As or altered is 77 northbound to the alternate that will close tonight at 10 00 p. M. Opening at threeatse and saturday afternoot a lot of volume a little sun in the eyes as you head towards Warrensville Center than that congestion does breakout. Ninety is the oe sluggish right all the way into downtown again a little bit of sunshine we will walk on the sunshine as long as we can dont forget about the closure andlo streetsboro bridge having structural damage it should be close were at least six months 303vibe . 44 is your alternate route. The top story this morning i know the i havee Hurricane Matthew is just a couple of miles off the coast of central florida. It is pounding the area up my answer in its and lets top as in its path is it moves up the packing wind gusts of over 100 Miles Per Hour. Pa this is just north of miami reporting more than half of theh area without power and ill all about 300,000 homes about power the storms could hug the coast all the way through georgia and South Carolina. The huge problem will be the storm surge in the way in addition a 15 i the sky roughlyly on the 6 milln people a 6 Million People within the danger zoneil experts say it will likely cause billions of dollars in damage the National WeatherService Warns some places could be uninhabitable for weeks or months. Officials have been begging everyone to get out. There are no excuses. You need to be. Evacuate. Evacuate. Evacuate. Were not going to be able to take them. There is a. In Time Services because you are putting First Responders lives in danger just to get the call. The time is arty happened even though mandatory evacuations were ordered for more than 90,000 people in broward countygh people still state of Emergency ManagementOfficials Say they of now been getting calls from people bearing the brunt of the storm asking for help including one family is atin the roof had gone completely off buta no help is coming because the weather was too intense right now they are they wouldve listened and got out when they were first told us about always the case is still you think you can write it outca defined that you cant make exactly the conditions are so severe they would be putting thl lives of First Responders in danger if they were not to get these folks so they will just have to hang on and hopefully it will get out of the way they will survive itey that. Thank. Thank you very muchha stay wh fox eight for continuing coverage of hurricane back there are also preparing for a hard hit. You can find a live Hurricane Tracker on fox8. Com. Is is friday morning at Cleveland Police officer acovering right now after suspected drunk driver slams into his crews are out on and east 30th about 1 45 a. M. The driver was given a field sobriety tests and taken into custody. The officer is expected to be okay. The ohio state Highway Patrol looking p into a suspected road rage case after fire on another car the 22 yearold said he was driving home from work wednesday one another car sped up to him tried to buy them off the road he was on the phone with 911 when someone fired shots from the other car the victims car was hit four times he was not that they heard. D. And a man sentenced for killing in a wheren a neighbors who is mowing her line. James blair pleadedwhwh guilty to murr expected to get live from prison with a chance of parole and 23 years yesterday parents madent several stops them a state of pennsylvania. A little cap and that stuff boston red sox. In back towards the track and and it goesge. Deep to write about ball is gone. It cap to three homer solo shots giving the type of four . Two lead later in the fifthad he drove home for us wih an rbi single pushing it back perez singled earlier taking up second out of five cody alan and the game kicking up a five minutes state. They day. They kept it up and they argued the call he did not swing we have more on the big one. Hello, everyone from book is a field with the indians wentns cable and five . Four and 14 that did not have a whole lot of postseasonf experience, they certainly did not played out way on thursday night. Is what we do during did during the year. We got a conversation about that is what we need to do. On nobody needs o step out of themselves and try to do too much. What when i have my own i wasnt trying to hit a home on. What he does. We played with a lot h of energyof and a lot of emotion. That is the way our team goes. Upanddown lineup only five guys who are Baseball Players who love to complete every ride the wavesmp and that was a prety high one. The indians manager made a big move in t the fifth inning bringing and has best relief pitcher, indra manella, who drew a seasonhigh 40 pitches and got the wina,h in game one. I did not want it to come through a third time if they had a chance to tie the gameh little bit of a different them into friday afternoon at progressive field. Forget to share at fox8. Com. The time is 8 07 a. M. Welcoming a great one to cleveland. As we celebrate . The indians hall of famer famerr will be here we wil talk to if he thinks w the indis will call the realtor. Plus, wea continue to monitor Hurricane Matthew is a pound with a look at where it is heading next. Good morning, everyone until later on tonight until then, looking at that women well into the high 70s during the indians cameel today. We talk more about that with the Hurricane Matthew eightday and eight day in just a few minutesn it will be a lot of fun when we come back w as we preview friday night touchdown kicking it with . . . . . . . . Thank you for joining us this morning using the Hurricane Tracker to track matthew it will be a big news story we came back 2005 is when a day. The 11 years worth of cool stuff if you want to check out the science of the weather generally to the lower to midsixties wery just talked to 58. This is coming in behind the coldg front with the cold ar not coming