daybreak officials in tampa are expected to hold a news conference any moment now to give an update, we will of course bring that to you live as it happens. good morning, everyone. i'm kasie hunt. it's thursday, october 10. it's wonderful to have you with us, but we do continue to cover this difficult breaking news this morning, hurricane milton hammering florida with life-threatening and in floods, extreme wind and deadly tornadoes in st. petersburg, a one in 1,000 rainfall, the storm dumping at least 18 inches of rain on the area stunning footage from the tampa bay rays baseball field, the roof, the stadium ripped off by the storm. it had been housing thousands of first crane collapsing into the side of a building leaving debris in the road currently more than 3 million people are without

power across the state. the powerful storm slamming into florida's gulf coast as a category three three hurricane before weakening to a category one as it made its way east across the state dozens of tornadoes touching down across florida, including in st. lucie county, where the sheriff says multiple people were killed kind of tornado activity we had one tornado pop up. >> it actually struck our sheriff's office taking out a 10,000 square-foot red iron structure that was housing all of our emergency equipment in preparation for hurricane milton shortly after that, maybe 20 minutes later. all of our alarms have gone off, all the messages came out. there are deputies reported at least visually seeing six tornados on the ground right until the sun comes up this morning on florida, the full damage from hurricane milton is still unclear. >> let's go first to isabel rosales. we find her in plant city, florida where water

rescues are going on right now. isabel, what's the latest? >> kasie i am and plant city. this is the eastern portion of hillsborough county. this is an area that is not used to seeing flash flooding like this, not at all. this is inland. so what's happening is that people are waking up this morning blindsided surprise to find themselves suddenly trapped like we saw at a holiday and not too far from here. i mean, look at look at this, look how high the floodwaters are and how it's raging in some areas here by i think this is a creek right here. so the holiday inn, we were just there where an amphibious vehicle from hts. so the hillsborough county sheriff's office just picked up to customers there who were trapped, had some mobility issues they couldn't get out because the entire parking lot, the hotel was surrounded by these floodwaters. cars were under the floodwaters. so they put them in that vehicle and got them out into dry land into safety hcl. so is now going

through so many of these calls trying to see who is in need of help and ordering them by priority. we know that in the northern part of the county, there is an assisted living facility with 100 plus patients, people that are using wheelchairs, people who cannot they're bedridden he'd help there complex medical situation. so we know that there's another vehicle out that way, providing them help as we speak right now. so the sun kasie is not even up and we're starting to get, our first understanding of the aftermath of milton. and of course, the biggest priority is getting these two, these lives and russia skewing people and getting them into safe situations. kasie as you note, of course, these were people who had done what they were asked to do because there was so far inland. >> as you just spoke, a couple of minutes ago with the sheriff there of hillsborough county, isabel rosales on scene for us isabel, we'll be back with you

throughout the hour. thank you very much for that report. >> let's go down to clearwater, florida, which is dealing with a one-two punch. >> the city saw record storm surge from hurricane helene. now of course, the fallout from high winds and flooding, rain from hurricane milton joining us now is clearwater mayor bruce rector. mr. mayor, thank you very much for being with us this morning. what can you tell us about what you're residents are facing at this hour i feel like we've received a direct hit from hurricane and when you combine the two hurricanes, the came through terrible storm surge, which we've talked about two weeks ago. >> and then last night hurricane force winds and heavy rain which caused flooding in places which normally don't flood and clearwater and throughout the county and then you saw the wind damage just south of here in st. petersburg on the baseball stadium. and as a.i. >> i. drove my car is short short distance from my hotel to

city hall this morning, there are trees down everywhere many of the trees damaged by wind, as you might expect. but also we had trees collapse because the ground was so wet and saturated that the trees collapsed so mr. mayor what can you tell people who are just waking up this morning who may unexpectedly be needing help to do at this point. >> and what are your first responders doing at this hour? >> we're reaching out and we're going to make a return. any calls that we get, hopefully, and i haven't heard yet that we've had to rescue anyone from a dangerous situation yet, but we had a lot a lot of elderly who were in shelters and i'm sure they are very uncomfortable and i'm sure with their medical needs and being in firefighters, emts are working very hard this morning to assist them all right mayor

bruce rector of clearwater, florida. >> florida. mr. mayor, thanks very much for your time this morning. we wish you and all your residents are best. >> alright, let's go now, live. >> of course officials in the city of tampa are going to be holding a press conference very shortly to give an update on the damage. >> we're going to bring that to you he as assumed in the meantime, we're going to continue our breaking news coverage of hurricane milton next, where we're seeing scenes like this road's in fort myers beach looking more like rivers overnight due to storm surge and flash flooding in just a few hours, governor ron desantis and fema administrator deanne criswell plan to hold a press conference to give an update on the damage cpac

