>> lawrence: "fox & friends," we start with a fox weather alert. auto live look at florida's east coast. right now hurricane milton is a category 1 storm. packing wind gusts up to

80 miles per hour. >> brian: multiple flying from st. john's side and naples on the gulf coast. water rescues in and around orlando where first responders are helping people trapped in flooded homes. right now over 3 million homes, they say and businesses are without power. our fox weather reporters from on the ground the moment milton made landfall. >> the wind is throwing this right in my face. it feels like little pins and needles coming into my face. >> over 30% at least of the county without power. and that major concern is we are not going to be able to get back on because this thing is not going anywhere. >> my god! the energy that's coming down this road right now, these wind gusts are remarkable. it's hard to put this into words. when you i hope the pictures are telling what's going on. >> lawrence: and in st. petersburg strong wind ripping the roof of tropicana

field which is home to the tampa bay rays. that stadium was supposed to serve as 10,000 person base camp to house emergency workers. >> steve: before the storm made landfall, it unleashed a string of tornadoes leaving a number of people dead in saint lucy county toward the east coast of florida check out 10,000-foot facility used to house sheriff's vehicles. janice dean tracking the storm. ari salazar larry in orlando, florida we start with bob van dylan who is live in cocoa beach. hey, bob. what is happening there winds have really picked up. i can't go out there where i was before because the winds are way stronger now, on that back side of the eye wall as it moves away and still a category 1 storm. janice has been talking about

it, the center of circulation is offshore, moving away from cape canaveral, look behind me, these palm trees right now. the one in the middle just got shaved off. can you see it here. the lights in the hotel where we are flickering on and off as well. we have seen power flashes over here. there are some palm trees holding on dear life to my side. this is going to be like probably the next hour worth of wind. gusting off and on close to hurricane force strength stuff flying around. i'm in the bella area where they pick everybody up in the cars. now that the light is starting to come up, you can see the clouds are whipping. we are not done with this yet on the space coast. that's where i am just south of cape canaveral, you guys, now that it's pulling away we will see that wind below up the gut of the shore bring huge amount of water 3 to 5-foot of storm surge. that's what we are concerned at

this point. wind going on right now. next hour huge concern for the cocoa beach. space coast area, brevard county. wind the worst it has been besides the tornadoes ripped through. see all that water come up on the back side later on this morning. >> steve: even though the hurricane has moved out into the atlantic, that doesn't mean people are out of the woods. i just got a text from somebody down in palm beach county who says we are back in a tropical storm warning until 1:00 this afternoon. those tropical storm force winds are substantial. >> they are. and it spreads out over 200 miles from the center of circulation. if you figure this thing is still moving off and less than 30 miles offshore, which is where it is right now, 40 miles offshore. we still have a huge wind feel behind it to go by. we will see the tropical storm force winds, steve, until at least 10:00 a.m. for cocoa beach right here where i'm standing. we're right in the heart of it right now. this is as bad as it's been all

morning long, you guys. >> brian: the way i understand it, bob, you look out for tornadoes before the hurricane, then the hurricane hits, and once it leaves you worry about storm surge after, right? bob bon so many teeth in this thing. yesterday we had tornado warnings up the wazoo. we had 126 tornado warnings in florida, which is unheard of for a hurricane. we do get tornado warnings in a hurricane for sure. steve and janice will tell you that. with the jesus' name overhead. they went ballistic. that's why we had had the tornado warnings. a tornado rip right across this region the other side it. went through this parking lot behind me. and it took the roof off of a wells fargo and it took the roof off of several houses in the neighborhood. including -- including the mayor's house around there. so, amazing. yeah. this is cocoa beach. and i'm just -- i'm not even in the wind and it's still pushing me around. >> ainsley: we think tornadoes we think the plains, midwest.

not florida. especially this many of them. we talked to people who said they would have evacuated if they had known. what's average? how many tornadoes do you normally see after a hurricane or during a hurricane? >> that's a great question. it's usually less than 50. now, if you remember, we had baylor go all the way up. this is the earliest one we h new york state clocked in over 20 tornadoes. do you remember that one? that was earlier in the summer in july. you do get tornadoes as far as north as new york state. not with though storm. tornadoes going on, essentially. it's off the charts. like i told you last hour national weather service out of miami issued 550 tornado warnings. that's the most they ever issued in a 24-hour period ever. and it was in the month of october. amazes. >> steve: they had 19 actual touchdowns of tornadoes. so it could be one for the record books. bob, thank you very much. stand by. we'll be back with you in a little bit. >> brian: now to orlando where in central florida where streets are flooded and first responders are out on high water rescues.

