77538388 to or visit home served.com. >> will they sit up for the honest meant to succeed america's oslo? >> and. it'll will eat you alive if you read it >> the penguin's streaming exclusively on max glows. captioning brought to buy, feel away, optimum enhanced calming

for cats. >> if your cat sprays outside the litter box, fights with other cats were scratches the furniture, they could be telling you they're stressed to help them feel more calm try feel away optimum victor blackwell with our continuing coverage, breaking news coverage of hurricane milton. hurricane milton, a continuing to slam florida, coming to the state as a monster category three storm when it made landfall, it's now been downgraded to a category one, but this is i mean, still a very dangerous storm currently tearing across the central part of the state, moving east-northeast, the wind's blowing at about 90 miles per hour right now, milton bringing with it a six to nine foot storm surge in tampa. there are also reports of at least 19 tornadoes some 116 tornado warnings across florida in st. petersburg, a one in one thousand-year rainfall nine inches of rain in

just three hours in the tampa area, flash flooding, emergencies at this hour, the highest level of flood warning this after more than a foot of rain fell there there and there are currently more than 2 million people without power across the state. we want to begin, of course, with my colleague victor, who is live there in orlando and you're really starting to get the brunt of this now victor erica, the eye of milton, is about 30 miles south of where i'm standing right now. so you'll see as i report from here, over the next several hours, the intensity of the wind and the rain fluctuate as it has for the last several hours. we've seen consistent wins for a awhile of about 30, 40 miles per hour. we're seeing a calming right now, a gust at the orlando international airport hurricane force at about 74 miles per hour so that's what you should expect as we are here over the next several hours that continuing

its the longevity of the rain that is the major concern here is we're in the center of the state. no real concern about storm surge the coast so far away. i do want to go to the coast though for our colleague, bill weir has been watching a lot of damage kind of the exclamation point damage thus far that we've seen overnight without that first it's light of day to assess the communities and neighborhoods. and i want to start bill with you on the roof of tropicana field when i first saw this video, i first thought katrina. and of course what happened there at mercedes-benz? what did you see and explain the damage you're seeing across it? st. petersburg >> victor, we're here at the tropos as it is known, and you can see from this angle the entire roof is just shredded away this had the distinction of being the only non retractable dome and major league baseball and this

hurricane retracted it forcefully right there. this is also a very controversial stadium and area. this is the gas plant neighborhood, historical black community that was displaced in order to make this stadium and these parking lots it's one reason why people say that only 10% of the businesses in the st. petersburg or black-owned as a result of that, baseball fans long hated the stadium because of the catwalk that hang down would actually get into the field of play balls would bang off of it and alter the course of games. and the rays, the tampa bay rays and local politicians announced a new stadium. they're going to build here $1.2 billion with taxpayers picking up half of that and citizens weren't allowed to comment when that decision is made. so now they're on the hook for $600 million to build a new stadium at a time when they may have to build, rebuild other parts of this community. there's a water main break that has

immediate concerns for people having to do a boil water advisory here. there's power outage against around much of pinellas county a downtown in the lights around here miraculously are still on while 2 million other floridians are out of power. and a lot of the surrounding neighborhoods here around the trump field, you can see the pockets of darkness around there and so the price tag of this storm, you can't even imagine ian was the most expensive in state history from a couple of years ago this one with the combination of helene you don't know how to add these things up anymore. the way these storms run together, victor field had a special significance to this storm response. explain that because it's not just you know i mean utilized facility this latent

the season for the mlb. talk about what it was supposed to offer and if it still useful to local authorities exactly in the most immediate, you're absolutely right in the most immediate concern is there are 10,000 cots set up on the field of the trop that was going to be a staging area place for first responders to rest and stage people, lineman coming around to fix the power. >> maybe some refugees from the storm who needed a place to go but that is no longer usable right now and they have to figure out where do you put those 10,000 cots and what do you do with that? i mean, this it's a different kind of emergency response right off the bat before even the sun comes up. so you have that to deal with a phase of some development which brings construction and

those large, multi-story cranes across the city. >> i know. and from watching your hits early in the day, you were concerned about those coming down potentially some threat from those one did come down, talk about that yes yeah. >> this was something that we only know about because the city of st. pete put something up on the website, says, we know about the big cranes were worried about the big cranes. there's four of them, 30, 40 stories high. it takes months this is assemble them. don't have the time, so heads-up, who was basically the brunt of their press releases and sure enough one of those creates came down now lying across one of the main thoroughfares down town, it's smashed into a loft apartment building, i believe across the street. it was hard to get an assessment there. we got and word no. thankfully, no injuries in that crane collapsed, but another big mess

