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Hurricane Matthew blamed for 4 US

deaths, sparks flash-flood fears


By Steve Almasy, Jason Hanna and Madison Park, CNN
Updated 2319 GMT (0719 HKT) October 7, 2016

Fox host: 'You and everyone you know are dead'


News reporter gets battered by hurricane winds
Hurricane Matthew reaches Florida's coast
Florida residents hunker down at local shelters
Hurricane Matthew leaves devastation, destruction
See Hurricane Matthew churn from space

Traffic builds as evacuations continue


Hurricane Matthew devastates Caribbean

Georgia, South Carolina bracing for hurricane's impact

Family watches storm hit home via surveillance video

Water, water everywhere in Florida

Reporting from the heart of the storm

Hurricane Matthew clobbers Florida's coast

Plane flies into eye of Hurricane Matthew


Obama: Hurricane still dangerous
Fox host: 'You and everyone you know are dead'
News reporter gets battered by hurricane winds
Hurricane Matthew reaches Florida's coast
Florida residents hunker down at local shelters
Hurricane Matthew leaves devastation, destruction
See Hurricane Matthew churn from space
Traffic builds as evacuations continue
Hurricane Matthew devastates Caribbean

Georgia, South Carolina bracing for hurricane's impact

Family watches storm hit home via surveillance video

Water, water everywhere in Florida

Reporting from the heart of the storm

Hurricane Matthew clobbers Florida's coast


Plane flies into eye of Hurricane Matthew
Obama: Hurricane still dangerous
Fox host: 'You and everyone you know are dead'
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Storm surge near Jacksonville reported at more than 4 feet

Death toll in Florida rises to four


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(CNN)Floridians along the Atlantic coast were coping Friday with rising water as
Hurricane Matthew drenched the state with rain and strong winds pushed waves over
beaches.
Meteorologists said storm surge had been measured at more than 4 feet in some
areas.
The storm, which is blamed for four deaths in Florida, sparked flash-flood concerns.
The National Weather Service issued a warning for parts of Nassau County, north of
Jacksonville.
"The combination of a dangerous storm surge, the tide and large and destructive
waves will cause normally dry areas near the coast to be flooded by rising waters
moving inland from the shoreline," the National Hurricane Center said.
After killing hundreds in Haiti and other Caribbean nations, Matthew's frightening
power led to the deaths of four people in Florida. The list included a woman in her 60s
in Volusia County (by a falling tree) and an 82-year-old man and a woman in St. Lucie
County, officials said. The latter two had medical emergencies and responders were
unable to reach them in time because of hazardous weather.
A woman in northeast Florida died after a tree fell on her camper trailer, the Putnam
County Sheriff's Office said.
The Category 2 hurricane, while losing some of its wind speed, has left more than 1
million people without power as it skirts the state's east coast, with the most damaging
blow possibly still to come.
"We are seeing impacts right now from St. Augustine to Jacksonville Beach.
Unfortunately, this is going to continue through the night," Gov. Rick Scott said.
Governors in North and South Carolina warned residents to get out in advance of the
storm, which could drop as much as 15 inches of rain.
Live updates on Hurricane Matthew
But it's not as if Matthew -- with winds of 110 mph at the center -- didn't cause any
damage with its powerful winds.
Parts of St. Augustine flooded even as the hurricane was still approaching. A virtual
river of water rushed past a bed and breakfast business in the city about 35 miles
southeast of Jacksonville, according to video posted by reporter Russell Colburn
of CNN affiliate WJAX.

Special concern surrounded Jacksonville's St. Johns River, which could be


overwhelmed by water pushed into it by the storm. The hurricane center said a tide
gauge reported storm surge of 4.28 feet.
What Florida looks like now
"Just because the center of circulation is offshore doesn't mean you can't be the center
of action (along the coast)," National Hurricane Center Director Rick Knabb said. "It's
going to get a lot worse before it (has) a chance of getting better."

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Here's what you need to know:


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As of 7 p.m. ET, Matthew's center was over the Atlantic, about 50 miles eastnortheast of Jacksonville Beach, the National Hurricane Center said. Hurricane-force
winds extended outward up to 60 miles from that center. It was moving north at 12
mph.