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been a better time that's 1803 or zero to six care, i had one focus to provide a higher standard of care safe, reliable nurse lead care, right in people's homes that's been my goal for 20 years. >> and it always will be. now, local agencies are looking for experienced nurses and caregivers who had the passion it takes to to deliver that hir standard of care aftermath, so please be careful out there. >> next, i'm going to bring up chief barbara tripp again, s mayor stated, good morning. just want to thank all the first responders who have started responding to calls as

the mayor stated because of the when we had to see service for a couple of hours, it was very dangerous for first responders to get out there. but doing that time, we did make a rescue of where a tree fell onto a home and did head injuries to individuals that were transported to the hospital. it's the mayor stated we had over 100 calls that came in. we are responded two calls and within that timeframe, we had a couple of fires that took place within the city of tampa. our crews are out there assessing those fires and making sure that there's no other damage to any other structures and nearby the calls that was coming in, like she said, was down power lines, minor medical calls and a lot of fire alarms. each one of those calls will be evaluated and our crews will respond to those calls.

assessment. it's that time to let experts get out and do a damage assessment to the areas before you go out? we don't want no one to create any more injuries to be able to pull the first responders into the area to respond some of the conditions we won't be able to get to we still have flooding in certain areas. and once again, we will not be able to get the responders to those areas. power is out throughout the city of tampa, and many residents, we know a lot of residents have generators. we want you to follow the manufacturer's instructions when you start to generators, it must be in a well ventilated area. please do not put it in your garage or inside your home and do not let the generator get wet? only plug in the important appliances that you need to plug in for safety and do not use candles, especially unattended candles candles does cause hazards, fires. and once

again, we don't want anyone to cause any additional disasters. that's going to cause the first responding to respond. and if they cannot get to your location we want you to be vigilant when it's time to turn your power bi gone when teco give the word that your power because we do have certain surges that take place and can cause other fire hazards. we want everyone to be safe and smer stated, let us get out, do the assessment before you go out and create more damage or injuries or situations where we won't be able to help you. now introduced cheaper call has endured a lot and it's our city is a very resilient city. after preparing for hurricane helene and recovering from that, we were preparing for hurricane milton and i want to

commend everyone out there that heated the emergency evacuation order definitely save lives and as you know, over a dozen police officers had lost their homes, but still came to help the city during hurricane milton as chief tripp mentioned, she had a rescue of a house where a tree fell on it. we also had a rescue earlier in the evening last night, we were dispatched to a call where 15 people were in a house where the tree it fell on the house and water was coming in the house there were children in the house and we were able to get officers out there safely and rescue 15, including young children and take them to the pso elementary school shelter. we will provide video of that later for everybody to see. that's just one example of the hard work great first responder efforts that are out there saving lives. it is imperative that everybody stay inside and do not drive out on the roads. we have hundreds of calls of power

lines down we have trees down, and we are out there actively making the city and the streets safe. so please stay indoors until we give you the all clear and again, we are in this together. we will be safer together if you heed our warnings and stay in and stay off the road. and next, i'll bring up mirror bell for our spanish translation listen in to this briefing from tampa officials here on the latest on hurricane milton, but we want to go now to the national hurricane center where we find michael brennan who has been tracking the latest for the storm. mychael. good morning. thank to you. it's not you were with us. of course, yesterday morning as well as help us understand what we saw from this because it seems as though tampa was spare the

storm the worst of the storm surge that was predicted. but of course they're now dealing with flash flooding further inland than expected as well as this damage from wind, including ripping the roofs off that baseball stadium yeah. >> i mean, unfortunately, kasie, we've seen milton play out pretty much as expected as we went from landfall through the substantial impacts we've seen all across much of central florida overnight yeah. >> you're right with the center coming in south of tampa that pushed the worst storm surge down into places like venice and down into sarasota county. but the flooding saying that you saw in the tampa area within 18 inches of rain and st. petersburg greater than 15 inches in some locations really puts a lot of water everywhere. anyway, regardless of whether it's coming from the bay or from the sky. >> and then they got into that northwestern eyewall where we saw some really intense winds and they were in that eyewall for quite some time. >> and you've seen the damage, you've seen the wind damage with gusts 90, 100 miles per hour across portions of central florida is still substantial wins ongoing along the florida east coast this morning is