in the heart of their business district yeah. >> and you make a good point, bill that adding up the cost of these storms back-to-back. now it's hard to calculate just how expensive recovery and response to these storms will be. we'll check back with you and at first light we'll hopefully get some more details about beyond the downtowns and that as i called it, the exclamation point damage what's happening in these neighborhoods and communities bill weir for us in st. petersburg. thank you. let's go now to our colleague, brian todd, who is in tampa. brian give us an idea of what you're seeing now the latest you're hearing about potential damages, storm surge, flooding, just go through for us >> victor, a short time ago, we thought we were kind of done with this mess. we saw kind of a winding down of the wind and rain, but it has recurred, it

has resurged here still getting pelted with wind and rain. so i can tell you this has been really one of the most relentless hurricanes i've ever covered just for its duration, for the volume of water that it just poured on this area. you've got almost a foot. we're of what's worth of rain? here in the tampa area and for hours and hours and hours, that water was flooding the street where i'm on howard avenue, and it had very few places to go. so it really did cause a lot of flooding in this area. and what daylight breaks in a couple of hours? we will be able to see what kind of damage it really did bring what we can tell you is that now it's a question of when first responders can get out and assess that damage. but part of the equation now is power outages. there are about 400,000 customers here in hillsborough county, florida without power. and that is affecting water use because some of the water service facilities in the water treatment plants are without power so tampa bay water

giuliani firm has asked residents to limit their use of water. they're still asking people to do that for at least the next several hours while they can get some of those water services up online so that is an issue too, when power is out and affects the water. so people are asked to limit their water use again, this is, this is one of the most disruptive periods of a hurricane when it like where we are in tim, i know where you are victory. it's still very heavy. but here in tab is it's winding down, is when people start to think that they can come out, okay. it's over with. i can venture out. well, you can't really do that because power lines are down from across one of those that can kill you. there's a lot of ponding that goes on in streets like this not just puddling, it's ponding very deep, kind of culverts of water in the roads. people try to drive through what they think they can get through, what they misjudged, the depth of it, they get stuck, they can drown. that's where a lot of people get killed hurricanes like

this, and that danger certainly has not passed a few hours ago, we got some video of a reversal storm surge in tampa where the water was completely pushed out of tampa bay. now, right now, victor, it should be getting ready to get pushed back into the bay, but looked like almost like a dry riverbed which was an extraordinary event that we got some video of a couple of hours ago and again, when daylight breaks, we're going to see where that surge that maybe has returned and where that where the water level stand in tampa bay? >> yeah. this is not the time to go out and try to survey the damage and at least a few counties there are curfews. i know just south of where i am and osceola know non-emergency he calls are allowed on the roads until at least 10:00 a.m. brian, let me ask you, how does what the reality of this storm is for tampa compared to what was forecast, what was expected for milton

was good news because what was forecast a day or two ago was a storm surge that really could have been deeply devastating for this area. >> and as i tell you this, we're getting slammed again with another burst of wind and rain here but that part of it was good news because they've got less, much less of a storm surge. they anticipated maybe 15 feet of storm surge. they did not get that. so that was good. but the rainfall which they knew was coming might have even been worse than they anticipated. we had almost a foot of rain here in just a few hours. you're talking maybe four or five months worth of rain in just a few hours. and again, again, at the height of it, we were out here just the sheer volume of water that was just pouring down on us and everybody out here, visibility was terrible. you couldn't see two feet in front of you. i've never really seen but of like sheets and walls of water coming down from a hurricane. so that part of it, victor, was

probably a little worse than was forecast. the reality there was worse than was forecast. the reality of the storm surge, fortunately was a little bit better than was forecast. but again, tampa certainly not out of the woods yet alright. >> brian todd for us there in tampa. brian, stay safe. we'll check back with you. let's go now to my colleague, randi kaye, who is in sarasota. i know you also randi have seen moments if calm and then moments of ferocity with the wind and rain. what are you seeing now yeah, victor, i'm going to take this moment in and enjoy it because it is actually pretty calm. >> there's a little bit of wind obviously here, but the rain has stopped and it seems like the strongest winds seem to be letting up somewhat. but right now, it is just it is colder than it was definitely much cooler than when the storm was coming through. but definitely commerce. so we'll take it there is a chorus of

frogs behind me. i'm not sure if you can hear that over there. microphone, but that happened when we when the eye passed over me, there was a sense of tranquility here and the birds came out and the frogs came out. and it's happening again now that it seems as though hopefully the worst part of it we are through. but the question is, what does it look like around us? this area is all has pretty much been evacuated been very, very dark here. we've seen a couple of cars, a couple of emergency vehicles but other than that, doesn't seem to be any power we've been without power, victor now for several hours, we've now lost phone service. so i would expect that were in the same predicament is a lot of other people, if they are here or possibly when they come back, they're going to find that situation for themselves as far as damage goes, we just don't know. we don't know what the storm surges was expected to be, nine to 13 feet here in this area, sarasota bay, coming into downtown sarasota, possibly with helene. they saw just a

couple of weeks ago. it was a storm surge of seven feet so this would be significantly more than that. so they are of course, going to assess that in the morning as will we once we get out and daylight comes and we can see exactly what is out there, but i can tell you just even from are experience here, since the storm began, we had rocks flying towards us when the winds were at their worst, we had this fence which was dividing the property line from where we are to the home next door that has come down, just crashed right before our eyes and has been flying up and down and coming apart in more pieces as the night has gotten on the home next to us is boarded up. victor, as are many of the homes in the area. but we know we spoke to some homeowners before they before the storm came through on south shore boulevard where we were broadcasting. i guess it would be yesterday morning at this point, and they were all evacuating, so we will we will just wait and see when daylight comes, just how bad things might be during sarasota.