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Jacksonville could see storm surges of up to 9 feet Friday afternoon, forecasters said.
Anything over 3 feet in the city is life-threatening, Mayor Lenny Curry said.

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"Very dangerous conditions, and it's going to get worse into the afternoon," Curry
said.
A total of 1.1 million customers statewide were without power.

Photos: Hurricane Matthew hits US coast


Workers start removing umbrellas and the colorful rocking chairs that line the Cocoa
Beach Pier in Cocoa Beach, Florida, on October 5.
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People carry a coffin and try to cross the La Digue river on October 5 after a bridge
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People cross the La Digue river on October 5.
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Evacuees return to their homes in the Carbonera community of Guantanamo, Cuba,
on October 5.
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People embrace at their damaged home in Baracoa, Cuba. The hurricane rolled
across the sparsely populated tip of Cuba, destroying dozens of homes in the country's
easternmost city and leaving hundreds of others damaged.
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A woman cries amid the rubble of her home in Baracoa.
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Anthony Schirado, left, and Tom Kennedy put up plywood to cover the windows of a
storefront in Cocoa Beach on October 5.
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Bus drivers in North Charleston, South Carolina, wait for word to start evacuations.
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The high winds of Hurricane Matthew roar over Baracoa on Tuesday, October 4.
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Beth Johnson fills up her car at a gas station in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, on
October 4.
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The mother of two girls who died in the storm is comforted near her home in Santo
Domingo, Dominican Republic, on October 4. The girls were killed when a landslide
caused by flooding breached the walls of their house.
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A worker clears a sewer on a flooded street in Santo Domingo.
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Anita Baranyi feeds her baby while keeping an eye on the generator she intends to
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People wade through the flooded streets of Cite Soleil in the Haitian capital of Port-auPrince on October 4. Hurricane Matthew is the strongest storm to hit Haiti since 1964
and the first hurricane to make landfall in the country since the devastating earthquake
in 2010.
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People observe the flooding of a river near Port-au-Prince on October 4.
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Children swim in a flooded neighborhood of Santo Domingo on October 4.
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A truck used as public transportation drives through flooded streets in Port-au-Prince
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Hurricane winds blow against palm trees in Port-au-Prince.
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A food vendor lays out goods for sale during a light rain in Port-au-Prince on October
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Haitian civil protection workers arrive to evacuate the Tabarre region of Haiti on
October 3.
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Officials urge residents to evacuate their homes in the Grise River area of Tabarre on
October 3.
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Clouds loom over the hills of the Petionville suburb of Port-au-Prince on October 3.
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Families seek shelter from Hurricane Matthew at a university facility in Guantanamo,
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People near Kingston, Jamaica, take a photo in front of the rough surf produced by
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A backhoe removes garbage to clear a canal in Port-au-Prince on October 3.

