![]() “We figured you know, maybe later would be better. “There were quite a few lines earlier so we decided to come out a little later,” said Judy Karagiannes, fueling up. “sheltered in place,” meaning they were not moved outside the prisonĬBS News correspondent Manuel Bojorquez found so many people fueling up at a service station in Pembroke Pines, Florida on Tuesday night, a man was directing traffic to the pumps. MIAMI (CBSMiami) Matthew hasn’t stopped gaining strength and is now a Category 5 hurricane, making it the strongest hurricane in the Atlantic since Felix in 2007. Nicely” and should resume normal operations by noon Wednesday. Detainees The hurricane rolled across the sparsely populated tip of Cuba overnight, destroying dozens of homes in Cuba’s easternmost city, Baracoa, and leaving hundreds of others damaged.Ī Pentagon spokesperson told CBS News correspondent David Martin that the Navy base at Guantanamo Bay on Cuba’s eastern tip “weathered the storm government said it sent experts to Haiti to assess the damage and is providing $1.5 million in food and other disaster assistance. He called the hurricane the biggest humanitarian crisis in Haiti since the devastating earthquake of 2010. secretary-general’s deputy special representative for Haiti, said at least 10,000 people were in shelters and hospitals were overflowing. In the Caribbean, the extent of the damage is far from clear. Mourad Wahba, the U.N. Wednesday. She said evacuations in Georgetown and Horry counties will be on Thursday. Haley said the two counties - Charleston and Beaufort - will begin evacuating at 3 p.m. States of emergency have been declared across Florida, parts of Georgia and North Carolina and in all of South Carolina, where Gov.Nikki Haley is ordering more than a million people to move inland.Īt a press conference Wednesday, S.C. Governor Nikki Haley said 250,000 people were being ordered to evacuate two coastal counties, a figure not including the tourists there too. Gauging the impact in the vulnerable, flood-prone country where less powerful With 145 mph winds, and government leaders said they weren’t close to fully Rains and storm surge were hitting beginning to have an impact in the southern Bahamas on Wednesday afternoon.Ī day earlier, Matthew swept across a remote area of Haiti 5, 2016.įorecasters said Hurricane Matthew’s high winds, pounding An animation showing the cloud cover and rainfall for Hurricane Matthew in the early evening of Oct. Residents who live in mobile and manufactured homes also are being ordered to leave. “You better prepare yourself.”Ĭlasses along the entire Atlantic coastline of Florida have been canceled already. Officials in central Florida’s Brevard County have ordered residents on barrier islands and in flood-prone areas to evacuate in advance of the powerful hurricane. “During the storm we cannot put a first responder’s life at
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