Environment & Climate
Matthew's march through the Caribbean
Hurricane Matthew is one of the most powerful hurricanes in recent memory reaching a Category Four status with 145 mph maximum sustained winds. It struck southwest Haiti before passing over the eastern tip of Cuba and moving up through the Bahamas. Floridians are boarding up their homes for a possible direct hit on Thursday.
A satellite image of Hurricane Matthew sitting over the central Caribbean, located about 220 miles southeast of Kingston, Jamaica, at 9:15 am EDT on October 3, 2016.
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A woman with two of her children rest on the floor at the shelter set up in a school ahead of Hurricane Matthew in Les Cayes, Haiti, October 3, 2016.
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Residents engulfed by a river that burst its banks near Leogane on Haiti's southwestern peninsula
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A destroyed house and broken palms in the aftermath of Matthew at Canobert, Ile-a-Vache, an island of 10,000 residents off the south coast of Haiti.
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Weather Underground forecast warning cone for Matthew
The track of Hurricane Matthew threatens western Haiti and eastern Cuba, as well as the Bahamas. The risk is also growing for Florida and the Southeast United States.
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Florida residents boarded up on the eve of Matthew's arrival.
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Liz Tirado tries to put up her shutters to cover the windows of her store front ahead of Hurricane Matthew on Cocoa Beach, Florida on October 5, 2016. Hurricane Matthew, the Caribbean's worst storm in nearly a decade, barreled towards the Bahamas Wednesday morning after killing nine people and pummeling Haiti and Cuba. Far to the north, the first evacuations were ordered in the United States as coastal residents prepared to escape the approaching monster storm, expected off the East Coast later this week. / AFP / RHONA WISE (Photo credit should read RHONA WISE/AFP/Getty Images)
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On Monday afternoon winds from Hurricane Matthew began to whip up seas on Ile-a-Vache, a small island off the southwest coast of Haiti with about 10,000 residents.
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Man wheels a bicycle through flood waters in Les Cayes, southwest Haiti
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A woman protects herself from rain with an umbrella ahead of Hurricane Matthew in Les Cayes, Haiti, October 3, 2016. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares
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Residents work clearing a house destroyed by Hurricane Matthew in Les Cayes, Haiti, October 5, 2016.
Andrés Martínez Casares/ReutersA woman cries in the ruins of her house after the passage of Hurricane Matthew in Baracoa, Cuba.
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A woman walks on a highway blocked by rocks after the passage of hurricane Matthew on the coast of Guantanamo province, Cuba, October 5, 2016.
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