victor yeah, and that it really is across the state but wait and see moment after the moment of the landfall and the storm moving across the state, we're all waiting for that moment when daylight comes, when the winds die down we can go out that first responders can go out and assess the damage across the state randi kaye for us there in sarasota. >> thanks so much. let's go now to chad myers in the cnn weather center. chad, what's really been remarkable remarkable about milton, is that yes, it came on shore as a category three but maintain that that hurricane distinction for so long across this state. tell us about milton strength now and where's it? >> it's not andy according to the national hurricane center, i haven't even seen a gust to 90 lately, but it's still possible this storm still has a lot of energy with it. and so that energy, when it is raining will be translated down to the

ground with wind when the rain stops, the wind kind of calms down. so if you see he on your radar that a little band is coming to expect now that the wind will pick up as well. but look at the winds we had from venice on shore blowing at 107 miles per hour, the onshore is the key here, because this is the area that had the storm surge, the surge that we were hoping that ten tampa did not get and they didn't it was the reverse surge that brian todd was talking about, the wind actually blew the water out of tampa bay, but it blew it into puncher gorda. it blew it end all the way from about sarasota southward. that's where the wins were on shore. and then from st. pete all the way over toward tampa, they were just winds out of the east and then out of the north. but look at st. pete at 18 inches of rain since midnight last night. and for clearwater beach, 14. so we know 18s, not really an issue. it's not like something

that's all that can't be right. that must be something wrong if you get another reporting station within a few miles that says something very similar we know that that data is really probably pretty bad. still have flash flood emergencies anywhere from lakeland, almost almost all the way over towards orlando. we have a considerable flash flood for orlando, but this area this is larger than three or four counties combined and it is all in an area that had ten inches of rain or more since midnight. so there's not really like a small little neighborhood that got ten and it can run off. where's it going to run? because the next neighborhood also got ten here's the rainfall right now, still seeing the last bastion of wind and rain for all the way through sarasota back to bradenton and tampa. that's the last i think of the outer bands that will finally come through. but over here toward the east, we're still seeing the eastern side of the eyewall. and i know we don't have a tornado watch in effect right now, but there were so many tornadoes today and a few of them were

devastatingly large. and we know that there are fatalities from them. we just don't have any type of numbers because the sheriff's department are not releasing those numbers have to us right now. there's the rain orlando all the way over tape, daytona beach. you had a wind gust and daytona of 78 miles per hour. >> it's it's calm down slightly, right now, but still in the 40s and the 50s, the storm is still holding some intensity that doesn't really have an eye. we know the centers 30 miles south of orlando at this point, but the eye is pretty much gone because there's really hasn't been much on the south side of it all day. anyway, but it's going to move off shore and it will likely do that as a continued hurricane all the way across florida, as a hurricane? yes. a little bit more rainfall still become daytona. you could pick up about four to six more inches of rain before the morning. that's because of this rain that's right here. it's still a very heavy rainfall event here, just north of cape canaveral? yes. still 74 mile per hour gusts are likely through the middle part

of the state, orlando, 30 to 40 over the next hour, you see a couple of 60s in there as the storm goes by. but then look by 10:00 in the morning, the center of this thing is back in the atlantic see you the biggest thing that i'm concerned about are the fatalities from the large these were middle of the country type super cell tornadoes that hit florida from a hurricane victor wow, chad myers, putting that into perspective for us, chad, thanks so much. >> i'll check with you throughout the hour. we'll continue our special live coverage of hurricane milton, still a hurricane so many hours after it made landfall near siesta key right here on cnn, we'll be back

matters for mattress firm and the nicest beds and i wanted to upgrade i sleep sleep at night we were made to put them in a package new icy hot pro massaging bone, easier to grip the massage and the power of two max strength pain relievers. >> is works fast he makes it

less new. >> i see how pro massaging boehm frontal thinking i'm thinking about her honeymoon, about africa so far hot air balloon ride, swim with elephants waiting. 3-4 to safari great question. >> like everything takes a little planning for what the mind towards a down payment on a ranch in montana with horses let's take a look at those scenarios. jpmorgan wealth management has advisers in chase branches and tools like wealth plan to help keep you on track when you're planning for it all, the answer is jpmorgan wealth management? >> because that jeff season

