Western side of haiti there. Storm surge will be significant. The winds will be destructive and the amount of rain on hilly terrain will lead to mudslides and life threatening conditions the next couple of days. The track has shifted. We are moving it further to the northwest. That was the case yesterday but now its more of a turn to florida. Now as i close up on here, we have the cone that involves hurricane watches will be posted for the east coast of florida. We could have Tropical Storm watches for us as the storm makes its closest path on us thursday and into friday and then to the north and east. What are we expecting . Winds of 40 to 50 Miles Per Hour across the interior is a possibility thursday and friday. That would be Tropical Storm force. We still with the current track are on the drier side of the storm, we shouldnt get involved in the tampa bay area where the heaviest rain. Hurricane force winds are possible across the eastern side of the state. We will talk about that and the eventually track and the rainfall on the way for later this afternoon with our storms that are back in the forecast in a few minutes. Good tuesday morning. We are looking good on the roadways. Here is a live look at i4 around plant city, thonotosassa road, up to speed in both directions. 20 minutes to get back and forth between lakeland and downtown tamp on the veterans 54 to 275, 18 minutes. Selmon expressway is looking great. Six minutes from 75 into downtown. Back to you. On top of Hurricane Matthew this morning, we got new video in a few hours ago showing the category 4 storm impacting jamaica overnight. Rain turning roads into rivers. Drivers getting stranded in some of the floodwaters. Crews are rescuing people three people have died so far. That hurricane will cross eastern cuba tonight and we just got this video in showing 700 military spouses and children from Guantanamo Bay arriving in florida. A still picture. They had to evacuate cuba ahead of matthew landing at Pensacola Naval air station. Protests erupt in los angeles as a police chief defends two officers involved officer involved Police Arrested three protestors that refused to leave lapd headquarters. They are upset after officers shot and killed Carnell Snell junior saturday. The chief said snell was carrying a semiautomatic handgun. Video from a business shows snell holding a gun. The second shooting happened sunday. They fired after a man pointed a gun at them. It turns out it was a replica realistic. That was caught on body cam video. If that is the situation, release the video. With that being said, say that is true, is there is other ways to deescalate. The department is talking to the District Attorney about releasing the videos to the public. Four minutes after 6 00. In democracy 2016 a big day in politics locally and nationally. As mike pence and tim kaine prepare for the debate, Pinellas County is preparing to ballots. James tully is live at the supervisor of election office. The mailin ballots are increasingly important in our area. Across the country, too, deiah. In the last president ial election, more than half of all ballots cast were mail in. Like you mentioned, Pinellas County is no different. Later on this morning, we know they will distribute 264,000 of ever. Residents receiving these will have the ballots on hand when mike pence and tim kaine take the stage tonight for the Vice President ial debate. Now, v, thats where vp governor kaine governed from 2006 to 2010. The commission saying he wont have a home field advantage. Campaigning in virginia, pence decided to take aim report. When tim kaine was governor, he tried to raise taxes by 4 billion in four years. State of indiana i have signed more than 3. 5 billion in tax relief for working families, Small Businesses and family farms. Im not a betting man but i think that will come up tonight a substantive debate. You can see it tonight on your action news station. If you are not by a tv, check it out on your mobile app. James tully, abc action news. The Trump Foundation cannot fund raise in new york state. The attorney general saying the foundation does not have the correct registration. State officials have been investigating trumps foundation after reports that he benefited personally from the charity. At boost from mike shanahan. He talked about their friendship. Trump addressed the controversy over his taxes saying any smart american should want to pay the government as little as possible. I have often said on the campaign trail that i have a fiduciary responsibility to pay no more tax than legally required. I hate the way they spend our tax dollars. Dollars he reportedly lost in 1995 came during a significantly tough real estate period, almost as bad as the great depression. Hillary clinton attacked trump at a rally in akron, ohio, calling him the poster boy for a rigged tax system. Clinton reiterated her demand that he release his tax information. He is talking about how he cant release his taxes because he i admitted everything before 2009 is not under audit. Release everything up until 2009. Shot American People your taxes. Of. A new poll finds clinton leading trump in florida by 5 percentage points. The poll shows clinton at 46 . Donald trump at 41 . One month ago the two were tied. Take a look at this. Chuckie cheese is on damage inside a south florida restaurant in kendall. You can see this group throwing punches, pulling hair. It happened saturday. Witnesses say several sets of parents got involved in the fight. Employees immediately called police. Chuckie cheese says the chain does not tolerate this kind behavior. Still to come on abc action news at 6 00, sunscreen solution. Three common mix stakes we make when trying to ourselves from uv damage. Later, a news photographer familiar with crash scenes finds himself part of