ashley: 1955. lauren: i will take number 2, 1948. >> 1955. stuart: it is 1962. >> what do i win? stuart: you get a round of applause. the golden state boasted a population of 19 million people in 1962. the state has 39 million people. that is it, thanks very much. we will all be back soon. that is why she is going to back. coast-to-coast starts now. it could've been a lot worse,

rhonda santos, it is not as bad as the worst case scenario. florida tries to pick up the pieces from all of this. we know six dead, 3 million without power and cost estimates going up up up up up. how can you quantify that so soon. we get an idea what was like in the midst of that in this hit the state as a category 3 storm. you love to call himself a storm chaser. i don't know which category it falls into. what did you think of it. >> reporter: it has been a few years. we are here in another major hurricane. we just had a major hurricane come through here. they took storm surge from

helene, perry, florida, we are back here. we rode out the storm in punta gorda and experienced significant storm surge event, 10 foot storm surge a little higher, you see the aftermath next to me, both up on shore, multiple boats, another one on this side of me and across the waterfront we lost power last night. we are in the gulf of mexico, the storm surge arose all around. significant wind pretty far south of where the i made landfall in sarasota. that is why we targeted this area on the eastern side of the storm, winds wrapped around the hurricane pushing the water, the water came in like a wall,

flooded around to the hotel like an island. even the cars in the hotel parking lot. stuart: i assume the boat behind you didn't park itself there. though surge moved it. what can you tell us? >> reporter: we are standing here, the water would have been well over our head. we started last night, watched it lap over the seawall back behind us. eventually the water started rising over the seawall spilling into these neighborhoods, 6 or 7 foot storm surge. enough to get these boats, you see this boat right here, the water line is here but you've got this fin down here as well. a lot of 6 or 7 foot surge that got the boat out of the harbor, pushed to them inland, a couple boats here, a few more further inland pushed against the houses behind us.

significant storm surge event littered the town with mud everywhere, trying to clear it out, with the bulldozers but all the floodwaters receded last night and in its wake, left boats, mud, and debris from helene still piled in front of houses affected by the storm surge and that has been scattered all over the place. a big mess here in punt agoura, florida. neil: i am glad you are okay. it is not far from fort myers. it was supposed to be ground 0. a little south of that, glad everyone didn't have to deal with the worst-case scenario which was looking pretty scary. continued health and bravery. those guys are unique human beings. as is this next fellow, very calm under pressure,

meteorologist extraordinaire. it could have been a lot worse. let's not minimize the damage or deaths being reported or those who are were stranded into might still be stranded. could have been a lot worse. >> reporter: it comes down to where this made landfall. if you look into tampa some of the worst storm surge would have been there but it ran further south, making landfall south of tampa put those strongest biggest winds further south. folks who were in it dealt with it but a little smaller population if you look at the state as a whole. a category one hurricane sitting off the coast, winds at 80 miles an hour, still choppy out there. a little kind of winding down. when all is said and done and we look at the history of the storm which we like to do, what is the legacy going to be? a unique one with all the tornadoes yesterday. the center of the state to the

southern tip of the state there were tornado warnings which everyone got in on it, one hundred 26 tornado warnings, that's a record and it is not even close. the previous record in florida was in hurricane or about in 2017, 126, double the amount of tornadoes. the reason, this was such a powerful storm and upper level wind as well. it started spinning those thunderstorms as far as tornado reports, those were officially designated, radar indicated. i suspect we will see more tornado reports once the national weather service is able to survey those locations. even if you weren't in these areas where you saw the tornado there were impressive straight line winds, the high numbers they are, plenty of spots getting over 100 miles an hour. enough to do damage. most are closer to where this made landfall, the hurricane force type wind.

