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thanks for joining us top of the hour here. i'm erica hill in new york, my colleague victor blackwell is in orlando, florida as we continue cnn's live breaking news coverage of hurricane milton, the storm itself weakening but it is still packing a powerful punch as it makes its way east across florida. now a category one hurricane and bringing with it damaging winds and dangerous flooding nearly 3 million customers across the state are without power at this hour. milton, of course, has been tearing across the state of florida for hours now, after making landfall last night, near siesta key on the west side of the state, just to the south of tampa and st petersburg. we are starting to get a sense of some of the damage left behind my milton's and destructive winds. the pictures that you're looking at right now, that's what's left of the roof on tropicana field. that's the home stadium of the tampa bay rays baseball team. as you can see there, it is in tatters. this is the same stadium that had been prepped earlier in the week to be used as a base camp. you see about

hots. there was set to be used as a base camp for emergency responders. tampa's fire chief says the danger posed by milton's winds i have also prompted officials to stop emergency services until it is safe for first responders to be out there on the ground and we show you the roof damage there in st. petersburg where there's more where that damage came from take a look at this. this is a crane. you see it there and crash into the side of the building and then also down onto a street that just gives you a sense of the power of these destructive winds and why the winds are such a major threat from this hurricane and speaking of threats, the hurricane itself, a spawning more than two who dozen tornadoes across the state of florida, including a number of them on the east side of state. and this was long before milton made landfall on the west side of florida in st. lucie county, the sheriff there says there have been multiple fatalities after turned out tore through a retirement community. we have reporters standing by in some of the hardest hit areas across florida. i want to get straight

though to cnn meteorologist derek van dam, who was a closer look at milton's path at this, our derek, good morning yeah. >> erica, we're just getting word that now. over 3 million customers in the state of florida are without power because of the force of hurricane milton and this is all because of a combination of factors, not only the wind, but the tornadoes that swept through on the outer bands, you saw them under tv screens just a moment ago, every single hurricane that makes landfall in the u.s us has its own identity, its own character, characteristics actually say, i think when we look back at the history of milton, we're going to see that, yes, storm surge was a component, but i believe that the tornado outbreak that precluded it, as well as the flash flood threat that is ongoing now will also be a big part of this story. i mean, look at the rainfall totals here and st. petersburg 18 inches of rain, several inches of rain falling in a matter of hours so we have had over a foot of rain and clearwater beach, tampa also receiving just shy of ten inches of rain

and this has prompted the national weather service to issue this flash flood emergency. you can see parts of hillsborough county included within this this is all because the exact path of the storm brought the heaviest access of the rain, right here. you can and see it basically from tampa bay slicing through the central peninsula into the orlando region before exiting off the east coast. this is an area that we've seen over ten inches of rain. this is a radar estimate, but you can see the totals i just showed you a moment ago have easily top almost a foot and a half of rain and it's still raining in many locations. so the a.i. now, pulling off the east coast of florida as anticipated. so they're getting this onshore components along the atlantic seaboard of florida. you can see daytona beach gusting to 83 miles per hour it's tropical storm force though in terms of the sustained winds at 62 miles per hour the current national hurricane center update has us as a category one. so still a powerful storm, but its way to

exit very quickly this morning and we're going to be left with the cleanup efforts. and also the flash flood that will be ongoing as so many inches of rain have fallen from the storm. erica? >> yeah, absolutely. derek, appreciate it. thank you. i'm going to turn things over now to my colleague, victor blackwell, who is in orlando. victor on overtime >> erica, thank you very much. we're still experiencing the rain and wind as milton continues to move east and their major they're concerns about the effects potentially a tornadoes on florida's eastern coast. i want to go straight to teresa lamar cyanosis, the assistant city manager port st. lucie thank you for joining us this morning. give us an idea of what you know about potential damage there and tornadoes event any they're in port st. lucie me we have confirmed several communities in the st. lucie

