of course, the tampa bay rays. it was all supposed to be a shelter for first responders. one reporter was actually there as the roof was ripped apart something unbelievable to show you, this is tropicana field the roof, a big portion of it has ripped off. we are looking inside tropicana field we are seeing extreme damage to try. we had actually there was a report we saw in line earlier of a fire and we were waiting to confirm that and now we just made it up to the fifth floor. the hotel we are in and just i mean it's hard to believe what we're looking at it really is, i mean, hurricane milton is now a category two storm with winds of 100 miles per hour. it made landfall just south of sarasota around 8:30 p.m. eastern as a category three hurricane at that time with 120 mile per hour winds those those extreme winds toppling a crane and st.

petersburg, florida, that large crane clipping a building. and now laying across the street so far, thankfully, there are no reports of any injuries, but the wind is only one of several major threats from milton. the storm surge and heavy rain could potentially fuel catastrophic flooding some parts of the coast are bracing for a surge as high as 13 feet. >> and milton, the spawning more than a dozen tornadoes all across the state have already learned that several people have been killed by tornadoes in st. lucie county, florida that's on the east side of the state. >> mind you that gives you example of just how powerful this hurricane really is. cnn's team of reporters, of meteorologists are all covering every angle of this storm all night long. i wanna start with cnn's victor blackwell, who is in orlando, florida victor, the center of milton is mirroring you as we speak right now. what are you experiencing down there

yeah. >> laura the winds have really picked up what were the gusts? maybe an hour or 90 minutes ago. and now this sustained winds are sustained around 40 miles an hour. we recently saw a gust to the airport about 74 miles an hour or so the worst of what is coming from milton is coming here to orlando. power outages are going up as those winds pick up as well. about 65,000 customers out here in orlando and east toward the coast and this really for orlando is not a story about intensity. it's more longevity. the hours and hours of rain here, the concern is about the localized flooding, much like what this area saw from hurricane ian in 2022. i checked in with local officials and they've now pulled there officers and fire rescue off the roads and just the last 45 minutes because of this

sustained winds at about 40 miles per hour is just not safe for them to go out. but they are anticipating in many areas, the flooding around lake davis there, the flooding around some of the retention ponds and lakes around send me as well. i'm not far. the orlando parks and like brian is nearby. so they're concerns about the flooding here, but as the winds pick up, those trees will come down and give you a look, maybe you can see the wind and this rain that's now coming horizontal at some points because of the tensity. we checked in on shelters. they're getting us a shelter report across the county that's been opened. but the rain really here is the concern, the storm surge at the coast, but the amount of water that's coming in and officials have been out, the crew's of been out trying to clear the drains so that the stormwater control systems can accommodate it, but they know what up to 15 inches of rain forecast over the next several hours that they will be

overwhelmed our weather center tells us that about three inches has fallen so far, but this is just the beginning of what's coming to orlando. so the dog that pit the coast is now bark it's central florida. of course, will be here throughout the night. laura, it's unbelievable to think about just the sheer scope and breadth of this particular storm. >> and you can't think about our land, what that thinking about the pox, as you mentioned, i know they were closing some today in anticipation of this very moment. i'm seeing some power around you, but 2 million people fall in florida are without, are you seeing power outages where you are you learning of any injuries or damage is right. the area right now so let's start >> so the orlando utilities commission, which covers most of metro atlanta, their reporting about 25,000 outages. duke energy that covers much of orange county and the county's headed to the east coast. there reporting in this area about 40,000 customers without power.

now, as it relates to those people who are coming here for the parks, i spoke with a family that came all the way from the uk to be here to go to magic kingdom universal. they got one day of parks in, but of course they were closed on wednesday at about 1:00 in the afternoon. so they weren't able to go out and enjoy the rest of the time, but the hotel where i'm staying is really a mix of those who are trying to get out or hope to get out ahead of the storm's because you know, that family from the uk, they've never experienced a hurricane. so they wanted to get away from the rain and then you have those southwest coastal families who were in the zone, a evacuation areas who came here to get away from the coast. they've evacuated to this area. so some interesting conversations of people being grateful that they are where they are and people who are trying to get away from where they are here this hotel, the rain is actually tested. this hotel roof is leaking in a few places that consistency of this heavy rain is testing this