still a very dangerous situation across much of florida. it's important to remind people that we lose a lot of people after storms in these types of major hurricane landfall. so we want people to be safe in that post environment don't go out and about its dark. there's damage, there's flooded water there, maybe power lines down. don't be going out until your local officials tell you it's safe to do so. >> a really. critical reminder, what are you watching for, especially in terms of, and we saw some significant tornado damage in port st. lucie. reports that people have lost their lives what what maybe what made we still be looking for there? >> well the tornado threat is largely passed, i think at this point, but what we're looking for this morning is sustained hurricane-force winds hurricane force gusts along much of the east coast of florida still seeing storm surge this morning, heavy rainfall, there's ongoing flooding. so still multiple hazards playing out that are going to continue at least through the morning and into the early afternoon hours. >> all right. michael brennan at the national hurricane center, sir. thank you very much for all you do every day

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of the storm surge. >> but officials there didn't want to warn residents to stay inside as search and rescue operations continue, as the sun comes up here, they don't want people out in the streets putting themselves at risk as they try to repair power lines and deal with other hazards. let's go at this hour to hour. victor blackwell, who has been up through the night covering of this storm from orlando, florida, where of course it churned through after making landfall just south of tampa really? they're very close to sarasota punta gorda florida. victor, tell us what you saw through the night and what we expect as the sun starts to rise yes through the night we saw some pretty strong winds and we saw some heavy rain just like the rest of the state. now, the peak we saw from the wins was about 74 miles per hour that registered at the orlando international airport and gust were added the worst that consistent around 40 miles

per hour. you can see now that the wind is almost stopped. there's just a soft breeze. it's not even really registering in these trees behind me and just a drizzle, but that could change at any time because two to three inches more rain are expected for orlando and central florida over the rest of the day. this event, as it relates to the flooding that's potential for this part of the state is not over. we just checked in. you talked about those more than 3 million customers across the state who are without power here in orange county, that number here is getting closer to 100,000 at 93,000 right now, just about 90 minutes ago, we were at less than in 50,000. so those numbers are piling up here in osceola county, less than half that number at about 35 to 40,000 customers without power. i just spoke with a woman in the lobby here at the hotel who adjust woken up and

she had now just checked her socialist called her neighbors and she's from the sarasota area. and so good news for her that her power, although was out that they didn't lose the trees, didn't damage anything. so she's got good news and you see that the wind now picking up again and maybe the rain coming with it when these bands come in on the backside with left of milton but so far for orlando, we're waiting for an update there holding for a little later this morning an orange county as well to give us a clear, fuller picture of those calls for help after the floods the trees down, and some of the calls they're responding to overnight, they took a few hours pause because the winds were too strong to get the vehicles out. but they are out now and we'll get some info from them about what the legacy of this storm will be for central florida lot of discussion ahead of this

storm about how this might impact the theme parks. a lot of people know orlando is the home of walt disney world and universal studios. i know you had said earlier in our broadcasts that you spoke with a couple from a family from the united kingdom who plus stranded here. do we have any updates on the parks themselves in terms of damage or what else have you heard on that here as this has unfolded? >> yeah the parks, they shut down. it's starting about 1:00 p.m. yesterday, the disney parks started shutting down in phases and throughout the afternoon, they shut down as well and likely they said at the start of this that they'd be closed today. so wednesday and thursday of closure, we've not had any reports of any significant damage major flooding from the park, so we expect there will be an update or an all-clear from them on the backside of this weather event. but at this point, we've not heard from disney, from universal, from the others here, seaworld, any reports of

any major damage? >> victor blackwell for us this morning, i'm sure we'll be back with you shortly, victor. thank you so much for being there let's turn now though, to hillsborough county, florida sheriff chad chronister, who of course spoke with yesterday as this was bearing down sheriff. thank you so much for being with us this morning. i know you had spoken to my colleague isabel rosales just a few minutes to go really about search and rescue operations that your team had underway at a hotel and also at an assisted living facility. can you give us an update on how those missions are going? have to tell you what there's so many trees and power lines down that we have to literally qatar airways into these neighborhoods to be able to assess just how damaged they are were on the east side of the county it's high and dry, it's our agriculture part where we grow up all are berries. they've never seen this type of buddy two to three feet. i don't know if you can see over my right shoulder, but there's so much rain now, so

