now, nbc news ron motte who is in daytona beach. ron, you're driving around daytona beach which is also, as i understand it, an area under mandatory evacuation. what are you seeing? >> reporter: well, we're just -- we decided to take a quick ride while we can still do this, chris, so we're on the main north/south drag for all the folkses who know daytona beach. this is the beach, just to our east by a half a block or so. this is what officials, if you take a look outside, this is what they want to see is very little to no traffic at this moment. we have seen a sporadic car or two pass us, and we do know that further down the road, there is a police officer stopping vehicles making sure that they know to get inside and that they're not out here joyriding trying to be a part of this storm. we can tell you that a lot of the businesses along atlantic avenue here have not boarded up and maybe they're taking a chance thinking that if this storm, if the eye of the storm stays to our east, and over the water, that we would have pretty much straightline winds from the north, maybe northeast

ron mott. he's in daytona beach, florida, for us right now. so what does it look like where you are, ron? >> reporter: athere, alex. good morning. you were just talking about the storm surge. that's the number one concern in this part of florida, all up and down the storm zone on the atlantic coast, because that is what usually is responsible for killing the most people in these hurricanes. we got a little bit of good news in that 11:00 update last night in that forecast track is calling for the eye, when it gets up near daytona beach to be a little further east over the atlantic ocean. so that should mean we don't see some of the strongest winds around the eyewall itself, 120, 130 miles per hour. we anticipate we'll see winds approaching 90, maybe even 100 miles per hour once the eye gets closer to this area. the bad news is the timing. this thing is moving forward at about 13 miles per hour. still about 150 or so miles away from daytona beach. so that puts us around high tide. the next high tide, 12:45 eastern time. that's when we could see the biggest threat of flooding at that h

. residents are fleeing the comfort of home for the safety of shelters or hotels. ron mott is up the coastline in daytona beach with more on the mad dash to get out of harm's way. >> reporter: moving out, heading in. for denise and thous neighbors, finding shelter from the storm was priority one today. >> i've never been through a hurricane. so this is all new. >> reporter: schools like this one, turned into safe havens for more than a million displaced floridians. >> i've had ten million calls from my son, so i'm really trying to get settled somewhere, so he knows that i'm safe. >> reporter: the mass exodus, perhaps the biggest evacuation in the state's history. city buses scrapped normal routes to transport people from the danger zones. long gas lines for those rolling out on their own.

, florth florida, and parts of southern south carolina. >> ron mott is in daytona beach where the impact of matthew is being felt. give us the latest there. >> well, good morning from a breezy daytona beach, florida. tonight, we have endured one band after another of increasingly nasty weather, and the worst is jet to come. now, we did get a little good news with the 11:00 eastern time update last night, which is forecast to push the eye a little further east once it gets into the daytona beach area. that's good news. that usually will mean we won't see the strongest winds around the circulation of matthew. the winds still will be strong. we're airporting upwards of 90, maybe 100 miles per hour sustained for a couple hours at least. the bad news is the eye is going to be in daytona beach right around the next high tide. that's expected to occur around 12:45 p.m. this afternoon, and that is when the biggest threat from any sort of storm surge and flooding is to occur. now. it's always the storm surge and the water that typically is responsible for a lot of the deaths we see in these hurri

you to ron motte who is in daytona beach. ron, what's the latest there? >> reporter: well, a breezy daytona beach florida, tonight. nasty weather and the worse is yet to come. now we did get a little bit of good news at 11:00 eastern time update last night which is forecasts to push the eye a little further east once it gets into daytona beach. usually means we won't see the strongest winds around the circulation of matthew. the winds will be strong. we are anticipating upwards of 90, maybe 100 miles per hour sustained for a couple hours at to be in daytona beach around the next high tide. that is expected to occur around 12:45 p.m. this afternoon and that is when the biggest threat from any sort of storm surge and flooding is going to occur. it's the storm surge in the water that typically is responsible for a lot of deaths we see in these hurricanes, not so much the wind. that's the hour we're going to be most alert here in the daytona beach area. the forecasts at surge and that almost certainly will push water into some of the homes and businesses along uthenland a mile hich runs