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Nice Simon, the mayor of Tabarre, Haiti, holds a baby as she helps evacuate the area
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People stock up on food at a supermarket in Port-au-Prince on Sunday, October 2.
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A worker dismantles a traffic light in Santiago before Hurricane Matthew struck Cuba.
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Motorists drive through heavy rains in Kingston, Jamaica, on October 2.
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Residents of Cuba's Holguin Province line up to buy gas on October 2.
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Barbara Hearst tapes her storm shutters closed as Hurricane Matthew neared
Charleston, South Carolina, on Friday, October 7. The storm has left more than 1
million people without power as it moves up the East Coast.
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Adam and Alec Selent watch waves crash over a retainer wall at the Ocean Club
condominiums in Palms, South Carolina, on October 7.
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A police officer helps persuade a woman to board a bus and evacuate Savannah,
Georgia, on October 7.
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Preston Payne tires to hold his umbrella as Hurricane Matthew makes its way up the
East Coast, Friday, October 7 on Tybee Island, Georgia. Authorities warned that the
danger was far from over, with hundreds of miles of coastline in Florida, Georgia and
South Carolina still under threat of torrential rain and dangerous storm surges.
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Heavy waves pound boat docks in Cocoa Beach, Florida, on October 7.
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A women helps a dog walk through floodwaters in Port Orange, Florida, on October 7.
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Damage in Cocoa Beach.
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Waves crash against a bridge in St. Augustine, Florida.
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A car drives past a downed tree as the hurricane moves through Daytona Beach,
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A billboard canvas flaps in the wind after Hurricane Matthew passed North Palm
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A motel in southeast Florida is damaged on October 7.
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A woman inspects her damaged car under a tree in Fort Pierce, Florida, on October 7.
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A space shuttle model stands near some downed trees after Hurricane Matthew
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A home in Sebastian, Florida, is boarded up on October 7.
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A woman uses her phone under a battery-operated lantern at a hotel in Titusville,
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Palm trees on Cocoa Beach sway in the wind on October 7.
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Firefighters respond to a pre-dawn house fire in Satellite Beach, Florida, that was
possibly caused by a downed power line on October 7.
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Heavy rain billows in front of Exploration Tower in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on October
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People stand on a beach in Broward County, Florida, as the storm approached the
coast on Thursday, October 6.
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A police officer walks along the beach in Singer Island, Florida, on October 6.
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The first outer bands of rain from Hurricane Matthew pass over downtown Orlando on
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A lifeguard patrols the beach in Jacksonville, Florida, ahead of the storm on October 6.
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Kevin Forde and John Haughey put plywood on a Miami Beach window on October 6.
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Hurricane Matthew moves through Paradise Island in Nassau, Bahamas, on October
6. Capt. Stephen Russell, the head of the Bahamas National Emergency Management
Authority, said there were many downed trees and power lines but no reports of
casualties.
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People leave Disney's Magic Kingdom theme park, in heavy rain, after it closed in
Orlando, Florida in preparation for the landfall of Hurricane Matthew, on October 6.
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A man rakes up debris from a storm drain as he begins cleanup near a damaged gas
station in Nassau on October 6.
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Residents repair their homes in Les Cayes, Haiti, on October 6. The damage from
Hurricane Matthew was especially brutal in southern Haiti, where sustained winds of
130 mph punished the country.
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Girls hold hands as they help each other wade through a flooded street in Les Cayes
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Two days after the storm, authorities and aid workers in Haiti still lacked a clear picture
of what they fear is the country's biggest disaster in years.
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A supermarket shelf is nearly cleared out in Titusville, Florida, on Wednesday, October
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Bumper-to-bumper traffic lines Interstate 26 in Columbia, South Carolina, as people
drive west on October 5.
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Workers start removing umbrellas and the colorful rocking chairs that line the Cocoa
Beach Pier in Cocoa Beach, Florida, on October 5.
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People carry a coffin and try to cross the La Digue river on October 5 after a bridge
collapsed in Petit-Goave, Haiti.
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People cross the La Digue river on October 5.
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Evacuees return to their homes in the Carbonera community of Guantanamo, Cuba,
on October 5.
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People embrace at their damaged home in Baracoa, Cuba. The hurricane rolled
across the sparsely populated tip of Cuba, destroying dozens of homes in the country's
easternmost city and leaving hundreds of others damaged.
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A woman cries amid the rubble of her home in Baracoa.
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Anthony Schirado, left, and Tom Kennedy put up plywood to cover the windows of a
storefront in Cocoa Beach on October 5.
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Bus drivers in North Charleston, South Carolina, wait for word to start evacuations.
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The high winds of Hurricane Matthew roar over Baracoa on Tuesday, October 4.
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Beth Johnson fills up her car at a gas station in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, on
October 4.
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The mother of two girls who died in the storm is comforted near her home in Santo
Domingo, Dominican Republic, on October 4. The girls were killed when a landslide
caused by flooding breached the walls of their house.
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A worker clears a sewer on a flooded street in Santo Domingo.
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Anita Baranyi feeds her baby while keeping an eye on the generator she intends to
purchase from a home-improvement store in Oakland Park, Florida, on October 4.
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People wade through the flooded streets of Cite Soleil in the Haitian capital of Port-auPrince on October 4. Hurricane Matthew is the strongest storm to hit Haiti since 1964
and the first hurricane to make landfall in the country since the devastating earthquake
in 2010.
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People observe the flooding of a river near Port-au-Prince on October 4.
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Children swim in a flooded neighborhood of Santo Domingo on October 4.
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A truck used as public transportation drives through flooded streets in Port-au-Prince
on October 4.
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Hurricane winds blow against palm trees in Port-au-Prince.
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A food vendor lays out goods for sale during a light rain in Port-au-Prince on October
4.
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Haitian civil protection workers arrive to evacuate the Tabarre region of Haiti on
October 3.
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Officials urge residents to evacuate their homes in the Grise River area of Tabarre on
October 3.
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Clouds loom over the hills of the Petionville suburb of Port-au-Prince on October 3.

