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Floridaevacuates.com or download the florida evacuates app to enter the location and see shelters available in their area. as of last night, 58 shelters open. today, 84 more will open. we have doubled the number of available shelters. no one wants to sit many a shinr but way safer than the homes were sitting in. its not the best accommodation but better to protect your life. we have individual gas stations that have seen temporary outages of fuel but they are quickly refueled. plenty of fuel in ...

Most northeast viewers knew it as super storm sandy but it was a tropical storm here. theyre warning people, if you live near the beach, to get inland. lets talk about airports for a minute. west palm beaches airport closes here in about 15 or 20 minutes. its ceasing operations. its 10:30 this morning. in miami, most of the flights are cancelled and orlando is planning to shut down its airport at 8:00 p.m. tonight. when airports dont close often. when theyre closing, pay attention. stephanie? >>...

I want to bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins tracking the storm for us at the msnbc weather center. this is serious. what can we expect? >> this is about as dire of a forecast. well tell people in the amount of destruction we expect but looking at it come late saturday and sunday, it will be incomprehensible. one area down in west palm beach is the same as jacksonville, florida, equally as destructive. heres the storm itself. its now clearing nassau in the bahamas and their weather will be i...

Possible 4 storm on the coast for 24, 36, maybe 48 hours. this is another one of our computer models just to show you, many different ones. this one targets the west palm beach area around 9:00 p.m., stephanie. its incredible. even to be giving a forecast like this for this high of a population center, for this duration of time, i mean, the damage pictures are going to look the same in west palm beach as they will in jacksonville, florida. >> we showed it a moment ago. we have new video, really ...

Up and down floridas east coast where the state is preparing for hurricane matthews potentially historic direct hit. it could be a category four or five hurricane hitting a massive amount of the state of florida and potentially georgia and the carolinas. right now, you are looking at a live shot of the bahamas where hurricane matthew is hitting right now. the wind gusts are between 100 and 125 miles an hour. is that ice-t? nope, its lemonade. is that ice-t? lemonade. e-t? whats wh these people, ...

Florida coast later today. more than a million and a half people ordered to evacuate and over the next 48 hours, its expected to tear across the state of florida, georgia, and south carolina. this storm is expected to make landfall just north of miami. tonight, officials have warned the historic damage from days of wind and rain could be in store more than 2,000 national guard members at the ready and floridas governor, rick scott, this morning, warned those in the evacuation zone must get out n...

East coast for unprecedented 48 hours. we are live in the strike zone at this hour. this morning, floridas governor underscoring the dire nature of this life-threatening weather event. >> if you need to evacuate, and you havent, evacuate. this storm will kill you. looking sharp, len. whos the lucky lady? im going to the bank, to discuss a mortgage. ugh, see, you need a loan, you put on a suit, you go crawling to the bank.

This is not something to take a chance with. leave. theres no excuses. the roads are open. you should get out. evacuate, evacuate, evacuate. our number one priority is protecting everyones life. we dont want to lose one life. our number one priority is to protect everybodys life. matthew is strengthening near the northwestern bahamas. its forecast to be a category four as it approaches florida. its located about 250 miles southeast with winds of 125 miles per hour. on the forecast track, the eye...

Area and headed to beaufort, beautiful hilton head is highly impacted kben. again, with this turn, the strongest winds off the coast and down to category two, i dont think well get the horrible one but the storm surge is horrendous in the area and deal with the high winds too. so again, just got the brand new update in there, stephanie, and again, it looks equally as bad as we thought it would. >> equally as bad. the storm being upgraded to category four as we wait for it to hit land within the ...

One should be taking any chances. based on the continuous strong tracks with florida, i am announcing and activating additional 1,000 members of the marble guard. 2,500 members are now activated and another 4,000 ready if needed but we have 2500 activated now. i have directed the national guard to help with evacuations and with sheltering. national guard members also to make sure those who wait until the last minute to do so as safely as possible but dont take a chance that somebody will be ther...