Paralleling the coast. Thursday night, i paused it, not just because we have a cat 4 east of florida but i think this will be the impacts. Beginning thursday night into friday. We are talking about polk county, Highlands County. You are the ones that will experience the worst of it as far as the winds as the track is now. 40 to 60 Miles Per Hour winds thursday into friday because of that parallel. You see that line close to the coast and then heading up friday across the northeastern part of the state. These are the watches and warnings but we focus in on our counties. Polk and Highlands County thursday night and into friday, 40 to 60 Miles Per Hour winds. Power out tables, if you are watching from lake wales, lakeland, place sick lakes, you there could be power disruptions, especially on friday. Lets talk about the rainfall associated with this in a few minutes. Good morning. Wesley chapel, a crash in your area on bruce b. Downs at 56. Northbound lane is blocked. We are working to get more details as we speak. We are watching this crash on the Courtney Campbell causeway. This is a crash blocking a westbound lane. Folks heading from tampa into hopefully that will be cleared soon. This is i75 around state road 60 in the brandon area. You have a smooth ride all the way up to i4. Back to you. Continuing our coverage this morning of Hurricane Matthew, the deadly storm pummeling cuba, heading to the bahamas on the way to florida. With storm warnings and watches across the state, floridians are not taking chances. This is video out of the miami up. They are lining up at gas stations to fill their tanks and flocking to atms for cash. Credit and debit cards wont work if there is no power. Polk county could experience some of the worse of matthew. The School District plans to make a decision on whether they will Cancel School tomorrow or friday if the hurricane shifts a little west, some Polk County Schools would serve as hurricane shelters. We will get an update later this morning. Download the abc news mobile announcement is made. This is the destruction that Hurricane Matthew is leaving behind. Streets in haiti look like rivers. Roofs are lifted off and trees are down all over the place. The Communication Infrastructure is wiped out. The death toll is at 11 but that is expected to rise. Some people in the bay area are preparing to go to haiti to delivering locations friday. They need heavy duty tarps and protein bars. The pilot flying to haiti says agape regularly helps people in the caribbean. As soon as we are able to, we will look at taking off with a plane load of supplies. They know when agape comes, we are bringing hope and life to them. Haiti is trying to rebuild after a devastating earthquake in 2010 that killed 22 killed 20 information, go to our web site, abcactionnews. Com. For up to the minute around the clock coverage of the storm and its track, abcactionnews. Com is the place to go or go to the abc action news app. Neighbors in one palm harbor neighborhood are being forced to cut the morning shower shorter today. They are being asked to limit water use after thousands of gallons of raw sewage rushed rod Rodney Dunigan is there. Reporter the good news, the leak is under control. The bad news for folks in this community, it will take a few days for it to get back to normal. Thousands of gallons of untreated sewage guard from a 30 in gushed from a 30inch opening tuesday. Crews have been pumping the raw sewage from the neighborhood. Crews were worried that it nearby retention pond. Thankfully that did not happen. We already had problems with the lake. Now with the sewage, we are scared we will lose the fish, ducks, turtles, otters. Its really shaking us up. Signs are in backyards throughout the neighborhood advising people to stay away from the thruj sludge until it of the raw sewage. Unfortunately for the folks in this community, that may take a few days and this will be no doubt a busy stretch of road the next few hours. For now reporting from palm harbor, Rodney Dunigan, abc action news. Civic groups say sexist comments donald trump made against women plan to protest outside of his office. He once called alicia gained weight. Last night after campaigning in arizona, trump brought up his tax contra controversy. She could have changed the laws when she was in the United States senate but she didnt. She named a few buildings. Thats all she did. The reason that she did not do that is her donors and tax laws as i did. Today trump will continue campaigning out west. He is attending rallies out west and in reno, nevada. Hillary clinton campaigned in rural pennsylvania. A 15yearold girl asked clinton about what she makes of trumps comments about womens bodies. My opponent insulted miss uni verse. I acclaimed than that. But it wasnt good enough. So, we cant take any of these seriously any more. We need to laugh at it. We need to refute it. We need to ignore it. Clinton reminded the teen to remember that women are, quote, more than the way you look. Today clinton is fund rag is in washington, d. C. Fund raising in washington, d. C. Still to come on abc action news at 6 00, hackers getting medical devices. The one item at risk. Its not the experience i signed up for. A dream vacation turns sour. All thanks to hurricane we will talk about our local forecast. The showers and storms we had do with matthew. Same today. Easterly flow bringing plenty of moisture and hot conditions. The last couple of days what happened to october. We had heat index values of 95 to 105. We will get hot today. Upper 80s. Rain chance at 40 . After today, then, we have to, of course, factor in matthew especially thursday night into friday when we pick up the winds as the storm heads to the