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Families seek shelter from Hurricane Matthew at a university facility in Guantanamo,
Cuba.
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People near Kingston, Jamaica, take a photo in front of the rough surf produced by
Hurricane Matthew on October 3.
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A backhoe removes garbage to clear a canal in Port-au-Prince on October 3.
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Nice Simon, the mayor of Tabarre, Haiti, holds a baby as she helps evacuate the area
along a river.
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People stock up on food at a supermarket in Port-au-Prince on Sunday, October 2.
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A worker dismantles a traffic light in Santiago before Hurricane Matthew struck Cuba.
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Motorists drive through heavy rains in Kingston, Jamaica, on October 2.
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Residents of Cuba's Holguin Province line up to buy gas on October 2.
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A worker nails a board to a storefront window in Kingston on Saturday, October 1.
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Barbara Hearst tapes her storm shutters closed as Hurricane Matthew neared
Charleston, South Carolina, on Friday, October 7. The storm has left more than 1
million people without power as it moves up the East Coast.

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Adam and Alec Selent watch waves crash over a retainer wall at the Ocean Club
condominiums in Palms, South Carolina, on October 7.
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A police officer helps persuade a woman to board a bus and evacuate Savannah,
Georgia, on October 7.
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Preston Payne tires to hold his umbrella as Hurricane Matthew makes its way up the
East Coast, Friday, October 7 on Tybee Island, Georgia. Authorities warned that the
danger was far from over, with hundreds of miles of coastline in Florida, Georgia and
South Carolina still under threat of torrential rain and dangerous storm surges.
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Heavy waves pound boat docks in Cocoa Beach, Florida, on October 7.
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A women helps a dog walk through floodwaters in Port Orange, Florida, on October 7.
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Damage in Cocoa Beach.
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Waves crash against a bridge in St. Augustine, Florida.
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A car drives past a downed tree as the hurricane moves through Daytona Beach,
Florida, on October 7.
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A billboard canvas flaps in the wind after Hurricane Matthew passed North Palm
Beach, Florida, on October 7.
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A motel in southeast Florida is damaged on October 7.
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A woman inspects her damaged car under a tree in Fort Pierce, Florida, on October 7.
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A space shuttle model stands near some downed trees after Hurricane Matthew
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A home in Sebastian, Florida, is boarded up on October 7.


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A woman uses her phone under a battery-operated lantern at a hotel in Titusville,
Florida, on October 7.
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Palm trees on Cocoa Beach sway in the wind on October 7.
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Firefighters respond to a pre-dawn house fire in Satellite Beach, Florida, that was
possibly caused by a downed power line on October 7.
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Heavy rain billows in front of Exploration Tower in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on October
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People stand on a beach in Broward County, Florida, as the storm approached the
coast on Thursday, October 6.
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A police officer walks along the beach in Singer Island, Florida, on October 6.
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The first outer bands of rain from Hurricane Matthew pass over downtown Orlando on
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A lifeguard patrols the beach in Jacksonville, Florida, ahead of the storm on October 6.
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Kevin Forde and John Haughey put plywood on a Miami Beach window on October 6.
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Hurricane Matthew moves through Paradise Island in Nassau, Bahamas, on October
6. Capt. Stephen Russell, the head of the Bahamas National Emergency Management
Authority, said there were many downed trees and power lines but no reports of
casualties.
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People leave Disney's Magic Kingdom theme park, in heavy rain, after it closed in
Orlando, Florida in preparation for the landfall of Hurricane Matthew, on October 6.
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A man rakes up debris from a storm drain as he begins cleanup near a damaged gas
station in Nassau on October 6.
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Residents repair their homes in Les Cayes, Haiti, on October 6. The damage from
Hurricane Matthew was especially brutal in southern Haiti, where sustained winds of
130 mph punished the country.
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Girls hold hands as they help each other wade through a flooded street in Les Cayes
on October 6.
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Two days after the storm, authorities and aid workers in Haiti still lacked a clear picture
of what they fear is the country's biggest disaster in years.
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A supermarket shelf is nearly cleared out in Titusville, Florida, on Wednesday, October
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Forecasters predict storm surges in coastal Georgia and South Carolina also could
be as high as 9 feet, and as many as 15 inches of rain could fall from central Florida to
North Carolina.
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The National Weather Service warned that some places hit by Matthew could
be uninhabitable for "weeks or months."