falls should check out, inspire innovation, learn more and view important safety information at inspires leap.com what do you talk about? the news sports a little family, gaza, maybe. >> now, you don't do that, right? >> here's another topic for you. >> as they get older, their risk of getting really sick from a respiratory virus like flu, covid-19 or rsv goes up a lot so talk to them about getting the season's vaccines

because you've still got so much to talk about >> was open door sell your home. in any season for any reason start your move it open, your your.com brunt of hurricane milton tonight, we have seen flooding. >> it's extensive tornado damage across the area, built true acts as the chairman of the charlotte county, florida board of county commissioners and joins me now. >> it's good to have you with us at this hour. first of all, give us a sense, a lot of people, i think maybe not from the area certainly got to know charlotte county, got to know gorda following e and in 2020

do you have a sense of what the damage may be like from milton at this hour? >> well i'm afraid it's going to be significantly similar just with storm surge versus wind and know that i spoke to the front of mind about 30 minutes ago, so who is up the peace river and they saw about at the storm surge there. so the sea of point of order it's obviously going to be devastated with water are barrier islands who got hit with about seven feet of storm surge with helene are going to be seeing similar, if not worse, storm surge out there. and then of course, all debris that we weren't able to pick up prior to the storm made it attempts. but you just we just couldn't get all the picked up prior to this storm hitting. >> understandably, i mean, you can only do so much when you're looking at the extensive amount of damage the debris that is still out there, the wind has

also been a major concern for you. have you heard any reports at this? our of that debris being picked up and causing even more damage i have not yet we're under a curfew here until 6:00 a.m. which i'll tell you as soon as this light is up just a little bit more, i'll probably go ahead and head out. >> but the concern i do tab is that it could become obviously airborne and do more damage as well as lord knows where it might end up with the storm surge. so we are going to be looking at again, potentially of several feet of sand across minnesota. key and across our barrier islands that will have to do the out from as well as in the midst of that, all this debris that's still out there given that helene was just two weeks ago, really impacting those barrier islands specifically and frankly, two years since ian is not that long how much do you think both of those storms impact the decisions that resonance made

about evacuating well, i think was a huge huge effect in that we had 60 people on little guests real island, which is a bridges barrier island only accessible by boat. >> and we have 50 list at the don pedro night island we, refer to it as palm island, but this time we had absolutely nobody stay on those two islands i wasn't not getting the same report back from minnesota key, which does have a bridge going to it which is concerning because they they could have loss of life out there. >> some of those structures are old structures that was built pre firm which means of course they're right on the ground. >> and this kind of storm surge because people know place to go, no it really doesn't. >> you mentioned those 78 feet reports that you would heard. it's also given the time of day. of course, it is tough to really grasp the extent of the damage given that it's dark, given that there is this curfew, i wonder if you've been in touch with given your role

or her from any of the first responders in the area in terms of whether they had been receiving calls overnight so they are receiving some i just heard a rescue that did go on to call out east in the babcock ranch area? >> i haven't heard any other calls over the last two hours, so hopefully, things died down because because leading up to the storm, we had calls with chip chest pains to falls with potential broke your foot, hips, and in charlie county. and our hospital in inglewood, they're all closed. they've all evacuated. so we do not have a hostile little within 30 miles. that's open and i'm not certain that sir, sort of memorial in nicole miss has opened either. i just don't know. so we're very limited as response right now and hopefully we are gearing backup. i know our first responders or trumping at the bit to go help people yeah. we know they are there safety yeah. so important as we know, they'll really appreciate you taking the time to join us and we will continue to check in

and check back to see what in fact is the damage there in charlotte county. appreciate it also joining me at this hour, guido met a scalpel who's the chairman of the tampa city council. guido. good to have you with us at this hour, as i understand, what are the because one of the biggest concerns right now are these flash flood warnings in tampa so we have the flashflood warnings on top of the extreme wind warnings, which came first and i think being that it's dark outside and most people have lost power, the wind is terrifying. >> i've never heard anything seeing like i've been in tampa my whole life can never heard anything like it is there. >> i mean, do you have the words to describe it? is it was it like a train? did it feel like it was going to come through the building where you were? >> well i mean it's it's the intensity, you know, these strong gusts were i mean, like right now, it's very quiet. i mean, it has died died down

over the last hour, but it will get real quiet. and then these intense gusts and then you would hear something. a tree limbs saw something hit metals, something hit the building. just things flying around and it completely dark outside and a flashlight in my my vantage point, i can see very little. so when the sun comes up, i mean we're all going to be we don't don't know what we're going to see when it's daylight here and that's a big concern for everybody, right? >> is what actually is revealed once the sun does come up later this morning terms of potential damage to the city? >> so a few weeks ago with helene, we had storm surge in parts of the city, so complete neighborhoods were flooded and people are still trying to recover from that damage. and we were concerned with was a