county area that have been impacted by direct hits of tornadoes i believe spanish to bakke's retirement community was hit. >> we do not know exactly at we don't have an assessment yet, but we do have i believe to confirmed ef3 tornadoes that have gone through the community here and throughout the treasure coast stay on that see your mobile home community there that was hit by this tornado do you know anything about if people were injured, if there were for any casualties in that community at this time, we have not i have not received any confirmation yet of casualties, but i know as soon as we can get that information, we're gonna give it out to our community we're working diligently and trying to do search and rescue right now. >> as you can imagine, we have 50 mile per hour gust. so and

it is quite dark and they're here right now. so we are working to get that information out as quickly as possible there's been a lot of concentration certainly ahead of the store about evacuations the western coast of florida because obviously the positioning and the track of milton. >> but do you know if they were evacuations if people left these mobile home communities which are historically vulnerable to hurricanes and tornadoes tornadoes ahead of the storm active evacuations. >> what we did instead is provided several shelter locations for the community to go and take shelter. and some of our high schools in the area. so that they had a place to go and we encourage that for the last 24 hours, i believe

you've received? >> are their rescue calls. i know that because of the winds. right now that you're not able to put safely your first responders out on the streets. but what are you hearing from people there in port saint? was it? >> sure. >> when we've had down traffic lights, we've had homes hit with tornadoes. we have down trees, down power lines water on the roads are rescue teams are first responders are doing a great job and we're doing a great job responding to that and continue to as we speak just trying to play it base and make sure that everybody is staying safe out there. but those are some of the calls we're getting consistently and we're still in it with the 50 mile-per-hour wind gusts yeah i know that for you. this is not a past tense door, but it is it is happening now tragedy here,

that this tornado, as you say, hit a senior mobile home community. of course, i imagine that will be your first visit once you get these vehicles safely back on the road. the reason the yes, this did manager of port st. lucie there with an update on the east coast of florida thank you so much for being with us we'll take a quick break. we'll continue our coverage. >> again. this storm is still a russia is on the east coast. reports of tornadoes will take a break. we'll be back tell you about life insurance through the colonial penn program. >> if your age 50 to 85 and looking to buy life insurance on a fixed budget remember the three p's? >> what are the three ps >> the three ps of life insurance on a fixed budget our price, price and price a price you can afford a price that

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eastward, i want to check back west though with my colleague randi kaye, who has been in sarasota throughout the entirety of the hurricane, milton preparation and now through the storm there and what are you hearing from local officials there, if anything, here in orlando? they're getting they're police back on the roads to start to respond to some calls. do you know if officials there, the police fire rescue, are able to get out yet is down victor, so we haven't been able to reach out to the local officials, but we have seen a few emergency vehicles, but i do know from before the storm, we spoke with the mayor here liz alpert of the mayor of sarasota, and she said that there wouldn't be any the aid or assistance going out if there were 45 mile an hour winds, it does seem as though it's common for people to start some search and rescue if that is needed, but we haven't seen that going on here, so

we'll have to wait just a little bit for that before we can make some contact. but i was just actually going to head down here. i this is the street there at the end in this driveway, there was some pretty good flooding there while the storm was going on and i did take a look just before we were coming back on air here and it does look as though those waters have i have receded a bit. we are getting some reports of flash flooding here in sarasota. and of course, the majority of the customers are without power here in sarasota county, so none of that is good news, but hopefully there is some good news in this that people did evacuate. they heeded warnings, they saw what happened with hurricane helene just a couple of weeks ago, and that scared them enough to know that they should get out of town. i can tell you that we did see a fair amount of destruction just where we are we are during the storm, there was this fence here that that blew down the separates the house where we are from the house next door. and now that is just in pieces here on the ground. there was a ceiling fan

that was on the porch above me that came apart and the fan blades came crashing down so these wins, as you know you're experiencing now or no joke. i went just into the backyard of the house where we are. there's now a tree in the pool and all of the pool furniture is pushed to one side of the yards. so we had we had winds here i think it was clocked at 102 at sarasota airport. so that we're just near the airport. so that's that's the power of the winds and that's why it's so important to either shelter in place or get out of town. victor our randi kaye for us there in sarasota, ran thanks so much. >> i might go now to nic. we're ota of venice, florida mr. mayor, thanks for being with me. >> we're still waiting to get an update from local authorities, wear randi is about the severity of damage, but what do you know about milton's effect on venice tell us what's happening there? >> i think thanks for having me, victor.

