from palm beach to jacksonville. matthew is expected to bring sustained winds of up to 130 miles per hour in some area. state and low officials are prepared of this her vein, if he though he called this storm a monster just tonight. i traveled as far as the east coast urging people to prepare and get ready for hurricane matthew. it s here. we re starting to see the impacts and it s a monster. our number one priority is protecting every life in the state. storm surges of up to 11 feet predicted, officials expecting those surges to be even more damaging than the devastating winds in some regions, warning that some areas may be uninhabitable for weeks or even months. bonnie schneider has been following every track tonight. bonnie, what is the latest? the latest, ari, is this still is a powerful storm, hurricane matthew with maximum weeks of 130 miles per hour, the movement northwest at 13, so close to the coastline. let s look at the warning center in place. some have chan
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Dangerous when they get up to 50 miles per hour, those are speeds that can blow the ambulances and fire trucks off the road. they are on a very limited basis responded. we have had some residents sending messages washing they had evacuated from the evacuation zone on the barrier islands but at this point there s no one to get them. david, what do you do from here out? is it your hope, then, that it is power loss and those knipe of issues confined to the largest challenges coming out of the storm in your area? obviously the biggest hope is that we limit injuries and if a tal fatalities. the biggest issues are do you understand power lines, which we re getting many reports of, but there s nobody who can go respond to those because it s a potentially fatal situation to those who can respond.
To go and will go to the path of least resistance. folks hunkering down in those homes, be careful. around the lunchtime hour, you might see water creeping into your home. if that eye stays well off the coast here, maybe 10, 15 miles away, we could see wind speeds upwards of 100 miles an hour. if it gets any closer, it s anybody s ball game, anybody s guess where we could see 120, 125 sustained winds and those are catastrophic obviously. but right now we re getting a little stronger. i would say these are some of the stronger winds we ve seen over the past five, six hours and we re still well away from that eye. thank you, ron mott out on daytona beach. and david, what can you tell
So we ask people to stay inside because there s the possibility they ll get electrocuted. and we have storm surge from 9 to 11 feet. it hasn t started just yet but when the eye gets closer to the coast, which will happen oaf the next several hours, we ll see that surge and that could potentially damage and destroy homes and if people are in there, it could potentially kill them. those are all important things to keep in mind. david brevard, thank you for joining us by phone. many residents evacuated to get out of the way of matthew. we re going to go to an evacuation center that houses a lot of those families, who are understandably still very nervous tonight. msnbc news continues after a