repeat of that or even worse, storm surge. >> but it showed the way as this hurricane moves the water was sucked out of the bay so it was like a reverse situation. >> they're still going to be the rise in the river and other parts. so we don't know the exact damaged, but then what the flashflood warnings, the intensity, and the honor of raines i would see images on facebook earlier in the evening where streets were becoming rivers and water was coming up to other people's houses in areas where that didn't get the storm surge. a couple of weeks ago. so the amount of rain so quickly in such a short period of time, i know has affected people, but again, you know, we'll know more once, once the sun comes up but overall the wind has been crazy

i mean, i've seen reports of 100 miles an hour, 100 miles per hour gusts and then they can cause a lot of damage. >> absolutely. in the of the power issue, tampa bay water, as my colleague, brian todd reported, i'm asking residents to limit their water because the power is out. greta moscow. appreciate you taking the time to join us. stay safe and we'll continue to check in. of course, on the area and those defendants a storm chaser who is at tropicana field where that roof was torn off in st. petersburg is what's next quick break here, and we'll speak with him week and ask questions like, what does a comedy show doing on cnn that's too much i want donald now, can you slice that i got news for you saturday at nine on seeing patients who have sensitive teeth, but also want wider teeth, they have to make a choice one versus the other news since that in clinical white, that provides

two shades wider teeth as well as providing 24/7 sensitivity protection. patients are going to love to seat since and on the shelf some days you can feel like a spectator in your own life with chronic migraine 15 or more headache days a month each lasting four hours or more botox prevents headaches and adult with chronic migraines before they start. >> and treatment is four times a year in a survey, 91% of users, which they'd started sooner. so why wait, talk to your doctor hours two weeks after injection causing serious symptoms. alert your doctor right away as difficulty swallowing speaking, breathing i problems or muscle weakness can be signs of a life threatening condition, side effects may include allergic reactions, neck and injection site pain, fatigue, and headache. don't receive botox if there's a skin infection, tell your doctor your medical history, muscles they're nerve conditions and medications including botulinum toxins, as these may increase the risk of serious side effects, chronic migraine, we still keep you from being there. why wait.

>> talk to your doctor about botox and get in the picture learn how ad they can help you save so when you think about these with find this. look when it's time for an update or complete remodel, rebirth is with you every step of the way where everything down but the front design and products to removal and installation. >> we handled the entire process to create a beautiful and functional bathroom for whatever your life needs i mean, you're right. >> turn down amazing rebound with you every step of the way. >> color visit rebuffed.com for your free and home design consultation i wish my tv provider let me choose what i pay for or wish my tv provider let me choose what i pay for it and let me pause my subscription, went out i mean, what do they choose and r

first starter pack with 30% off hurricane milton is now a powerful category one storm with winds up to 90 miles per

hour joining me now is storm chaser. >> jonathan petro mala, who has been driving around the st. pete tampa area. i know. first of all, good to have you with us. you spoke with my colleague laura coates last hour as you were making your way from tampa, st. pete you have now arrived in st. petersburg at tropicana field. we're looking at it some of the video here now, of course where the race is play, that playing now, the roof really torn off there. can you describe for me what you're seeing in that location and also tell us a little bit about the drive to get there. >> yeah. >> i'll start off first off. have you you're looking at it here. have a picture of our lives view here of tropicana field. this is one of the most surreal things ever when you think about it you think about maybe the superdome after hurricane katrina and the roof damage that occurred there? >> this is stunning. we were able to get a view up above and looking down into the field it's really just a stunning, a stunning view it's surreal to

see the stadium like this. >> i'm actually one of the few people that argues that this is one of the best stadiums and baseball just because it 72 degrees, you're year-round, don't have to worry about the rain. ironically, until hurricane milton. but to get here, it was it was like a maze. it was amazed to get through because of flash flooding. that was one of the biggest impacts here in the tampa bay area. obviously, the 100 mile-an-hour gusts coming through creating but stay with me. i think we're going to try to get back sounded like a moment there when you're airpod dies. so we'll see if we can get him back. but again, he was describing what he was seeing on his drive, making his way from tampa to st. pete, you're looking at these these live pictures now of the trop there in st. petersburg, florida we do have the walnut. my colleague lee waldman, cnn correspondent, joining us now from tampa, lead good to have you with us at this hour. the big concern, right. we were just hearing from jonathan and

in speaking with local officials, 80s, these flash flood warnings give us a sense how have conditions changed there on the ground? what are you seeing at this hour? >> erica good to be with you things have significantly calm down from what they were earlier, but yes, the flash flood warning things, they were very, very serious. we saw almost ten inches of rain fall here in tampa on average for the entire month of october. it's just over two inches the street behind me turned into a river with water flowing steadily downstream and taking debris with it. we were feeling strong wind gusts of up to 100 miles per hour, blowing down the sidewalk it was it was really powerful in the hours leading up to milton's landfall and also in the hours after sure milton made landfall, the mayor of tampa said that it was going to be a rough few hours and she wasn't lying. we have