north and west. 1 the 25 125 Miles Per Hour winds through the ban hamas then impacting our area. The inland areas could experience Tropical Storm force winds thursday and into friday as well. We will break it down for you and give you more updates on the winds and the model uncertainty at this hour and why it could play a huge role on how this pans out. Guys . Thanks, ivan. Hackers could target medical devices. Johnson and johnson says the insulin pumps are vulnerable but says the risk is low. A company says the one touch insulin pump has a bug that could make it a Cyber Security risk. They believe a hacker could break into the pump and cause a patient to overdose. They say as far as they know no one has tried to hack the pumps. As you drive to work or school, make sure you pay extra and biking to school this morning. Today is International Walk or bike to school day. Dozens of bay area schools are participating. They want to make sure that kids riding bikes are wearing their helmets and those walking are using crosswalks. A local 12yearold is under arrest charged with making threats to his school. The connection this could have to the creepy clown scare going an update on Hurricane Matthew still chunk through the caribbean. It will be a while before it gets to us. Thursday night the effects will begin in the form of gusty winds and we have the Tropical Storm watches posted for polk and highlands own. Out the door, the morning commute looks dry. Thunderstorms. Temperature around 89. Todays rain not associated with matthew. We will talk about that in a second. Here is the latest from the nhc. 125 Miles Per Hour winds despite the fact this has gone through rain. Now that its over water, instead of 3 a cat 4 developing going through the bahamas later today and into tonight. There is the position by thursday specifically, 130 Miles Per Hour wind. The Hurricane Force winds extend out 40 miles. The position you see here is exactly 40 miles. We are right on the edge of getting those deaths strucktive winds on the coast of florida. A bit of a shift to the west. Even 5 to 10 miles will make a big difference. It will make a landfall instead of paralleling the coast which is the official forecast for now heading to the north. The latest european model have it going inland. Keep that in mind. This forecast may change once again. When it gets this close to the coast, we are looking at a last minute turn to the north so it doesnt make landfall. By then, by thursday night, because its closest pass to us, thats when the strong winds will begin, of course not only for the coast where hurricane watches are posted, hurricane warnings to the south but the yellow are Tropical Storm watches for polk and highland county. 0 to 60 Miles Per Hour winds thursday 40 to 60 Miles Per Hour winds thursday into friday. Watch what happens with the rainfall. As this begins to me of in, this is today, showers and storms well out ahead of the storm. Nothing to worry about there. Then the outer rain bands move in thursday night and into friday. Notice pretty compact here. We are looking at a very sharp winds. You go further inland, out of the rainfall. Then closer to the coast not raining at all. Tampa, st. Pete, 25 to 30 Miles Per Hour wind gusts thursday and especially into friday as it heads to the north with the return wind. For polk and Highlands County, Tropical Storm watch tonight then excuse me, thursday into the day on friday for 40 to 60 miles breaking it down into thursday night, thats when things will turn not only downhill for the east coast but for us as well. Then the Hurricane Force winds remaining out along 95. Another update in a few minutes. Good morning, everybody. A couple of crashes we are keeping our eye on. The first one up in the Wesley Chapel area, northbound bruise b. Downs at state route 56. One lane is blocked. Traffic indicators are in the cleared to the side. They are clearing this crash southbound u. S. 41 at 73rd street east. This is in palmetto t. A little slow down here in the southbound lanes on u. S. 41. This crash just south of 275. That was in the red. And your drive on the veterans is looking great. Better than yesterday. We had a crash causing over a hour delay on the veterans. Right now we are in 17 minutes green, 17 minutes. A dream vacation aboard a Carnival Cruise ship turned sour for thousands. Passengers are docked in new york city because of deadly Hurricane Matthew. Saturday night passengers got an email hours before they were supposed to set sail from baltimore to the bahamas saying when the ship docked yesterday, they were told they wouldnt go to canada. They are docked on the hudson. Passengers want their money back. We just want to go home at this point. There is nothing they could do to make this cruise, if you want to call it a cruise better. The ship is scheduled to head back to baltimore tonight. Carnival is giving guests 250 to spend on board and half off a future cruise. Many say of taking carnival up on the offer. Breaking news just in. No Bell Committee awarding the nobel prize in chemistry to three men for developing the smallest machines. The men contributing significantly to the development of molecule sized machines which one day the no know Bell Committee says could lead to Energy Storage systems. Pasco deputies are charging a 12yearold boy with a threat to kill classmates. They are investigating a connection clown scare. The 6th grader posted it to an app. He created pictures of a clown writing he would kill at the school. Its scary. You see nowadays you never know. You could just be in the wrong place at the wrong time. You dont know where to be any more. We arent naming the student because he is a juvenile. He is charged with