Hurricane Matthew: Six more deaths in US

The storm was blamed for at least 10 deaths in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina.

It slammed into SC on Saturday, after skirting the Atlantic coast of Florida and Georgia, causing widespread power outages and flooding. He urged people to cooperate for prompt evacuation.

“Follow instructions of state, local and tribal officials, and make sure you’re taking steps to prepare your home, family or business”, Fugate said.

Hurricane Matthew was downgraded to a Category 1 storm before making landfall between Charleston and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on Saturday morning.

The National Weather Service in Charleston reported that an 84 miles per hour wind gust was reported on Hilton Head Island while a 94 miles per hour gust was reported on Tybee Island, Georgia early Saturday morning. And by that time, Matthew was just barely a hurricane, with winds of just 75 miles per hour. Lack of phone coverage and destroyed power lines are making the rescue operations more hard.

After slicing through Haiti and Cuba, Hurricane Matthew pounded the Bahamas on Thursday but no fatalities were reported there.

Some of the South’s most historic cities faced the weakening but still powerful Hurricane Matthew as it plowed north along the Atlantic coast, flooding towns and gouging out roads in its path.

He said that fatality count came from 12 districts in Jeremie, while no information was available from five other districts still cut off from communication. The entire house fell on us. She says those from unknown senders should be deleted. His young daughter stood by his side, crying “Mommy”. Food was scarce and at least seven people died of cholera, likely because of flood water mixing with sewage.

The Mesa Verde, a U.S. Navy amphibious transport dock ship, was heading for Haiti to support relief efforts.

Matthew damaged roofs at the Kennedy Space Center but spared Florida’s heavily populated south-central coast a direct hit.

“We are now beginning to see the full scale of the devastation wrought by the worst storm to hit this region in nearly a decade”, International Development Secretary Priti Patel said. Category 5 is the strongest. Its government has estimated at least 350,000 people need some kind of assistance in what is likely to be the country’s worst humanitarian crisis since the devastating quake of January 2010.

The hurricane left swaths of damage and millions of power outages along parts of the US Southeast from Florida to the Carolinas after a destructive trip through the Caribbean that took the lives of hundreds of people.

Governor Rick Scott of Florida said more than 6,000 people stayed in shelters on Friday night, but he appeared relieved at a news conference on Saturday the storm did not do more harm.

A hurricane warning has now been extended, and now includes the entire SC coast and into southern North Carolina, ending at Surf City, NC.

The St. Johns River in northeast Florida reached its highest level on record at Shands Bridge, along with 3 to 4.3 feet of storm surge inundation reported at the Racy Point, Red Bay Point and I-295 Bridge tide gauges, it added.

A homeless woman leaves her camp in Savannah, Georgia, after Hurricane Matthew caused flooding. Standing water closed both directions of Interstate 95 highway in Georgia. In South Carolina, the flooding could be the worst seen since 1989’s Hurricane Hugo in some locations, according to the National Weather Service.

At least four people have died in Florida, according to CNN. The waves had receded by early afternoon but there was damage throughout the city, including a facade ripped off the front of a seaside hotel.

Officials in the region said their biggest worry was a storm surge of as much as three metres of water that could be pushed onto land.