powerful long the time here, but just before we lost power, there's power lines above us. i know it's dark now you can't see it, but those power lines started to spark and set flares across the street. we had to run for cover to try and get out of the way of danger. the power poll itself started to shake. it became a really dicey situation where we were here in tampa. we were far away from where this storm actually made landfall. you can hear one of those wind gusts coming in right now. this is still the remnants of the outer bands of milton as it trucks through florida in terms of eu mentioned the power we know more than 2 million people across the state now without power, those power outages, though specifically in tampa, are also impacting the water supply system county, more than 400,000 customers are without power and that includes local water supply company, tampa bay

water, they send out an alert to all of their customers saying, hey, we need you all to conserve your water usage right now, they're on their own backup generators right now. >> and if they want to continue to serve the counties that they serve, they need people to conserve water that's until they you can get this services back up and running once milton really moves out of here, but it's not just them who's being impacted. the hillsborough county sheriff's office sending out and alert as well, saying there non-emergency number. that's down right now because of these widespread outages, if people have an emergency, they can pick up the phone and call 911 right now, there are hard at work trying to get that nonemergency number of back-up and running. it's it's hard situation here in tampa, even long after the storm has moved through here sure yeah, absolutely. >> and of course, the daylight has not yet arrived to be able to assess some of that damage. lee appreciate it. thank you. i want to go back to storm chaser. jonathan petro mala,

who is in st. petersburg. we have jonathan back with us, so jonathan before we lost your audio a short time ago, you were talking to us about the maze as you put it to get from tampa to st. petersburg to get to that arrow, you could assess the damage and you mentioned to the were able to get shot of the damage from above. we've heard so much about these 10,000 cuts that were supposed to be staged there. how far into the stadium could you see? >> yeah, you can see inside if they had it staged at two basically house first responders after the storm and that's that was the plan. and of course that plan had to change in a hurry. when you see the roof ripped completely away there. it is completely exposed now but he says they want a open roof stadium in tampa bay. well, here you go. this is what you get brand new stadium to be built here in the next couple of years. so it's just again, this

is a really surreal scene just to see those, but to go back to the maze, all the bridges to get over from hillsborough barrow county or from the south is sunshine skyway bridge. those have been shut down because of course the danger of the bridges being undermined, possibly by the storm surge. fortunately, though since the storm made landfall to the south, we didn't get that epic catastrophic storm surge. that was the big fear for most of the week. so i hope and i believe believe that those bridges are going to be okay, but it's probably going to be maybe midday before they open those backups to be able to make our way from hillsborough county, which is tampa, to get in back in here to pinellas county and st. petersburg, you had to go through just a lot of deep water because of the flash flooding and that was a really big impact. actor. you could see that some neighborhoods, some homes, are being impacted by that as well. so while the tampa bay area didn't necessarily see that, just historic storm surge, we were all really, really terrified of we did see some pretty insane

flash flooding that occurred here in st. petersburg and tampa, i know is you i think we have some pictures. some of what you saw including cars just in the middle of the road, possibly abandoned, tough to know. obviously, what happened in those moments reassure some of your video now give us a sense of the other damage that you saw as you were making your way there because we've heard about of course, the flash flooding, the wins what could you see on that drive? >> i think we've documented basically every single impact you can imagine from hurricane milton when you started down south around port charlotte and made her way up into venice where storm surge was a big story. there they had the unfortunate reality of being just to the south how the east of where hurricane made landfall. that means there in the most surge prone area of that storm that's just where the most water gets brought in. so we were able to document was at least six to seven feet of

storm surge. it could be deeper, further back in towards the barrier islands there. but of course it's just inaccessible also driving around there, you see the really strong winds from the backside, especially hurricane milton, that was coming on shore. this guy was looking like a staccato of lightning, even though what it was, it was transformed versus blowing repeatedly all over his power was getting knocked out around charlotte county and in towards around venice is well then you see the mobile home parks, the trailer home parks getting ripped to shreds, just kind of like the roof of tropicana field that's why when these hurricanes are making landfall in florida, even if you're miles inland and you live in a mobile home or a trailer that's why officials say you must evacuate because these structures just aren't bill to withstand hurricane force winds. and so that of course were just on display with the force of these, winds. so we've seen the gamut of damage from signs and of course the power outages, homes, damaged awnings

of businesses. it buildings damaged. and of course, what you're seeing right here, tropicana field absolutely. jonathan really appreciate it. we do have much more to comment hurricane milton to sneak in a quick break here, we're back on the other side world changed. tv on the edge sunday at nine on cnn less contrast you can rise from paying i see i was stuck unresolved depression symptoms were in my way. >> i needed more from my antidepressant braemar helps give it a lift think very to an antidepressant is clinically proven to help relieve overall depression symptoms better than

