Continuing to come here to this city. We know the winds have caused considerable number of Power Outages across the city. Now above 60,000 customers without power according to jea, the Power Company here. Many bridges have been shut down across the intercoastal but not the bridge over my shoulder. Were told by the mayor that the main street bridge over the st. John will be shut down when the winds sustained at 40 Miles Per Hour but we are seeing gusts coming in at 35 to 40 Miles Per Hour. We know the major concern here beyond the rain coming down and the wind is the storm surge that when that storm surge comes in small communities here, san marco here in downtown jacksonville, the community of riverside, they will likely see the worst of that storm surge. And because the st. Johns river stretches far into nassau county, which is north of jacksonville down into clay and st. Johns counties and it will reach into those canals and tributaries. Many other communities will also see the impact of the storm surge. Youre going to see the kickup of the wind as the storm gets closer. Let me take you about 35 miles south to the city of st. Augustine, the nations oldest city. There was an a mandatory evacuation for that city and for good reason and were seeing the reason now. Streets flooded. I mean, they look more like rivers, more like the river behind me. And we know from the mayor that a significant number of people who live in that city took heed to the warning, to the request to leave but so many didnt. Heres what you said about a bed and breakfast there where some people are refusing to leave. Reporter how are you doing over there . Cant hear you. Reporter you doing okay . Good. Were moving up. Reporter are you worried . Have you called for help . Not yet. Reporter how many kids are in there . 20. Reporter 20 . You guys own the restaurant . The whole hotel. Reporter one of the parts of the state that was under the gun as the sun came up was the space coast, Cape Canaveral. Of course we all know from where that Shuttle Program so many years ago now that it shut down took off. But just south thereof weve got ryan young who is showing us some of the concerns along the Barrier Islands. Ryan, give us an idea of the damage the storm did as it passed through and what youre seeing now. We tried to make it down a1a and we were blocked by officer so were surveying whats going on because we have seen more people take to the road. Just in the last five minutes or so the wind is picking back up. We have a monitor out here and we can see the gusts have been over 50 Miles Per Hour. As we walk back this direction, though, and we wanted to show you this, this is the gas station that clearly had some damage done. You can see parts of the sign has blown apart. Now, you see this large collection of cars . When we first got here, no one was here. The Sheriffs Department is having sort of a briefing as we speak right now to talk about how theyre going to handle operations later on. If you look over there by the wall, you can see the collection of officers that have gathered here to talk about the nights operations and how things are going. When i talked to a few of the officers before, they said for the most part things have been going well. Now, weve noticed damage on larger structures, buildings like this one where were seeing the roof tilings blown off and partial roofs gone. But no real significant damage. Mostly signed like this chevron sign that you see here, victor. Thats the good news. As we got closer to the water, we did see high waves but it didnt breach at all. It didnt look like the water had pushed into homes along the waterway as well. So what weve been doing is just driving along the coast to make sure, to see how people are doing. The one thing weve noticed, it seems like most people have been staying off the roads. We see a few cars going by. Some of them just making sure the power is still on. Were still watching it because people are wondering what will happen in the next few hours. Of course the other concern, ryan, beyond the people on the roads there, if they stayed in their homes, if they heeded that request, that warning to leave, especially the Barrier Islands, because we know the florida coast, that little jut out, that point out of Cape Canaveral and where you are, do we know if most people took heed to the request to get off those islands . So we talked to a few people and i talked to a woman whos been here all her life and she said, look, i do not want to leave my home. She says i do not want to go. She said her kids have been calling from up north begging her to leave. She finally went to a hotel. We bumped into a group of people from wales who said they were coming in from a vacation, they wanted to be here in florida. They say this rain is nothing to them but they did understand the significance of it but they went for a walk and they were say, look, the hurricanes past, they dont see this as being a big deal. They didnt want to lose the money they spent from their vacation but when you understand there are people worried about their homes you can see the difference of someone worrying about a vacation. The winds are strong but we havent seen anything significant and talking to Police Officers we havent heard about any loss of life or anyone being injured so far, victor. Ryan young for us on the Barrier Islands on cocoa beach just south of Cape Canaveral. Ryan, thanks so much. Well check back with you. We know here in jacksonville there were about two dozen calls for help overnight and as we get into the later hours this evening and Hurricane Matthew comes closer to the river city here that there will be even greater concerns for the almost half of the residents here in the city who decided to stay. We know from the mayor, lenny curry, that 450,000 people estimated got out of the city, headed west maybe to lake county, to lake city or headed north. Lets go now to meteorologist chad meyers to find out whats coming and when. How far away is the storm now . Were feeling the increased winds and seeing the rain pick up here, chad. I would say, victor, your closest approach to the center of the eye is still four hours from now. And i know right about this point youre at high tide but i dont think theres going to be a low tide. Not for the next four hours. The wind will continue to push the water into the st. Johns river just like its pushing it into st. Augustine right now. That is probably the hardest hit area that we can find is st. Augustine, florida, the oldest city. The water is in downtown. A couple feet deep, running through the cities all the way into the back bay as well and were seeing that because the wind is pushing the water in this direction and has been pushing the water for many, many hours now. So were piling the water up here along the coast. The coast wasnt there, the water would keep right on going around and thats how a hurricane goes but because the bay itself is getting in the way, thats what were seeing. Thats the problem that were going to see for the rest of the day. That water is going to pile up in st. Marys georgia, in brunswick, in savannah, but you know salve vannah is elevated. So talk about tybee down the river and also up toward charleston and myrtle beach. Its still a big hurricane. Its still about 100 Miles Per Hour so this thing continues to move to the north, pile water up, and will for many, many hours. We dont get into charleston until 8 00 tomorrow morning. Thats how lumbering slow this storm is and how lummering slow its going to continue to be. The wind for you probably is 75. Thats the highest youre going to