works. Art monk i want to change my name to hot mamma lame. Youre lame. No im not writing down somebody whos retired baby, im changing my name to hot momma. Now at 9 30, extremely dangerous and powerful Hurricane Matthew is churning to the east coast. We are tracking where it is and when it could affect the state. Up the east coast prepare to evacuate. They are anticipating the worst. People in the caribbean are just starting to clean up from the damage that matthew left behind. Good morning, thanks for joining us at 9 30, im dan shaffer. Im deiah riley. We have a lot to get to. Ivan is monitoring the storms path heading to the bahamas. And eventually to us. We will continue to track it the next couple of days because it could intensify into a category 4. That is the official forecast right now. 115 Miles Per Hour winds. That was all the weakening that we had in the storm. Still a major hurricane despite the fact that it went through the mountains of haiti then across eastern cuba. You can see the eye redeveloping there. The thunderstorms will wrap around and that will allow for it to intensify into thursday and then friday. We dont have much time to dillydally, especially on the east coast. You have to get prepared now. And highlands county, power will be the issue for you, if this forecast verifies, if it parallels the coast we will talk about strong winds. Thursday into friday. For us the event will be thursday through the entire day on friday because of the forecast having it go on the coast as opposed to inland which would mean it wouldnt weaken that much as it passes close to us. Tropical storm watch in effect for us thursday into friday with 40 to 60 winds. My brother is a firefighter for orange county. They talked to them about holding them for 72 hours because east of polk county through osceola and portions of 95 we are expecting winds potentially up to 90 american. We will have more on that and the rain totals in a few minutes as well. Guys . As Hurricane Matthew moves to florida, south florida specifically, government officials are worried that 11 years of dodging storms like warnings seriously. Thousands have hit stores and gas stations loading up honesties. Some stations are out of gas. Reporter andrew ruiz has the challenges that people are facing. Reporter a busy morning at gas stations across florida, especially those that still have gas. Take a look at this one in jupiter where you can see that people have been lining up at 4 30 in the morning, a new tanker that word got out very fast. People were rushing to the pump trying to get gas before Hurricane Matthew. We met the first person who showed up, her name is christie. She says she heard there was gas about 20 miles away. Luckily she found this station because she was pulling in, her car started to stall. I have been calling and i was actually hoping to make it to hope sound where they told me there might be gas. The truck. Yeah. At this gas station, gas prices havent flux few wade much. There are some who could take advantage of people who are in this time of need. Here in the state of florida, because of the emergency declaration, there is a hotline to call. Again, that is to protect consumers. In jupiter, andrew ruiz reporting. People in Desoto County are dealing with severe flooding and bracing for more. Pounding rain has washed main road trapping six families in their home. 20 streets in the town dont have running water. The septics systems are use less. Nearly everyone is rely on port o potties. President obama will not speak at usf today. The president was planning to talk about the progress the Affordable Care act made in Getting Health Insurance coverage for more americans. Hope to read schedule the trip to tampa and a Campaign Stop in miami for Hillary Clinton as soon as the impact of matthew is determined. Even if matthew does not make landfall in florida, the storm will bring heavy winds across the state. Tropical systems can create dangerous driving conditions. The auto agency says check weather conditions before heading out in a storm. If you must drive, pack an emergency kit with a flashlight, extra batteries and flares and have a full gas. Turn on the headlights and wipers, no high beams and avoid driving through standing water because you cant tell how deep the water is. Several u. S. Airlines are waiving change fees because of the hurricane. It is only for certain u. S. Destinations. Airlines will likely issue more waivers as matthew inches closer to the eastern coast of the united states. As we continue to keep a storm shield app comes complete with live a dhar dare. It will send you Severe Weather alerts if it impacts us. We have other resources posted in this special section of our web site, go to www. Abcactionnews. Com hurrican e. Folks in Pinellas County had to pump raw sewage from a neighborhood an a major leave from an reporter it may take a few days to clean up the entire mess. The good news, crews contained the leak and raw sewage is no longer spilling into