where are we now? i told you we are pushing off to the coast. saint augustine, close to 30 miles an hour. daytona beach 25 miles an hour. in orlando, this is the strongest wind last night as milton passed by that they've seen in 20 years, charlie was last time they saw that so this was still a powerful storm despite the fact we might miss the worst case scenario. 3.4 million people are without power. we are winding down. i do think we missed the worst case scenario but it does not minimize that this was significant and there's more time to tell how it all worked out. neil: thank you for your hard work before, during and after, we are not done with hurricane season. adam klotz, meteorologist, a unique breed himself. i had the pleasure of talking

to the florida police chief. what a great reaction, no nonsense, she lets you know, if you were evacuating or weren't evacuating, and how is the community looking? >> having a little bit of audio problems from the hurricane roaring through my ears all night. neil: most people got out of dodge and evacuated. not everybody. give me a damage assessment. what does it look like? >> we are prepared to hit the street at 2:30 a.m. when the winds subsided enough to go out safely.

chainsaws and straps, trying to pull debris from the main roadways. we have a lot of people whose cars were stuck in ponds and puddles and deep water. we left them because that was their own fault, they didn't heed our warning, decided to deal with them today. in the daylight i've seen some disasters. i was on our relief with father hurricanes since i've been a police officer for 38 years. charlie, all of them. this is not as bad as some of those. we are not seeing houses that have been decimated at all. we are seeing missing roofs and awnings and signs and benches, tree debris is very significant. all in our, what i will tell you is the city of bradenton is blessed. neil: we are not done with this, you know florida well, you know your community well.

this is the sixth major golf storm or hurricane to hit the golf this year and they've all accelerated pretty quickly. what do you tell folks who think they are over the worst of it or laying back now, you always have to be on a state of watch. >> right. i will say again i think helene taught a hard lesson to a lot of folks in this region, when we speak of storm surge they need to get out of dodge, people paid attention but you know how that works, next time rolls around they forget it. we were driving up and down streets with significant damage to people's homes and yards. my question was did you just get back? no, we stayed for 40 years, we are not going to go anywhere. they were lucky. you never know when that luck

is going to run out. that is unfortunate. people are not heating our warning to not show up into town until we have time to fix traffic lights, get officers posted. the traffic problem is like a 5:00 on a friday. everyone is trying to get to places it is impossible to get to. neil: pretty strong warnings, shelter in place. not everyone is doing it. >> waiting in line like everybody else. some people can't get to their homes. we are prioritizing our response to removing trees, working with the city, but our first thing we need to do is deal with traffic lights, main thoroughfare to get emergency

workers to and from slow some of the side streets people say there's a tree blocking the road. the tree could be blocking the road for a week because we can't take care of those issues. they need to get out and walk. neil: i don't know if you are originally from florida. >> born and raised. neil: experienced a great deal of storms in the past. do you ever wonder i don't know how much i can put up with of this? there are a lot of new yorkers and northerners and others attracted to your beautiful state who are wondering maybe not. how about you? >> somebody told me the other day when i was lamenting about damage to my own home, this is called paradise tax. we live in paradise and from time to time this is the tax we

have to pay. maybe it is god's tax or whoever's tax it is. i was born and raised here. this storm certainly gave me pause, but i could never leave. i could never leave. i will tell you it is times like this our police to parton, our city and this community, incredible to see how everybody is coming together. that is what makes florida strong, to see how we come together. i have been turning away dozens upon dozens upon dozens of departments who want to come help us. my message to them as we got hit hard but we have enough officers. please go help some of these other agencies that need it more. it is so refreshing to know how we worked together. neil: that starts from the top and goes to you. i had you on yesterday.

