Hurricane Matthew Now Hitting Haiti
COSTELLO: All right, I want to take you briefly to the state of Florida now because the governor there, Rick Scott, is expected to hold a news conference at any moment now. He's going to talk about the hurricane that's now bearing down on Haiti. That hurricane could cross over eastern Cuba later today and then, of course, it could hit Florida, but we don't know quite yet. This is a very serious storm. It now has sustained winds of 145 mile per hour. It's the worst storm to hit Haiti in 52 years. So far it's killed three people there. Now, cruise ships are changing course and two U.S. governors are declaring states of emergency after the latest forecast show that storm shifting closer to the U.S. coast by the end of this week. This is what category four Matthew looked like from the International Space Station yesterday. Ominous, right? Meteorologist Chad Myers is keeping an eye on things this morning. Good morning, Chad.</s>CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Good morning, Carol. This 145 mile per hour storm slammed right into the southwestern peninsula of Haiti. Now, I suspect this storm has lost significant intensity, at least for now. Hurricane hunters are out there flying into it, but I think probably our advisory will be probably close to about 120 to 130 coming up here at 11:00. But what do we have here? This is what Haiti experienced earlier today. Gusts of 175 miles per hour. It's moving to the north at 9:00, moving away but making landfall at about 7:00 in the morning as a category four hurricane with higher gusts. The change from yesterday is that the storm has turned left. It's what we expected because the models in that 20 to 48 hour forecast, which is where they're the most accurate, was turning the model to the left, turning the storm to the left. And then now we have to wait for that turn back to the right. Notice what's happening up there, what could possibly happen is a U.S. landfall as a significant storm. How significant? Well, here it is making landfall here. This is how close a category three hurricane could be by Friday morning, or maybe -- I'd say call it Thursday midnight because that's 2:00 a.m. But a 120-mile-per-hour storm making an approach to the U.S. If it turns any farther to the left, the left side of the cone is all the way to Orlando or Tampa. If it turns right and away, then we get a big miss and just big waves. But, Carol, this is a storm to watch. This could be the first major landfall hurricane in a very long time for Florida, the Gulf Coast or anywhere in the</s>U.S. COSTELLO: All right, Chad Myers reporting for us. Thanks so much. Still to come in the NEWSROOM, grab your backpack. Tonight's political spotlight heads back to school. So what exactly do the VP hopefuls need to do to excite a student-filled crowd. We're talking the youth vote 101, next.