Some 3 million people on the US southeast coast faced urgent evacuation as monstrous Hurricane Matthew -- now blamed for more than 250 deaths in Haiti alone -- bore down for a direct hit on Florida.
Highways in Florida and neighboring states clogged up with people streaming inland to escape the storm.
President Barack Obama on Thursday declared a federal state of emergency in Florida as it braced for the ferocious Category Four hurricane.
Poor and vulnerable Haiti remained essentially cut in half two days after Matthew hit. Interior Minister Francois Anick Joseph said at least 108 Haitians have died, with 50 killed in a single town and reports of "complete destruction" in the island's south.
In its latest target, the storm slammed the Bahamas on Thursday.
According to the forecast track, the hurricane could make landfall on Friday in the United States near Cape Canaveral, where NASA's Kennedy Space Center is located.
As US gas stations ran dry, frantic shoppers flocked to stores for essentials.
Matthew regained power as it swirled toward the US coast, upgraded a notch to Category Four on Thursday by the National Hurricane Center on its 1-5 scale.
Highways in Florida and neighboring states clogged up with people streaming inland to escape the storm.
President Barack Obama on Thursday declared a federal state of emergency in Florida as it braced for the ferocious Category Four hurricane.
Poor and vulnerable Haiti remained essentially cut in half two days after Matthew hit. Interior Minister Francois Anick Joseph said at least 108 Haitians have died, with 50 killed in a single town and reports of "complete destruction" in the island's south.
In its latest target, the storm slammed the Bahamas on Thursday.
According to the forecast track, the hurricane could make landfall on Friday in the United States near Cape Canaveral, where NASA's Kennedy Space Center is located.
As US gas stations ran dry, frantic shoppers flocked to stores for essentials.
Matthew regained power as it swirled toward the US coast, upgraded a notch to Category Four on Thursday by the National Hurricane Center on its 1-5 scale.
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