a lot of people emailing me, she is the real deal, lucky to have her. it is good seeing you. be safe, be well. you will get through this, you guys always do, thank you very much. >> thank you. can i say one more thing? neil: please. >> darkness is going to come tonight and there's going to be a lot of businesses boarded, a lot of people without power. if you don't live in the city of bradenton and you are here to do something wrong, we will find you, we will seek you out and if you are doing something wrong against the law we will arrest you. do not come to our city to break the law tonight. not allowed. neil: well said. i don't think i would mess with those words. i would never mess with this next fellow. you saw michael brave the aliment in jacksonville beach, florida well northeast of everything you see going on elsewhere in the state but

turns out where he was got pretty sketchy. how are things looking now? >> reporter: a wonderful way to describe it. it definitely got sketchy, 60 plus mile-per-hour winds. think about driving on the highway at 60 miles an hour, it is that force of wind that is bringing waves to the coastal area. you see these waves over here, massive waves pushing up not just the seafoam you see along the beach, a bunch of seaweed as well, 60 mile-per-hour winds led to 8500 customers in duvall county that are without power. you think about trying to get your power restored, that's difficult and talking about winds of 50 mph, turning bucket

trucks up to restore. it will be difficult. please be patient with the workers. i want to bring in christina and the family over here. you have done this before. how does this compare? >> this is nothing. i have seen the damage hurricane michael did in panama city. the i went over my parents home. i lived in tampa when in 2004 we had three back to back storms. this is kind of just a good time right now. >> you guys are off from school. it is one of those things that thank goodness it didn't, the storm surge wasn't high. >> i live in clearwater and tampa and it was going to come up in the mouth and who knows. that could have been -- what could have happened. >> blessed and thankful. have fun.

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julie: might call my next guest, horseshoe beach is her home, i would think as the crow flies three hours north of tampa. she left an emergency trailer when her family had to leave with hurricane idalia last year and you are dealing with helene and now this, and dealing with us. very good to have you. tell me where things stand with your home, your community, the whole thing. >> right now our community is catastrophically damaged.

crews have come in, push their debris to the end of the road. we have massive debris piles piled up waiting on crews to come in, and move that stuff out. i am waiting on the insurance adjuster to come into move forward, the ground was floated away. neil: looking at a variety of homes in the committee, don't know which are yours but a lot of them got a lot damaged. what have you been told about getting things back, easier said and done. >> there really isn't any information about what happens in the future. temporary housing, states moving with of the city and resident to get our people

temporary homes. according to the new florida building code or not new but most seem to be 10 to 18 feet off the ground. even the homes that were already 18 feet off the ground sustained flooding damage so we are waiting to see what happens with temporary housing. neil: we would like to check back with you. be well, be safe. you've been through the ringer. damaged by multiple hurricanes. she got out of harms way when it looked like the storm could pose problems for her. she is on the inside, the atlantic coast side of florida. how are things now? >> as you know, i am a lifelong floridian. i have weathered many storms including hurricane andrew which was a category 5 but i am

bicoastal in florida. i have my business in miami but now i am on the west side. with my family there. this shook me to the core because you have children involved in. it is different when you are single. if we saw the are coming directly towards tampa we decided it was time to get out. we drove to south carolina. the problem is it was bumper-to-bumper traffic. we had to leave at midnight and it took 6 hours to get to the carolinas. many people had the same idea in mind and the threat you may run out of fuel, and we had to have extra fuel in the car, all the hurricanes i endured, it was affecting a large part of florida, it isn't going to

recover after this, it's one after the other. we've discussed this, and 400% in some parts of florida. and most of florida -- >> lured by the beautiful weather. and very high real estate taxes, you do have, it quadrupled over the next year or so. that makes it prohibitive. do you talk to a lot of friends and customers, i tell you i can't deal with it. >> i'm not going to be, may be

you will see me more likely. sooner rather than later. my neighbors didn't get hit as badly in the tampa area but what is good for one area is a bad for another. reconsider the florida landscape because there's so much to deal with and the insurance costs and property taxes. i did read an article your team shared with me, and it's very specific to certain areas, miami has been flooding as long as i can remember. miami, continuing to migrate there. the condo market is affected because the hoas -- >> the governor is speaking about this. on the east side of the state.