>> ainsley: fox weather meteorologist ari sarsalari is live on the ground there. that's disney world area we know that closed down doesn't look like it's raining there anymore or am i wrong. >> back end of the rain shield is starting to move out of town. the east suburbs of orlando have a little bit of rain around for the next hour and a half or so. really the worst is over. you may have seen what this shot looked like a little bit earlier, between 2:30 a.m. and 5:00, that western side of the eye wall sneakily ferocious. it had just crazy wind in it a lot of damage around town. we have been set up in the parking garage. safest spot. sun coming up soon. close to 100,000 people without power in orange county. that's just orange county. florida has over 3 million people without power as a state. still pretty gusty.

still getting gusts 30, maybe 4. earlier it was gusting over 70. so that was obviously a big problem. it was crazy while that back eye wall was coming through. because we experienced the north side of the eye wall and the west side. when you looked at it on radar, that north side of the eye wall looked way more menacing. and it was menacing in its own way. don't get me wrong. it was no slouch. on radar that, western side of the storm, it didn't really look that bad, but you just got to remember, you know, it's not always about radar presentation when it comes to these things. that back side eye wall was absolutely a beast. we had this wind coming in out of the north for a really long time. had a little bit of debris fly by but nothing too bad. now the wind is starting to shift a little bit more out of the northwest. it's actually getting a little bit cooler. maybe that's just because i'm soaked. i'm not really sure. yes. >> brian: disney and universal stayed open until like 2:00 or 3:00 in the afternoon. >> oh, sorry.

yeah, yeah. this was one of those situations where a lot of people were really well-prepared honestly, guys. we talked to a lot of people yesterday, you know, i have seen a lot of families. we have a lot of temporary transplants in orlando right now. these are the people that evacuated from the coast. so our hotel is full of families and people with their pets. we actually have a pet-friendly hotel. we were at a shelter yesterday where there were a lot of families and pets as well. yeah, the worst of it is over, that's the good news that i have to report hopefully we can get this storm out of here in the next couple of hours. >> lawrence: great job out there. >> steve: ari is in oorlgd where the airport is closed. now we go to tampa where the airport is also closed. >> lawrence: let's bring in tampa police chief lee burk call are you waiting for the sun to come up to survey the damage. >> actually, no. we have been out since 1:30

surveying the damage. we have our helicopter out there assessing. we have seen a lot of trees down. power lines down. fortunately we did not get the storm surge we were expecting. we do have some rescue operations that have he already occurred. we had a big large tree fall on a house. we got a 911 call during the storm that a family of 15 were in there we were able to safely get there and evacuate out 15 including small children and get them to a shelter. >> fortunately that was a break in the storm we were able to accomplish that and nobody received any injuries. >> brian: can we talk about tropicana field? everyone was shocked to see the wind blown off. built to withstand 115 miles per hour. safe to say it got over that? is that what happened? s that on the other side of the bay in tampa we had wind gusts over 110 miles per hour. over in saint pete it was

higher. for sure over 110. >> brian: are you shocked? >> oh, yes. absolutely. i mean, that's our baseball home. i mean, you think about the damage that is done there and then the damage we are going to see when the sun comes up. >> steve: that's right. i have seen on social media that a number of people, chief tropicana field is where they had set up a shelter. that's not actually accurate. i believe that's where the first responders for the most part were being housed because in some of the shots you can actually see some of the cots still set up on the field. >> yeah. i can't say to that because that's on the other side of the bay buy raymond james stadium where the buccaneers play in tampa i had about a third of my officers and our helicopters and our marine assets and military there at that stadium. >> ainsley: what is your message? we have a national audience. a lot of people from tampa, they fled. they went up north. they went down south to miami.

