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You can get the quicksilver card from capital one. quicksilver earns you unlimited 1. cash back on ev-e-ry purchase, -e-rwhere. i shouldn't have to ask. what's in your wallet? welcome back. almost 4500 flights cancelled due to hurricane matthew. that goes from wednesday to saturday according to flightaware.com. t tom costello, one of the busiest in the country, hartsfield-jackson. >> reporter: we came here because this is the hub for the southeastern united states as well. behind me, pretty much business as usual here in atlanta today and here's why. most of the problems as it relates to air...

Storm surge is a major threat. more to come. back to you. >> you see the map. it could be a direct hit anywhere along the florida coast. you have to be so careful right now. get out if you haven't already. airlines have canceled more than 1,000 south florida flights according to flightaware.com. florida international will shutdown at 10:30. miami international is monitoring wind speeds to monitor when it will close down. further north, residents are evacuating. some are planning to ride out the storm. sara sidner is with us in daytona beach. >> reporter: we are starting to feel the effects of ...

That will inundate the bottom portion of the home flooding it at very least. the majority of deaths in a hurricane come not from wind, but storm surge. that is a concern going forward. john and christine, 8 to 10 inches of rain. that leads to flooding. >> it is the path of the storm that is cause of concern. hugging the coast of florida and maybe directly over the coast of florida for hundreds of miles. so much opportunity for devastation. derek, thank you. airlines have cancelled more than 1,000 flights in south florida. according to flightaware.com. florida international will shutdown at 1...

Reports there are 20 ambulances on their way to the crash site. we are expecting more information this hour and will bring to it you as we learn more on cnn. let's turn to our meteorologist derek van dam who has been checking the weather situation in that region. derek joins us at the weather center. what have you learned? >> i think it's very important as sparse information that we have at the moment, we start to eliminate all the possibilities including the weather at the time of the last point of contact with flight kgl 9628. what we use at these moments in time is a service called flightaw...

Promise is trying hard to close the place. >> reporter: so far this year, 17 detainees have been transferred out of the facility. 112 detainees remain at guantanamo bay. many have been okayed to go home, it's just not clear when. >> with we want to return to breaking news out of egypt with a russian bound commercial jet carrying 224 people crashed in the central sinai. eric van dam is following this and joins us in the weather center with more details. what have you learned? >> obviously, information is sparse out of the region at the moment. we'll be sure to pass along what we have including ...