>> so right now, we've got what these are called tactical first in teams and they're going to be deploying out onto the streets to clear roadways. you have to think there's a lot of downed trees, a lot of down power lines most of the areas without power. so it's going to take us a little bit of time to get get those arterioles cleared up. so we can get responders in their start doing assessments. it also isn't quite daybreak yet, so we've got to wait for a little bit of a light to help us kind of do some more of this hard work to get in and get the assessments. but for right now, the tactical first into his they'll get out on the streets and they will start clearing the roadways so that we can start getting our responders out there. >> have you received calls for help for rescue i'm on one centers are active, they are busy i can't tell you statistics right now. activity with our eoc was lost a couple of hours ago there are up and functional is just that where i'm located. i don't have the

best connectivity >> and we of course heard that during helene in the carolinas about how the communications were damaged and we're hearing something similar now from some areas here in florida with milton i wonder have you assessed how many? people evacuated did you have? the majority of communities, aleve. was there a mandatory evacuation for any events yes so normally we don't do mandatory evacuations. >> i mean, we do an evacuation requests. we tell everyone we want them to go and we impress upon them the danger in staying behind. and that implies limited resources. we shut down our water supply to preserve the integrity of our infrastructure. so we did see probably within the last 24 48 hours a significant increase in evacuations we did fill up some of the shelters. i know the one closest to us was full. >> so i think that we saw a lot

of people start to really heed that request there at the very last minute thankfully, that we may want to make sure you get everybody to a safe place. >> preserving life is the biggest concern who undoubtedly hear that those first teams are being sent it's out by the city that they think that they can now go out and take a look. >> what do you want to tell them this morning place. >> it's very important that there's going to be so many hazards out there, so many obstacles. >> let the first responders do their work, let them get the roads clear driving on the streets. >> yeah, there's down trees, down power lines. they are a hazard to you and we really want to prevent as many rescue calls as we can and you being out on the roads right now are only increases the potential for us to have to work harder to do rescues and take time away from clearing these roads so that we can get the necessary resources here to start getting the power grid and the utilities back up and

running. so please continue to shelter in place. be patient with us, and we will continue to message to let you know where it's safe and when it's safe. >> munich, matilda of venice, florida. i'm sure there are mayors and executives across counties and cities here in florida who are echoing your request for people to stay off the roads, continue to shelter in place. i thank you for your time and thank you for the work you do. >> we're first getting just a glimpse through these reports from certainly for mayors and leaders across the state of the damage that we're waiting for the sun to come up to see the full scope. but just a few moments ago from the assistant city manager in port st. lucie, a report of a tornado hitting a in your mobile home community. we heard from the mayor of longboat key of riggs damage there as well. of course, a crane crain down and st.

petersburg tropicana field the cover there, the roof blown off. so these are just the first reports of damage. and i'm seeing some green and blue flashing behind this hotel, which means a transformer blowing as we're seeing the wind and feeling the wind here in central florida will continue continue our live special coverage of hurricane milton after the break >> hot dog is not a sandwich between brands. can i weigh in on this debate with department of agriculture generally defined sandwiches as meat between bread or a ban. >> what about subs? >> you mean no way how far would you go to set your home ambiance hi arrow. >> it's essential. miss diffuser. >> it's perfectly portable and

