Updated: 10:05 a.m.: Virginia officials are reporting one storm-related death after Hurricane Matthew. That brings the overall U.S. death toll from the storm to at least 21. Officials in Virginia say the driver of a pickup truck was killed when the truck rear-ended a tractor trailer stopped for a downed tree on Interstate 64 in […]

The storm was blamed for at least four deaths in the U.S., all in Florida. In its long wake, it also left at least 470 dead in Haiti in one hard-hit district alone, according to officials, with other stricken areas still unreachable four days after the disaster struck. Matthew raked the Georgia and South Carolina […]

Flooding plagues St. Augustine Updated 2:45 p.m.: St. Augustine, Florida, Mayor Nancy Shaver says the 451-year-old city is experiencing widespread flooding from Hurricane Matthew. The Category 3 storm battered the city much of Friday with waves and storm surge that could top 8 feet. In a telephone interview with The Associated Press, Shaver said the […]

Post by FB Newswire. Hurricane Matthew hammers Florida CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Hurricane Matthew spun dangerously close to Florida’s Atlantic coast Friday morning, scraping the shore with howling wind and heavy rain that left more than 476,000 without power. Locals, former locals brace for Hurricane Matthew Hunkering down, praying for the best The last time […]

The latest radar imagery of Matthew just before 4 PM. pic.twitter.com/skmQ7rRWro — NWS Gray (@NWSGray) October 6, 2016 Updated 1:50 p.m.: President Barack Obama has declared an emergency in the state of Florida and has ordered federal aid to supplement state, tribal, and local response efforts to Hurricane Matthew. Obama’s action authorizes the Department of Homeland […]

Updated 12:17 p.m.: The National Weather Service says the latest forecast for Hurricane Matthew has it traveling east of New England with little, if any, rain this weekend. Meteorologist Margaret Curtis says the projected track has changed in the last 24 hours, with the most likely scenario sending the storm and rain offshore. The region […]

The dangerous Category 4 storm made landfall around dawn on Haiti’s southern peninsula, where many people live along the coast in shacks of wood or simple concrete blocks that are ill-suited to the force of the system’s maximum sustained winds of 145 mph (230 kph). Matthew was causing major damage though the extent was not […]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Updated coverage on Hurricane Matthew (all times local): Updated 9 a.m.: The director of Haiti’s Civil Protection Agency says two fishermen have died in rough water churned up by the approaching Hurricane Matthew. Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste says a boat carrying one of the men capsized early Monday off the tiny fishing […]