This is first at 4. 8 on your side wants to know how Hurricane Matthew will affect those of us in the bay area. Lets check in with our storm team 8 meteorologist. That is a big question Everyone Wants to know, how it will affect their area. Right now Hurricane Matthew still a major category 3 storm as it is moving toward the bahamas. It will approach florida as we head into tomorrow evening. Hurricane warnings have been posted along the east coast coast is under a hurricane warning. Tropical storm warnings in effect for polk and highland counties. Tropical for storm winds are possible within the next 24 hours. Heres the 2 pm advisory. You can see max winds still at 120 miles power. It moves off to the northwest at 12 miles power. As we head into tomorrow evening heres a look at the track. Were expecting it to become very close to the east coast of florida. The strongest ones to the west coast were if it does make landfall that makes things considerably worse along the east coast. Regardless, this is expected to be a category 4 storm as it moves up the east coast. We will see some strong winds and are inland counties. As we head closer toward our coast, those conditions come improve considerably. The storm is expected to curve up the east coast then potentially curve back south. That is still something you will have to stay tuned for as we continue to after model run. At this point, Tropical Storm force winds expected up the east coast of florida and also for polk and highland counties. That is where the winds will be strongest as we head into tomorrow evening and tomorrow night. Currently on max defender 8 you can see things pretty quiet at this point, just a few isolated showers around. We will take a look at the radar and then also have another look at Hurricane Matthew coming up. Channel a crews will be fanned out all over the state waiting for Hurricane Matthew. They are all traveling to the east coast to bring you Live Team Coverage of Hurricane Matthew. Storm team 8 meteorologist ian oliver. He is already there. Today is preparation day for those living on the coast. We have hurricane warnings in effect from the way up to Daytona Beach and that includes the Palm Beach Shores where we are at. You can see the seas are still very quiet at this point but the waves are expected to build throughout the overnight hours tonight in through the day tomorrow and that will eventually be on top of the 3 to 5 foot storm surge that is forecasted for this ar. Asjuli e east coast of florida. To any ship to the west will mean shift to the west will mean greater impact. As we were traveling in we saw waste from the away from the coast. Also the gas stations were out of fuel or have large lines. It appeals many people are appears many people are making the smart choice and getting out of the way of the biggest on the atlantic has seen in over a decade. That is nice right now but that is sure to change. We will check back with you later. Just so you know the governor has ordered a mandatory evacuation for Barrier Islands in brevard county. Also, everything you ready you can find at wfla. Com. We have breaking news into the newsroom. Tampa fire rescue on scene to a 2 alarm fire. Lets send it out to paul with the latest. Reporter it afternoon, it looks like for the most part the fire is out. We have seen smoke a right now the fire is out. Let me zoom in and show you the damage. You can see where the flames ripped through the roof of this condominium. Can see the fire came through the roof of the building. The firefighters were on top of the ladder truck trying to get through the front of the building were smoke was still billowing up. They seem to now have it under control but you can see there is a lot of damage. Will you can see her crews are trying to pump out sewage from a busted main. The county is advising residents to avoid the polluted water. If they were directly from going into the backyard their backyard. As soon as we get that cleaned up it will be safe once again. For living in the area are telling us about a lot about the countys Swift Response we will have that angle i 5 30. School districts and Law Enforcement across the bay area are dealing with clown chaos right now and not because of a real threat but because of all of the hoaxes. Pasco sheriff arrested 12yearold boy ey t every time someone makes a threat online and it is reported, they have to look into it. That means they are using more resources than normal. They want you know, ifw old you are, you will be arrted. Now yoquote 16 you vote 2016 it is back to the campaign trail following a contentious debate for the price president ial nominees if russia, police shootings, abortion and immigration but the overriding theme seems to be accusing the other campaign of iults. E raec llhere in just a matter are you election ready . 8 on your side is here to help and rod carter joins us now. It afternoon guys. There is a group of people here. We are very unfortunate to have very fortunate to have the supervisors from hillsboro county, and pope county and they are polk their staff. There sitting here quiet because the phone is not ringing. They are here to answer your questions regarding this election. That is the noise we want to hear, the phone ringing. If you have a question about what is going to be on the ballot they can help you out. A lot of people think there is just one thing going on, the president ial race that there are a lot of things going on on the ballot. You want to call in, ask your questions. Ask your questions about registering to vote and all of those good things the they will be here until 630 tonight. 