an antidepressant alone. in very large clinical studies, most son oh substantial impact on weight elderly, dementia patients have increased risk of death or stroke report unusual changes in behavior or suicidal thoughts antidepressants it's can increase these in children and young adults report fever, stiff muscles are confusion as these may be life-threatening or uncontrolled muscle movements, which may be permanent, high blood sugar, which can lead to coma or death, weight gain and high cholesterol may occur movement dysfunction and restlessness or common side effects, stomach and sleep issues, dizziness, increased appetite, and fatigue are also common. side effects may not appear for several weeks i didn't have to change my treatment. i just gave it a lift. >> ask about velar and learn how abby can help you save. >> i have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. thanks. the sky resy i'm playing with clearer skin three out of four people, which sees 90% clear skin at four months and scaries. he is just four doses a year after two starter doses, serious allergic reactions and an increased risk of infections or lower melody to fight them

may occur. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms had a vaccine or plan to the sky resy nothing on my skin means every t luxury mattre

affordable. >> i'm eva mckend on the role of the harris-walz campaign. and this is cnn we are following hurricane milton's path across florida. >> eat is now a category one storm after slamming into the state's west coast as a category three, just a few hours ago, cnn meteorologist chad chad myers is in the weather center. and boy, this is really moving a lot of it being felt. no, of course, on the east coast, chad, where do things stand at this hour well, i think most of the precipitation now is either along the coast are back towards orlando and especially north of orlando proper and the winds are really kind of dying down. >> i mean, i haven't seen a 90 mile per hour gusts even though it's still a category one hurricane at 90 miles per hour from the nhc, the big story is that where the storm made landfall. i know we didn't really want to look at the eye, but the i made all of the

difference if the i was farther to the north, let's say clear water that would have pushed water into tampa bay that didn't happen. it was down closer to sarasota and so we had the wind out of the west and venice pushing the water into that city, pushing the water into bunch of gorda. but not into tampa. the wind was still high in tampa, but it was from the east. it pushed the water out of tampa bay. but look, what happened to st. petersburg over 18 inches of rainfall fell since midnight last night, and most of it really during the day today and this evening, but clearwater beach over 14 inches of rain, that's why this emergency, the flash flood emergency here is still posted even for lakeland and there's all this it's rainfall that has come down. if you see purple and you know where these counties are, here's the villages appear to this is all ten inches of rain or more so, not just like a neighborhood got ten inches or a city got ten inches. the size

of counties got ten inches of rain overall. and where's that gonna go? it's going to go in the rivers and streams and probably in people's backyards. and not too many basements, their thank goodness because there's really no place for the water to go. you're almost on the water table anyway here is your rainfall is still moving on off toward the northeast here's the rain into palmetto kind of give you an idea take the rain off so you can see what i'm talking about. there's sarasota bradenton palmetto. it's finally on the backside of that. it's finally done. but now here, over here on the tone of beach, you see some heavier rain showers still coming on shore the possibility isn't zero that some of these small little cells here couldn't rotate tonight as they moved on shore with a little bit of a waterspout that zero but not 100 either. so yes, kinda keep that in mind if you leave your radio on or your phone on, you will know whether there's actually a warning for you still not too late for that to happen, even though the storm has really wound down most of the guests are not about 60 or

70 miles per hour. so here's the storm itself on the satellite lost all of the purples, lost all of the pinks, lost all of the higher cloud tops. so we're not talking about a big storm anymore, but we're still going to talk about four to six months. more inches of rainfall in places that certainly don't need it. there you go. orlando, most of the rainfall is where the wind is because the rain brings the wing, the wind down from the clouds. if you don't have any clouds, we don't have any rain. you're not going to get really gusty winds. watch that if you see a little band coming to you, get ready because it's going to be gusty when the band goes away, it will calm down. >> chatter is shaded. thank you. i want to go back now to victor blackwell, who was in orlando at chad just walking us through a little bit of what you can expect coming your way, victor, it's definitely a little bit more rain than when we spoke about an hour ago. >> yeah. ted said, when you see those bands coming, they're bringing the rain and the wind. well, they're both back right

now, are getting some pretty strong gusts, not as strong as we saw earlier in the morning, but we are seeing more than we were just maybe about 20 minutes ago. and that is the concern i told you that i checked in with orlando of officials here the emergency operations center and they say that they're still waiting, they have their first response and their police on hold, but orange county says they are getting emergency calls in dozens since midnight. most of them about localized flooding, trees down a report of a war one roof collapsed as well. so that more severe than the others. but we did see a few cars pass pass-through. and again, this is not the time to come out. i think people saw that there was a moment of calm that the ferocity of the storm subsided for a moment. but it's chad just said this is not over the flooding which you cannot of course, we all know it. you should not drive on flooded roads, but every few minutes or so we see a pretty strong gust of wind as some more rain to tell us that