until tomorrow a couple a of showers develop tomorrow night most of the rain if anything will be pretty hit or mass mostly sunny a High Temperature today of some of 78 upper 50s tonight a few light showers you see a what happens e morning and at the tenth of an inch of rain tomorrow mostly sunny cooler ah high of am aroud 65 upper 60s lower 60s there is the edge of the eye wall but envelope but just skimmed Cape Canaveral b undern the northern corner although florida of a florida was jacksonville andnd savanna with flooding rains a huge news story dropped the week and taking another couple of days out to see sea with a conservative estimate on the amount of rain the coast guard will receive. Tnt a quick shower sunny 65 looking good today upper 50s or 60s most of next weekok close in the low to mid 40s the next chance of rain tomorrow nightt wont be until late thursday and into friday of next week. Back to you guys. Thank you very much. In the news right now making newsve on this friday morning new details to say about a broken train accident investigators say it was not traveling at 21 Miles Per Hour when it crashedd throuh a bumper at the end of the that is twice the speed limit one person on the platform was killed and more thans 100 hurt n the accident. The chain is now being moved out of the terminal. House speaker Paul Ryman Ryan will campaign this saturday for the First Time Since the Republican National convention at a fall thunderstorm rams home state of wisconsin the following day he faces his democratic second debate that will be held in st. Louis. Trying to determinell too log our russian daughter banner featuring butter where putin with russian and syrian syrians like in behind himim above the e word peacemaker it word peacemaker it was fun andovrd shortly before 2 00 oclock in the afternoon and removed about an hour later0000 police are checking Surveillance Video right now tryingic to identify those responsible. It plugged in. Free for all friday with very positive things to talk about. Lets check some of those things so far. I hope everyone it was americans cloud is alreadys i have relatives on a 55 miles south of savanna stay safeve its going to be a rough time i have people in florida i pray they have everything they have its coming back to flooded are no power who knows and another says where to gor chart morning came closer to that were real seriest love you on fox eight thank you for the laughs early in the morning where is christie. She had a baby she is off for a little whilehe actually they e coming in next week and she starts back later this month but she will inform you all of that friday you know how to do it. Did you see the game last night . O it was too late. They start to a i was yesterday was at 430 game and tonight was the 8 00 oclocka you dont want to watch a and that lost because they it was struck by a margin today at nothing else to do at do get emails flames it on waiting forit all things wrong with cleveland sports but it is also a game one when hopefully they can pull it out tonight you are watching germ and thinking chicago sorry. You know what we do need of jim, team right now weig need a power hitter. If yu are just getting up, it 17 00 a. M. Is your ahead . A healthy fastt food options gethe the burger. We wl tell you where you can get cheap solids on the goet in the indias hall of famer jim is here are talking about the new book and we will talk about the tribe good times with him the indians will win it. Bringing good luck to us. We welcome back we begin withe Hurricane Matthew. W. Hurri carolina are preparing for the worst as Hurricane Matthew caing for the as of this morning matthew is a category three storm, with winds of about 120 Miles Per Hour. Foxs Caroline Shively is joining us live from savannah, georgia where they are waiting for the store. Caroline good morning. Good morning to you guys. We are just hearing the first feeling the first of the rainsos associated with Hurricane Matthew. Hur shelter. Homeless i live in a tent. He came here to write out the storm. Mm continues to move north officials have been urginn anyone remaining in coastal areas to leave. Eave i would say to those that are in the areas where we have declarel it a mandatory evacuation area that they should take our advice very seriously. At one point that youy seprodue hour with Even Stronger gusts. High waves and heavy rain are expected to cause flooding. Ood talking up to 11 feet of storm surge. E. Thats catastrophic typepe situation people drown. Ple there will be no one to help them because we cannot that First Responders at risk. Georgia hasnt seen a hurricane in decades. Cad havent had anything of thishino magnitude come around in a longo time. Und i a first time for a lot of people. T the window is for people to evacuate evacuations are running from thm city center here until noon after thatat theyre telling fos youre on your own. Back to you guys. Y the rain has begun how much longer and tell the heavy impact of matthew . Rain haslonger the iowa should get hereher sometime between 8 00 p. M. And 8 0a. M. M. M. That makes another challengellee hitting in the overnight hours. Tough to see anything tough to know any whats coming on. A lot of folks will be without about this hurricane is thate ia sound of a train coming. In ugly onet another reason for folks to get out of here while theyt o sutitll can. Ca are they expecting it to be a category three or will it increase in power and become aea category for again . Gai have you heard anything about that right now . Ave you heard possibly will slow. Ow. Been having a lot of drag alongg the land. The the last forecast i saw once hee crosses to georgia over thatr florida line could still bell b category three looks like by te on the northern tip 100 miles north almost to South Carolina it could be down to a categoryae to. But theyto warn us dont gett