building especially, but as it relates to power outages several thousand out the expectation is that it could be much worse over the next few hours, but the safety crews, the police, the fire, they're not going to get a look at really how bad is going to be until first light in the morning. and especially when those winds died down victor blackwell, please stay safe. we know that this might be a long one this evening. we'll continue to come back to you. stay safe. my friend, we've got cnn's randi kaye, who is in sarasota, florida randi, what are you experiencing where you are? >> we are, still laura experiencing plenty of rain certainly less than what we were experiencing earlier in the evening and earlier in the day. >> still some wind as well earlier we had about 102 miles per hour at sarasota airport, which were not very far from but we've been up doing a live shot that's since 7:00 a.m. this morning and we've sort of experienced what i would call the many moods of hurricane

milton. >> we had some rain earlier this morning, then it turned into a heavy rains and then very, very heavy winds, strong winds, and then we were in a very tranquil state is the eye passed over us and we saw that the frog started coming out the birds were out again. and then after we got through the backend of the ai, we started getting these gusts of winds again and that's when we had that 102 miles for hour at the airport, but we have seen plenty of damage here around the neighborhood that we're in. it's a completely evacuated neighborhood, laura. we haven't seen a soul here and it's it's really pitch-black we lost power several hours ago. in fact, were just running their lights now on battery power. but you can see some of the damage here. this fence was separating the two property lines and that came down when we are seeing the worst of the winds and then it was actually lifted up and now it's broken into some pieces here. and i'm not sure if you can see that white cloth

back there, but that was sort of a covering for what seemed like a little patio area they are dining area and when before the eye came through, it was it was just whizzing like crazy with the winds. it was going that way. and then after i the change, the wind change direction, everything started blowing that way. so that's why you see it going that way. but but again, like many these areas, laura, we won't know how bad the damages until tomorrow morning until daylight or until this morning, i should say until daylight because we are about a half-mile from sarasota bay. so we just have to see how bad the storm surge where they were expecting about nine to 13 but storm surge with hurricane helene just a couple of weeks ago was a seven-foot storm surge and we saw the amount of damage that did so it'll be very interesting to see once we get some daylight and we can go survey the damage just how bad it is possibly here in downtown sara so laura, just those numbers though, nine

to 13 feet compared to what we saw just less than two weeks ago. are you seeing a great deal of flooding right now where you are? i know the power is out in light of day. will bring much more information, but how extensive has the flooding and the power outages ben where you are? >> yeah. well, it's like i said, we haven't seen any lights on around this neighborhood at all so i'm guessing that there's a fair amount of power outages here we do have some power lines that are that are down. but as i said, the powers out, so we're not especially concerned about those, but when earlier when we were a little bit further away down the driveway here the water in the road had actually started to really come up. i mean, when it was it was it was up to my shin areas, so there was some minor flooding, i would say in the streets here, certainly more than they would like to see, more than they're used to. but then the question is we are at a higher elevation in evacuation zone d, which was not required to evacuate. so

you have a, b, and c ahead of us, which are much closer to the bay. so we'll have to see exactly how bad it was for them once the daylight i comes waiting for that moment. randi kaye, thank you so much. i want to go to cnn's bill weir. he is in st. petersburg, florida. bill, you're actually buy tropicana field. >> what are you seeing? >> yeah, we're just getting a glimpse of that teflon roof that's been just completely shredded by hurricane milton the devil rays, sorry, double race fans don't play october baseball and not good enough this year for sure. so the much more painful part of this is that this stadium was going to be a staging ground for first responders and maybe a shelter for those who need it. there's 10,000 cots in tropicana field that were ready there. what now? not shelter at all, as you can see, the storm is taking a toll also on the water infrastructure of st.

petersburg. we got word that there's been a water main break and the city is shutting down main water service to sort that out, that probably means boiling water for folks who don't have enough bottled on hand right now. so that's one more headache as a result of this storm. and like other folks, anderson has been commenting on this, it is cold. there's this cold front that came down. chad myers was explaining now, normally were sweating. you don't have to worry about kill when you're when you're soaked covering a hurricane like this. >> but this is just add it's all the more discomfort for folks who don't have a roof for no shelter after helene maybe took it away from them as well. but here you go. >> it's really stunning there it is. it looks like it's like chad was explaining the wind just got under there and then once it's once one piece starts ripon and those 100 mile an hour winds are tearing at it