6 30 tonight. Coming up we will speak with Deborah Clark so we can get her position on the terms of the season. Just so you know rod is headed to st. Louis. He will cover the 2nd of the fee president ial debates for us. He will report live starting saturday. The debate is sunday night in st. Louis. Still ahead we promised to take you inside hurricane what we will do. It is a right along with have you ever heard of chronic sitting syndrome . It is a thing many of us sit at our desks and it can lead to heaven serious back pain today we have simple stretch as you can do at home to help alleviate that discomfort. Reporter a lot of people think of exercising just to get in shape, but did you know there are certain moves that could relieve pain all while toning your body. Stuck at a desk all day . There are simple moves trending on pinterest to help you ease away back pain lower back pain is a chronic issue for so many people. A lot of the times it has to do with pelvic alignment from sitting from long periods of times, from being in the sedentary position. Reporter at pilates by dena she shows how easy it is to do the threeway hip stretch. First, align yourself on a map met. Keeping yourself neutral you will pull the right knee into reporter for this next moves you dont have to have a magic ring, a towel work. Exhale nice and easy lengthening the lead up to the ceiling. Start at a 90 degree angle first so you can make sure the pelvis is in good alignment. From here you really dont need to pull the lead close to the body to increase the stretch. You can just flex the heal up to the ceiling to elongate and that will give you the stretch and through the calf. Reporter hold each move for 30 to 60 seconds. Dont forget to breathe and relax. Working with the muscles takes me. You have to warm them up here key have to be gentle with them not raing, not uncing. Reporter next guide your leg across her body. Were changing up the stretch to hit the outside of the strong thigh. Reporter hold it for 30 to 60 seconds and stretch the inner thigh. Dont worry if you are not this flexible. Do you can do. Make sure you are not straining but really relaxing into it. Reporter a simple stretch to ease the tension in your back so you can facer day. Face your day. Gail has put some pins on exercises designed to stretch out your back on her pinterest board. Check it out. Now back to Hurricane Matthew if you have a medical issue what should you be doing now just in case the storm knocks out your power or perhaps even traps you in ur today we have answers. Joining me now is my friend doctor jail. Thank you for being here. These things make us all anxious. You keep watching the forecast and wonder if it will shift and come your way. It is so important to be prepared especially medically prepared. For one i feel like i sound like a broken record a they always mention this, but have a personal health record. I learned on your iphone for example there is an apple help after where you can use to put information just in case there is an emergency and you need to go to the hospital and it is really trent and it is readily available. You also need to consider what types of medicines you are on, do have enough . Always have a sevenday supply because of the hurricane does turn to the left you will be prepared. Obviously if you have medical devices like oxygen you need to be prepared. Other than medicine, what other items should we stock up on . Fo nonperishable foods. Plenty of water not only to drink but to bathe wi, use the restroom. You want to make sure you have batteries, flashlights, candles, anything you would need in case the power goes out. After storm dangers, even after it passes sometimes that is the bigger mess. Exactly, flooding is one. Dont let your kids play in the flood. There is infection risk, you can fall, sometimes wires are down and you can get infection risk with like the zika virus and standing water. It is a lot to think about and a lot for people to be prepared for. Really the east coast is need to be prepared and have it on track but it could just be a little bit less left and we will feel some effects. Now, the worlds most powerful radar and yours forecast with meteorologist julie phillips. We do have your max defender 8 image right now. You can see a few er we are tracking a few isolated showers and storms currently out there expecting a 30 percent chance of rain for the rest of this afternoon and this evening. We can see heavier showers and storms rolling through how to handle county Hernando County. Will see if these hold together but we are tracking brief heavy downpours rolling through there. Also tracking heavy rain headed toward the frostproof area. It will not last too long but it you head into southwestern pull county polk county. You can see showers in the southern part of Sarasota County and then spotty showers lingering out to the east. Rain will be isolated at best for the rest of this afternoon and this evening. As we do head into the afternoon and evening hours we can see that right now things look great. 89 degrees with winds coming in out of the north at around 5 miles power. Location just yet. Like i said the rain will stay fairly isolated for us. And 9. Like i said the rain will stay fairly isolated for us. And 9 pm lingering showers on the radar at 9 pm lingering showers on the radar. Muggy start for us tomorrow morning. We have deeper moisture that has rolled through some extra clouds around once again to start off your day. We will bring in about a 30 percent afternoon shower chance as we head into thursday afternoon and thursday evening. Matthew is still well off to the south and east moving into clouds are going to linger through the overnight hours. This morning you d the cloudy muggy start. It will be a similar feel tomorrow. Not much in the way of rainfall but as we head into the afternoon and evening hours we will bring in about a 30 percent chance of rain or so. Rain chances as you head toward polk or Highland County is higher as we head into thursday night into friday morning that is where we are looking at a 40 percent chance of rain. Friday morning our rain chances do go up as we have matthew moving florida. Strong winds expected. Winds is going to pick up theres a night into friday. They wont ease up until friday night. Heres the latest advisory. Were still looking at the 2 pm advisory. As we head into tomorrow night notice it will near the east coast. It is possible that i will make landfall but too close