the neighborhood. Thousands of gallons of untreated sewage gushing from a 30inch opening. All of it happening in a 12 hour span in this neighborhood tuesday. The stench smells like something dead in a big body of all optional water use. We need to address the issue really quick. Reporter crews got the flow under control but the cleanup wont be easy with sludge covering backyards. They are doing an amazing job. The crews are out here. Reporter there is concern sewage will make its way to a nearby retention pond threatening birds and other wildlife. We had problems with the lake. With the sewage, we are scared we will lose all the ducks, turtles, otters. Its really shaking us up. Reporter signings are posted warning people to steer clear until the mess is cleaned up. As you can see here, pump trucks have been lined up in the neighborhood throughout the morning pumping out the raw sewage. This is something that is expected to take a few hours to complete today. For now reporting from Pinellas County, rodney dunigan, abc action news. To democracy 2016. Politifact checking the statements of tim kaine and mike pence. Early on they clashed over foreign policy. Pence claims isis overran parts of iraq because Hillary Clinton failed to keep u. S. Troops there. Iraq has been overrun by isis because Hillsborough County failed to renegotiate. [ overlapping speakers Hillsborough County failed to renegotiate a status that is incorrect. Politifact said the negotiations failed between the u. S. And iraq to leave u. S. Troops in the key decisions were between the white house and iraqi leaders and that the iraqis refused to sign an agreement that gave american troops immunity to politifact rates the statement mostly false. On immigration, tim kaine went after donald trump on his building a wall and deporting millions of people. When donald trump spoke in phoenix, he looked the audience in the eye and said we are building a wall and deporting they will all be gone, they will all be gone. This is one of those where you can go to the tape on it and see what donald trump has said. That is in reference to an august speech that trump gave in arizona. Trump said that he will build a wall, 308 lit at the fact said politifact said kaine was oversimplifying it. Trump was talking about immigrants that committed crimes and they would be the first to go. Trump said people here illegally that want to be legalized would have to home and apply for citizenship. Politifact is rating tim kaines statement as half true. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton are going to face off sunday night. We will carry it live on your abc action news station. Martha raddatz and Anderson Cooper will moderate. Quick check on the stock market. Good day, up 87 points. Still ahead, a look at how devastating Hurricane Matthew behind in haiti and who is stepping up to help in the recovery after the break. Matthews track has been questionable. What is this . Could it loop back into florida . We will talk about that and how Tropical Storm nicole will have an influence on the eventually a scary consumer alert. Hackers could target medical devices. Johnson and johnson said the insulin pumps are vulnerable but the risk is low. The company says the one touch insulin pump has a bug that could make it a Cyber Security risk. They believe a hacker could patient to overdose. Johnson and johnson says as far as it knows, no one tried to hack the pumps. We have a warning for parents that want to sue their babies while teething. The fda says teething tablets and jewels are not safe or gels are not safe or effective. If you have them, throw them away. Officials say children given these tablets angels have experienced seizures, difficulty breathing, muscle weakness and constipation. We are look at the destruction Hurricane Matthew is already leaving behind. Streets in haiti looking like muddy rivers. Trees are down all over the place. Communication infrastructure is wiped out. Word of injuries and death is slow getting out. The death toll is at 11 but that is expected to rise. Some people in the bay area are preparing to go to haiti to help. Agape is delivering donations they need supplies like heavy duty tarps and protein bars. The pilot who is flying to haiti said agape regularly helps families in the caribbean. The navy is sending ships as well. One ship has set sail. Two more head to the caribbean with food, water, medical supplies this week. Haiti is recovering from a 2010 earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people. After that quake the u. S. Sent 17 ships to help reconstructs. Feel so bad for those folks. Its not done yet. I think the scope of the devastation wont be known for while. We enter these villages that sometimes get decimated. Its hard for folks to get there and report back. The rivers are involved. They are overflowing the banks. It will be an issue despite the fact that the worst of the storm has passed. Its north of haiti. North of cuba. Sometimes the storms get torn apart by