a threat. The way Small Businesses say the change to credit and debit cards is hurting them. Fan. An object nearly hits a player temperatures right now in the mid70s. Partly to mostly cloudy skies. Good shape. I think we will have sunshine through the early part of the day. Like the last couple of days, we will cloud up through forecast. Low to mid70s. We will climb up to 90 89. It will feel like 90s with the humidity. Rain chance at 40 . Then we will feel the impacts of matthew thursday into friday. I will talk about that at the bottom of the hour. New this morning, a lawsuit is moving forward over the credit card chip readers. A judge is allowing Small Businesses to sue Major Credit Card Companies for forcing them they are expensive and dont fully protect them from fraud and they are penalized if they dont upgrade. Poor sportsmanship from a fan, a baseball fan in canada. Baltimore was going back for a fly ball in the wild card game against toronto. Somebody threw a drink at him. He made the catch and he was upset. So were the announcers. A bottle of water someone through at the same time he was inexcusable. Could have hurt him, too. The orioles manager complained. No word on whether that fan was ejected. Of course this is not the first time that toronto fans have thrown beer or objects on the field. Several fans threw beer during a brawl with the rangers last postseason. A crime spree with multiple attempted carjackings, Home Invasion and a deputy shooting and killing the suspect. The one thing that started this violent chain of events. And we are continuing to keep you up to date on powerful hurr could affect us. The decisions we are waiting on from florida officials and we are hearing from a local woman stranded by the storm in the powerful Hurricane Matthew bringing its furry to the east coast after tearing through haiti. Storm warnings and watches that you need to know about so you are ready. Team coverage from the latest updates on the storms path. How families are preparing for the worse. The powerful storm is capable of this type of devastation and it is getting closer to florida. We are expecting to feel the impact in the bay area as soon as tomorrow night. By this time tomorrow night we should prepare for Tropical Storm force winds. With ivan cabrera standing by where the storm is and where its heading. The latest advisory, dealing with a potent storm, cat 3. 125 Miles Per Hour winds north of the eastern tip of cuba, over waters. We are expecting the 125 to go up in the next several hours throughout today back to a category 4 hurricane. As that is happening, as it is strengthening, its rolling through the bahamas and making a pass at us here, close to the eastern part of the state. Better news for some areas across the northeast but even the carolinas have to watch it closely. This track has been trending further and further west. A little more and we are looking at a landfall here. Some of the models are indicating that. Lets track it for you as it heads into the bahamas between a 3 and 4, 130 Miles Per Hour winds thursday night east essentially of florida within a few miles looking at hurricane foe for us in that position, that would mean that highlands and polk county would be experiencing Tropical Storm force winds thursday night and through friday. Normally you get the intense winds in a short amount of time and the storm weakens. This track has it paralleling the coast so it wouldnt weaken. We will be on an extended period of strong winds. There are the watches and Tropical Storm watch thursday night and into the day on friday. Those would be the worst effects so far as our area. We will talk about the rainfall as well. We are not going to get the rain that hated and cuba got haiti and cuba got but we will get some. Continuing our coverage on Hurricane Matthew, families up and down the east coast including florida are getting ready for impact. Time is running out to get sand feel before we feel the impact of the storm. We will hear from polk county if they close schools north storm and in palm beach they will decide if people should evacuate. Lindsay is keeping track. Reporter two women are stuck in their hotel at the atlantis. For whatever reason they to wet roads and winds. We hoped to have a live picture. But it is going in and out as matthew makes its way to the island nation. Time is running out for people to prepare. We have seen all week people stocking up, boarding up and gassing up. Evacuations in the bahamas started monday. I can tell you this, the main airport closes at 11 00 this morning. Anyone without a ticket including two women storm wherever they are. I am concerned. I dont want to get stuck here. I have to go backtowork monday. She and a friend are visiting the atlantis resort. The hotel said people will take shelter in the ballroom during the storm. We are watching the video feeds and will bring you anything new when we get it. Back to you. Thanks, lindsay. Many are topping off the tanks. Good advice ahead of a storm. Gas. We have the challenges that people are facing. Reporter the struggle is real for people looking for gas on the palm beach and treasure coast. Many telling us that they are driving for miles finding gas pumps which are out of order. Down the road from here in jupiter, we found a mobile with a tanker truck parked outside. Cars were lining up waiting to be waiting for gas. She heard there was a gas station in hope sound and was planning to drive up. Luckily she found this station because as she was pulling up, her car stalled. I have been calling and i was hoping to try to make it to hope sound where they told me there might be gas. Good luck i happened to see the truck. Yeah. Reporter during times of need it