And the governor talked how impressed with what the coast guard was doing this morning. These are dangerous missions, and grateful for the brave women and men, and one team risking their lives to save others and we are going to learn a lot more in the coming hours. Many families are hurting, many, many are hurting today, and our entire country hurts with them. Its all over the country, so many crisis, but in florida today is the epicenter. We are continuing to see deadly rainfall, catastrophic storm surges, roads and homes flooded. We are seeing millions of people without power and thousands hunkered down in schools and community centers. They are wondering whats going to be left, whats going to be left when they get to go home home, or even if they have a home to go to. Some of the folks have been through this before, but that does not make it easier, makes the anxiety higher in my view. My message to the people of florida, the country, is at times like this, america comes together. W
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And good day, everyone, im Andrea Mitchell in washington with breaking News Coverage of Hurricane Matthew. We have it all covered from the latest forecast to live reports from across the hurricane zone. Nbc ron mott starts us off in the thick of it in Daytona Beach, florida where mandatory evacuations have been ordered. Youve had a rough night there. Reporter it has been a rough night, andrea, good day to you. The word mandatory means Different Things to different people here. While we know a lot of people did, in fact, evacuate their homes and headed to shelters, or out of state even, a lot of people hunkered down where they were. They wanted to be near their property. We wish them well. Authorities wish them well as well. We are still expecting, were in the calm, close to the eye. There is clearing around the eye and it will pick up and get really nasty as it has been the past three hours. I want to step away and show you what were concerned about at this hour and that is the ocean.
They thought this doesnt make us as bad as we thought and suddenly have you massive storm surge that has a lot of people who were severely affected. I want to emphasize to everybody that this is still a really dangerous hurricane. The president is warning coming at the death toll stands at nearly 300 and could reach into the thousands in the coming days and weeks. For the latest on matthew, we will go to Kerry Sanders live in Jacksonville Beach, florida. The issue of the storm and the issue of the storm surge. Set the scene for us if you would. Let me tell you, we moved ourselves about two blocks back from the beach here on Jacksonville Beach because of that. The storm surge. The hurricane is still south of us and its tracking along the coast at 55 miles southeast of us and its making its way on the coast. With that storm surge comes the rotation of the wind. It brings the wind from the north and coming out towards the water to the east. That wind pushes the water. Going down, we have
Worry for state officials at this hour is the storm surge warning that extends from florida to north carolina. We have our team of reporters in the field and were starting with msnbcs mariana atencia. Water is rising where you are. What can you tell us . It is. Im in daytona proper and im standing on a main road. If you look to my right. That is the road you take to the causeway where the Barrier Islands are but we cant even get there to see how folks there are doing. You can see, there is a pole there that just fell over as well. Weve seen a lot of debris, downed trees and hallie. To my right. I realized there is a person there keeping shelter, are you okay, sir . Okay. He is waving to us, letting us know he is okay and hallie, what this just shows you is the folks here in these communities, if they thought this storm had passed, that is clearly not the story that were seeing on the ground here. Mariana, what are you seeing, behind you it looks like a river of water down the street. I