>> around the state including here. we are on a good footing pretty soon if we are not already. as people know, we've had massive power outages which was expected. i would say this is similar to hurricanes irma and ian, it is currently 3.4 million, they restored 3. 7,000 since the storm started. do the math, you are over 4 million lost power since the start of the storm. florida, we stage l,000 line men through the state of florida so those folks are going to work. not as easy to do when you had hurricane helene, hundreds of thousands of people without

power in north carolina, georgia, helene in florida we did 2. 4 million restorations buyer record time, that's not the norm. finding the line men given what they are doing now, we got them in as far as california. folks assessments being done about what needs to be done. when you have downed powerlines, it is easy for them to do. they put the ball back up and reconnect it. if their entire system needs a rebuild, takes longer. we don't know if that's the case in many spots. in hurricane ian which was stronger than this one, hit fort myers beach, fpl substation on fort myers beach ground 0 was fine. they could have had people hooked up to power days later, people's homes couldn't expect it because of the storm surge. that's going on and we are happy to have those resources. it is important. we are also assessing the need

for points of distribution. will set up these pods with water, food, tarps, things of that nature. we will be doing some pods. a lot of this is based on what counties ask us for. you will probably also see a lot of the stores and gas stations reopen. that is our hope. we are also looking at the damage done to the ports in florida, east coast i don't think there was a very much if any port in tampa seems like it is okay. vanity remains to be seen. bottom line is we've got to keep bringing fuel into this state. there is a lot on the dark side still that can be brought out. we've got a million, one. 5 million gallons of diesel on hand we can use for the state to replenish and we have 1.1 million gallons of regular gasoline in our arsenal.

we deputized florida highway patrol to escort the fuel tankers with sirens to get to the gas stations. you are probably going to be okay on the east coast of florida. some places on the tampa bay area when there was evacuation everyone was going to get gas and some people filling out additional tanks in addition to what was in their car with the gallon containers or whatever they have which is fine but the demand went through the roof. these guys ran out, we had enough fuel in the state, didn't have the delivery schedule to replenish it. some went out. we've done one hundred 30 escorts with florida highway patrol bringing this in. my hope is there is minimal interruption with fuel on the backside of the storm. we've got a lot of people working hard. as most of what you know we've been doing this now for 21/2 weeks from the time we declared the state of emergency before

hurricane helene and in the aftermath of helene, in terms of response and recovery and do another state of emergency for hurricane milton. it is the way you go. people have been working 24/7 particularly on the west coast of florida, we had a lot of first responders working hard. kevin and his team, our state agencies get mobilized when we have these events, they've been working nonstop. to everybody who worked hard. we have fatalities from this tornado here. we don't have confirmed reports of other fatalities through the rest of the state but we may as the day goes on. my sense is a lot of the people did leave who were in the evacuation zones. 80,000 were staying in shelters, you had massive heavy traffic on the interstates the

last several days leading up to the storm. people were deciding to just get out of dodge. we also can say that the storm did not produce the worst case scenario in terms of storm surge. 24 hours ago, 36 hours ago the fear was category for strong 4 going into tampa bay producing 15 feet of storm surge, that's an area with pinellas county peninsula and surrounding areas in hillsboro county, very low lying, very susceptible to storm surge. that did not end up happening. the storm did we can before it hit land and it did bear further to the east and south of tampa bay. what they had was the wind sucked water out of tampa bay. you had storm surge in sarasota, venice, charlotte

harbor down the west coast of florida and some significant storm surge but not the worst case scenario. helene we had storm surge in taylor county in north florida that was probably 20 feet in places like horseshoe beach and that is the real deal. we have examples in american industry where you had a lot more than that, 24, 25 feet, mississippi, texas, camille, some of that. doesn't mean there's not a lot of damage, doesn't mean there's not a lot we have to contend with. just in terms of what we were prepped for, we have an abundance of resources, we will release a lot of search and rescue resources we had on hand very soon, and getting