get there in jacksonville or st. Augustine or Amelia Island and then it kind of makes it looks to me like because the land turns quickly, more quickly than the storm is going to turn, that charleston is really in the middle of where we think the landfall will likely be and thats where the biggest pileup of water will be later on this afternoon. Do we have a lot of wind damage coming in . No. Do we have an f1 tornado coming in . Probably not likely. The damage will come in with the water, victor. Chad, let me jump in here. You mentioned charleston there, thank you so much for that update, from that 2 00 update. I want to go to charleston where officials are giving us an update on the situation there. Lets listen in. Time t time to leave the city is quickly coming to an end and we expect weather conditions to deteriorate this evening and worsen throughout the night. This will be a dangerous storm. If you have made the decision to stay, please prepare and take appropriate precautions. Please make sure someone knows your plan and they can check in on you after the storm has passed. Tonight as conditions worsen, please remain inside and do not venture out as this storm will create very dangerous conditions. We expect a recordsetting high tide around midnight tonight and it will be no time to be out and about. There will be water everywhere. And with that, id like to turn it over to chief mullen. Thank you, mark, and thank you, as mark said, for your assistance in continuing to get information out to our citizens. Were listening here to the were listening to the officials there in charleston who are saying that, you know, as the conditions deteriorate late into the night, theyre saying simply the same thing weve heard from other city managers and emergency officials throughout the day and overnight that there comes a point when it just becomes too dangerous to send their First Responders out to help you so make sure there in charleston that you alert someone and have them check on you throughout the evening and into early tomorrow morning. Now, this is an emergency for the entire southeastern coast. States of emergency declared in florida, georgia, South Carolina, north carolina. Lets now go to georgia and we have on the phone with us dennis jones, who is the chief of the Emergency Management there in Chatham County. I understand there was an Evacuation Order for Chatham County including the city of savannah. Do you know, just an estimate, how many people heeded that call to get out of that area . Right now with a population of a little over 850,000 we estimate we have about 75 Participation Rate in the evacuation process. Okay, 75 which is a good number considering what weve heard from other cities. Whats the major concern for your team. Well, weve concluded our evacuation operation. Were finishing up any of the last people who may have been on the roadway. Were looking at sheltering those people who decided at the last minute that they need to have a place to go. Were encouraging people to basically make sure they here in a safe location. Make sure they understand the risk ris risks that are going to be imposed over the next several hours. We have several municipalities that have their Emergency Centers activated and our focus is situational awareness, making sure we know what the conditions are throughout the community and planning our reentry operations. So were taking a focused effort in the Emergency Operations center to make sure that we can get critical assets back into the county to render the area safe and restore essential services so we can get the general public back. Of course a call to your team and every team working to make things safe. Dennis jones with the Chatham CountyEmergency Management operations. The county including the city of savannah. People who have been to the city know there is a beautiful riverwalk there, a lowlying area. Hopefully that area completely clear as we know storm surges up and down the southeastern coast will be the major concern. We, of course, will continue to watch the storm as it comes along the coast here. Were going to take a quick break and continue our special coverage live from jacksonville. Well be right back. Just like the people who own them, every business is different. But every one of those businesses will need legal help as they age and grow. 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Ask your doctor if chantix is right for you. Im Victor Blackwell in jacksonville, the they is in the bullseye of Hurricane Matthew. Its continuing to scrape the eastern coast of florida. We just spoke with our meteorologist who tells us the winds in Jacksonville Beach are now gusting at 60 Miles Per Hour, a strong, Strong Tropical Storm force gust there and weve talked so much about the storm surge the storm surge is five to nine feet. That will stick around for the next six hours or so as the storm comes just off the coast here from here in the city along side the banks of the st. Johns river im seeing just over my shoulder flooding in the parking lot. Localized flooding in the streets. The National Weather service in jacksonville put out a tweet not long ago calling for people to move to higher ground, an alert that people need to get to higher space as the storm surge comes in, the rain continues. That in effect, that Flash Flood Warning in effect until 6 15. Now, the question of course is where does the storm go next after jacksonville. States of emergency up the coast, florida, georgia, South Carolina, north carolina. Lets go to South Carolina now to the city of charleston where our brian todd is and, brian, how are they preparing . Do we have brian . All right, seems like were having a bit of difficulty getting brian todd there. The storm started in earnest right now. They told us this Tropical Storm force wind would start to be felt about last hour. Were getting pelted with rain, we talked to one captain of a boat who told us a short time ago this is what hes worried about. This is one of the Marinas North of charleston. You see that mooring post right there, the one with the triangular top. Hes worried if the water levels top that or get higher that these boats will be released and start washing on to the streets and the buildings here you can see on the ash league rivley ri water levels are rising and were in low country in South Carolina. This is clearly at sea level, some areas are below sea level. They are worried about the storm surge that could get to tight 11 feet which could cause washover of these banks over here on to the streets toward the buildings over here and cause serious flooding inland. We were just starting to get this right now. We already have washover into the parking lot so we are into this id say maybe less than an hour of starting to feel the really earnest effects of the storm here in charleston and already some effects of possible flooding seen here. Evacuations are key. Governor nikki haley told us a short time ago 310,000 people have evacuated, thats about half of the people theyve asked to get out so shes not too pleased with that. Shes saying its not enough but the window for getting out of here is closing fast. Heres another thing i want to show you over here. This is the james island connector bridge. When winds get to 40 miles an hour and above, bridges like this one that from 65 feet or higher above the water are going to close. Its too dangerous to be on them. First responding teams have told them at the height of the storm they wont be able to get to people. One local Police Captain told us on the Barrier Islands that when winds get to 40 to 45 miles an hour he won