storm even if it doesn't make happenedfall. nbc's ron mott is there. what's the latest there? >> reporter: well, good morning from a breezy daytona beach, florida tonight. we have endured one band after another of increasingly nasty weather and the worst is yet to come. now, we did get a little good news with the 11:00 eastern update last night, which is forecast to push the eye a little further east once it gets into the daytona beach area. that is good news. >> won't see the strongest winds around the circulation of matthew. the winds still will be strong. we are anticipating upwards of 90, maybe 100 miles sustained for a couple hours at least t. bad news is the eye is going to be a beam daytona beach right around the next high tide. that is expected to occur right around 12:45 p.m. this afternoon. that is when the biggest threat from any storm surge and the water that typically is responsible for a lot of the deaths we see in these hurricanes. not so much the winds. so that is the hour people will be most alert here in the daytona beach area t. forecast at this hour is for

friday, let's send it up to you. >> nbc's ron mott, thank you. >> now, let's go to ft. lauderdale, florida, 11,000 residents are without power. beheard bonnie say there was no storm surge. not like northern florida. let's talk to nbc's blake mccoy. what can you tell us about how power? >> reporter: ayman, there is a sense this morning that ft. lauderdale really dodged a bullet with this storm. conditions have improved dramatically over the past few hours. overnight, we did see wind. we did see rain. nowhere near as 3w5 as expected. that's because this hurricane ended up staying 100 miles offshore as it patzed ft. lauderdale, which was further out than expected. we saw the outer bands come through in waves in the i don't have night s. at this point. 11,000 people are without power. you can see the lights on right now in ft. lauderdale. what we expect to see later this morning is a return to normal now this system has moved further up the coast. we can tell you that ft. lauderdale's airport, which had been closed down on thursday, plans to reopen this morning. miami's airport, we ex

walt disney world has had to close for the fourth time ever. nbc's ron mott is with us from daytona beach. ron, it looks like it's even stronger than the last time i checked with you. what can you tell us? >> reporter: good morning, ari. it's starting to get a little tougher to stand up right here, with tends with swirling the way it is, just outside our hotel. remarkably, the power is still on, at least in this part of daytona beach. we're crossing our fingers that we make it through the rest of the night, with the power not likely. once the winds pick up stronger, you'll see it flicker on and off. and while the wind is a problem, it's always the storm surge that are the potential deadly threat they bring. we're expecting 7 to 11 feet for storm surge. we got a little bit of good news. the eye, the projected forecast for the eye to be a little further out over the water. that's great news. the problem is, by the time the eye gets up here, it will be right around high tide. so it's going to be much higher and we an tess pate that water will find ways inland into the intercoastal wate

worst. let's go to daytona beach. that's where nbc's ron motte is in an suv on the roads there. ron, give us a sense of what's happening there. >> reporter: hey there, chris. well, we decided to get out here on the road just to see what we could see out here before this becomes impossible to do. this is the main north/south drag along the coast here in daytona beach, atlantic avenue. let me take you outside here. show you what we're seeing. this is a scene that officials want to see all night long, which is very little to no traffic out here. we have seen a couple cars go by us before we got on the air with you, chris. you see some flashing lights up there. there's a police officer sitting there in the middle of the intersection and is stopping cars making sure that people know where they're going and not just wandering around. because that is going to be a problem here in a couple, three hours when this business end of this storm bears down over daytona beach. we are anticipating getting quite a bit of storm surge here. could top ten feet. we'll see. if it does, that may threaten t

title drought. joining us from wrigley field in chicago, nbc news correspondent ron mott. ron, take it away. >> reporter: hey, mika. good morning to you. you know, if somebody were writing a novel about how the cubs got back to the world series, they would be hard pressed to match the excitement spread all around the city since saturday night. the celebration is well under way and the folks here don't want the party to stop. to say life has changed since chicago cubs fans had a world series to cheer is as obvious as the joy on display here. wedding vows and a photo shoot. a huge run on memorabilia. a nod and a wolf to the late legendary cubs announcer harry caray. so fans of other teams shouldn't balk at all the attention the cubs are getting. 1945, the cubs last appeared on the world series stage and failed to win it all. i'll say it, obama said, holy cow. even this white sox fan was happy to see wrigley rocking. >> they won't have to talk about the lovable losers anymore. >> it's so emotional. >> when the cubs were last baseball royalty back in 1908, tvs hadn't been invented. there w

