Friday                                                      BIRDS OF A FEATHER

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Eye of the Storm

The first outer bands of rain from Hurricane Matthew pass over downtown Orlando, Fla., Thursday evening, Oct. 6, 2016.

                                                                                                                        (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP)

At Press Time: Deadly Hurricane Matthew Closes in on Florida

MIKE SCHNEIDER                140 mph Thursday, and 2       with rain and wind around      areas from its most punish-  which has about 1.1 million
KELLI KENNEDY                 million people across the     nightfall. He added: “I’m      ing effects.                 people, and then slowly
Associated Press              Southeast were warned to      going to pray for every-       “We were lucky this time,”   push north for the next 12
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.          flee inland. It was the most  body’s safety.”                Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos      hours along the Interstate
(AP) — Leaving more           powerful storm to threaten    As it moved north in the       Gimenez said.                95 corridor, through Cape
than 100 dead in its wake     the  U.S. Atlantic coast in   evening, Matthew stayed        The hurricane was instead    Canaveral and Jackson-
across the Caribbean, Hur-    more than a decade.           about 100 miles or more        expected to blow ashore —    ville, according to the Na-
ricane Matthew steamed        “This storm’s a monster,”     off South Florida, sparing     or come dangerously close    tional Hurricane Center.
toward Florida with poten-    Gov. Rick Scott warned as     the 4.4 million people in the  to doing so — early Friday
tially catastrophic winds of  it started lashing the state  Miami and Fort Lauderdale      north of West Palm Beach,          Continued on Page 3