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Aftermath of Matthew - Food Banks in Need of Donations (Short term management)

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Aftermath of Matthew - Food Banks in Need of Donations (Short term management)

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Flooding in Haiti

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Haiti devastated by Hurricane Matthew - drone video

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Low-level aerial footage shows the extent of the damage caused by Hurricane Matthew in Haiti

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Very turbulent flight today into the eye of powerful Cat 4 #HurricaneMatthew on WP-3D Orion #NOAA43. Credit: CAPT Tim Gallagher/NOAA pic.twitter.com/8VJpKzs3mn
— NOAA Aircraft Operations Center (@NOAA_HurrHunter) October 7, 2016

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Hurricane Matthew from outer space.

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Hurricane Matthew: Nasa footage shows scale of storm - video

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View from the International Space Station of Hurricane Matthew as it passes through the Bahamas en route to the Florida coast

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Hurricane Matthew is seen in Nasa footage from the International Space Station as it approaches Florida. Footage shows some of the devastation in Haiti, where at least 330 people died when the storm hit on Tuesday. Cuba and the Bahamas also suffered damage to homes and infrastructure

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Hurricane Matthew is seen in Nasa footage from the International Space Station as it approaches Florida. Footage shows some of the devastation in Haiti, where at least 330 people died when the storm hit on Tuesday. Cuba and the Bahamas also suffered damage to homes and infrastructure

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Almost all flights, in and out of Orlando are cancelled and other Florida airports are facing severe disruption and cancellations. 07.10.16, 10:53am.

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#Matthew is moving toward the north-northwest near 13 mph, and this movement is expected to continue today.
— Rick Scott (@SenRickScott) October 7, 2016

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Hurricane Matthew, 07.10.16, 10:45am

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Haiti Damage

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The death toll in Haiti as a result of Hurricane Matthew - the most powerful Caribbean storm in a decade - has soared to more than 400, officials say.

Some 50 people were reported killed in the town of Roche-a-Bateau alone.

The nearby city of Jeremie saw 80% of its buildings levelled. In Sud province 30,000 homes were destroyed.

Category Three Matthew, with sustained winds of 120mph (193km/h), is battering the coastline of the US state of Florida but has not yet made landfall.

It remains unclear whether it will do so.

At 11:00 local time (15:00 GMT) Matthew was hugging the Florida coast, about 35 miles east of Daytona Beach and moving north-west at about 13mph, the National Hurricane Center said.

Senator Herve Fourcand from southern Haiti told AFP news agency that at least 400 people had died. Reuters news agency put the death toll at 478, quoting Haitian officials, but this has not been independently confirmed.

The World Food Programme's country director in Haiti, Carlos Veloso, has warned that it could take up to four or five days to get a clearer picture of the impact and death toll.

Mr Veloso told the BBC some aid had been brought into the country's south-western peninsula, where many of the deaths were reported, but the region remained largely cut off with access only possible by helicopter or sea.

After slicing through Haiti and Cuba, Hurricane Matthew pounded the Bahamas on Thursday but no fatalities were reported there. Four people died in the neighbouring Dominican Republic on Tuesday.

Most of the deaths in Haiti were in towns and fishing villages around the southern coast, with many killed by falling trees, flying debris and swollen rivers.

The storm passed directly through the Tiburon peninsula, driving the sea inland and flattening homes with winds of up to 230km/h (145mph) and torrential rain on Monday and Tuesday.

The collapse of an important bridge on Tuesday and flood waters are hampering rescue efforts in the region.

Non-governmental organisations said phone coverage and electricity were down and people were running out of food and water.

Les Cayes resident Jean Joseph described the scene in his town - one of the worst-hit - as "complete devastation".
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Across the country, there are some 350,000 in need of assistance, according to the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

A spokesperson for the American Red Cross, Suzy DeFrancis, said the first priority was to get phone networks across the country back up and running.

She said aid agencies were most concerned about a surge in cholera cases, with the sanitation system in Haiti already overwhelmed.

Haiti - one of the world's poorest countries - has never fully recovered from the earthquake that killed thousands of people in 2010 and the cholera epidemic that followed.

The Red Cross has launched an emergency appeal for $6.9m (£5.6m) "to provide medical, shelter, water and sanitation assistance to 50,000 people".

The US is sending nine military helicopters to help deliver food and water to the hardest-hit areas.

Storm surge fear

Meanwhile in the US, Hurricane Matthew has so far stayed off the coast but is just a few kilometres away, bringing with it strong winds and heavy rain.

President Barack Obama on Friday warned of the dangers of a storm surge, where a wave of seawater might wash over coastal communities along a 500-mile stretch from South Florida to Charleston, South Carolina.

A state of emergency is in place in several states and at least three million inhabitants have been ordered to evacuate their homes.