the story. The one thing making his we check in on current conditions, mid to upper70s. We are doi t still under the same easterly flow which will mean the storm fires east of us and along the beaches between 4 00 and 7 00. Keep that in mind. Doppler radar not finding much. A cluster of thunderstorms, what is left of the deluge we had yesterday. Five inches in a short amount of time, yesterday favoring south of i4. We are good for a 50 coverage. Temperatures will climb out of the 70s, back to where we should be this time of year, this tropical air mass favoring the lateday storms some on the hafter another side heftier side. Many. As you know, living in florida, we know the importance of sunscreen. Experts say there headquarter three big mistakes that we are making. One california woman says she found the solution. A sunscreen machine. A machine that she calls a snappy screen. Basically she redesigned the sp of sunscreen. Select the spf level and adjust to your height. The three biggest things we do wrong when we put on sunscreen, we dont put on enough, dont give it enough time to absorb and we dont reapply. A consumer alert to check the spice rack this morning. A company is recalling ground turmeric because of high levels of lead. Spices usa recalling 400 pounds it could be in several different brands. Coming up, a man was trying to be polite in line at a football game. That lands him in the hospital fighting for his life. Plus, underwater video capturing a steel thy crocodile. What happened next when the animal snuck up on a boy and his family. Z24tkz zy6z 16 minutes after 6 00. Caught on camera, a news photographer becomes part of the story. His dash cam catches the act. He is he is racing to help a many woman trapped. He quickly calls 911. I got a female trapped inside a vehicle, vehicle is crabs a crowbar from his truck and smashes out the window. First responders show up on the scene. He uses a flashlight to direct them to the crash. He is being modest about his actions. I am a willing and able person. That man says he has ordered a fire extinguisher so he is better prepared fit happens again. Breaking news out of sweden. The 2016 nobel prize in physics. They share the prize for revealing the secrets of exotic matter like superconductors or thin magnetic films. Their research may help engineers create new applications for your future electronic devices. A maryland man is in Critical Condition after getting in a fight during a Baltimore Ravens game. The man, 55yearold joseph concession stand with his wife and he let a woman go in front of him. Two raider fans got so angry they attacked the man. Officers arrested them. There is an effort across the state to create rights for homeless people. The Homeless Action Coalition will hold a News Conference in four different cities including tampa and orlando. The Coalition Says florida homelessness. They will bring a homeless bill of rights to florida lawmakers. Today some Pinellas CountyPolice Officers are trying to get to know you better as part of nash name night out. You can see police demonstrations, get free bike helmets and rescue trucks and helicopters at 5 00. St. Pete police will be the target on north 9th street. Happening today, the tampa their disappointing and frustrating season. They finished with the worst record since 2007 winning 68 games. They lost the last game to the rangers sunday. For the third year in a row they wont be in the playoffs. Rays leaders are holding a News Conference where we should learn what they are doing to turn the team around. Spring training is a little more than four months away. Keep watching. That is a crocodile sneaking up on a little boy. You see his shorts. There is the crocodile. The water is murky but the crocodile circles the boy and his family. It happened in australia last week. The crocodile bit the boy owned his arm and storm on his arm and stomach. He suffered minor puncture wounds. It could have been worse. Update on the hurricane here. Category 4 with winds of 145 miles it was a category 4 yesterday and the day before that. That makes three days in a row. That only happened 20 times with a storm like this with that intensity keeping a record. Already a historic storm. We focus in on the eye. The the storm, you can say, in the last 6 to 12 hours strengthened or maintained that 145. The reason is the eye is more discernible on the satellite imagery on the eastern side of water is getting pushed. That is the peninsula of western haiti. 145 to a light breeze in the next few minutes. That is the eye crossing the western tip making landfall as we speak. Then it continues up to the north. These the wind field, 40 miles across Hurricane Force winds 155 miles across Tropical Storm force winds less dangerous of course than the red hear which will wreck of a vouch across eastern havoc across guantanamo base. A lot of folks there. Then it heads up to the bahamas and continues to be a storm to deal with then the change is the track, a further jog to the west made all the difference. All the while this would parallel the state. Any jog to the west and that happened more significant impacts. I will site ten the shot. Further northwest than north and parallels the southeastern coast of the united states. As far as what has happened with the hurricane watches and warnings, we have extended the hurricane warnings to include the bahamas. I think we will have hurricane watches for the eastern part of florida later on today. That hasnt happened yet, not because the track will change in the next advisory but we are getting closer to the event. Its basically a expecting that go up. Thursday night into friday as it heads up to the north. The impacts for the eastern part of the state will be a lot more significant for us because we are on the drier side of the storm. The models