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large swath of florida for hours. now, more than 3 million people are without power, more than 3 million customers rather are without power across the state. the storm forum initially made landfall near siesta key, just south of tampa and st. petersburg, and it made landfall as a dangerous category three hurricane. it stayed a category two for some time, dumping more than a foot of rain in many areas and st. petersburg, a foot and a half tampa hit particularly hard in st. petersburg, as i mentioned, a lot of rain there also a lot of wind. what you're looking at now are pictures of tropicana field that's the home stadium for the tampa bay rays. as you can see, that roof just shredded ripped right off. and this is especially concerning because that building had been prepped to be used as a base camp for emergency responders there to deal with the aftermath of this storm. so you see the preparations there all of those cots ready to go. now the question is, what will happen? where will those folks stay? because again, that was set to be a home-based for

emergency responders. we also know there was a lot of concern overnight, not just about the wind, but also about flash flooding conditions in tampa, the city pulling its first responders off the road because of those deteriorating conditions meantime, in st. petersburg, you saw that stadium, the trough, the tropicana field. look at the other damage that our crews have found that is a crane on this trip freed, you can see in another angle that part of that came up crane as you see here, also came crashing into a building. and we also know that this hurricane has already turned deadly, spawning more than a dozen tornadoes during the day on wednesday, more than two dozen rather in st. lucie county, the sheriff there says there were fatalities the tornado tore through a mobile home retirement community. in fact folks from the county telling my colleague, victor blackwell just a short time ago that there were a couple of tornadoes there. i want to bring in cnn meteorologist derek van dam, who is in the cnn weather center in atlanta for more on the storms movement those devastating tornadoes. we

were talking about in the last couple of hours, people may not have expected where they were popping up during the day on wednesday, watching the storm on the west coast, but we were seeing this tornado is on the east coast. eric well, that's it goes back to my original point earlier in our show is that each landfall in hurricane has its own identity, its own characteristics. he never quite know how it's all going to unfold. and this one had a tornado outbreak associated with the storm before it even made landfall. right? now, the tornado threat is still ongoing, but it has diminished some from what we experienced late yesterday. the area that i'm highlighting right now is along the treasure coast of florida. so the atlantic side, the eastern side of florida inclusive of daytona beach, northward between not and basically daytona beach in jacksonville, this area getting an onshore wind. this is going to at least create the potential for a brief spin up tornadoes. we get these cells that come off of the ocean,

interact with the land, get friction and allow for that spin to happen very quickly. so the tornado threat, and i just checked from the storm prediction center, still around 2% within this area. so we can't, that's not negligible. we'd still need to leave that in as more of an immediate threat for this region, even though the eye is moving off, coat, off the coast, you can see the wind gusts here in daytona beach at 83 miles per hour sustained at 62. so still a very difficult next few hours, especially for the eastern seaboard. but let's just lay are on the other threats that are ongoing right now because we have had a large swath of over ten inches of rain fall from the sky. we're talking about two to three months worth rainfall in a matter of a day. this is just incredible. so the flash flooding that is ongoing across hillsborough county and to the north and east, even stretching towards the orlando region is significant earlier this morning there were a flash

flood emergencies for hillsborough county. that's been discontinued, but warnings for flooding continued just to the north and east as the rain continues to fall from the sky, you can see it orlando included in that all the way to the space coast as well. look at these rainfall totals just checking some of the latest information from the stations on the ground that are reporting this. this is nearing 19 inches in st. petersburg now, so we'll get updated on that hundred and seven mile per hour wind gusts in venice, remember a category three is 111 miles per hour or higher, and that needs to be sustained. so we haven't found anything that was quite category three status when it made landfall, which was unsealed. yes. the qi a 30 in the evening. this is just a quick recap of when it actually made landfall, but 120 mile per hour storm with some of those gusts being realized just slightly under that category three threshold, regardless where we're splitting hairs here on terms of wind speed, because that damaged potential from 100 mile-per-hour winds or crater is substantial. so the ongoing

threat right now, the flash flooding, the tornado threat, and then this surge threat that's still impounding are impacting, i should say the eastern portions of florida coastline because we're getting that onshore push we're talking about two to four feet of storm surge is still possible here along the treasure coast line is still a category one. the storm racing off the eastern seaboard, at least the eye has now exited the florida peninsula. and so i'll get those wraparound rain bands which if we are learning anything from what happened on the western side of the state, some of the intense winds are actually on the north and western portions of this a.i. so we are not done yet. you saw them? wind gusts in the in the measurements we talked a minute ago, 83 miles per hour in daytona beach, that substantial tampa bay actually just tweeting something out from the national weather service there, erica, this is a really important point to him. we're home to our, our viewers this morning. there is ongoing flash flooding near tampa. a lot of down power lines, you don't know if they're still live and

