Should have to endure. Night nee news begins right now. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt, reporting tonight from daytona beach, florida. Good evening, as the trailing bands of Hurricane Matthew pass over us here tonight, the storm that refuses to die is taking aim at georgia. And a category 2, still powerful and still dangerous. At least two people in while 12 million remain under hurricane advisories. The floridas east coast is left battered and soaked, but Still Standing thanks to a late tract to the east. Exploding transformers that plunged hundreds of thousands into the dark. We begin with Miguel Almaguer in hardhit st. Augustine. Reporter reaching waters. Much of this town flooded as the storm surge pours into this coastal community. Have you ever seen anything like this . I have not. 26 years of living here, i have not seen anything like this. Reporter matthew battered florida with wind and rain. But in st. Augustine, its storm surge bringing this town to its knees, just as many officials feared. We are very concerned about storm surge, and the worst effects are still the storm surge is going to be significant. Reporter overnight, matthew blasted in with a bang. Transformers exploding through the night. Power crews doing their job. Reporter one million without power today. This relentless storm, snapping trees and ripping apart homes. Were still on the front end of this hurricane. Were not on the back end. So we dont know how bad the damage could end up. But theyre blowing in every direction. In these conditions, its difficult to stand. The gusts feel like theyre upwards of a hundred miles an hour. After blasting south florida and battering the caribbean, with hundreds dead, most of the victims in haiti, matthew, now a category 2, is sweeping its way towards georgia and the carolinas. With waves like these, crashing into homes. Floridas governor is food, water, and generators from fema. At least 4,500 flights have been canceled. Ill be following up with reporter at Halifax Health in daytona beach, everyone, including pets, ride out the hurricane together. While the storm has yet to pass, for scott levy, the damage is done. How devastating is this . Its its its pretty hard. Jewelry store is broken, but his spirit is intact. We will rebuild. Rebuild. Reporter back in st. Augustine, the time for saving homes and businesses has now past. Now with a mission to save lives. Unfortunately the water here isnt yet receding, the rain is only making the flood waters rise even more. There is some good news. Police have been through this area, and they say so far there have been no injuries. Lester . Thank you. Al roker continues to track every moment of this storm for us. Al, where is it headed now . Its headed to the georgia carolina coast. Its barrelling in pretty quickly. Just because its a category 2, it can still do a lot of damage. 40 miles east of Jacksonville Beach, 110mileperhour winds. By tomorrow afternoon, along the South Carolina coast, maybe making landfall in North Carolina coast where there could be a lot of damage as well due to storm surge. The purple and blue are the strongest winds, brunswick, savannah, charleston, myrtle beach. Sunday, we get into wilmington and the outer banks. A lot of problems there. The storm surge continues Flagler Beach to savannah, six to nine feet. And weve got flood warnings and flood watches stretching from norfolk all the way down to brunswick, 15 inches of rain possible, some areas may pick up even more, but lester, i cannot stress enough, even if this does start to weaken, it can still do a lot of damage and the most damage and death happens with that storm surge. Lester . Al, thank you very much. Well have a lot more on this storm in just a moment. But we want to move quickly to breaking news about donald trump. A decadeold audio tape surfacing late today in which trump is heard making crude and vulgar comments about women, including how he gropes them. We want to warn you, some of the language nbcs katy tur has the tape. Reporter the conversation was recorded on a hot microphone in 2005 in an access hollywood bot. While donald trump was headed to tape a cameo on days of our lives. No problem at all, mr. Trump, you can go right in. I moved on her, in palm beach. I moved on her and i failed, ill admit it. Reporter trump, then eight months into his marriage with his third wife melania, wa and others how he tried to seduce a married woman. No, no nancy. And i moved on her very heavily. I took her out furniture shopping. I said, ill show you where they have some nice furniture. I moved on her like a [ bleep ]. I couldnt get there. And sthee was married. Then i see her, shes got the big phony [ bleep ]. Shes totally changed her looks. Reporter moments later trump appears to notice an actress from the soap opera. Start kissing her. Im automatically attracted to beautiful i just start kissing them like a magnet. And when youre a star they let you do it. You can do anything. You can do what you want. Grab them by the [ bleep ]. Reporter trump saying it was locker room banter, a private conversation that took place many years ago. Bill clinton has said far worse to me on the golf course, not even close. I apologize if anyone was offended. The tape coming out as trump is struggling to Clinton Campaign is trying to exploit with his own words. Id look her right in that fat, ugly face of hers. Shes a slob. I think a lot of it is going to matter how he handle its in the debate this sunday. Thats going to be the next big opportunity for him to address this. Hes going to have to apologize in a more forceful way than he did yet today. This could not come at a worse time for trump. The debate is this weekend. There are just 32 days forced to distance themselves yet again. Meanwhile, the Clinton Campaign is reacting late tonight, calling trumps 2005 comments horrific and adding, quote, we cannot allow this man to become president. Lester . All right, katy tur, thank you. Lets turn back to the danger still developing in florida and the southeast. When a hurricane strikes, the leading cause of death is not the wind, flying debris, or