since we saw you last. let's move over to daytona beach, florida, where we find ron mott in heavy wind and rain. >> reporter: good morning. we are in the midst of one of these outer bands. we still haven't seen the worst from hurricane matthew. that's still to come. we're getting beaten up here pretty good at this point by this wind and some rain as well. now last night about 11:00 with that last update overnight, we got a little bit of good news we thought in that the forecast tack for the eye was to take it further to the east. looking at the radar since it's still jogging our way too close for comfort. we'll have to wait and see if it will take an even harder turn to the right. what that will do for this community in daytona beach is keep winds down, but we still could see sustained 100-mile-an-hour winds here for several hours. that's the scary part about this storm. and then perhaps even scarier than that because the surge is always what tends to kill people in these hurricanes. we've got high tide coming at 12:45 eastern time. that's right around the time we expect the eye o

waited well over half a century to get another shot at the championship. ron mott is there today ahead all the pent-up excitement and nervousness. what can you tell us? >> hey, sheinelle. this is a big weekend in chicago. they waited a long time to get back to the world series. it was 1945 when they were last in the series. they did not win that series. the last time chicago cubs were world champions 108 years ago. look up here, that flagpole, they would like nothing better than to see a big "w" hanging from there tonight. if they don't win tonight, is there a chance they could do it tomorrow night in game seven. take a look at the scene earlier this morning. the ticket booths were open at about 9:00 this morning. there was a mad dash to get in line for just the chance to get tickets. that's how hot the tickets are in this town. these folks have stayed around the ballpark round the clock since thursday. talk about passionate fans. none better than here in chicago. the game is 7:00 local time, 8:00 eastern. folks don't want to jinx their chances here, but they think their number has com

number of disappointing close calls over the years, and ron mott is there with a great assignment, and all the penned up excitement. what are you doing to get the good assignments you have been getting because i am never getting those assignments? >> reporter: i don't know, and it has been a long time since they have been in the world series, and anything that can be crossed, your toes and fingers and hearts, the cubs are one win away from going to the world series. >> and a ground ball to short -- >> reporter: baseball is a game of numbers. three strikes you're out, and four balls, you are on and a stretch song in the seventh, but for the chicago cubs and their patient passionate fans, a single number comes to mind this weekend, one. win one more game and finally get back to the world series. and there's a mountain of anticipation and excitement. >> it just keeps building and building like an avalanche. >> i don't want to jinx it, and obviously a lot of us cubs fans are superstitious. >> a black cat kept the curse going in '69, and him, a fan interfered with a fly ball and turned the

series. nbc's ron mott is there for us in chicago. i'm guessing here, ron, it was a pretty understated response to that win, right? >> reporter: you know, it was a great night here in the city, and you mentioned 71 years richard. that gave the local newspaper editor some time to come up with a good headline when the cubs, if the cubs ever got back to the world series. take a look at the trib this morning. one for the ages. i think it's a brilliant headline. it sums up exactly how people here feel about their team. it's been so long for some of them that they don't really quite know what to do with themselves. you can see the words on the marquee, national league champions. that hasn't been up on that board since 1945, but they don't want to stop there. they want to put something across that famed marquee that has never before been seen up there, and that is world series champion. but there's one little problem. they have to get past the cleveland indians. take a look at this full screen here we have for you. this shows you how long it's been for both cities, both franchises

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the cubs fight to end a century-long championship drought. ron mott has the enviable assignment of hanging out in cleveland. how's it going, buddy? >> reporter: hey, tamron. i know you're a huge cubs fan. you have waited every day of your 29 years for this night. so your cubs are in the world series after a long time and the indian fans want to win this too. 68 years since they last won a championship. >> the cubs are going to the world series! the indians are going to the world series! >> reporter: two of baseball's punch lines, the chicago cubs and the cleveland indians ever the underdogs about to take the field. ready to take a swing at rewriting history. with the story of this world series is told, only one of them is guaranteed the last laugh. the indians last won the fall classic all the way back in 1948 coming close twice in the '90s but falling short both times. the cubs have waited nearly 40 years longer, more than a century, 108 years, if you're counting. their historic meeting that is created a fever pitch among die hard fans. >> i don't know how to describe it in words.