much flooding, so much water that's gone into train now that there's actually a war pool that's been created up on the north end of the county. again, another a dry portion of the county. it was so deep that assisted living facility that we needed to do some rescues that we needed our air boat back out here to east side of the county where our sheriff and he could see my left shoulder are wihbey his vehicle. we did a rescue there were going back and forth to a hotel out here. they've lost power they're standard in two to three feet of water as you could imagine, there are quite traumatized i'm sure sheriff, what is your message to those who seem to be safe are okay. >> right now at this hour, but waiting to get outside and assess the damage please be patient with us. these roadways or too dangerous coming out here. we had to change our route three different times because of downed power lines. it's too dangerous. i know

everybody wants to try to get out, please. we will give you the all clear. i'm giving you an a warning. i'm playing with you. hang tight for just a little bit longer until we can assess what's safe and unsafe and sheriff, how would you characterize this mean you've seen storms before? >> you mentioned obviously that this is an area of your county that doesn't typically see flooding, but i also know that they're the worst of the storm surge did seem not to hit tampa a bay as many feared. how does this stack up to other disasters you've worked through hurricane helene with seven feet of storm surge and there was a lot more damage and there's a lot of flooding in south tampa around dana shores, around where airport is in a south portion of our county that's the usual suspects were they flood of we've never seen this kind of flooding we were spared. >> our prayers were answered. we didn't get this ungodly storm surge that so deadly, but

we have a lot of flooding and almost 600,000 people without power all right. >> well, sheriff chad chronister doing the lord's work. we'll let you get back to it. thank you very much for your time this morning. i appreciate it thank you all right. let's go now to sarasota, florida, where the mayor of sarasota, liz alpert joins us. madam mayor, thank you very much for being with us this morning. i know sarasota in many ways. took the brunt of hurricane milton. what are you learning about? those who represent your residence at this hour just our first cursory look the biggest thing that we've seen so far is as the westbound bridge going out to litto key, the small bridge, not we've got two different bridges are small bridge is compromised and so we have to keep that shut down

until the fdot can assess that. >> we have not been able to get out on the island and from what we can see, there's water out there, but the mainland is actually not bad. the coastal areas seem to be pretty dry. i'm in a building just across the street from the bay and the the water actually did not come over the sea wall and onto the road and didn't come under our buildings. so that was good news, but they're telling me we've got tons and tons of trees down everywhere, large trees lots of lots of vegetative debris. but did not get any calls for rescue and don't see a lot of property damage. now, again, it's dark, it's early, power is out.

there's no street lights where i am. there's no stoplights brian and a lot of that's why i'm halfway in the dark here. part of my some of my lights work, some of them don't and so over all we're hoping it's much better than we thought, but again, we can't get to the barrier islands yet to see what's happened out there. >> well, that's certainly concerning, but it's i'm glad to hear that you have yet to have calls for rescue. that seems that seems very promising madam mayor, eric, surprising. >> yeah, for sure. madam mayor, i know you spoke with the president joe biden yesterday. i can you tell that's a little bit about what you talked about there and how you expect federal officials to respond to what's happened well, he wanted to know how we were doing and wanted to know if there was anything we needed

and to let him know if we did gave me his phone number and so it was very gratifying to hear directly from the president was very surprising when i picked up the phone, is that this is president biden we've been getting the help we need from the federal government a couple of days ago, i got a call from secretary buttigieg said they're possibly transportation dollars if we need anything like that? >> and i've been really, really happy with how they've been just very making certain that we have what we need here and sarasota and moving in forward with all of the disaster assistance that will need and secretary scott also gave me a call so we feel like they noticed here and they know we need help madam mayor as you

try to assess the damage, here as the sun comes up, one major issues of course, is going to be restoring power. you talked about how yours is partially out, how big of a job do you expect that to be and what can you tell your residents about how soon they may be able to expect? that their lives will start to return to normal on that front know, fpl is will, you know, is out they were there part of our first in team that goes out to look and assess the damage. >> part of what will hinder them to get the job done is because of the trees across the road and we're talking about really large trees. so there's not like you can just clear a few branches and roadways work. but that's what they're working on initially, is just trying to get the major roadways where people can pass through. and of course, fpl trucks can pass through all