milton is not done with central florida. tens of thousands of people without power now. and really the concern of the power outages is that so many of and here it comes. in other ones, so many of those response crews that typically come in after a storm are in the carolinas trying to restore power after helene or were in route back home. i just saw that the orlando utilities commission they tweeted out a photo of support coming in from indiana from local cool a utility companies there to be on standby for this, but the storm is not done with central florida. more rain and wind. and we're waiting for first light to see just how bad the damages, erica. >> all right. victor. appreciate it. thank you. we will get back to you in just a moment also with us in charlotte county, florida public safety director and fire chief jason fair you're joining me now from punta gorda good to have you with us at this hour you're there in the emergency operations center. what has been happening overnight, have

calls been coming in? >> yes, ma'am. we have been receiving calls for the night. we are holding those calls in prioritizing those so soon as we hit the road again, we'll be ready to send that response based on that prioritization. >> and are those calls for more typical, i would say 911 emergencies. if there's a fall of more medical emergency or were there people calling saying i should have evacuated and i didn't can you help me i think helene probably helped a lot with us, so just over a week ago, we had hurricane helene that came through and basically what that did is it produce significant storm surge, almost what we've seen in this storm. >> and i think that gave everybody just kind of perspective that helped in evacuate this time where we didn't see the last time so hats off community and did it change anything in terms of your preparedness? i know that you train for this. i know that there's a lot of experience in your department, but having come off of helene just two weeks ago, how did that impact your your preparations in your operations? >> oh, absolutely.

>> there's lesson learned. lessons learned for us too. so that was a significant storm surge for our community. so seeing how that we're seeing how it came into our community, where those areas and pockets and areas of concerns were kind of this high hazard areas so that we can prioritize those in our response for this storm i spoke with a charlotte county commissioner, justice short time ago who talked about some reports that he had received a 78 foot storm surge. >> what kind of reports do you have at this hour? i know it's tough to get out there but what has been coming in to give you a sense of what you may find once the sun comes up that's exactly what we've been hearing too. so we haven't heard anything that's met anything beyond that has been basically around that 78 foot storm surge measure, but we'll have a better idea once we're able to get out there daylight. what's your biggest concern at this hour? >> biggest concerns for us to be able to get to those in need again, is we are looking at a high tide, is going to be around seven. so we're really wouldn't see what those final impacts are going to be. a being able to get to those individuals. and that's going to be water defendant. but again, we're ready based on

the response from helene, its prepared us and i would imagine you're also in touch with the counties and the other department that's around you yes, ma'am. we are in we've got a great mutual aid system here in this region and we lean on each other and they are standard raised supports where they can as well. >> jason, fair really appreciate you taking the time to join us and we'll of course, be watching for this updates as soon as you're able to get out there safely. thank you. >> i think you stay with us. our breaking news coverage of hurricane milton continues in just a moment. you're watching cnn the heart and your local community see what i did there jackie evan my god. >> you haven't him save his right you're saying that somebody like me when i started so much, scott, the first debit card as. >> primo, you that i got you

money >> so your bank should be too i'm i just from at this firm sleep expert made it easy to find the right one last year, low price guarantee but if i see cheaper somewhere else, they mentioned the price. >> so i sleep get matched up mattress firm sleep at night great digital solutions to perfect your process statement. my moderate to severe plaques arises, held me back now with guy ritchie. i am all aim of clears things are getting

four people that cheated 90% clear skin at four months. and most people but what clearer even at five years is there was just four doses a year after two starter doses, serious allergic reactions and an increased risk of infections or lower ability to like the may occur. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms had a vaccine or plan to go hit about sky rookie the number one dermatologist prescribed biologic it's arises. >> learn on abby. >> good. i'll be safe which i'll, i'll get to decide when i get my pilot's me, get up to $500 of marape when i needed there's no interests, no

credit checks, no mandatory fees. >> and that's why i join me i'm dot com and get paid me. he say, welcome to stock x your favorite app to shops, the acres and streetwear from the greatest rails to the latest trends. >> everything you need it is here are real-time marketplace gives you access to the hottest brands, allowing you to easily level up your style in just a few taps plus, you can trust that every order is doc verified, backed up by our buyer promise. see what millions already know dismissed. don't spend time on courses you've already taken this class again the university of phoenix prior eligible college credits can transfer with you, saving you time, transfer, you're eligible credits in earn your degree. >> i had no idea. i was still paying for a flight wi-fi until i finally check my credit card statement 14 months at $600 later. that's why i created rocket money. an app that shows

you all your subscriptions in one place, see something you no longer want. you can cancel it straight from the app. download rocket money today, closed captioning brought to you by invent help call 1807, 10000. >> do you have an invention idea but don't know what to do next. colin van helped today. they can help you get started with your idea called now 807 ones, zeros 0020 orlando florida continuing cnn special live coverage of hurricane milton in just the last few minutes, the wind and rain has really picked up here in central florida as this hurricane is now moving east and causing havoc on >> these goes, it's not done with the rest of the state we've gotten reports from local officials here across orange county of reports of flooding, trees down, at least one report of a roof collapsed as well. but right now, local