no match for hurricane milton stadium roof like that one law it's unbelievable. >> and of course, then tells you the next time and obviously we continue to see hurricanes in this world that the new plans for this being a safe location are no more. i mean, thousands of cots that were supposed to be set up to be providing shelter and comfort. a city so now planned for the possibility that that no longer can be a contingency plan >> and of course, you there are shades of the superdome in katrina, which was a much more disastrous outcome that so many man-made failings in that storm. it. but a lot of lessons learned and a lot of disaster response textbooks were written around that storm and how you plan going forward and stadiums are great places. they can be fantastic tools in a storm like this. but there's one more

sort of example that this is not our father's storm anymore on this overheating planet supercharge storms. we have to rethink the way we build cities, way we build stadiums and obviously the way we respond to these disasters when they come bell, you also an hour ago, we're talking about a crane that went down in a different area of the city. and we have seen no reports of injuries, but i mean, this is a construction crane going into a site of another building. this is substantial. tell me what you were seeing at that time? >> yeah, there are some real wreckage less than a mile from here towards downtown there as well. there's for these big cranes, there were enough of a concern to the city that they put something out on their website. they put out a release it said be aware of this it takes weeks to discuss humble these big tower 30-40 story cranes. so much like the cleanup after helene not enough

time between storms, even think about that and some of those worries were confirmed when one of those cranes came down across the street, smashed into a building across apparently there are no injuries, thankfully but that is more time for the city to have to clean up its more money involved. >> and could just be that the tip of it damage iceberg on this storm statewide. and this is a time laura to win the state is roiling with an insurance crisis a number of smaller insurance have gone out of business in the last couple of years because the storm's of judges too many, too many claims. the lat, the insurance of last resort in the state of florida is over we're taxed and legislators have been wrestling with that. so again, these or we don't really connect our health wealth, and happiness to a planet in balance, we take all of those things for granted until something like this. but it

comes along and upset so many lives where thank you so much. please stay with us and stay safe. my friend, i want to go to cnn's brian todd who is in tampa. brian, tell me what you're seeing. i know for a while there was all these transformers that are happening and obviously a loss of more than 2 million people with power, without power, what are you? right now in tampa, which they thought would get the worst of it really did seem to be getting the worst of it. >> we were just getting hammered really slammed with wind and rain. it was relentless for several hours. it was really i think the longest i my team and i have endured in a lot of years of covering these types of storms. it was just relentless for several hours. finally, finally, in the 1:00 a.m. eastern time hour, we seem to be getting a little bit of a break here. i'm still getting tougher so it was some wind and rain, it has died down just a little bit. but still, look, this is these are some of the more dangerous times in the course of the you know, whereas

when a storm moves through an area like this because people start to take for granted that, okay. maybe if it's moved away, i can go outside where you really cannot venture outside. because down power lines can affect you that there's still very dangerous to come across. also, the power outages are affecting different things. we have 400,000 customers burns in hillsborough county without power at this hour and the utility tampa bay water is now telling us that that has affected water use because some water service facilities and water treatment facilities are without power, so they are asking customers to limit their water use in pinellas pascoe in hillsborough county's until they can get some of these water services back online with power. they're working on it. they hope to be able to get that back up online in the next few hours. but again, just because the storm, the brunt of it has moved through here does not mean this area is out of danger yet. and one of the things we can talk

about also is the reverse storm surge that has taken place in tampa bay is just a few blocks from where i am. we got some video of that a really extraordinary event where it looked we're basically most of the water was pushed out of tampa bay. we've got some video our colleague duger mcconnell, we pulled up our team, pulled up near tampa bay, but at that our that we did that the wind and the rain, we're just so relentless in the flooding was so bad that we could not pull up right to the railing so dougl, my colleague dougl mcconnell, venture to the railing real risk to his own safety. got some video of that reverse storm surge in tampa bay, the water completely pushed out of the bay. it looked like a dry riverbed in there which is really rare and very extraordinary. when reverse storm surge happens, it's just what the name says. the water is pushed out of the bay and then hours later the water is being pushed back into the day. i'm not sure if that's actually happening now, but it will be happening very soon. if it hasn't happened yet. >> so when it pushes back into the bay, you're going to get some more storm surge, although it should not reach dangerous