complacent thats talking aboutt winds water is the main worryrr here. The storm surge the raini flooding could be coming days and weeksfloodi and george espee prone tospe damage. Mag just because the way its made up. Its a lowlying area here. U enjoying the rain asking about flooding. Where it iinsou a flat and theyd it floods everywhere. Ryw are most people where you areu have they evacuated or trying t stay at home and write it out . Weve seen both. En plenty of folks getting in those buses they flip the interstatee around you can only get out on 16 a lot of people taking ta advantage of that jumping in in there own cars jumping on thesee buses and going inland to safety to hotels and friends anywhereee they can get away from thisthi monster storm. Ked toe talal f folks who will ride this one out. This had a hurricane here since 1979 a pretty small one the last major hurricane to ever hit the state was back in 1898. Thank you very much caroline reporting from savanna georgia. A take care of yourself. Rse absolutely. Want to checkk n with scotth scot sabol not only tracking the hurricane but local weather as well. Good morning. Morning good morning everybody. Morning one more warm day today. A upper 70s later thisr thi afternoon. Around 78 during thooe indians game. Enjoyy t hat heading downtown cleveland. As we look forward todg tonighth are anticipating a couple of of showers mainly after midnight. Ii watch that broken line up up showers developing andeveloping eventually slide out ofand heree a cold front starts to dropp temperatures back to middle upper 60s to mile. Look ahead sunday looking even cooler. Will becoo the high 50s lowerlor 60s a northwest wind. Really more seasonable weather. E borrowed time. Cooler but not supercold. Cold. The radar what will make this very interesting to track the facts the hurricane isrricane is interacting with land partially here. And so its going to makel itsis behavior may be a little moree erotic than x12 hours. Rs. You can see the i is parallelinn the shoreline. E havent seen anything like this before. Interacted withont seen an clip canaveral. March up the shorelinee category strength for another 24 hours. A lot of rainength for a and wet winds coming in off the oceance with thean storm surge. Rge still a very potent hurricane and it is goingll nowhere fasthr everybody. If you know anybody from Daytona Beach to jacksonville to savannah and all the way through South Carolina delegate hit with heavy rainfall over the next tw days. Send it back to you guys. T guys. All right. They called cleveland home for years and now jim thome and his wife andrea are back. Fresh off his hall of fameears h induction the former indiansis i first basemen has a new role ass supportive husband as his wifee celebrates her first book. Thank you both for joining us this morning. Ou s mong. You guys look great. O my goookdne ss you have an ageda bit. Right back at it. At it. I dont think so. I remember you with another an station in town no names pleases you worked the at noon show and first of all i always wondered how you guys met. Wa so clich . I met him interviewinv him. But in texas i went to texas for opening dayut in 95 went out an interviewed him came back a week later he came up to me and saide why are you here klaxon i saidsd what he meant. Ant. Said i thought you from texas. I said we struck up a friendshin a couple of months later he asked me out. Sked me you guys have been marriedout. O many years . Almost 18. I should have let you s at. Th 18 or 20 or 22. This is your first book butk but writing kind of runs of thes ofh family. My mother was a poets selff published book of poetry we last heard two years ago this month. She was an inspiration for mensi writing this book. She got meon for sit down and. Is a talent and tennessee. Without really giving us the plot and all of that stuff i knowivu she happens to be a a Television News reporter. They write what you know so i borrowed a little she is not me. She is fiction she goes on an a trip to get away after a lifechanging event ing meetee somebody else who is also kindod of recovering from something in his life. Of r where did you get the idea to write this type of a book . What t the place was sort of my firstyr character. The town andd the setting is jut gorgeous. Gorg. I knew it would be a really great thing. A love story. I knellory. All right jim. Back in the playoffs. Yof pretty exciting. Bringing us good luck youre inn town indians are doing well. So excitingt to watch everythint unfold again. Hunfol going badc kaga to the in90s ao see the crowd last nightth it is just a fabulous time. Forward to with the cavs and nw with the indians. R just exciting time. All the way. What are your memories ofies of playoff baseball here in in cleveland. I was telling her my memories are the cold days. You know and just the offense to be honest the vibe of the fans you can feel the energy. As a player. I think we always kind of feed off of that. And it was exciting. And i know those guys will do w the same this fall. We needd one like you right nowo if you could suit off that woult be great. As we were looking at the video the big statue outside. Outsid progressive field. Humbling. How do you ever imagine that cracks you play baseball as a young kid and. Cracks youre bles keep playing baseball and then all of a sudden you go to a cit humble you still kept that humbleness about you. I think you are kind of who you are i guess. Yo i guess. But you know ive had a lot of o great teammates a lot of great coaches andre its been anbe incredible journey. Lets talk about a big book signing thats happeninghappenng tomorrow. Tell us about that. Morrow Chagrin Falls one of my favorites when wen we lived here. Ved he. Hosting from one until thre proceeds to fieldstone farm. We have a nephew at 16 sufferedd a spinal cord injury. We came to fieldstone farm yeara and years a