so getting out into those conditions it's dark, it's very dangerous to go through flooded streets my advice don't do it if you're if you're actually riding out the storm, there yeah, absolutely. >> and as we have been told right, covering storms for so long, the one thing you never want to do is drive through that standing water for that very reason because you don't know what isn't there could be down to power lines. i want to say on that issue of flash flooding for just a moment, if we could, there's been so much water that has come in there is the flash flooding issue, and then there's also the issue of where does all this water go? man, i was speaking with somebody from the weather service a short time ago was saying that that will be a concern for days it's to come from some of the rivers surrounding well, think about eric so the state of florida, especially the coastline through the interior of the area that got the heaviest rainfall is very, very low elevation so these rivers, the creeks of the low line elevations that have the water piling up.

>> we're talking to orlando to tampa inland communities as well, where that heavy swath of rain actually occurred in as still falling from the sky. that water is working against the surge that came in with this storm on both the west coast and the east coast. so you've got inland flooding trying to drain out of the river is trying to drain out of the creeks. and then you've got the inland component or the incoming component from the storm surge and what happens with that type of water working? against each other from the inland from the coast, it has nowhere to go, but up so it's going to take some time for that to drain and to be allowed to drain as well. the storm needs to get well away from the statement before we see the surge component died down along the east coast. and then when we start to see the water and then the rivers start to start to recede derek van dam, appreciate it as always. >> thank you. colleague victor blackwell, who is in orlando as derek mentioned, it is the north and the west side of that storm that is really a little bit stronger and that's what

victor is dealing with now as it continues to make its way through orlando, that last little bit making its way through victor yeah. >> erica, we're still getting the win the gusts of wind getting pretty strong, but we are getting a short break from the rain. we expect that will return as well. derek talked about the flooding there in tampa today. i want to go to st petersburg and talk to jonathan petro mala, who is a storm chaser, who has been of course, watching milton and following milton jonathan, thanks for being with me. let's just first start with what it's like. there now as we're hearing these reports of flooding, tampa bay, what are you seeing good morning. >> yeah flash flooding, unfortunately is receded are the rain has stopped falling here if they petersburg, but that just get into st petersburg was a challenge. >> the bridges have been closed now for several hours since early yesterday afternoon. and that's the main access tried to get in from the south or affirm the from the east as well and so we had to go the

long way around and it was amazed of flooded streets around tampa, really deep water. we had numerous cars stalled out in that deep water. is well and unfortunately, signs that showed the water getting into some neighborhoods as well. so it wasn't necessarily the storms are here in tampa bay, but it was that freshwater flooding and the tides were just high enough as you're meteorologist mentioned there was just nowhere for the water to go. so it just went up and two people's homes and the neighborhoods and on roadways as well. so that added to the challenge of the hurricane for the tampa bay area, at least. but the brighter side of that again is because the storm did make landfall south of the tampa bay area the catastrophic predictions of storm surge that could reach 15 or 20 feet did not occur here in the area which is great according on the damage to tropicana field. >> of course, we've shown that

roof that was just sweated and blown off by. erica talked about it at the top of the show. we've got drone video that you saw at the stadium. what tell us what you saw, what you shot as you described your video and again, i live in st. petersburg, so this is just a few minutes from my house to see tropicana field like that. >> anyway, you're going to speak to around the town. it's surreal to see the roof shredded like that i was able to actually get my hands on a piece of that roof to kinda feel the material and it feels just thick vinyl like you'd one of those blow-up pool materials and he could say just had no chance against those winds of hurricane milton and what was fascinating and also disturbing they had about 10,000 cots and beds, sit sitting in the outfield. so shots you could look down and you can see those caught sitting there. those were for first responders that they were going to have come in and