levels when that happens also, we got our team witnessed several transformers blowing. >> these things just kind of arc doubt sparks flew and then you heard booms, you saw kind of like red, a blue flashes of light in the air looking like blue lightning that happened repeatedly where we are and that proceeded the power going out on this block and throughout this section of tampa. so very dramatic and dangerous evening in a lot of respects, laura and again, i can't emphasize enough, just because maybe the brunt of the storm has passed. and as you can see, i'm getting hit with another burst of it right now. another burst of wind and rain so again it still not over here in tampa. i saw i saw our colleague victor reporting there from orlando where they're getting pretty nasty burst of this thing, but it is not done here. and people should not be venturing out. >> laura, brian, todd. thank you so much. i want to get right to cnn's meteorologist, chad myers, because chad, we're seeing this ebb and flow of this storm. it's now a

category one. but as you've heard from all of our correspondents across florida, they're getting different versions of this same storm. what can you tell us? >> i can tell you that a category one with 90 mile per hour sustained can still have august to 100, 105. it just does so, yes. this is the problem we've had really from north to south, venice, your biggest problem is that you're wind was from the west. that west wind was pushing the surge to you we know there's flooding in venice. we know there's flooding and naples we know there's flooding in punta gorda and all the way up toward port charlotte. we know there's water that shouldn't be where it is. and then if you get down to the other side where the wind was blowing offshore, tampa, that's why you blew all the water out of tampa bay, just like brian todd was talking about. but in the meantime, it was reigning. and in st. petersburg, they picked up 16 inches of rain today alone, up toward lakeland, more than ten inches of rain has already fallen. and look at

this stripe of purple. i want you to notice that the purple is ten inches of rain or more there's orlando, maybe orlando executive right there all the way back to tampa. now, if we ever get a white part in there, that will be 20 inches of rain or more, just in 24 hours so far so good on that. but i mean, you know, i mean ten to 12 is plenty and the problem is, it's not ten to 12 in a neighborhood that it can run off its ten the 12 over an entire county. where is it going to go? just to the low spots. and that's where the problem is, and that's why we have those flash flood emergency is going on right now. the heaviest rain is according toward orlando, toward daytona toward new smyrna beach. that's where most of the heaviest rain is why we still have wind in tampa is because this is the backside of what was the secondary i big storms like this can have more than one eyewall. and when the inner one gets so small that the outer one takes over, you get an eyewall replacement

cycle and the whole storm kind of goes down in wind speed. well, this is one of the outer bands. this is still coming in, bringing wind speeds in the 60 to 70 mile per hour range. when this comes in and actually turns a little bit farther toward from the west to the east. that's when the water is going to blow back into tampa bay. you don't want to be down there authorities have already said, please don't go down there. do not go in just because it's drying out, it won't be dry for long. yes, it is now a 90 mile-per-hour storm, but it's still holds an awful lot of power. this is still going to be a hurricane when it exits the east coast and gets back into the atlantic ocean. that's how strong this storm was. it made it all the way across the land and, didn't die enough to just be a tropical storm chad myers, thank you. >> we're watching this so closely. i know we can rely on you as well next, we'll speak to the mayor of hard hit fort myers. and how his city is handling this devastating storm we're back in a moment

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we're also seeing the water has come in from the river mayor, our correspondent, carlos suarez, is in fort myers and said a couple of hours ago that the flooding the flooding was the worst that he had seen all night. do you have a sense of what it's like right now in terms of the flooding and potential damage i was out there about two hours ago and it wasn't it was a little bit worse than helene, but it wasn't quite as bad as ian so i'm estimating that probably down along the river about three feet. and as you gave away from the river, die style that is significant just as you mentioned, hurricane helene, even two weeks ago right now, a town has to brace for now both and tornadoes. >> i understand. what about the tornadoes? i think that some have touched down in fort myers yes, i believe we have the least two of them touchdown one

of them took some pool and closures and street lights and trees the other one, rip the covering of the gas pumps at my goodness, they gained back there. we're seeing images right now of fort myers while you and i were talking in the strength of that wind is unbelievable. you mentioned that what you're seeing now was perhaps not as bad as helene will worse than helene, but not as bad as in those two reference points are very significant. how is what you're saying right now? appearing to what we witnessed in helene just a few weeks ago well, like i said, we've got to stronger winds and a little bit more water the good thing about this storm is that our downtown businesses prepared for it. >> they didn't prepare for helene or en. but this time they did likely because that happened just one that we're happy if you could find a silver lining and preparedness. >> but the tornadoes at a whole

different level. i mean, tornado warnings must impact our response to the hurricane. how does it make the response more challenging for your community well, first of all, we were concerned about the debris to get some crews out there and get most of it picked up you know, the thing with the tornado was because it's so unexpected in its people can't plan for that speaking of the. >> plan, i mean, just a remind our audience how challenging the recovery had been even from hurricane ian, let alone now to back-to-back hurricanes can't get used to it, i should say. >> right now that are just waiting for the storm to pass so they can get out their star clearing the roads and are