mountains or the interaction with land. This particular storm doesnt seem to be doing that, right, we are hoping that the 115 holds and that would be bad enough for the bahamas and florida. The forecast has it strengthening as conditions will be favorable for that. Wind sheer is low. Water temperatures are warm. There is no reason to thing that this wouldnt intensify because im beginning to see the eye again. If this was filled in and it looked ragged, better. At this point we have to expect that this forecast will pan out. Unfortunately, that will roll through the bahamas. The most dangerous part of the storm is the eastern side. Why . The winds are pushing the water to the north and west. The south facing, southeastern facing islands and shores will be impacted by the rise in water. Of course the Hurricane Force winds extend out a good 40 miles. Tropical force winds extend 160 watches for inland counties. This is making a close pass by the time we get into the early hours of friday morning. It will be here on the morning show friday probably talking about this making a landfall or just hugging the coast as a category 4 storm then heading up to jacksonville by the weekend. The main impacts will be wind thursday into friday with both polk and highlands under the Tropical Storm watch. Likely posted to a the difference between a watch and warning is the timing. Watch is prepare, warning imminent conditions are likely. There is the impact with matthew. The heaviest rain is on the east coast. This is contingent on the forecast panning out the way we have it right now. If it moves west, all bets are off. We have to redo here. Hurricane force winds for us remaining on the 95 corridor. They will get in the tropical beginning to move off to the bahamas and eventually to the florida coast. The forecast has the showers and storms for us for today. Then into the windy conditions. We add the rainfall as well. Along the coast, 95, is 6 to 8 inches of rainfall, perhaps a foot. The further away you go, this will be a dramatic drop off, not heavy rain for us, and the fact that its moving big thing for the rainfall tally. This will not be a hermine. Closer to tampa and st. Pete, we have more rain with thunderstorms in the last couple of days than we will get with matthew as it slides on the coast. Lets throw this in and talk about it on social media. Here is matthew and Tropical Storm nicole if you didnt know. What happens when two storms get close together, they pivot around each other at a center i think the National Hurricane center is beginning to pick up on that. After jacksonville, it may begin to loop back around, not make landfall in florida but enough to keep the storm around then heads up to the northeast. We will talk about matthew i think not just through this weekend but well into next week as it heads to the northeast. Temperatures for us today about 89. A mix of sun and clouds. More clouds than sun. 40 chance of storms, nothing the effects with windy conditions picking up. Temperatures in the mid80s. Then clearing out. If you have plans for the weekend keep them, looks great saturday and sunday. Still to come, positively tampa bay. How you can be a part of their lifesaving work cup. All this week, taking action against Domestic Violence campaign. We are spotlighting the Salvation ArmyDomestic Violence campaign. Lynn meade the director of Salvation Army in New Port Richey nominated chief kimbo guard, the first chief ever to win. Pasco county saw more than its share of des cases last year. Just over 3,700 reported cases and six deaths. Advocates say they need more volunteers and could really use your help. We just recently launched a project face lift project for our Domestic Violence shelter that will allow people in our community to give specific items to the shelter. Some of those are as simply as painting walls, tearing up for the bedrooms, new beds for our bedrooms and very specific things that are needed to care for our guests when they come in to our care. They come in with a state of helplessess and hopelessness. We want our shelter to be a place of hope and help for them. And if you would like to connect with the Salvation ArmyDomestic Violence program of west pasco or any other center in our area, you can go web site at abcactionnews. Com dv, we have a county by county listing with links to them. On the page you will find other resources as well as the statewide Domestic Violence hotline. Warm and humid. Rain today. Dont worry that has nothing to do with matthew. Thursday into friday we will feel the effects. Strong winds. This advertise the last c1 good wednesday morning. Im carley boyette. I am natalie taylor. Thank you so much for spending time with Morning Blend as we are all probably watching the radar. I know. The storm. So youve been here a couple years now. Have you lived through a big hurricane yet . No. I am totally that person i go around and ask everybody if i need to be worried. You can tell the floridians versus the people like myself