People are hunkered down waiting for pelting rain to pass by them. We have a look at conditions at Daytona Beach. Reporter sunrise but no slow down on matthews assault on our state. This is not over. Reporter the eye expected to press dangerously bringing the heaviest rain and raising the risk and fears of catastrophic storm surge. We are very concerned about the storm surge and the worst effects are likely to still come. Reporter the massive storm bringing massive winds and damaging rain. Still at times wind gusts were so strong First Responders had to get themselves to safety. Power lines ripped from their polls across the region. Hundred of thousands left without power. Many are riding out the storm in shelters. Hundreds of pets housed with their own e still unsure when they will be able to go home. Hurricane matthew expected to skirt the coast into the weekend. Meteorologists say offshore doesnt mean any less dangerous. If youre in an area that you are told to evacuate i want to personally plea with you to get out right now. Reporter millions still at risk as Hurricane Matthew churns in the atlantic. Daytona beach, florida. That explosion is part of the reason why it knocked down power lines and caused transformers to explode. President obama reminded people in florida to remain vigilant. I want to emphasize to everyone that this is still a dangerous hurricane. The potential for flooding, loss of life and severe Property Damage continue to and people need to follow the instructions of their local officials. And glenn hurricane schwartz is tracking the storm and has the latest on where it is going. What can you tell us. Yethe center of it managed t stay offshore but it is very close. The eye is now 30 miles east of Daytona Beach. So all you need is a slight jog to the left. Right now its hadded that way. That much of a difference is between getting an actual land fall with the biggest storm surge possible or staying over the water. You can see the track staying over water. Here is the florida coast. It is just moving parallel so far. The problem is that the coastline starts to curve. This storm, if it continues moving north now youre threatening georgia and South Carolina. 120 Miles Per Hour winds. The pressure is up a little bit. Thats a good thing. Its not strengthening. And here is the future cast showing the center staying just offshore but tremendous rains coming into georgia and South Carolina. 10 to 15 inches of rain. Flooding rains across the area. This is grazing Daytona Beach. This is right near Jacksonville Beach this afternoon and then right over charleston tonight. So we may be having more problems in South Carolina than we had in florida with the way this thing is tracking. Well have a complete update on the track of that and our weekend in just a few minutes. All right. Well see you then. Thousands of flights are cancelled down south due to the storm. That means our area is dealing with those changes. Miami flight stopped yesterday. Orlando stopped operations at 8 00 last night. The airport does not expect to resume flight schedules until tomorrow. Miami homing to resume flights today. Some peoples decided to cut their florida vacation short. I was scared because i never experienced Something Like that. I want today stay and see what would happen. It was interesting. We learned Palm Beach International airport is now back open. If you had plans to fly to florida there weekend check to see if your flight is still on. To give you an idea of how devastating this hurricane can be officials in haiti confirm 283 people are dead. They are helping people in the hardest hit places to clear away the damage from the storm. They expect the death toll to rise as they reach more remote areas. In the bahamas clean up is beginning. Complete roads washed away and some people still trapped in their homes. A look from above in cuba showing the scale of destruction. You can see a collapsed bridge over a swollen river. Many homes without roofs. Matthew moved through there on monday. No deaths reported in cuba. Stay with nbc 10 so you can track the path of Hurricane Matthew. It gets you Severe Weather alerts and your first alert neighborhood forecast. Lets bring in Francesca Ruscio for more on whats happening on the roads. What are you seeing out there . It is acting up around montgomery drive. It is a bit of a slow of a crawl. We are in the 40s right now. It will take you 17 minutes. I do have an accident in cheltenham. We are also seeing delays on 611. Youll want to take alternate routes. This is route 41 at route 42. Speeds are in the 50s. Youre not going to run into any issues there. Lets take a look at mass transit. Everything is good to go for septa. Back to you. A visit from joe biden. Biden will urge voters to support Hillary Clinton. How is the crowd there . Reporter take a look behind me. They are listening to democrats in the area. The focus of the rally of course is to support Hillary Clinton and also to get people especially College Students out to vote. Four days until the Voter Registration deadline here in pennsylvania. The krocrowd being urged to register to vote and do it quickly. Kb again, many of the areas pr prominent democrats are speaking to the crowd. He will talk about health care, education and other issue that is effect them here. We already talked to a number of people. They say they support Hillary Clinton. Well bring you the Vice President s visit later today. Deanna durant dean deanna durante. Thank you. Here is a look where pence is holding a town hall at a Senior Center there. Both candidates preparing for their second debate come sunday night. You can watch trump and clinton face off sunday at 9 00 a. M. You with see it on cozi tv. Well have a live report from the debate hall right after the game. And happening today, new jersey lawmakers plan to vote on a bill to raise the state gas tax by 23 cents a gallon. They postponed the vote sched e scheduled on wednesday. And happening today, officers with Camden CountyPolice Department will sit down to chat with community members. It is part of National Coffee with a cop day. They will discuss after School Safety and other community concerns. We are continuing to track Hurricane Matthew this morning. It is unleashing powerful winds as it moves towards georgia and South Carolina. It could have been much worse, glenn. We are continuing to track this storm. It is centered jest offshore of the florida coast. The question is will it make land fall in florida, georgia, South Carolina or stay offshore . Ill have that coming up. Well tell you the winner of the nobel peace prize, what he did and how he earned the honors. I spent many years as a Nuclear Missile launch officer. If the president gave the order we had to launch the missiles, that would be it. I prayed that call would never come. [ radio chatter ] self control may be all that keeps these missiles from firing. [ sirens blearing ] i would bomb the [ beep] out of them. I want to be unpredictable. I love war. The thought of donald trump with Nuclear Weapons scares me to death. It should scare everyone. