It will take it more than a day before it gets close the florida. It will be dangerously close to the Cape Canaveral area. 130 pound time 30 mileperhour winds 130 mileperhour winds pick 40 miles offshore we will do with Hurricane Force winds pick jacksonville saturday morning. As opposed to taking it due north the system is really starting to drift more out into the atlantic. Local effects we still have Tropical Storm watches for sumter, poke and Highland County polk and highland counties. The yellow area with how far out the strong winds extends. Hour. Watches we go to time tomorrow evening were still not expecting the worst weather to come through. Today is a normal day. Tomorrow will be breezy look at this friday morning that is when we can feel those Tropical Storm force winds. These are forecast wind gust as we head through the next couple of days i think my graphics mightve frozen up but i will for you as well as rain off we will feel from the storm coming up strike her came matthew is a very slowmoving storm. Its path can shift of it. The entire state under a state of emergency, but it is the east coast that will get the broth of the storm in florida brunt of this florida. The governor urging everyone to be on alert. Were monitoring what is going reporter and brevard county, those who live on Barrier Islands when flood prone areas are being told to evacuate. Governor is worried about complacency especially in south florida which hasnt been a major hurricane and 11 years. With the storm going up the coast a small deviation in direction could go up along the florida coast. Hit. Coast guard has been activated. Several shelters are already opened. There is concerned about prolonged Power Outages. Schools along the east coast have canceled classes for the rest of the week. The Polk County School district says it may close on thursday and friday. An announcement about that will be made today. Schools would use their automated telephone system to notify parents and will also media. News channel it will pass that information along as well as soon as we have it. A lot of people are preparing for the storm stocking up on essentials like bottled waters bottled water in batteries. You can see the long line at east coast gas stations as well in the harbor at poor canaveral plans to close this afternoon to crews and cargo ships as well as recreational and commercial fishing boats. One more thing, major Road Construction has been halted along the interstates including in our area just are Mass Evacuations require the Hurricane Matthew track is going right off the coast of South Carolina as well. Traffic is bumpertobumper as people evacuate those coastal areas. Take a look this is interstate 20 6 and it is nothing but brake lights as thousands try to get out of the governor declared a state of emergency we and does expect lane reversals go into effect this afternoon. Right now travel troubles also a bigger concern is Hurricane Matthew gets closer to our state. We have more on how temp International Airport is adjusting. Reporter several airlines are already waiting change fees for flyers headed to an impacted. Make room for matthew delta, united, jeff luc, and american already offering to waive change fees for travelers heading to and from some areas in the us that could be impacted. Hundreds of miles of coastlines could be impounded taking aim at United Statess east coast. Protecting life is the number one priority. If matthew directly impacts florida there will be massive this is a deadly storm approaching our coasts. I cannot stress that enough. Dont focus on the storm path, focus on the fact that with the minor deviation it can have a direct impact on our state. Reporter dave lives in Boynton Beach but is sticking on this side of the state before Hurricane Matthew is long gone. We have a housesitter. He supposed to take everything out that could fly around and then take the furniture but we are concerned. Reporter people are worried about where to get to but also where they will stay. Reporter Tampa Airport representatives say they dont know what impact if any Hurricane Matthew could have but that they are monitoring the weather closely so that they are prepared as possible. Earlier this week the state department issued a travel warning to citizens traveling outside of United States to areas that could be impacted by Hurricane Matthew like jamaica of course if you are flying this week you want to be sure to check with your airline before you head out to the airport. Matthews track could shift to stand top of that storm team 8 will keep you updated on any changes. Parts of the caribbean are already dealing with the devastation left behind by Hurricane Matthew. Take a look at this video from haiti. You can see the flooding and the destruction there. At least 11 people are dead and th island was especially hard hit. This is the worst Natural Disaster to hit haiti since the powerful earthquake of 2010. Matthew passed over cubas eastern tip and really hammered that islands southeast coast. In hours before the storm hit, people in santiago appeared for the worst bordering up homes and businesses. We will have new video for from on lockdown because of an escaped convict. This man you see escaped from custody near the school. The Sheriffs Office needs your help finding him here key does have violence in his history. He has been arrested before on battery charges. If you see him, you are asked to call 911 immediately. Right now the funeral for 6 yearold jacob paul is underway jacob hall is underway South Carolina. Friends and family members are saying goodbye to the little boy that was shot and killed at school. Youre taking a look at video where the funeral is being held. His family wanted a special tribute to focus on what he loved, superheroes. Many dressed in superhero costumes and tshirts as requested by the family. Also jacob himself also was just in his favorite superhero costume today. Another South Carolina funeral is postponed because of Hurricane Matthew. Funeral services for Keith Lamont Scott charleston are postponed indefinitely as the region prepares for the storm. His death cause violent protest for days even prompt and take prompting an emergency declaration. There are hundreds up for grabs, career jobs up for grabs at a careerfair in tampa. More than 20 employees are hoping to fill positions in healthcare, information technology, sales, manufacturing and much more. This is happening at until 3. Veteran jobseekers will receive priority. Bring plenty of resumes, dress appropriately and be prepared for any views on the spot. This morning millions of kids walk to school