collapsing buildings. Its actual drowning. Concern as the storm surge from matthew rushes ashore in areas including jacksonville, where we find our kerry sanders. Reporter this is what storm surge looks like. Its a fastmoving, fastrising flash flood, with the power of the Atlantic Ocean behind it. The storm surge happens when Hurricane Force winds push the seawater all in one direction. That water keeps coming, even as the seabed along floridas shallow, with nowhere to go but up, the storm surge grows, eventually crashing onshore, creating a flood. Sometimes it all happens within a matter of minutes. It doesnt come in, in a gentle fashion. Were talking about huge waves. Reporter in addition to the familiar map with the cone showing the hurricanes predicted path, the National Hurricane center has posted this storm surge map. It looks simple, but its taken seven years and a government s can understand. Blue is one foot, red is greater than nine feet. Now stubborn residents, reluctant to evacuate, can have the data on their phones. Storm surge is driven by the power of a hurricane, which researchers at this lab at the university of miami, believe is connected to tiny droplets of water, flying off waves at the edge of the eyewall. Scientists will be watching matthew closely, because they believe those billions of warm water droplets hurricanes strength. While matthews winds have not been as strong as predicted, its storm surge remains a great threat. All of the debris weve seen here on Jacksonville Beach, including these pipes, a result of nothing more than that surge. Lester . Kerry sanders tonight. As we said, the danger continues as the storm moves up the eastern seaboard. We get t nbcs rehema ellis on the ground for us this evening in savannah, georgia. Reporter the morning calm led to an afternoon downpour. Along the georgia coastline, people boarded up, packed up, and headed to higher ground. In savannah, evacuees boarded buses to get to a shelter two hours away. Items over lives. And well bring them safely back home. Reporter many followed the advice of savannahs mayor, who says he wont risk the lives of first responders. If its at the height of the storm, we wont send out somebody and take a chance on them because you didnt heed the warning. Reporter as the storm barrels towards georgia ten inches of rain is forecast to hit the coastal area, leading to a bigger concern about a massive storm surge that could come along with it. That could potential homes and businesses in lowlying areas. Fire department. Reporter in South Carolina, firefighters went door to door, urging people to leave and taking account of those who decided to stay. They just came and asked how many people were in the house and for my name and phone number. Reporter danisha garrett, expecting her third child is overdue and voluntarily evacuated, taking the storm in stride. Know that by me stressing out, its going to stress my baby out, and thats something i dont want to do. Reporter she says the baby is a boy and theyre naming him matthew. Back here in savannah, the curfew is now in effect until sunrise tomorrow. Thats after the expected storm surge pounds this area overnight. Lester . Rehema ellis tonight. As Hurricane Matthew continues to lash the coastline, we are getting a clear picture of the catastrophic devastathe the death toll has soared to over 800 in haiti alone, where matthew hit before bringing its destruction to the bahamas. Our Tammy Leitner has more from there. Reporter tonight these images from the air, showing the stunning devastation in haiti. The poorest country in the western hemisphere, now picking through whats left after Hurricane Matthew. Thousands, homeless. In the hardest hit areas, more than 80 hundreds dead. 350,000 in need of immediate aid. Hospitals that were already struggling with the cholera epidemic, now desperate to save the living, and bury the dead. Just north in the bahamas, residents also now digging out from Hurricane Matthews destructive path. 400 rescued overnight. Homes destroyed, roads washed away. Some barely making it out the southern and eastern coast of this island paradise, pummelled for nearly 14 hours thursday. Winds up to 115 miles an hour and relentless rain. Locals say the storm surge brought water to the top of that chain link fence and washed this boat ashore. This church now a mere shell of what it once was, but the foundation and their Tammy Leitner, nbc news, nassau, bahamas. A lot more ahead on this busy fried. Still ahead, a stunner from the white house, what its publicly accusing russia of doing, to secretly and illegally influence americas public elections. Americas public elections. Also the which you are you . Be the you who doesnt cover your moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. Be the you who shows up in that dress. Who hugs a friend. Who is done with treatments that dont give you clearer skin. Just 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses. Stelara . May lower your ability to fight infections and may increase your risk of infections and cancer. Some serious infections require hospitalization. Before treatment, get tested for tuberculosis. Before starting stelara . 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Now the russians know that we will confront them on this and i think it will be even more powerful if we start to act in concert with other nations that have been into emails of a white house contractor that disclosed Michelle Obamas passport and emails from former secretary of state colin powell, all bearing the digital profile of russian attacks in the election in the ukraine and europe. Though it says most of those attacks came from computers operated by a russian company. I think the fair assumption is that the naming the source of these attacks is really just the start of the story. It begins to justify other actions which are to come. The russian government tonight calls the u. S. Statement nonsense and says it doesnt blame the white house or the cia every time a hack against putin comes from the u. S. Pete williams, nbc news, washington. 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