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 beach area. Theyre seeing the worst of the weather right now, very feet there. Jacksonville, florida, and closer to savannah, georgia, southern portions of georgia already starting to see the wet weather. This is not associated with Hurricane Matthew yet. Matthew starts to come into
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 out and this is causing a great deal of flooding and destruction and dangerous water and road issues in the north east. It is similar to what we have been seeing in ral
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 still a very dangerous situation there tonight. Four people are still missing in flood waters. Swift water teams from new york, new jersey, and ohio spent the morning pulling people from stranded cars and flooded homes. Angelica alvarez is live in fayetteville with the latest car in water. I talked to the guy who says thats his car earlier.
That will continue today. At least this morning we are not seeing any wet weather here on the radar. We can expect this dry weather to continue not only through today but through the entire week ahead. A chance to dry out and get those Recovery Efforts going from the torrential rain we experienced on saturday. Again, flood warnings in effect unl 10 30 this evening. Thats for all the counties highlighted on the map here. That is because we do have flooded roads and there are a lot of them around the area. We also have full creeks and streams. Some at high water problems. Temperatures right now are in the 40s and 50s across the area. We can expect the sunshine to continueoday, and were looking at a high of 68 this afternoon. Well let you know how long the dry weather will last and exactly whats in store for your week coming up. Hundreds of thousands are without power thanks to Hurricane Matthew. And that means many folks out there may be turning to a genetor to keep the lights on cbs Nor
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 energy and they are not expected tget power restored for another six days. Residents on this street along with over a half million others remain without power this morn