to take part in International Walk to school day. We caught up with some right here in the bay area. Groups of students and parents walked to school. Some parents told us they were nervous but excited. Today is all about teaching students the rules of the road and to create awesome. I was told to expect a little over 100 but we had well over 100 students participating and i still see more students coming in so we are so thrilled with the turnout. You will also want to keep an eye out for them this afternoon because it will walking will be walking home so please be careful as schools let out in a few hours. There is another opportunity to walk in that is the 2016 heart walk. News channel dollars but we need your help. Kia is generally matching the first 50,000 we raise. Every dollar you donate counts us to. The walk is november 12. It is easy to join the team and donate. Go to wfla. Com. It is the same old scam but many still fall for. Good morning, were back here. We actually have something pretty exciting, very timely given the fact we have a hurricane so we get look at matthew. That is right here . Have been telling you all about this for quite some time. It is finished and we are excited to show it to you. Yes, it is very timely that we will be able to track Hurricane Matthew as it heads off the floridas east coast over the next several days and really giving you inside look. Theaters, max defender 8 here it is folks, max defender in the eastern portions of Highland County, but again as we get closer to matthew off the east coast, notice where our radar stream is. We can see this just offloadeds east coast. While we watch the eye possibly coming onshore near floridas east coast we will be able to track that with max defender 8. It is something we are very excited about. Is that it has to come are watching a hurricane but we are glad we can give you so much information about it. Nellis focus on what is happening now. Today we are not expected to seek much of the weight from the effects of matthew. It has been cloudy all day, 86 degrees by 1 pm about a 30 percent chance at 4 pm, 89 degrees and 82 degrees at 7 pm. Showers are still linking lingering around. We still have the clouds around so its not as hot as it was yesterday. There is matthew toward the bahamas. The latest forecast updated just came down a few moments ago is a category 3 merging major hurricane with winds 120 milesperhour. It is expected to strengthen by tomorrow evening back to a category 4 hurricane. It is dangerously coast close to the southeast portion of florida. During the day thursday night into friday morning this is going to be so very close to possibly making landfall in the cape. When that is here we should be able to track that very closely and give you that inside information asked what is happening at that point. As it moves up the east coast toward the carolinas, big change with this forecast versus what we were seeing yesterday. Opposed to this moving all the way up to the north east coast it will extend back out into the atlantic. The effects, watch what happens, it is cloudy but mostly dry for the next several hours. Not by much. Storms pushed eastwest by about a 30 percent chance. That we will turn our attention to matthew as it tracks northwest through the bahamas. Through the day winds will get stronger, but remember we will be on the dry side of this. We could see heavy rain from places like pulp county over to the east coast. Polk county over to the east coast. The east coast could see 4 to 5 inches of rain easily today, tomorrow and friday. Places like polk county could see 2 to 3 inches and them one to 1 1 2 inches near the coastline. I want to show you the computer models as they are all in agreement a big change that has happened to the computer model shows some recurring a closer to the bahamas. That is something that we will watch longterm. It is warm and a bit breezy, 89 if we can get sunshine to pop through here. When i say increasing rain chances for places east of i 75 and then we will dry out as we head into sunday and monday. We talk about the strength of max defender 8 and 1 million watts. That is the thing he can go from our radar site in hillsboro county and look all the way across the state. In this case it means we will be able to track right around the eyewall of ic for people we talked about max defender 8 a lot , but for people who might not know how big of an improvement is this over what we previously had . It is lease and bounds. The foremost television station radars rc band are see been signal. Now we have a s band radar and we can see that. Previously was only used by the military. 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Power plant that could never be built. Wife someone needs to stand up to duke energy. Narrator House Majority pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. Good morning, thanks for staying here with us. We want matthew and our meteorologist is keeping an eye on the storm. You can see the i will north of cuba headed toward the bahamas actually moving northwest at 12 milesperhour. It is picking up a little bit of forward speed with maximum sustained winds of 125 miles perhour. Unfortunately it will continue to strengthen over the next 48 hours. You can see this is thursday evening, 130 milesperhour winds , category 4 hurricane just awful it will parallel the coast right along the Cape Canaveral area by friday morning but still category 4 130 miles power. Any wobble just a little bit to the west would mean a landfall in category 4 hurricane. At this point we expected to parallel the coast then head out toward the jacksonville area that eventually off the carolina coast and pushing more out into the atlantic ocean. Tropical storm watches continue for sumter, highland and polk within 48 hours not 24 hours because these are the Tropical Storm force winds a notice this is tomorrow evening and they still are not here. Is not until friday when we expect to seek polk, highland, maybe the pasco and citrus seeing some of the stronger wind gust. I also want to show you more specific as far as the wind speeds are concerned starting tomorrow morning tomorrow morning will be breezy for you. It will not be intense but you will notice m as we head through the evening when we get 30 mile per hour wind. The strongest winds will be on the east coast. Look at this, friday morning, 43 miles perhour at lakeland and bartow. That is Tropical Storm force which is why you have the Tropical Storm watch in place. All the computer models are consistent staying right along floridas east coast. The issue, after that once we had into sunday off the sto