that's where they're going to stay as they help the area recovers of course now plans have to change that. obviously cannot be a place where first responders are gonna be able to stay is the dome of tropicana field is now completely exposed to the elements yes. >> we've been seeing the drone footage of just the torn roofs there and you make a good point about what this stadium was supposed to be in supposed to i'll offer this this respite this place for rest for the first responders as they respond to others who call for help. help from hurricane milton. we also had the report of the crane that came down in st. petersburg as well. >> what do you know about dance? image beyond these, two that we know. >> of course, the first responders are working to get out as soon as the wind dies down on that goes, i'm sure the wind has died down, but

what do you know about the damage he neighborhoods and communities beyond downtown sorry about that. yeah. you broke up a little bit. i heard you talk about the crane. we just add our eyes on that as well ironically, it crashed into the tampa bay times buildings. so they broke their own story there unfortunately, doesn't appear anybody was hurt, which is the best part about that. a lot of cranes and in st. petersburg up and about because there's massive amount of growth now up. and that was the only one that appears to have collapsed under the fierce winds of hurricane milton. otherwise, what you're looking and yet in terms of damage, damage to awnings, damage to garages, rooftops, mostly tree damage. that's really what we're seeing as we're driving around st petersburg i actually just pulled up to my house for the first time since the storm really left yesterday, i didn't really know what i'd be coming home to. and it appears my trees are still standing. there are some big branches

down but i don't know. i don't see any signs of major damage at my house so it's kind of surreal to be reporting on your neighbors and your community and then also in the back of your mind always is what's happening at your place, but you have to just kind of set that aside and that's why i just i just took a big deep big a big breath of relief on the phone with you worked in north and south poles what are for several years and i understand that that sensation of reporting on others in a storm and wondering how you're on home is when i'm glad that you're home, fair? >> well and as it relates to the trees down, we've got now more than 3 million customers across the state. those trees have taken down power lines. i really in custody sometimes without power so that of course will be the narrative in the aftermath of hurricane milton

jonathan petro mala, a storm chaser sir who is in st. petersburg, bringing us video, bringing us reports of damage reporting on his own home neighborhood there as well. thank you so much for being with us this morning. thank thank you alright. isabel rosales is with us as well now. she is in tampa. isabel. good morning to you tell us what you're seeing the situation there hey, good morning to you, victor so around 11:15 p.m. last night, hillsborough county sheriff's office had to suspend service due to the unsafe situation out there for first responders, a high winds. >> all of that heavy rainfall but this is a completely different story even today, right before daylight breaks. >> i've seen hcl so deputies actively working out there. >> they've resumed full fledged services so many ambulances going by obscene diabetes, checking in on

flooded cars with the flashlight, making sure that there's nobody in need of help. >> now we're getting reports of people stuck at a hotel at the holiday inn or 5-4 and plant city. >> that's in the eastern side of the country. the county. this is a very agricultural community, migrant heavy latino populated community again, people stuck at this hotel, unable to get out due to the high floodwaters we know that plant city has a call hcl for helped just because they don't have the correct resources to be able to do these high water rescues. >> and victor, i actually have with me in the car right now, sheriff chad chronister, who has just pulled up on location here. >> tara. thank you so much for joining us on this phone interview, sir, what else can you tell us? >> good morning? morning. we have just under 6,000 people without power and out and about eight is flooded, more not used to seeing the high and dry areas like plant city the eastern portions of the county this much underwater, there are a lot of down power lines. there are a lot of downed

trees. it is very unsafe out here right now. >> and what do we we know about this situation at the holiday and i know that you're about to use a sharp amphibious vehicle to get access to these people? >> yes. we were called ask for additional resources are in fabius vehicle, the sharp we don't know how many people are staying at the hotel. we just know that we have to go rescue them so we're on the way right now. >> try to make sure we can get them to higher ground and a safer environment. and how would you assess the urgency this morning to get out and how many calls you're getting for rescues? >> we're getting a lot of calls. we're getting a lot of calls down power lines, a lot of flooding, flooding in areas that never had flooding and so we had to suspend service for a little bit, getting up close to 97 mile per hour winds. >> but again, we're back in action now and we're going to get to them as quick as we can. >> and clearly the priorities are on people in need of help and these rescue situations. sure. if i don't know if you've been briefed, but i was hearing here with your colonel in the car on the way out here

