Hurricane Matthew brought consistent winds of up to 145 mph making landfall in Tiburon Peninsula in Haiti at 7 a.m. on Tuesday.
According to the Colorado State University, this is the first major category hurricane to hit the impoverish island nation in 50 years, with the last being Hurricane Inez in 1965.
So far, there were seven recorded fatalities over the past few days as Hurricane Matthew rumbled through the Caribbean including four in the Dominican Republic, one in Haiti, one in St. Vincent, one in Grenadines and one in Colombia.
By 11 a.m. Hurricane Matthew was spotted about 35 miles north to northeast of the Tiburon region over the Gulf of Gonave. The hurricane center reported that the storm was moving north at about 10 mph and is expected to hit the eastern part of Cuba later Tuesday or early Wednesday.
At least six people are feared dead with one man who died as a wave crashed through his home in the small ocean side town of Port Salut.
The man was said to have been too sick to leave his house and head to a shelter. A fisherman is also feared dead as his whereabouts is unknown.
"It's much too early to know how bad things are, but we do know there are a lot of houses that have been destroyed or damaged in the south," Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste, director of the country's Civil Protection Agency, told the AP.
"The situation in the south of Haiti is very difficult," Prospery Raymond, country manager for the international charity Christian Aid, said, "Members of staff have had the roofs of their family homes blown away and churches and schools have been hit too."
Hurricane Matthew couldn't have it at a worst time, since the nation is still on its path to recovery after an earthquake hit in 2010 which killed over 200,000. Thousands of Haitians are still living in shelters after the earthquake.
