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Emergency to all 100 counties to allow for more resources to move south. School system in the area being proactive, not taking chances. Cumberland and Harnett County schools will close two hours early today. Thousand are leaving their homes ahead of matthew and many ending up in North Carolina to ride out the storm. Leaders still warning people to get out of for the latest on the path of matthew, lets go to Alyssa Corfont. Good morning. Good morning, guys. Good morning to you at home. The latest information from the National Hurricane center, this is still a category 3 hurricane with wind and rain spreading across the east coast of florida. You can see orlando, Daytona Beach on 95 near port canaveral, cocoa ....
Breaking news this morning as matthew continues to cause problems. We are going life to the center in raleigh for where governor pat mccrory is. Life. This storm is not over for North Carolina. One thing we have learned is that when you go from a category 4 hurricane to a category 1, the danger and harm is still there. What those categories do not include is how water can kill. That is exactly what has happened in North Carolina. We still have those dangers potentially killing people. As we speak, people are trapped in their homes throughout North Carolina, especially in the east at and at the coast. Hurricane matthew is still hitting the northeastern part of our state, especially the outer banks. We are concerned with the storm surge and the outer banks. We are currently having a 36 foot surge. As we said yesterd going ....
Floodwaters swept their cars off roads. five people are still missing. four in Cumberland County and one in harnett. Duke Energy Reports 392 thousand Power Outages across the state. Parts of eye40 are still closed tonight near benson. Stretches of eye 95 also closed around fayetteville. princeville in Edgecombe County evacuated as floodwaters from the tar river rise. And voluntary evacuations are also in place for goldsboro. The neuse river in that area we have Team Coverage tonight of matthews aftermath. We have crews stationed in cumberland, wake and edgecombe countiesmonitori ng the latest developments. But we start in Cumberland Countywhere its s ....
N durh, 50 in raleigh. 52 degrees is your current temperature in fayetteville, and we can expect temperatures to stay in the 60s for highs this afternoon, 68 degrees sunny, breezy and dry. Ill let you know how long the sunshine sticks around coming up. Thank you kriin. Many School Districts have wake, cumberland county, y. Harnett, Johnston Nash rocky mount schools are a handful cled down for the day. You can find a complete list on our website. Many of those hools are closed due to rampant Power Outages that are plaguing the state right now. Right now hundreds of thousands are without power. Ali warshavsky joins us live now in wake county with the latest on the efforts to get the poweback on, and they have a long road ahead ali. Reporter good morning russ, thats right, were on colonial this neighborhood is serveby duke ....