what can you tell them? what's your biggest problem? when could they return home? >> it's not safe to drive now. we have power lines and streets down everywhere to wait. let us do the assessment. let us clear the roadways. and then we will put out the message can you go to our website and get all that information there. don't try to come back now. the roads are not open. it is too dangerous. >> brian: tell us about this crane that went down in st. petersburg. the instinct of someone who doesn't work with cranes would be why would you leave it up? why wouldn't you bring it down before the hurricane? >> you know, that's a big concern. in tampa here just across the bay, we have two cranes, we wanted to get them down but it took eight days for them to be able to dismantle it and take it down and there wasn't enough time. we were very concerned about that i did hear over in saint pete and hopefully that's the case still there were no injuries and that's a miracle. i'm glad our cranes did not fall down. >> ainsley: they think it fell

on the st. petersburg times the newspaper there. >> steve: tampa bay "times." and according to some on x it sounds like the observation is it may have taken out the top five floors as the sun comes up we will know more about it. >> lawrence: thanks chief. >> ainsley: you are in our prayers. they told the developer take down the crane said we don't have the time. like the chief says it takes too long to take it down. >> steve: take as couple of days. >> lawrence: already up and working. not waiting for the light. >> steve: show us where bob van dillen was. >> janice: cocoa beach. space coast here. >> steve: we know where orlando is between the east and west as well. >> janice: daytona beach still at 80 mile-per-hour winds. this is still a hurricane. we are going to get an 8:00 a.m. advisory out. i think it probably still will be a hurricane talked about the tornadoes, record-setting number of tornadoes. look at south florida. i will say fort lauderdale and

miami, you were lucky but port st. lucie where we have damage and deaths, fort myers, naples, all the way up toward melbourne 126 tornado warnings. that is a record, most warnings issued statewide in one single day of any day of the calendar year it happened breaks the previous record set in 2017. that was irma, a very strong hurricane that that blew througt region. surveyors are going to be throughout determining, you know, the rating of the tornadoes, seeing some of the visuals, complete destruction, at least an ef-3. typically with these hurricanes we see weaker tornadoes, weak spin-ups but, man, this was a prolific amount of tornadoes. in terms of rainfall right now. over 18 inches for the st. petersburg area. we got 14 inches in clearwater. holiday over a foot. we knew that the north side of

the center of circulation was going to get the worst of the rain and then, of course, the storm surge was the south of the center of circulation and it's going to take time to find out what those storm surge totals were we also have the storm surge for the east coast of florida as bob van dillen was mentioning for spartz of the space coast really up towards georgia. 24 flash flood warnings. we had a flash flood emergency in and around the tampa area and obviously over a foot of rain 1f florida by the way we had 24-inch surplus. you imagine 18 inches on top of that in saint pete, that is, you know, a pretty incredible amount of rain over a short period of time. top wind gust, venice sky way, 107, 103. the forecast was excellent. the national hurricane center. the cone was right on very well

forecast and floridians did what they had to do and got out of the way. we still have over 3 million people without power. that's in some areas it's going to be hard to get to with all of the damage that we're going to probably be seeing. but in and around the areas where we, perhaps, got the worst of the storm surge, 866,000, again, fort myers, that was part of for the meyers was destroyed a couple years ago from the last hurricane. vulnerable to storm surge and wind damage. still getting wind gusts in excess of 60 miles per hour. >> 64 miles per hour daytona beach, orlando 35 miles per hour. >> even though the storm is admitting, still huge -- you know, we talked about this as it interacted with a cold front and expanded. so, not only parts of florida, but look up to georgia we still have at least tropical storm force winds and right now maximum winds of 85 miles per hour. so there is the tracking.

