Matthew has weakened slightly and is now a category 3. This was expecting since it was interacting with land masses.

Hurricane warnings are now up for parts of the Florida coast. Hurricane watches have been extended further north.

The latest forecast track has Matthew tracking close to the eastern Florida coast.

There has been a trend for the last 12 hours that is now taking the hurricane out to sea once it gets up to North Carolina. This is good news for the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast US. This is something that still needs to be watched carefully and tracked. We will still see some rain later Saturday into Sunday morning. This will be from the approaching cold front and at this time does not appear to link up with Matthew.