, however bad you think it is, it's worse than you think and it's longer than you think. ron motte, thank you very much. i'm joined on the phone by florida senator bill nelson who is in orlando after evacuating from broward kaye to the east. you've evacuated to a city that also has an evacuation warning. >> here in orlando there will be gusts up to 100 miles an hour. >> so you heeded the warnings, you evacuated. what are you seeing? are people doing that? do you feel as if, look, i am seeing it seems as if everybody is taking this as seriously as they should, that we're not seeing as many sort of, you know, idiot oz ts on the shores things like that. >> chuck, i think there will be people that will stay, and they do so at their peril as this monster moves up and tears up the coast. it's going to bring a wall of water 9 to 11 feet. if that happens at high tide, you get the picture, combined with 140-mile-an-hour winds, and there are going to be some people that are going to be in trouble because emergency operations can't get to them in the middle of the storm. but as it gets on toward jac

combined 176 years. so no matter what, somebody's drought is about to end. here's ron mott. >> reporter: call it the cleveland trifecta. an nba championship, the republican national convention, and now the world series. >> yeah! >> reporter: what a few months it's been. how do you top all this? >> i think the world is seeing cleveland in a different light. i think clevelanders have come to appreciate cleveland in a different light. >> reporter: the indians and visiting chicago cubs, baseball's cherished, shall we say, perennial "c" students, are chasing history, and it just may be what the doctor ordered for a nation going batty over divided politics. at 104, superfan emily serian, nana she's called here, has always appreciated her city and her beloved indians. which team is better, the '48 team or this year? >> this year. >> reporter: the country might find picking sides tough, but potential tv ratings gold. >> doesn't matter who you're rooting for, whether you're a cleveland fan, a chicago fan, or neither team, it's just fun. >> reporter: fans from each have sob stories of previous di

matthew's impact. residents are fleeing the comfort of home for the safety of shelters or hotels. nbc's ron mott is further up the coastline in daytona beach, with more on the mad dash to get out of harm's way. >> reporter: moving out, heading in. for denise and thousands of her neighbors, finding shelter from the storm was priority one today. >> i've never been through a hurricane. so this is all new. >> reporter: schools like this one, turned into safe havens for more than a million displaced floridians. >> i've had 10 million calls from my son, so i'm really trying to get settled somewhere, so he knows that i'm safe. >> reporter: the mass exodus, perhaps the biggest evacuation in the state's history. city buses scrapped normal routes to transport people from the danger zones. long gas lines for those rolling out on their own. >> this storm has everybody riled up. people afraid to lose their house. afraid to lose their cars. >> reporter: people from as far north as south carolina, chronicling the journey ahead on social media. bare necessities bagged and boxed up for whatever may come. mi

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world series they return after taking out the dodgers in game five. ron motte got the lucky ticket, and a long time coming, and what does it feel like out there? >> hey, there, ari, a long time coming indeed. that is why we are seeing all of the people. it is an incredible scene here, and people are streaming here all day with the cell phones and taking pictures and memorializing what we witnessed last night, because those three words back there on the marquee, the national league champions has not been up there since the end of world war ii. take a look at this. these are the numbers that the cubs are trying to erase, and start anew. 1945 on the right side there is the last time they appeared in the world series, an unfortunately they lost that year. 1908 was the last time that the chicago cubs won a world series. that is 108 years, but they believe that 108 is the actual lucky number this year. last night after the magical double play ended the game, sending the cubs into the world series, twitter exploded, and facebook and social media exploded. here is one that shows a picture that