about an assisted living facility? at the north end of the county, reports of 100 patients trapped there we know that resources are going that way that some north 17th street and of course, when you're dealing with a medical situation, there's an added level of complexity there. what do you know about that situation? >> yes, there is. and we know they're in a fragile state, so so that's certainly takes priority. were there are air boats, there will work with county fire who also have four sharps and that whole ten people at a time. and we'll get them mountain again, get them to a more safer environment, get them the medical attention that they need as quick as we ken now. >> and how would you assess sheriff? how long this is going to take a process to get on the other side of this hurricane this isn't going to be the hey, listen relax for a day and then we're all we're all gone to dinner on a on a friday night. >> this is this is going to take some time to heal and recover. this is going to take some time to even get those who are in decisions where they

don't want to be again, this assisted living facilities not in a flood zone. there not an evacuation zone. they never thought in 1 million years they would have this kind of water. so now they're into deep. >> we need to focus on those people first getting them the drier land, get them the medical attention they need, then we'll worry about open up roadways and some of those ancillary problems that trying to get people back to some type of sense of normalcy. sheriff, i appreciate your time. thank you, sir. i know we're going to have a busy day ahead and we're going to witness these rescue operations in-person. >> victor >> isabel rosales with that interview with the sheriff there. thanks so much. in the report of people who were stuck in a holiday because of a blood-borne floodwaters there for that's going to be a priority to get those people to some safety we just got an update that the eye of milton has just exited the east coast of florida. so the hurricane is now off into the atlantic. but as you're hearing the aftermath, we're just getting

a full briefing jason, of the damage that it's created across the state. you can see that the winds are still blowing here in central florida. i saw just a few minutes ago wild lisa bella was speaking with the sheriff for another blueish green flash. we typically means a transformer has blown last check of the utilities here in orange county roughly 60,000 customers of the more than 3 million across the state without power, wolf course been watching that as well. but the work now begins to assess the damage to get to those who need help and to recover of course, helene was just two weeks ago. so that work has been going on here across florida for some time, our special live coverage of hurricane milton now off into the atlantic continues

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>> both back in orlando as hurricane milton. the eye has now moved off the east coast of florida, but we're still seeing the wind and we're just starting to get a look at some of the damage. i can't show you because it's dark here and we don't obviously have flights to light the sky, but the clouds are racing across the sky here as this storm is moving east, it's actually quite beautiful here. we, on the ground though, we'll see something not so beautiful as we assess the damage and potentially the flooding here, i want to go to mckenna caskey. she actually saw the crane in st. petersburg that came down several hours ago pretty early on in this storm. mckinnon, i know it's windy here. i hope you can hear me. if you can tell me, just tell me the story. what did you see? >> hi, victor. yes. i live in

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senior community they're waiting for the winds to die down there to get out and assess the damage there. >> we know from the west coast that the tropicana field roof was torn off early in storm a crane fell off of a building, and also, we heard from the city manager of longboat key bridge there to the barrier island that was damaged they're still waiting to assess just how badly flooding is also a concern across the central part of the state as it typically is. i had been calls in orange county where i am for trees down and flooding there also, just getting their vehicles back out to assess just how bad the flooding is. what we know though, is that more than 3 million customers across this state are without power. and that will take some time to restore in part because of it. the number, but also because many of the crews that typically respond are in the

carolinas after hurricane helene, that work will continue for some time here, we're waiting for the sun to come up and for the winds to die down to really get an understanding of just how bad the damage is. now we're seeing a break from the rain here in central florida. they're still getting some of that rain and some of that bad weather out. is that really has been the greatest concern of the latter part of the morning as we get closer to sunrise with more reports of those tornadoes touching down the port st. lucie assistant city manager told us that they had several reports of f ef-3s touching down there as well. so again, we're waiting to get the latest there so we will now take a quick break and move on to the next hour of cnn special coverage of hurricane milton. stay with us

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