right. >> sara, so two mayor liz alpert, for us this morning. i know you've got a very long day ahead of you, so i really appreciate you taking some time to talk to us this morning. >> thank you. kasie. >> thanks. okay. >> joining us now with what all of this recovery is going to look like is craig fugate? >> he is the former administrator of fema. sir. very grateful to have you here. i just want to start with your observations, understanding of the task at hand here for first responders, as we watch this storm moves kind of off the coast. it's now affecting northeast florida. we of course avoided the major storm surge that people feared. the worst fears were not realized in tampa, but the winds for this

you know, we're hearing that non-one ones off in many places. >> so that should give us some indication that people are needing help, being able to call it but the next stage i think its the hard one. and that's for everybody that's been in their homes while the storm is passed over and people that are evacuated, there's going to be this urge to get back quickly in my advice is don't if your home and you're safe stay there, stay off the roads. it's very dangerous if you've evacuated stay where you're at because there's still a lot of hazards they got to clear and it's going to take a little bit of time while all this is going place, you know, fema is working with the state. they're looking at the types of damages and assistance that's going to be required again, as the governor makes these requests, he was going to be positioning to be able to support those needs and for a lot of this is going to come down to people who didn't have insurance and we started getting reports of damages yesterday, we were hearing and seeing the impacts of

tornadoes. and as the sun comes up, we'll see what kind of physical damages we're seeing from this storm. is this cross state? >> craig, you mentioned staying people staying in their homes. i've heard others say that sometimes when we do lose people, it's in the aftermath of these storms mean what are the most dangerous things that people should take extreme care to avoid at this point well, yeah. >> i was the director in florida where you've got hit by four hurricanes. we actually saw greater loss of life after the storms and they really come down to falls carbon dioxide poisoning from running generators to close or in their homes fatal car crashes when people are driving through areas where there's a traffic signals their debris there's really many of these areas is so many different hazards down paralyzed, which people may not know if they're energized or not in drownings surprisingly people there hold her okay. but will it get out and start driving are moving around, they fall into or drive into areas that are flooded. not realizing

how deep it is so it's extremely dangerous. the emergency services folks are busy enough so the thing we ask people is stay home if you need to get out and do some merging work fine to be very careful. in fact, rather than getting so started today on starting to make repairs as checking your neighbors and make sure everybody's okay. if you've evacuated, stay where you're at because it is not safety yet to get back into those communities as local officials say, okay. it's safe go back, but don't go back immediately. just give them some time to get things cleared up this morning craig, we saw an incredible explosion of misinformation, conspiracy theories in the wake of hurricane helene. >> to the point that one republican congressman in north carolina had to put out this press release, but debunking line after line line after line of things that were not happening how does that kind of thing impede first responders and what would you say to people about where they should

get their information in the wake of this well, it's just correct that information the best source of information in this type of response is always going to be your local officials, your local mayors, and canada commissions. they're going to have the most accurate information and i wouldn't i wouldn't depend upon a lot of folks that are using social media and what they call influencers for your news. i get it from your local officials. >> as fema assistance has been turned on by president fema will be clearly communicating that then. >> and again, it's all kinds of rumors about fema assistance the biggest thing is if you're an area of impact and you've been declared you registered with fema first aid groups say, do you have insurance? and if you have insurance, you know, apply your claim and see what's left. we know that a lot of people have flood damage that don't have flood insurance. we know a lot of people are going to have immediate needs and fema will be their support that. but the biggest thing i tell people is your best source of information

on what's going on in your community is going to be their local officials all right. >> craig fugate, former administrator of fema, sir, very grateful for your time this morning. thank you very much thank you all right. our breaking news coverage of hurricane milton continues next as we go to break, i want to show you a moment just after landfall it shows you how strong the winds were for our colleague, anderson cooper, who is in tampa when it hit the water now is really starting to pour over if you look at the graph go inside shortly solar flare added a 24 hour to the day, businesses are wondering what should we do begin with companywide power now anything can change the