More than half a million homes have lost power in Florida.

Cape Canaveral - where Nasa's rocket launch facility is based - recorded a wind gust of 107mph, with reports of minor damage to the roof of the Kennedy Space Center.

Forecasters are warning the storm could dump up to 15in (38cm) of rain and cause a storm surge of 9ft or more in the state.

Orlando theme parks Walt Disney World, Universal Studios and SeaWorld are shut.

Why Haiti is vulnerable to disasters

More than half of Haiti's city-dwellers live in overcrowded shantytowns that take the full force of any earthquake, hurricane, or disease outbreak. An ongoing cholera epidemic, triggered by the arrival of UN troops after the 2010 earthquake, has killed thousands of people.
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Massive deforestation has also led to soil erosion, leaving hillside huts and poorly-built houses in the capital, Port-au-Prince, dangerously exposed. In rural areas, topsoil used for agriculture is often washed away.

Political instability and corruption have been a factor. Without effective government for decades, Haiti currently ranks 163rd out of the 188 countries on the UN Human Development Index. It spends little on storm defences.

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It took a few days for that system to organize as it moved westward in the Atlantic. About three days later, however, the system gained sufficient organization to be named Tropical Storm Matthew near the Windward Islands. Once Matthew reached the eastern Caribbean, it became a hurricane and rapidly intensified.

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The most powerful Caribbean hurricane in nearly a decade has left thousands of people displaced in Haiti, with rescuers struggling to reach the worst-hit areas.

Hurricane Matthew is said to have devastated parts of the country, where at least two people have died.

The storm has now moved off the north-eastern coast of Cuba towards Florida, where warnings are in place.

South Carolina is to start evacuating more than a million people.

Matthew, now a category three hurricane, is predicted to hit the US east coast later in the week.

The hurricane also hit Cuba, but early reports suggested it is impact was not as hard as in Haiti, where there were winds of 230km/h (145mph), heavy rain and dangerous storm surges.

At least 10,000 people were in shelters and there were reports of overcrowded hospitals suffering shortages of fresh water, Mourad Wahba, the UN special representative for Haiti, said.

The storm knocked down communications and blocked roads, hampering emergency efforts.

The collapse of a bridge cut off the only link between the capital, Port-au-Prince, and the southern part of the country, and officials admitted it would be difficult to reach the region.

Laura Sewel, an aid worker with Care Haiti, said: "The mobile network has also gone down. So what this means for us is that we're out of contact with our staff right now which is quite difficult and the bridge going down means it will be harder to move materials."

In the port town of Les Cayes, the situation was "catastrophic", with streets flooded and many houses without roofs, deputy mayor Marie Claudette Regis Delerme said. She herself had to flee a meeting when a gust ripped off the building's roof.

Images showed people walking in shoulder-high water, with relief workers saying that other coastal communities were also under water, including Les Anglais.

Fonie Pierre, director of Catholic Relief Services for Les Cayes, told AP: "Many people are now asking for help, but it's too late because there is no way to go evacuate them."

Heifer International, a non-profit organisation, said farmland and businesses caught in Matthew's path had been devastated.

Haiti is one of the world's poorest countries, with many residents living in flimsy housing in flood-prone areas.

The UN said the country was facing the "largest humanitarian event" since a huge earthquake in 2010.

More than four million children could be exposed to hurricane damage, Unicef said, warning of the spread of waterborne disease.

Interim President Jocelerme Privert said earlier that some people at sea or who had not "respected alerts" had died, but he gave no more details.

In the neighbouring Dominican Republic, at least four people were killed by collapsing walls and mudslides.

A hurricane alert was in place for five provinces of Cuba, with residents moved from low-lying areas. There were no immediate reports of serious damage.

Matthew is likely to remain a powerful hurricane until at least Thursday night as it sweeps through the Bahamas towards Florida and the Atlantic coast of the southern US, the National Hurricane Center said.

South-eastern Florida was under hurricane and tropical storm warnings, and South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley declared a state of emergency.

Hurricane Matthew is the region's most powerful since Felix in 2007.

Hurricane scales

Category one: sustained winds of 74-95mph (119-153 km/h); some damage and power cuts

Category two: winds of 96-110mph (154-177 km/h); extensive damage

Category three: winds of 111-129mph (178-208 km/h); well-built homes suffer major damage

Category four: winds of 130-156mph (209-251 km/h); severe damage to well-built homes, most trees snapped or uprooted

Category five: winds of 157 mph (252 km/h) or higher; high percentage of homes destroyed, area uninhabitable for weeks or months
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The most powerful Caribbean hurricane in nearly a decade has left thousands of people displaced in Haiti, with rescuers struggling to reach the worst-hit areas. Hurricane Matthew is said to have devastated parts of the country, where at least two people have died.