Eyewitness news. Getting ready for Hurricane Matthew. what you can expect and what you should do in case the hurricane hits North Carolina. A life cut short a grieving mother talks about what her daughter had planned before the crash that killed her. And remembering a legend. We look back at the life and career of our good friend Larry Stogner who sat in this chair for decades. Eyewitness news starts right now. A tropical alert huge and ominous Hurricane Matthew creating chaos in the caribbean while eyeing a possible hit on our coast. Hurricane matthew in the caribbean right now but were already getting ready for the storm in North Carolina. Good evening, im tisha powell. And im steve daniels. cuba and haiti are in the path right now. And it could bring devastation and matthew could end up here by the weekend. So, governor mccrory declared a state of emergency for the entire abc 11 viewing area. A total of 66 counties are under that order. The Emergency Operations center is activated.
Carolina and North Carolina coast, possibly slamming into one of our coastline sometime friday into saturday. So lets put a center line through the new track. So this is the one we just got at 5 00. Thats yellow at 11 00 a. M. Down here in the bahamas and florida it shoved west but for us up here in south and North Carolina it actually shifted to the east. Again, this zigzagging is very complicated and tough to keep up with. This is a really hard storm to in addition to shifting a little bit to t east tonight at5 00 its also slowed down. So it is possible we could have a category two hurrice saturday afternoon with 100 per hour winds anywhere fromwilmin all the y to charlotte to 200 miles houroff shore, so heres at that means for us. We continue to havgreat fall weher wednesday and thurs no issues. Saturday, and while e trend has been closer to North Carolina, you know, more changes will happen. So you cant walk away yet. You got to keep checking in on this thing. We get new updates ev
It is time to start thinking any preparations that you need to take. The nice thing with this as we have some time. This will likely be an event on saturday. Things could change and lets take a look at the satellite picture. The center of circulation is making landfall now on the southwestern tip of haiti. They are looking at 15 to 25 feet of rain on such a country still trying to recover from the earthquake about six years ago. Is just not a good situation. You really feel for those folks. After it passes over haiti and heads up to the bahamas. Winds right now at 45 milesper hour. We will get another intensity update at about 7 50 or 8 a. M. Or 8 a. M. It is moving north at 9 miles perhour. Until the 11 00 advisory from the National Hurricane center. On wednesday the storm becomes a category three storm, and by thursday night it is sitting on the coast of florida. Coming up this morning we will likely have Tropical Storm watches or hurricane watches posted for florida. Look at that. A
Milesperhour. No change as of our 5 am advisory. This is where we update the maximum wind speed and the Forward Motion of the storm. It is moving north at 9 miles perhour. Here is a look at the forecast track. By early wednesday morning it is a category 4 storm and sitting just off the coast of florida. Overnight thursday night into friday it is a category see Tropical Storm winds. As the storm moves near charleston, South Carolina on saturday all of the coast of North Carolina. Our entire viewing area is under that cone of uncertainty. Detrend and the computer model the trend and computer model has been westward. It will be interesting to see what happens at 11 00. For the latest on that. It is a very pleasant morning with a number of cloud cover this morning. Temperatures feel good with 59 in foxboro and 64 in southern pines. Sunshine by lunchtime with 72 degrees in downtown durham. It is 77 as the High Temperature this afternoon and feeling good with sunshine. Mikaya is here with so
New tonight on Eyewitness News. Hurricane matthew on the move. The southeastern United States preparing for the possibility of a direct hit. The latest track from the Hurricane Center just in. plus. Facing the family. A former unc student on trial for a deadly drunk driving crash. The emotional testimony from family. And. Off the menu. A mom gets a big surprise at a wake county restaurant. Its the mustsee video of the night. Eyewitness news the southeast United States preparing for Hurricane Matthew. The monster storm moving toward the us. Tonight millions of americans either ordered. Or urged to get away from the coast. We have the latest storm track. And the preparations underway right now. Good evening everyone, im steve daniels. And im tisha powell. North carolina is on alert for us. Governor mccrory says the state is prepared to respond at a moments notice. He also says North Carolina will provide help to neighboring states. Right now, there are no evacuations planned for any city