response, teams can get out there and start the hanlon, the calls for service mayor kevin anderson. >> thank you so much for joining us were thinking about your community and hoping that the light of day does, not bring the destruction anticipated. thank you so much thank you i do want to bring in the mayor of gulfport, florida, sam henderson is with us now. mayor, who have you on the line? tell us what's happening in gulfport. what have you been experiencing in your community tonight? >> will these are definitely the most significant wins that i've seen since, since i've been in florida and folks, i've talked to the width here their whole lives saying similar things. so this is just shows you the real difference you can have from storm to storm. whereas with helene, we had incredible storm surge, but not so much in terms of wind and rain. this one was an incredible amount of wind and rain and we're going to take us till the light of day to fully assess. but but we think

at this point, much less storm surge than what we saw with helene. but again, that's going to that's going to require us assessing that at dawn. >> mayor, are you hearing about any emergency calls yeah, for sure. >> we always have them. i mean, no matter no matter what, but weather event we have where there's going to be some we don't have any specifics on those yet, but of course our guys and ladies and gentlemen of our emergency response have been out all night taking care of those things. there's vast majority of pinellas counties without power there was a water main break and so most of south so good chunk south vanilla's is without water at this point but the worst of it has passed us by. the windsor subsiding are still getting a substantial cuts but we're starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel so many people in your community had lost so much just from hurricane helene just really in this moment days ago, less than two weeks, do you think most of the residents in your city evacuated? yes. and

honestly, you heard the form or the mayor of fort myers talking about that as well? i think the fact that we had debbie and then fairly close on the heels of debby, we had helene i think that was a real wakeup call for a lot of people. and so i think this time we've had a pretty significant change in the response of people people eating those evacuations and getting out of the way, which is which is hugely helpful for us because of course you don't want to send emergency responders into dangerous situations because someone made a poor choice so i'm i'm i'm expecting to hear that that we did pretty well when we finally get in in the morning and are able to assess everything and go the statistics of the storm now, mayor, you also teach courses at on the environment at the university of south florida, st petersburg. >> and you just mentioned consecutive storms. what do you think people ought to know about the frequency of what's happening now? >> i think it's going to be in

disarray, gets thrown around a lot, but it's going to be the new normal where we're seeing some very different trends. i mean, it's you haven't won come across the entire gulf moving from west to east through the gulf of mexico is fairly unusual. the fact that we see them intensify so rapidly fact that they've started to move relatively slowly this in conjunction with the fact that we're seeing rising sea levels and more intense coastal flooding even with just regular precipitation events. i think is really kind of telling of what we should expect from here to asheville. i think helene was a great lesson and what we can come to expect as a normal, as opposed to what mayor sam henderson. thank you so much. we hope the light of day will reveal less distraction than anticipated. thank you so much. milton. in just a moment

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lumi do.com it's all part of the total story about a family dealing with devastating sometimes things happen for a reason and your job is to discover the reason matt the christopher reeve story get jake, it's now up to 13 we're following hurricane milton now a category one storm making its way across florida after slamming into the state's west coast a few hours ago, i would have the right to victor blackwell, who has been an orlando, florida victor and the storm is now passing right over you. >> how is it where you are we have just a moment and just as i said, that that there was a moment of a break from the wins and picked up and the rain is coming back a little heavier and that's what it's been since i spoke with you about 30 minutes ago, there moments the heavy downpours and stronger wind gusts, and then it dies off for just a few moments.

>> that's just kind of the pattern of a hurricane in these types of storms. what's remarkable is that milton has kept this strength of being a hurricane or dropped, although dropped a couple of categories as it is across the state and again, the story here is not the intensity from moment to moment. it's that since i've been here, at least now reporting on this very early this morning, there's been a consistent rain 12 hours ago, there was a flood warning and there was just another one issued. so the saturated ground that we were seeing and experiencing in the morning hours in the very early afternoon hours when you bring on the 12 or more hours that with the storm as it came ashore. now we're seeing the flooding. now we're seeing some of those localized concerns around bodies of water. i checked in with orange county and osceola county, which is right to the south where kissimmee is? and their