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a remarkable scene surreal, really, again, i live in st. petersburg, so this is just a few minutes from my house and everyone who sees it is just an odd because it fits shows really the force and the power of the winds from hurricane milton. and that was the really the story in the tampa bay area. most of the week, they concern, of course it was the storm surge, but since the storm made landfall just to the south of tampa bay area, that catastrophic historic storm surge didn't pan out. >> and that's great news for the tampa bay area not as good of news though for south of essentially siesta key, which is it's close to zero soda and south of there. and that's where we spent most of our night where we documented storm surge in areas like venice and port charlotte all the way down to fort myers. and there's a lot of damage most likely that's going to be caused by that storm surge in that area,

similar to what we saw just a couple of weeks ago. hurricane helene, here on florida's west coast, which brought in to this point, record storm surge. so it's going to be another explain up. it's a one-two punch and you just have to feel for everyone on the conduct code that's just dealing with one after another hurricanes about this ship this summer indeed, you really do. and of course, you are a resident there. i hope i hope your loved ones are safe and sound at this point. can you take us to siesta key, what you saw in terms of some of the worst damage, the worst storm surge overnight. again, we're still really waiting for the sun to come up in some of these areas yeah. >> so there's a couple of things we have to battle for once the sun comes up, unfortunately, here in florida, state the governor has requested, that's all flight restriction, so essentially, it makes it almost impossible to be able to show folks what has happened and that's going to really hinder us as journalists

to be able to show exactly the impacts. and i feel like it kind of is the control of a narrative. so it's an unfortunate situation while the overnight hours we saw the storm surge coming into those low-lying areas in areas like venice that was on the southeast quadrant of the eye. so that's where the largest part of the storm surge came at. >> it didn't appear that the highest numbers that were issued by the national hurricane center, 15 to 20 feet storm surge i don't know if those numbers are going to verify just what we witnessed. >> we saw about seven feet or so of water. and those low low-lying areas still enough to cause catastrophic damage, major damage to homes and structures and businesses. >> we saw water well over the hood of cars. but again, we can't quite get into those areas at that point, especially when the storm surge is coming in, it's too dangerous. >> and now with daylight, we aren't sure how far we're gonna be able to get in. >> typically, we could use tools like drones, like we are

able to show you with tropicana field and give you a perspective and an idea and show you the reality on the ground. but unfortunately now starting 7:00 a.m. because of governor desantis degree, we're not gonna be able to do that at least for 48 hours. and that's an unfortunate situation that we're going to have to deal with that with hurricane milton, especially with so many people that have evacuated. >> and they're just really at the edge of their seats wanting to see what the hurricane is left behind. and just clarifying, this is the governor ron desantis, who issued this order this is a state. so they border and a gfr. and essentially memes that you can't fly again, flight helicopter, you can't fly a drone. >> third, an i say that it interferes with rescue operations, which clearly that there could be a conflict when you have helicopters coming in. >> but it also interferes with our ability to show folks back home and it's going to be a

difficult for a turn for people as well. >> gas has been a problem now for three days when the mass evacuation occurred, that hasn't gotten better, the gas hasn't richard, there's a lot of gas stations that if you go online and you look to see which gas stations have to ask, they don't. >> and so it's going to be a really complicated return for folks and again, it's going to be a mad rush for people to get back. they're not going to be able to see ahead of time what has happened to their properties because it's going to be more difficult for us as journalists to be able to gather that information. now and it's gonna be difficult for them to even be able to get back because the gas pump gas situation. so while the hurricane has gone, the fall comes that it's created is far from over here and west-central florida all right. >> journalist jonathan petrodollar, based in st. petersburg, florida. jonathan, thank you very much for that. and of course we have, been continuing to cover hurricane milton throughout this morning, this historic storm carving its way through the heart of

florida overnight spawning deadly tornadoes and catastrophic flooding millions are without power. we're only just beginning to grasp the scope of the devastation. let's get to our victor blackwell, who has been in orlando all night long. victor, what did you see overnight? what are you what are residents there? grappling with now? >> well, we just orlando, buddy dyer who says that although the winds have calmed and the rain is taking a break, this is not over is asking everybody to shelter in place, continue to stay where they are buddy dyer was here for e and two years ago go he was here for charlie 20 years ago. so he knows hurricanes and how they can impact this community. we're expecting to hear from him and eoc officials with more detailed later this morning while we're waiting to get a clearer picture of what it looks like here in orange county. i checked with officials right next door in brevard county straight east.