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. This is a live look at heavy rain and strong winds. This is Daytona Beach. One death is being blamed on the storm in florida. They are warning people to stay off the roads because of flooding and downed trees like this. They ripped the trees right out of the ground. 2 Million People up and down the florida coast are spending their friday with sfrends and families. Pets are also needing a safe place to stay. A shelter is housing dogs, cats in addition to more than 200 people. They have determined are trying to determine if the hurricane caused this house fire. Luckily no one was hurt. It was a complete loss. Tell us what its like there now. Reporter well, what we know is that the eye of Hurricane Matthew is just to the east of us. We are seeing widespread damage across sent seCentral Floridame a florida. We are looking at one of many trees that have fallen over. Also, take a look at this roof. Pieces of it lay in the street. There is a light in the street as well. You can see how hard the palm trees are blowing. This is some of the damage we are seeing here where we are on the street. There is more all across Central Florida and this storm, vai, is far from over. Thank you and stay safe out there. Santos is recognized for the efforts to end a five decade long civil war in his country. The award comes days after voters rejected a peace deal of the revolutionary armed forces. They say it doesnt mean the Peace Process is dead. Well, we have been tracking matthew for quite a wile. Well continue. It will be on the map far long time. Here we were at 11 00 last night. The center just offshore. Watch the track. There is the line right there. Here is the florida coast. Here is Cape Canaveral. You can see how close it has come to the coast and yet staying just offshore at least the eye. The eye wall this backside of it is extremely powerful. It is hitting Cape Canaveral right now. They are having some problems. The center only 30 miles off of Daytona Beach. Look at the wind gusts there. Gainesville at 35 Miles Per Hour. Savannah 35. Storm has max winds at 120. It is moving north northwest. Here tis the latest forecast. Category 3 near land and possibly on land in charleston, South Carolina. Thats a major hurricane direct hit, perhaps. So South Carolinas west coast might end up getting hit harder than floridas because the hand fall is very important. Then it starts making that right turn and then makes the loop. Its weakening by the time it does that. The south turn, the west turn into the gulf of mexico. Again, it is very weak by then. 67 in delaware. Lots of sunshine here. There are clouds coming up from the south. We have a front coming in from the west. Thats going to combine to add moisture here. As we look through saturday in the morning we are generally dry but the moisture does invecreas as we go through the afternoon. The question is how fast that moisture clearing. Some have it clearing and others dont. Thats what well be watching. Tomorrow the threat of showers starts at 11 00 and increases later in the day. We are talking highs in the 60s in chestnut hill. A lot of placing will be cloudier than today but things will get better for the rest of the weekend and next week. Youll see that later. Public events for people of all ages. We have andrea here. Welcome. Tell us about the events you planned. Im very excited for being here. 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Tap on the nbc 10 app for more information. Andrea is here. Thanks for coming in. My pleasure. We are continuing to track Hurricane Matthew this morning. It is heading towards georgia and South Carolina. Well have an update just ahead. And boys who are conceived may have problems similar to their problems when they grow up. Well tell you what one new study found coming up. Vaccination rates remain stable. Only about 2 of children were not fully vaccinated. However researchers saw children living in poverty were at risk for not getting all of their shots. Men conceived through i in vitro may have risk for fertility problems. They had about half the sperm concentration problems. They also had poor sperm quality. A former marine has another chance at life. John peck stepped on an explosive device in 2010. In august they atracked arms and hands of an unknown donor to peck. I personally am definitely changed. I have become more grateful and more humble for the small stuff. 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Katie v o im katie mcginty, and i approve this message because its your turn to get ahead. And we continue to track Hurricane Matthew as it hugs along floridas eastern coast. People are dealing with flooding and downed trees. We are in Daytona Beach to show us pelting rain and winds. Reporter conditions are starting to get worse and worse. The gusts of the wind start getting higher and higher. We can already see debris on the ground. We can see the streets are pretty much empty. Police have said this is an immigration zone. If youre in this area you have to get out because its not safe for Police Officers to be able to reach people in the case of an emergency. At this moment we are right next to our hotel. The winds are starting to pick up. Earlier today we did see when the roof fell from a local gas station. We saw the power go out early in the morning. Over 200,000 homes already lost power. Many people just worried what the effects of the hurricane is going to be. The hurricane is expected to come closest to Daytona Beach in the next couple of hours. Well be here monitoring the situation. Nbc news, Daytona Beach, florida glenn hurricane schwartz has the latest. It continues to go parallel to the east coast. The center still about 30 miles offshore. You can see if it continues to the north what is in its way. Part of georgia and South Carolina and the back edge of the eye wall is now what is hitting daihi hitting Daytona Beach. This is the main eye wall. Okay . When that hits the coast thats when you get some of the strongest wind gusts. Thats why some times they get the strong wind gusts after the eye actually passes by. Its just coming from a different direction. Look at this rain straight from the center all the way up to charleston. Thats going to be an issue. There will be flooding. 120 Miles Per Hour max winds moving north, northwest at 12 Miles Per Hour and then Hurricane Force winds grazing the beach right now. It will be very close to jacksonville. Look at this. Right on top of parts of South Carolina. So the coastal portions of this state might end up getting hit really hard. Ill be back with more on the track and our weekend forecast in a few minutes. As it stands right now 2 Million People have been ordered to evacuate. Florida National Guard has been alkt vated and more help on the way thats coming from our area. We have more on the dangers emergency relief workers are preparing to face. Reporter it may have been downgraded to a category 3 but the threat is still very real an very dangerous. It is why First Responders have started making their way down south to help. We are preparing for the worst and hoping for the best. We hope it wont be as bad as projected. Reporter while some hospitals started evacuating patients and closing doors some remained open adding extra staff fully anticipating the worst. They are ready for those when they happen. Reporter even more help is