everybody back online with power, gasoline slowing and everything. all in all everyone has done a good job. we have more work to do. i will let kevin say a few things. >> the situation here where we are, the strength of what happened here, organically state mutual aid system. neil: we are monitoring this, governor ron desantis, whatever your political views are, florida governors by nature have to be prepared for this. a string of them have handled this with great ease. this was a headache and could have been a big headache. we know of the six who lost their lives in this, that's not a hard and fast number, we know 3 million floridians without power, damage is considered very high, can go from 50 billion to 150 billion, always

write those numbers in pencil because they end up being all over the map and figures are hard to judge how it paid for, hard to judge. sometimes after storms you have multiple ones, a good deal of money, remains attractive the governor said in an earlier remark. how the rest of the state is dealing with that is anyone's guess. along the space coast, they put off a number of missions that were set between private and public joint ventures, this is big in florida. almost a launch every other day. i might be conservative in saying that. and ari mcnichol in cocoa beach, florida, trying to get back to normal but what is the latest? >> reporter: getting back to normal after hurricane ripped

through this community is tough. i will show you what is behind me, what is left of a super cut. this is an all glass building. it just ripped through here, you see the styling tools left on the ground, the roof fell through here. no one of many buildings and businesses affected, wells fargo ripped the roof off completely. many on the west coast were waiting for the flood event for milton on the east coast. we were dealing with 126 different tornado warnings. i was hunkered down in my hotel watching those warnings and this one formed so quickly, came through and a lot of devastation. our photographer showed a lot of clean up. people understanding what was left behind. have you ever seen anything like this before? >> we always dodged the bullet,

never headwinds like this. a tornado in cocoa beach, we've been in brevard a long time but nothing like we are seeing here. there are roofs everywhere. >> reporter: a lot of cleanup and destruction left behind, that's what we are starting with today. in terms of what we are feeling here, a little bit of rain, the backside of hurricane milton, a little bit of sunshine. looks like now we are looking ahead to how this community is going to recover. neil: could have been a lot worse. the report you are talking about, the fact of the matter is, 2 and a half hours from the east to the west coast, it is not as if the east coast assumed it would have dodged everything the west coast is dealing with and floridians are used to this. the space coast had their share of storms and the like, no one is changing their mind about that.

>> reporter: it will start up again soon. we are supposed to have a beautiful weekend. neil: thank you very much. go to a quick break, we are back in a second. i am sorry, we are going to tiffany burns, senior director of the animals program at tampa basu. good to have you. how are things looking? the animals were put in protective shelters. i heard similarly they did the same at tampa aquarium but how are they doing today? >> reporter: reports this morning, all animals are doing well. this is a has some damage but the japanese animals are safe and doing well this morning. neil: do animals freak out with this kind of thing going on? sometimes they know it before we do. they sense it before we do. how did they hold up?

>> reporter: every animal is different. they definitely know something is going on which for some of them they are just in their normal night houses. for others, they are moved somewhere that's not familiar to them. they are all a little different. that's part of the team that stays there to pay attention to those animals and make sure everyone has what they need. neil: are they like humans? if humans descend on these shelters, they can have thousands crowded in next to each other. some humans can get actually a little surly. how do animals handle that? >> they know these, might need special attention. for the storm and set them up appropriately. neil: thank you very much.

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neil: i have not kept up with everything ron desantis has been saying, we are hearing he says things are slowly reopening in the state including the airports on the east coast. reopening at 1:00 pm, a number of airports doing the same. we are getting word theme parks will reopen as soon as tomorrow including disney. some operations and hotel properties where people pitch tents will remain closed at least through sunday. these are the flashes i'm

getting on local florida press. want to go to jack brewer, one of the great nfl players of all time. for my money it is what he is doing since that time, great football player, very jealous of that but his big heart, as big as his skills. the jack brewer foundation, you've done a lot of good for a lot of people. a lot of people in florida think you are in parkland west of pompano beach, their too a lot of folks were hard hit. >> we are getting supplies together as we get ready for the next move. we waited this morning because we didn't want to get caught up in traffic with big trucks but our sentiments have been coming in with a lot of calls. really identifying a lot of hurt in the bradenton area outside of tampa.