hear from orange county. they've got more than 70 miles of coastline in brevard county, cape canaveral, is there cocoa beach 87,000 or so a customers without power and a report of a tornado touched down there as well? no reported injuries according to county officials, were still working to get some clear 30 from cocoa beach police about that tornado that touched down some damage to infrastructure. they did have to evacuate some people from an apartment building for some localized flooding there as well. a little more than 500 people who went to shelters and brevard county far fewer than the thousands who went to shelters here in orange county, about 2,600 hear about 1,000 in shelters in osceola county, which is straight south. so those people possibly will be able once the sun comes up, once their communities are searched, will be able to go back to their homes. but as you talked about about with

jonathan, just a few moments ago, everybody is waiting for the sun to come up. we're getting just glimpses through these reports from local officials of what halls they got overnight. and we'll get you more from cocoa beach as soon as we can get details on that tornado that they say touchdown, there all right. >> our victor blackwell up for us this morning, victor. thank you very much for that. >> let's go now to our meteorologist, derek van dam with the latest on where this storm is as it of course, churned across florida overnight. >> derek, what are you seeing now yeah, it maintains its category one status even as it exited off the cape canaveral well, coastline, you can see the spin right? >> they're still gusting, tropical storm force in daytona beach northward into other areas near the the georgia florida border, but it dumped a lot of rain. this is a big story that we need to highlight here because that swath of pink that you see there as ten inches plus in st. petersburg alone where they clocked in over 18 inches of rain, a foot and a half of rain in a three-hour time span, they

received over three times their monthly average rainfall totals. that is incredible. that's why we're seeing the unfolding flood that is taking place across the central parts of florida. another still flash flood warnings for some of these locations as well. daytona beach, delta jonah, population there are just over 750,000. and with that wind coming on shore on the backside of departing hurricane milton, it is still bringing the storm surge threat right here, three to five feet extending as far north as georgia this is incredible as the storm sliced through the florida peninsula, it knocked down trees. we have multiple reports of power outages because of those fallen trees, 3 million plus customers without power. and then you heard victor talk about the tornado that we're trying to get some more details in southern florida. this is in advance of hurricane milton's arrival. the outer rain bands caused over 100 126 tornado

warnings, which is the most tornado warnings ever issued in one day across the state of florida. and here is one of those just incredible video so spottings of the tornado crossing are major road here in southern florida. casey, just remarkable video there. >> derek van dam for us. derek. thank you very much. and we are going to continue our breaking news coverage tracking hurricane milton next. and as morning dawns in florida, people begin surveying the damage in st. petersburg. a mangled mess after a crane collapses into an apartment building. one witness said it sounded like a train crash black people the better or worse, a lot of people came away from that bag you and it's my turn to talk almost say what i feel. tv on the edge, moments that shaped our culture sunday at nine on cnn,

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>> optimum all right, welcome back to cnn's coverage, breaking news coverage of hurricane milton interest a few hours, governor ron desantis of florida and fema administrator deanne criswell will hold a press conference to give an update on the damage from hurricane milton and in tampa, the worst, not yet, over high tide in tampa, just minutes from now 7:00 a.m. officials there warning it could flood all over again. >> let's go now to tampa, florida where pinellas county commission chair kathleen peters joins us now. kathleen, what are you bracing for as the sun starts to come up? >> well, it's mostly assessing damage. we have 410,000 people without power here. many, many power lines down trees down, as you expected. of course, you've reported about tropicana field our biggest issue, i think right now is in st. petersburg. they've had a main waterline burst which is affecting five hospitals, 22 als, and 799 dialysis center's. so we're doing everything we can to bring resources in to move

those patients. if we have to move them and ensure that we have additional dialysis centers available for people that need those services. >> what have you been looking at in terms of needing to rescue people throughout the night as this has unfolded report at this time. >> i did get the report that they were not allowing emergency crews at some point when the winds were over 100 miles an hour to be going out for rescues but i apologize, i don't have those numbers yet. i don't think the rescued numbers were as high as we expected, but most of our rescues has been hospitals are largo hca hospital had flooding in the basement and they were having power issues. so we had to move patients and get other resources there. so it really is those most critical that we focused on so at this, at this point the hospital rescue is really your preeminent focus

here. >> as you're waiting to assess more a big issue for those hospitals and the als in the nursing homes. so getting that water line fixed and ensuring that those patients have the resources they need to two ensure that we meet their medical needs and the safety all right. >> kathleen peters of pinellas county, very grateful for you to take us for you to you for taking some time with us this morning, as i know, you'd have so much ahead of you today. for joining us this morning. i'm kasie hunt. don't go anywhere. cnn special coverage of hurricane milton and the rescue efforts across florida continues now