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Coast. The Us Coast Guard is already warning boaters in south florida to prepare for matthew. And North Carolina officials are keeping a close eye on the storm already, and what it can bring to our state. We have coverage tonight starting with mike maze. There are a couple of things that have changed. Forward motion and direction changed just since this afternoon. Its a slow mover. The up level winds are light where it is moving north northeast about 8 Miles Per Hour, but its picking up. Earlier todays it was a 6 Miles Per Hour, so its picking up a bit. Once it gets north of the islands it sho...

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...

Im lena tilllet. And im bill leslie. The latest on matthew, releasing rain on haiti, and there is damage and casualties. And its reported catastrophicy in les cayes. But cuba has not been hit as hard as haiti. In our state, there is a mandatory evacuation with ferries running the same today and tomorrow but not on friday. Unc wilmington has issued a mandatory evacuation for the latest models and the official hurricane track. Elizabeth gardner has been digesting all of this information and joins us to try and make sense of it all. I will say that a lot of times people are shocked by what kind o...

And the its described as cat catastrophic in les cayes. And for our area, we have mandatory evacuations. And unc wilmington issued a mandatory evacuation for all students. All students must leave that campus by noon tomorrow, noon meterologists are getting whiplash trying to keep up with the hurricanes. Its been all over. It definitely has. We had a dramatic change overnight. And we are waiting for the next run to see if they continue along the track which will pull the storm away from North Carolina. Thats the only real change. It continues to hug the coast of florida and South Carolina and m...

Were watching it closely and we could have several inches of rain this weekend. Very close to the eye wall here and the eye wall is where we see the heaviest rain and we know its capable of winds in excess of 120 Miles Per Hour. This will approach the coastline this morning with devastating conditions and storm surge to the coast there. Now, locally, were dealing with our own rain not associated with matthew yet. Showers are streaming from the coast and the heaviest rain on the 95 corridor so lets check clayton, goldsboro, clinton, reporting 97 now. We had 50s yesterday. That was nice. 65 durh...