national hurricane center did an excellent job of making sure everyone knew where the storm was going to come inland. we also knew that it was going to impact the central u.s. and the east coast. i will say the tornado risk was, you know, incredible. and there is no way we could have predicted that. so that's the part that, you know, it's a humbling profession for all of us that we wish we could have told you where those terrible tornadoes were going to happen because, we have loss of life today. >> steve: indeed. all right, j.d., thank you. >> ainsley: did you a great job and you were well within that cone, that's where it hit. so you did great, janice, and you stayed up all night. i was watching you in the middle of the night. >> janice: it's our job. one time we feel we have to pull it together and try to save lives. >> steve: the whole point is just to warn people something is coming and beware. and you did that. >> lawrence: thanks, j.d. >> steve: in the meantime there is a problem down in florida. more than 3 million power outages reported across the state. the two main power companies, duke energy and florida power

and light scrambling to get power back up and running. >> ainsley: duke energy president joins us live from st. petersburg with an update. good morning to you. thanks for joining us. i know you are busy this morning. >> good morning. >> ainsley: good morning. so, melissa, people in that area, they want to come home, if they are home and they have lost power. do you all triage it? do you get the power lines up first, the ones that have fallen on the streets and then work on the houses or how do you handle this? >> duke energy, florida serves about 35 counties here in the state of florida. the hardest hit is pinellas county but across the 35 counties we have over 800,000 customers without power. 400,000 of those are in pinellas county that's home to st. petersburg that you were just talking about with the impact to tropicana field. our process is that we are beginning to go out now to conduct damage assessment. we will do this with boots on the grind. we will do it with helicopters

and drones. we really need that line of sight to tell us exactly what we're dealing with as far as damage. but we expect that it will range from significant poles down, wire down, a lot of debris from trees. also contending with the debris that remains from helene and flooding and storm surge. in certain places. >> steve: pardon the interruption. you are looking live at a live high water rescue right now in orlando. we think that is from one of our fox affiliates right now. and as you can see, it looks as if they have loaded some people who were on a higher floor of that structure on to that boat. and obviously are going to take them to dry land. >> ainsley: look how much water is there. >> lawrence: sun is coming up. they have a better visual. >> steve: water is 4 feet deep. >> lawrence: i'm curious as we are looking at this live rescue,

melissa, as your men and women start to make their way into the city to try to restore power, what's the biggest obstacle for them? >> safety. safety of our workers. and safety of our employees, we really need customers to understand that it is significantly dangerous out there still as the police chief in tampa just talked about. flooded areas, you have no idea what could be in that water. it can also be energized, too. the other part is downed wires that get tangled up in trees and other type of debris. and the power line doesn't have to arc like it does in the movies. it can be a deadly killer, very silent as well. so, we really ask our customers to heed the warnings of our law enforcement professionals and just stay in your shelter, stay in your home, there's a lot of work to be done. as your meteorologists also pointed out, there is still a lot of weather happening.

and even though winds have passed, there is a lot of trees and maybe structures. our facilities could be compromised. so we expect to see the outage number increase. >> brian: let me ask you just real quick, are your lines buried? >> in the state of florida for us about 40%, 50% of our facilities are under ground. but, mother nature can find a way to any type of electric infrastructure. whether it's overhead or underground. we just finished a restoration with helene, most of the damage occurred to underground facilities because of storm surge. mother nature will find a way. >> ainsley: i wonder how the water seeping down into the ground? >> steve: melissa, thank you very much. >> lawrence: look at those vehicles right there. >> ainsley: i didn't realize there was this much water in orlando. we haven't seen the storm surge so far in tampa this is everyone

land. >> steve: might not be storm surge. it is flooding. because as we heard from janice, well, in fact, in the last 24 hours, i'm looking at the big screen over there, the last 24 hours, orlando itself has wound up with 6 inches of rain. and so that all goes to low lying areas. and obviously that is a low lying area where those people are on the second floor of that what appears to be an apartment building. and we saw law enforcement cart off one boat full of people and then another boat came by to survey what is going on and it looks like another boat is going to have to come back. >> ainsley: one of our producers said clearwater. clearwater, that makes more sense. clearwater is near tampa. >> steve: well, there you go. meanwhile, not far from tampa as well is fort myers beach, florida. rocked by milton, hours after tornadoes ripped through the area. we have got an update from their mayor coming up on this special edition of "fox & friends" live from florida.

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>> ainsley: this is a fox weather alert. this is live look at daytona beach as winds from hurricane milton are whipping up the water off of the florida's east coast.