shelters, they're in osceola our capacity. and those are not major concerns about winds are falling trees. it's being around those bodies of water, those canals, the retention ponds, the creeks that overflow what they saw on ian in 2022, you know, it's been 20 years since it's those four storms came through florida in six weeks charlie, francis, ivan, jean, so they've got an institutional memory about how storms back-to-back can really wreak havoc on a community here in 2,600 people in shelters. again, it's to get away from the wall part of the rising water in the flood. so as the wind ebbs and flows and kind of gusts here, that's less of a concern. it is causing some power outages for about 65,000. but when you look at the larger number of outages across the state, it's a smaller number. i mean, it doesn't really matter how many people if your house that you are out of power you feel that pretty intimately. but here it's the

water. and so we'll continue to wait for those reports the first responders that police to fire rescue here in orange county locally and orlando in osceola to the south. they've been pulled from the streets because of those gusts that get above 40 miles per hour. it's just not safe. they are monitoring calls so far. orange county says they've gotten about five calls in. nothing remarkable yet any rescue calls that they're getting us details about, but we're waiting to get the latest about what those were but here in the city of orlando they're watching the rain. laura victor, there are areas we're hearing from my colleagues, brian todd, also from bill. >> we're about water main breaks and water quality issues now coming into to view, are you hearing anything like that where you are? >> no. not hearing any concerns are reports yet of water main breaks and unfortunately, what we're hearing from the local

emergency management operators in their on that level one, preparing, waiting. >> is that so far? >> nothing. >> i wouldn't say. may because the storm is still going on, but they are crossing their fingers and what they're seeing on the west coast fortunately, they're not seeing here yet, so no reports of water main breaks yet here in i shouldn't say yet. no reports of water main breaks or those major concerns that you're seeing from the other reporters there on the southwest? a coast of florida but they are watching closely those bodies of water. >> we're watching you as well. victor blackwell, stay safe, keep us informed as you always do. joining me now is storm chaser jonathan petro mala jonathan, i understand you are driving from tampa to st. pete, what are you seeing on the way all the way from port charlotte and punta gorda up the venice.

>> that was probably the biggest impacts we saw, which would be it would make sense. it was just south where the storm made landfall in siesta key so you have the biggest impacts, which is the storm surge. so 67 feet worth of storm surge that we can at least get to. >> of course, there might be totals that are higher and again, he just can't reach it right now and it stark so that was the biggest impact there. >> there were a lot of power outages, of course, transformers growing and popping the lights were flickering on and off. the sky looked like it was a staccato of lightning. there was just so many flashes all around from the strong winds, especially on the backside of hurricane milton unfortunately, mobile homes, trailer homes, they were being shredded. and again, that's why even if those homes aren't in a vacuum zone as necessarily those low-lying areas were susceptible to storm surge and flooding officials still evacuated those homes because they're not built to withstand hurricane force winds. and this was a perfect example of that. they were shredded roofs, ripped away

awnings, garages just scrap metal at this point. so that was the biggest impacts there will don't we came up to tampa interstate 75, some trees are down. there are some signs that are billowing across power lines as well. and you get into the city of tampa. mostly ups. and here comes up the car that's just sitting in the middle of the road, which is really odd they'll bumpers, so they must have hit some floodwater. so yeah, that's another real big impact. i'd say right now the biggest impact that people are seeing, at least in the tampa bay area, is going to be flash flooding. so not to storm surge since the storm passed to the south this was a rain events and so you had the freshwater from the sky falling and there are a lot of areas that are flooded very difficult to get around. many roads flooded we're just passing this church here in clearwater that is flooded as well. so buildings are definitely going to be

impacted. neighborhoods are going to be impacted. it's just so difficult to get but grasp on the scale of what hurricane milton has done to the west coast of florida because it is such a large storm impacts such a large area and it happens at night. so it's going to be a few hours before really good at kind of a handle on it. but from what we're seeing is the catastrophe that we were fearing a couple of days ago, maybe now? >> but i can't say that for certain. >> it's not ansel dawn comes in a few hours. they can really get a grasp and a handle of what happens at the barrier islands and and certain neighborhoods here as well in pinellas county. >> i mean, jonathan, you're a native to that area as well. just thinking about a storm just a few weeks ago, not even if few weeks ago, less than two weeks ago, hurricane helene, you've had a number of hurricanes in recent memory for all of us. how does this storm compare it with the numbers you're seeing and the damage that you have witnessed already it's so hard to really go storm a store and compare