doing just an incredible thing here, paralleling the entire eastern united states. If this comes to be, is it will be quite something here, a hurricane going up and down the eastern seaboard with meandering Hurricane Force friday, 40 to 50 Miles Per Hour winds. Thats changed. Its moving closer to the estate. That would be for the interior counties where we will get a Tropical Storm watch or warning. We are on the drier side of the storm. The heavy rain bands should remain to the east. The Hurricane Force winds will remain to our east but now involved in the southeastern and central part of florida along the coast. Thats where hurricane watches. Plenty can change. Keep checking back with us. Thats the latest we can bring you right now. As far as the local weather, more rain on the way. Easterly flow favors the storms on 95 then ending up along the beaches as they have the last couple of days. With this tropical air mass, once the rain begins, we could look at significant downpours. Upwards of 3 to 5 inches like yesterday. Beaches. Extending forecast, rain chance 50 today. We turn windier thursday to friday then the back side of the storm we clear out. And cool off. Big change coming up for next weekend. We are getting into the busy time of the morning. Not too bad out there. We are following a crash in dover westbound u. S. 92 before macintosh. I am seeing a little bit of a slow down. Leave yourself extra time. Execking i4 through the dover area, looking great. 67 average speed westbound to tampa. I275 at busch, six minutes from here to downtown tampa. Back to you. Thanks, janelle. Still ahead, a creek turns an alarming milky color. There it is. We will show you more of this video and what people fear may be causing it. A man comes home to find a take a look at this video. Crews near st. Louis are trying to figure out what made the creek change to this milky white color. People in the area are concerned that the creek is contaminated. They say there is a long the area. The department of Natural Resources is testing the water. We are hearing from a new jersey man who was the victim of a brazen burglary. Peter fields said when he got back home after running errands he found an intruder in the home. He saw the living room window smashed then a whiskey bottle out of place. He kept walking through the house and couldnt believe it. The brazen burglar was in his shower. Thats when he called 911. The man had his clothes laid out on the bed the place. Hurricane mat thieu already matthew having a major impact on flights in and out of tampa. I will detail how its affecting passengers. Also ahead, a fight for a polk county elephant is taking off online. The demand tens of thousands of Hurricane Matthew is making 4r5eu68 in haiti matthew in haiti. The devastation and the way we are preparing in florida. We know that so many of you are concerned, you are worried because you have family and friends in the direct line of the storm. Lets get an update from ivan cabrera tracking matthew as we speak. This is a category 4 storm of 145 Miles Per Hour winds essentially the western peninsula of haiti. I will slow up the shot so you can see. There is the eye. The eye wall is what contains the 145 Miles Per Hour winds. Those are on shore. On the eastern side you get the Forward Movement of the storm. Its not much at 9. There is the storm surge potential. We hope those folks have been evacuated because we are talking ten to 12 feet of storm surge with this storm as it continues to head to the north. That hasnt changed since the last advisory. That makes it day three of a category 4 storm. This then goes up to the north, clips eastern parts of cuba, guantanamo specifically then it goes through the bahamas. Normally a storm weakens over a land mass. Basically it will ignore the islands. It doesnt know a land mass is here. The islands are flat and tiny across the area. It wont do much in the way of weakening the storm as it heads to do this is the big change for us. We are in the cone. Yesterday we were further to the east. The models are trending west. The nhc has adjusted the track. We will likely get hurricane watches in the next few hours for portions of the eastern part of the state. Because of this closer pass, we will likely get involve in stronger winds, 45, 50 Miles Per Hour winds for thursday into friday. Of the storm, especially from polk county west. If you are in polk county, you could be clipped with the rainfall, especially if it trends to the west. Hurricane force winds are possible for the east coast. That is the big change. That is what essentially put in play the peninsula and why we have a state of emergency. 80s through this afternoon. The rains today, Nothing Associated with matthew. Easterly wind that will bring us late Rain Coverage 50 . For now another dry morning commute. Janelle . Good morning. We are hearing of a crash as you come off the Howard Frankland into tampa past kennedy here. The good news is we arent seeing any delays. I checked your drive across the Howard Frankland and you are looking at six minutes to get across. Heading out the door in the Wesley Chapel area, take a look. We are starting to slow down heading south to i4 down to 43 apex into i4. 63. Not bad on 75. Again things are starting to slow down there. Again, a satellite view of matthew from 22,000 feet up clipping western haiti right now which is right there. This gives you an idea of how big the storm is. Devastating rain is hammering haiti and jamaica. The wind is getting stronger by the minute. Three people these images show conditions in portauprince. It is expected to get worse the next few hours. Governor rick scott declared a state of emergency in florida. He will be in south florida to meet with Emergency Management officials. 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