TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (AP) Residents along Georgia's coast are keeping an eye on the weather as Hurricane Matthew moves northward toward the United States.
Tybee Island Mayor Jason Buelterman tells WTOC-TV (http://bit.ly/2dOffvZ ) that emergency management officials are telling local leaders the storm's projected path has shifted over the last 24 hours and could still move again.
But he says the message is clear that coastal Georgia needs to keep a close watch on the storm as it passes Haiti and heads north for the southeastern U.S. coast.
Officials are having regular conference calls about the hurricane, and Georgia's state emergency management agency says workers at its operations center are preparing for the storm.
"Our team is in place in several different operation centers across the Georgia coast," GEMA Director Jim Butterworth told the Georgia News Network.
The latest forecast from the National Hurricane Center has Matthew near the Georgia-South Carolina border by early Saturday.
AccessWDUN staff contributed to this report.