if not higher. >> ron mott in daytona beach, thank you. bonnie schneider watching the storm from our weather center. can you get us up to speed where hurricane matthew is right now? >> i was just looking at where he was located at daytona beach. really as you look towards ft. pierce and melbourne, we're seeing some of the heavier bands come in. we have some reported gusts in the area as high as almost hurricane force. remember, hurricane force winds outside the band extend about 60 miles. so expecting those winds to continue to be strong as we go through. let's go ahead and we can show you that we're looking at the heavy rain bands working through melbourne and daytona beach. notice the bands are also working to spring hill and tampa. so getting rain across the west coast of florida. so we're watching that, as well. it's also interesting to note by the track. so here's the eye of the storm and the center of it where we have those concentric eyewalls i was speaking about earlier. two of them noted by hurricane hunter aircraft. so the storm may weaken a bit, because we are anticipa

and safety there. let's go on up the coast. ron mott remains in daytona beach. ron, i don't know if this revised forecast, which just -- it takes it away from you a little bit out to sea. and again, it's subject to the vagaries of a massive, sprawling category 4 storm. i don't know what it gets you, if it gets you anything at all, that's probably good news. >> reporter: yeah, indeed, brian. i think it's good news certainly for the daytona beach area. it seems that the eye is going to remain off the coast here over the water. that's good news. we've got a little bit of a band coming through now, probably colored green, maybe yellow. you can see the palm trees blowing toward the southwest. there's another crew that's shining light out ocean. you can see the whitecaps, brian, you can hear the ocean now. as you and bill were discussing, this is the surge that's going to be the real concern here, maybe we're going to get fortunate and not hit those 120, 125-mile-per-hour winds. we've got first high tide of the day coming up, 12:20 eastern time on friday morning. that's going to be the fi

we're still well away from that eye. >> thank you, ron mott out on daytona beach. >> and david, what can you tell us about what you're doing now and obviously all of our reporters have shown a lot of empty scenes. is it more preparation for tomorrow at this point? >> ari, right now we're about 70 miles south of where ron mott was here. we have about 10,000 people without power so far. we had evacuations that started at 3 p.m. yesterday and now we're facing the brunt of the hurricane. the eye is just off the eastern coast on the south part of the county we're in in brevard county, florida, a 73-mile-long county, where cape canaveral and co co beach located. most emergency service workers are off the road right now, that includes paramedics, firefighters and people who normally respond to an emergency say it's far too dangerous to be on the roads right now. the wind speeds are too dangerous when they get up to 50 miles per hour, those are speeds that can blow the ambulances and fire trucks off the road. they are on a very limited basis responded. we have had some residents sending mess

ron mott who says he is in no way in direct danger of this storm. how have conditions deteriorated since we spoke? >> reporter: well, we spoke about an hour ago, brian. things are, let me just say, a little more spirited out here. we getting obviously a lot more wind, because i don't have any hair, it's hard to be a good indicator for how windy it is right now. but you can see these palm trees behind me, they are all facing southwest at this point, because the windstorming in off the ocean. we can tell you, high tide, brian, next high tide is 12:20 a.m. so after midnight. the ocean is that way. we are flex to the pool here. i won't be surprised if at the end of all this, there may be a fish or two in this swimming pool. it's going to be a while before they're frolicking in the rivwa again. we still have power on this side of daytona beach. well, we just lost some light. we're not going to have power all night here in this area, brian. right now we are still powered up at the hotel. i can tell you, earlier, i talked about the mayor going around door to door by himself. i was surpris

want to take you to our own ron mott, who is there. >> well, good morning from daytona beach. we're really starting to get into the thick of this storm as hurricane matthew makes its way, the eye of that storm, makes its way toward daytona beach. the forecast is calling for it to remain offshore, which is obviously good news. the further offshore it goes, the better it is for this community. that will lessen the chance we'll see the stronger hurricane force winds swirling around the eye of that storm. the winds obviously can do property damage. that's a given. what is a big concern is the storm surge and the water coming off the ocean because 9 times out of 10 it's going to be the water that may cause a loss of life. now, at 12:45 precisely eastern time, that's the next high tide cycle in this area. we do expect to see some flooding take place. the question is, just how close that eye is because it's going to be right off our shore line here, maybe 40, 50 miles away, and it depends on how strongly those winds are blowing at that hour that will determine the actual storm surge. right