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The storm has killed at least 300 people in three Caribbean countries. The majority
died in Haiti, said Civil Protection Service spokesman Joseph Edgard Celestin.
Reports from the storm's path

'Really dangerous'
Though the storm hasn't made landfall, it left swaths of coastal Florida with downed
trees and power lines.
Matthew kicked up debris and street flooding in Daytona Beach late Friday morning.
Video recorded by journalist Robert Ray showed metallic, foil-like debris and other
small objects rolling down one of the streets in the city.

Debris flies through the streets of Daytona Beach.


Scott said officials are particularly concerned about low-lying areas in and around
Jacksonville, where there is potential for significant flooding.

Florida could get hit twice

Obama: Hurricane still dangerous 01:17


Major southern Florida population centers such as Miami and West Palm Beach
appeared to have avoided the worst of the storm, as the dangerous eyewall stayed
about 100 miles off the coast.

Florida power outages: More than 1 million in the dark

Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina


As northeastern Florida braced for impact, coastal communities in Georgia, South
Carolina and North Carolina also were on notice. The storm's center could be near or
over the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina on Saturday, the hurricane center said.
Georgia:
Glynn County officials wrote on Facebook that "Conditions have deteriorated to a
point that persons remaining in (the area near Brunswick) are advised to shelter in
place for the remainder of the storm."
Maj. Tommy Tillman of the Chatham County Sheriff's Office said the road to Tybee
Island is closed.

In Savannah, Mayor Eddie DeLoach warned those who stay that they'd be on their
own.
Gov. Nathan Deal has ordered evacuations for all counties east of Interstate 95. Deal
has activated 1,000 National Guard troops.
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South Carolina
Four counties and one city in South Carolina will be under nighttime curfews until
further notice, said state Emergency Management Division spokesman Derrec Becker.
Dorchester, Beaufort, Jasper and Williamsburg counties will be under curfew.
Charleston's curfew starts at midnight. The curfews end each morning, at different
times.
Gov. Nikki Haley warned residents who didn't evacuate to go to a shelter. A major
storm surge of 8 feet or more is approaching low-lying areas in the state, including
Charleston.
Although 310,000 people have evacuated the area, Haley says that's not enough.
Officials in some areas are going door to door, urging people to leave. Police in
Pawleys Island asked residents who decided to stay in spite of the evacuation orders
to sign a waiver and list their next of kin, according to CNN affiliate WBTW.
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North Carolina
Gov. Pat McCrory said the forecast had change, to North Carolina's detriment. "What
we feared is now happening in North Carolina. The (hurricane forecast) model has

changed dramatically," he said. "The immediate concern is life-threatening rain and


water (from storm surge)."

See Hurricane Matthew churn from space 00:45

Officials are concerned that eastern areas -- like Fayetteville, home to a large Army
base -- that were recently flooded will see more rain from Matthew.
CNN's Derek Van Dam, Eliott McLaughlin, Dave Hennen, Sheena Jones, Max Blau,
Holly Yan, Stephanie Elam, Catherine E. Shoichet, Rolando Zenteno, Keith Allen,
Shawn Nottingham, Alexander Leininger, Chandrika Narayan, Tony Marco, Deborah
Bloom, Devon M. Sayers, Nick Valencia, Sara Sidner, Jason Morris and Rosa Flores
contributed to this report.

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