Theres no excuse not to evacuate. 7 news is tracking matthew. Anchor Hurricane Matthew is hammering the bahamas. A deadly hurricane plowing across the carribean. Anchor watches and warnings up and down the coastline. Ravaged the island nation of haiti. Matthew is blamed for 11 deaths across that region. Anchor in florida its a race against time. Floridas governor is lying and flood prone communities. Jeremy reiner beginning team 7 coverage in the weather center. Reporter this is Hurricane Matthew. Next up will be the bahamas. Late tonight and tomorrow morning we have hurricane warnings in effect for bahamas as well as florida including miami north of daytona beach. The watches and warnings being Tropical Storm watch lesser effects from the storm. The storm track this is from the Hurricane Center a category 3 storm now. Likely maintains that intensity tonight through tomorrow morning. Nasa from there it takes aim on florida. This is going to be close. May try to make land fall near veer
Clinton running an insult driven campaign. She said half of our supporters were a basket of deplorables. Its she said they were irredeemable. They were not america. Reporter the debate was often contentious with one pundit calling it a bickerfest. Tim kaine was viewed as the more aggressive of the two interrupting pence multiple times but that hurt kaine according to voters who were watching. His interruptions undoubtedly came across as too much for viewers. Mike pence was all the things that donald trump was not in his debate. He was clearly he clearly studied and he was unflappable, pretty much, in the face of all those interruptions. Reporter now the attention shifts back to trump and clinton as the two will have their second of three debates this sunday. Tia well donald trump will spend the day campaigning in the battleground state of nevada d. C. Area. President barack obama added a cleveland area rally to his Ohio Campaign swing. The president will lead a get out the early vote r
Morning. Team 12 William Pitts joins us live and this man is linked to more than half a dozen arsons around the city. Reporter thats right. The last time we talked to him was after a fire at his neighbors house. He lives just next door. He told us he thought the arsonist was targeting him because he had been on tv. Now Chandler Police say he was the one who set that fire. Tom leper cried for the cameras talking about a fire at his neighbors house. It was pretty scary. Sorry. Reporter he had out of the house. It is really scary to be told that you need to be prepared to wake your children up out of bed in the middle of the night bus of a fire. Reporter it was everything a good story needed. One problem, the p. D. Say his set that fire. Investigators say he set at least half of the fires theyre investigating in his neighborhood. He is the one who called 12 news to let us know about a Community Meeting with the police. Arsonist. He was in the second row feats from the cops. Even then they
Be careful not to politicize a natural disaster. A president ial candidate visiting a state right after some sort of disaster does post some logistical problems. I think both candidates need to sort of handle it carefully. Reporter the nominees are also preparing for sunday nights second debate. Clinton is off the trail and hunkered down at her home in new york. While trump is holding a town hall event in New Hampshire as final practice. Elections officials worry the timing of Hurricane Matthew could mean problems in florida as ballots are being mailed but they hope there will be enough time between now and election day to get things straightened out. In washington, lauren blanchard, fox news. The council of American Islamic relations has filed a formal complaint with federal transportation officials after a uc Berkeley Student was kicked off of a Southwest Airlines flight. Boarding a flight from los angeles to oakland in april when another passenger overheard him speaking arabic on th
Our big story tonight the monster that is Hurricane Matthew. Delray beach. You can see the waves very high and the category 4 hurricane hasnt even made landfall yet. Its going to be a long night. This storm has already proven deadly. Almost three hundred people have died most of them in haiti. We have team coverage. Ben handelman looks at how people from wisconsin are being impacted by the storm. But lets get the latest forecast from weather expert move through this evening with a chance for more concentrated rain possible overnight into early friday. Rain showers will taper off by mid morning friday with peeks of the sun later in the day. It will be breezy and cool with highs in the low 60s. Partly sunny and chilly on saturday. Morning frost with lows in the upper 30s. Daytime highs will struggle to reach 60. On sunday with highs in the middle 60s. Tonight areas of showers and possibly a tstorm. Low 58 dewpoint 56 wind s 510 mph friday lingering showers then decreasing clouds. Breezy