a lot of call from elderly folks. and some pretty dangerous tree limbs, bringing down power, and leaving here shortly to go out and help folks who are underserved. neil: the fifth hurricane in the gulf, four of those five accelerated to category 4 or 5 levels the quickest of all time, in this case the quickest ever. i wonder if it gives floridians par's, some can deal with that, have the money to deal with that, a lot of folks can't. >> it really is weighing on people.

flood insurance is so expensive, put that on top of inflation, people are paying more for gas. a lot of these communities are not luxury communities. a lot of them live in pretty fab homes and trailers and they don't have the revenue and income to take on these horrific situations. fema is delivering trailers. governor desantis is waiting to deploy the second these things move but they deal with the reality of not having enough money to buy a new bed, sheets, towels, you lose it all. and you see it first hand, looking with a lot of organizations. glenn beck has been huge in helping support us, to deploy aid and funding a lot of supplies. it is sad when you look at a

family and kids, dirty and don't have access to showers and you don't think of the sewage. sewage comes up, difficult situation. it will be millions in damage, pray for everybody affected. we will help the most vulnerable people. if you need us, call us, 877-422, 1979. we will send the crew to you. neil: great athlete but even greater human being. if anyone ignored you, that would be a long day. always good seeing you. a floridian who knows something about the chief strategy

officer, which was one of the earliest to say it is a beautiful state. got to take the good with the bad. >> when reporting this is the worst storm to hit florida in a hundred years it reminded me this isn't something new. storms get politicized and becomes an opportunity to promote climate change but there have been storms there for a long time and one of the reasons palm trees is darwinism, palm trees are indigenous to florida because those are trees that can survive the wind. it's really not that new but many of the folks who moved to florida in the last 5 years forgot that this was a fact of life. neil: is it affecting their views of the state? people contend with her driving and all of that. are they thinking it has low taxes, beautiful place but there is this side of it. >> this time of year everyone

is reminded by it. i was asked about this a few times on this network and my only advice is if you want to buy a house now is a good time to do it because a lot less people will be looking for houses right now. . 20 katrina campos said less so in miami-dade but palm beach, you are seeing a slowdown. >> it is like nothing like firsthand experience. i bought my house in 2021 in florida and demand was crazy and there were bidding wars. there was a named storm heading to the east coast of florida in july of that year. it reminded all of these folks who were transplants are my god, i forgot about storm season and all of a sudden like the demand dried up and we were able to not be deal with 5 other people for a house. i think it will affect in the short term housing prices.

there will be less demand. this demand, static supply prices could come down. the reason people live in florida is the other nine, 10 months of the year. they will be reminded. these areas i think it is going to change things and the bigger issue for me right now is jack touched on it, the cost of insurance. flood insurance through the government, fema is a hot mess, they borrowed $20 million from the federal government to keep that insurance fund afloat. private insurance for hurricane which -- got to do something. neil: could get an exodus. >> in the inflation report auto insurance is one of the things that has nothing to do with storms. insurance is an issue affecting all americans. lauren: 1 words. thank you very much. we have a lot more, the latest from florida after this.

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ibly27 is up and the servers are out in cocoa beach, florida, on the east coast of florida. you get sick of hearing this, florida isn't a very wide state, 21/2 hours to get to the panhandle and all that. what is the west coast is felt on the east coast. they have strong winds and all that. we are hearing things are getting back to normal. disney world plans to remain closed today, plans to reopen tomorrow. its popular resorts probably not until sunday at the earliest. getting back to business. jackie deangelis and her cohorts get into business now. taylor: i am taylor riggs.