to call east coast. For us our affects are going to be about the same. Polk, highland counties since you are closer to the storm you will see stronger winds. As you had to our coast the wind will ease up. As we next week were watching for the potential that this curves back around off toward the south, but it is too early to tell you the exact track. What you do need to know a strong winds continue through friday and then drier conditions are right just in time for the weekend arrive just in time for the weekend. These are the vital part of protecting the path of the storm. News channel 8 reporter flew around and above matthew to chart as tonight its path. They are those who fly over a job this team take seriously. There are not a lot of jobs where you can go home at the end of the day where you really feel like you made a difference. We flew up from across florida, the bahamas, over jamaica, around cuba and then back up to the florida panhandle. Along the way the crew drops measuring devices called drop sons at predetermined points to collect information. Humidity, winds speeds , and pressure. The information gathered will help the path of math you but also improve computer models for future storms. We are really glad we are able to do this. We are proud of the work that we do and we hope we get the right data to the people who can make the right decisions and get the right people out of the way. During the flight i interviewed the crew about their jobs. As we cruised to 40 they allowed me to release one of the drop sons. The information is used to generate the cone that we are now all familiar with. It shows the potential path of the storm. The noaa Hurricane Hunters know that path is critical. We think about making sure the right people leave, the flip side of that is making sure the right people dont leave because as you know when you start evacuate evacuating people that find out they didnt need to that has a negative impact in the future. The goal is to improve forecasting to make sure the right people are evacuated at the right time to potentially save lives. We are going to get another look at the track of Hurricane Matthew in our local or cast coming up at 4 30. Up next with the storm looming on the east coast some College Football games are in jeopardy. We will have those developments on all todays biggest stories on tampa as most convenient primetime newscast every night at 8 00. We will be right back. Medicine . With amendment 2, this is what medicine will look like pot, packaged like candy. Up to twenty times stronger than it once was. Marketed to kids. Sold next to schools. In nearly two thousand pot shops across florida. No medical standards. No pharmacists. No prescriptions. And no way to stop it. Welcome back. Lets check in with sports. It is one of the rare times in the weather and sports world and they connect. Canceled. We will tell you about those. We have weather danger and then what kind of services are available to cover the game. We will see what happens as the next couple of days go by but the hurricane has claimed all high school Football Games in polk county. Ucf has postponed its game. Florida gators we have an announcement after 5 00 on the for now Florida State and miami are still good to go. Saturday night that game is down in miami. Another game that is on for saturday at noon, usf hosting east carolina. The bulls are back in bigness to 9 business. We have one . Zero business. They have a one . Zero record. Marlon became the alltime leading rusher. Mac and quarterback have helped the offense become potent once again. It is a lot of fun because you never know. One play you he gets stop 15 yards in the next play you can make a touchdown. We have good communication back there. We tell each other what we see. We travel put our offense in a good situation. Everyday we just come out and used to seeing or not doing used to seeing or used to doing against our offense. Baseball got underway tuesday night in dramatic fashion. This was an 11th inning 3 more in homer to win the game against the toronto. Up with the blue jays into the divisional series against the texas rangers. After the game while the bubbly was flowing in the toronto clubhouse, orioles manager criticized for not using his tran pitcher zach during the critical situation pitcher zach during the critical situation. They said they gambled and didnt win. Wife our electric bill just keeps going up and up. Were doing everything we can. But it looks like duke energys not doing theirs. Husband paying for a plant thats never going to be built narrator the duke utility tax is costing florida families. Yet congressman david jolly does nothing. Hes taken thousands from duke but has not stopped them from collecting for a power plant that could never be built. Wife someone needs to stand up to duke energy. Narrator House Majority pac is responsible for Hurricane Matthew looks like we can expect mostly strong winds and much of the bay area. The central andes coast of florida are another story. Polk county closed schools tomorrow and friday 500 National Guard guards are now on duty. By tomorrow morning it will already begin to have significant effect in florida and then has the potential to strengthen coast. The president is telling the nation you can always rebuild property but you cannot replace a life. If you live along the east coast and you are ordered to evacuate, listen to that order. Number 3, traffic on the east coast. Heres a live look at i 26 in South Carolina just outside of charleston. All 6 lanes are going in the same direction. That road is packed and it very packed. People leaving the area ahead of Hurricane Matthew. It has been this way for most of the day. Number for the fiercest caribbean storm in almost a decade is now powering toward the bahamas this after battering haiti and cuba with torrential rains and killing at least 10 people. Images from haiti show the severity of the devastation debris strewn about including a boat in the middle of the street. 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