hurricane helene was just such a blow. the biggest flow to that stanford areas had in at least a century, just because that storm surge was so impactful where you had 20,000 homes and businesses majorly damaged and it was crying rushing to see just the stacks and stacks of debris that you've seen on the video, the sand that was brought in that covered the beach towns people commenting, saying, this looks like a blizzard. i thought it was snow that's why i clicked on this video and instead it was actually the sand that was covering the roads and into homes and businesses along some of the barrier islands around st. petersburg and st. pete beach. so it was a very impactful storm in a way that people i don't think necessarily believed could ever happen here. just because it's been so long since this area has really seen a direct impact. and that was 100 miles was a way hurricane helene this one is directly impacting us. it's the first major hurricane we've had 103 years and it's

going to be a shock to people system when they, when they do get back in an area of fortunately, i would say the vast majority of people in its abbott bay area that we're in the affected areas they left hurricane helene scared. i'm straight. and so they they listen to those evacuation orders. they didn't try to say, oh, i'm a floridian, i can stay and they did get out because they didn't see the reality of what storm surge could do and so i'm glad that that happened and i'm obviously henri to see what my home is going to look like tomorrow, not only just my personal home, but also the homes of my neighbors and my community. you don't want to see that ever happened to your neighbors and so it's kind of a surreal feeling says someone who's covered disasters all over the world and you see this in other people's homes and you have the empathy to go through it because you always no, in the back of your mind, where you live is as vulnerable as where they live and so at this point, you just realized that you have a price to pay where you live, and this, that's my price of

paradise and all of our prices of living in paradise here in florida are these hurricanes and hurricane milton is calling that do today? >> johnson petro mallah. thank you so much. we are like you waiting for light of day to see the full extent of what home may look like for so many. thank you so much. >> thank you emergency crews be able to get to people who may very well be stranded as we speak. >> we'll talk to the man who helped with the recovery after the hurricane trena, general russell honore next culture over the people are watching and then our world change. he had an explosive reverberation tv on the edge sunday at nine on cnn

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angeles in this is cnn we're continuing to follow the coverage of hurricane milton. >> there has been, as you know, two major hurricanes in as many weeks and it's just thrashing all over florida. it has reduced and the category, but the amount of damage we still don't know until the light a day joining me now, retired us army lieutenant general russel honore. he served as commander of joint task force. katrina following the 2005 hurricane that devastated devastated the gulf coast. he's also the author of leadership in the new normal general. thank you so much for being here. that phrase he is the new normal. it seems to be consistently normal now that we've had several hurricanes in recent weeks, this one, a monster dangerous wind gusts above 100 miles per hour, rain and storm surge and tornadoes. what is your top concern at this very hour? >> well the continuous

destruction that this storm is jordan, central florida the coast line much of what government officials are saying they are watching you, your reporters on the street laura i did hurricane harvey. irma and maria deployed with cnn during these storms and much of the time when i was in the military initial reports or what things look like on the street with from your reporters? well, it won't be until daylight to tell the winds go down until the first responders can get out and do assessments. but i would suspect we've got a lot of damage, homes. that's less reporters saw maybe a couple of million people without power and the impact of the rainwater. they just stall probably one of the biggest rain producers we have seen in recent history. and i think

just really end up being a historical storm. with all the first responders standby to come in we've got to wait until the storm passed. and that won't be until sometime tomorrow once it clear the coast of florida and the winds to go down. but at daylight, it should have a pretty good assessment. our initial assessment when they get to drones and helicopters up to see the damage shore. first responders in planning, they can't wait necessarily to start planning until light of day and they're probably doing a lot of things right now to get ready for what the possibilities are. >> yeah, the isolated watch your reporters on the street, watching the street, the breaking news reporters. that's the way i watch what happened in two, train it to get down additional assessment because that's how we'll figure out what the potential damage was in the city of new orleans and the gulf coast of mississippi so those initial

reports that actually come out through news media, people that the star trackers that out on the streets short infrastructure damage. many of those reports came in. first from comedian into the news rooms because the ctt cameras go out some sometime. so it's together gathering information do you get a perception of what the problem is, but it won't be until daylight and they thought the calls for people to be rescued, that deal actually know what situation is. but this is a terrible storm, i think just won't be a historic storm lieutenant general russel honore. >> thank you so much. we also wait for that moment for the light of day. cnn's live special coverage of hurricane milton continues in just a moment saturday at nine on cnn only thing that matters. we

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