>> steve: amanda mckenzie is live in daytona beach right now. once again, we checked in with her a little while ago, and the wind is still coming at you. >> yeah. we have moved to the coast side of the hotel now where the wind is still very strong, about 68 miles per hour. the sustained winds. but have you strong gusts at times. i want to show you the ocean waves here. this is a storm surge. it is really come right up to the building. so there is really no beach left at this time. and that really is a concern for homeowners who live on the beach and what this could do to erosion situation there. this is a community that has been vulnerable since hurricane ian and nicole and helene and now milton. it is still a category 1 hurricane churning as it moves into the atlantic from the east coast here in daytona beach. the wind speeds as i mentioned still very strong. i want to show you in this direction, you can see the tent on the second floor ripped apart

and market lights just swinging in the wind. did i just get an update from the volusia county sheriff's office saying that high water rescue teams have now been called to respond to areas in south daytona. so we are working to get more information about who that involves, where and what those conditions are like. the curfew here is about to be lifted in less than an hour. so it will, once again, be time for us to move around town to see the aftermath. these high winds though still very much a concern as folks really should stay indoors. only need room for the emergency responders out there because anything over 39 mile-per-hour wind gusts going over one of these bridges can be very dangerous. so, we are monitoring all of these reports. they have kept emergency crews sheltered in place for some time now. but now it is starting to get lighter out here. really going to get a better look at the aftermath of this storm. something that's going to be

hard to see from where we are right now but i can see it when i look over the edge here the stairs going down to the beach here have been damaged. part of the railing is now twisted and hanging off. [high winds] >> can you see some of the right there on the beach that are being washed away taking that with it right now. anyone's guess what else is floating in from the ocean. erosion has been such a concern for this area and so we're really hoping for the best for all of those floridians effected by this storm. we will continue to bring you the latest. >> brian: gotcha. >> steve: okay. thank you, amanda where it is very windy right now. >> brian: she said high water rescue team in south. if you think high water rescue you think flooding. that's got to be massive. >> steve: go to the winds up to

120 miles per hour last night. >> brian: fort myers beach mayor dan alers joins us now. mr. mayor, fort myers been through so much the last few years, how would you characterize what you saw last night and what are you seeing today? >> this is our fifth storm in two years. to say we are battle tested i guess would be an under statement. the sun just came up. we have been down there since 3:00 this morning. pictures you are seeing of margaritaville some of the stuff we were able to get when we got here this morning. it's worse than helene but not as bad as ian, we are thankful everybody took us serious when we said evacuate. it's sped up the process for search and rescue for our fire department allow our residents to get back on island and start the clean up sooner than we normally. we thank a second for everyone heeding the warning and getting off the island when they did. >> lawrence: you were out there warning the public, mr. mayor. what is your immediate concern right now as the sun is up now? >> our immediate concern is getting the road open so that we

can get water restored and get power back on so we can get our residents back on. they are patiently waiting off island, i'm sure to get on the island. we have got water hopefully in the middle of the day the. by the end of the day we can get that restored. not an update from fpl see when we can get boulevard. main concern get the boulevard cleared off to get people back here as soon as we possibly can. >> steve: what about cell phone towers? i know the electricity is out in many cases. but what about once people get there, they are going to expect their phone to work. will it? >> so far mine has worked. i'm actually talking to you on it right now. so far it's working. i don't know if if their backup generator took water or not. i haven't been able to get by the tower on the thailand see if the generator is still running. depending on where you are at on the island, one end got more than the other. and they are kind of in the middle. but that's right about where that house was that came off its stilts. so now we have got some

daylight. we will be able to assess what we have got to deal with and get it cleaned up as fast as we can. >> ainsley: when you compare this storm to ian, two years ago. there was so much water. that was probably your biggest problem, right? so when you compare these two, you say this one overnight was not as bad as ian, it was because of the water damage with ian? >> well, it wasn't the amount, yes. ian we had 15 to 17 feet of storm surge. best guest right now probably in that 6 to 10 range, depending on where you are at on the island. again it's daylight now we will get a better assessment. i don't know if you can see it behind me but a boat that floated from the park from one of our arenas which is a couple two or three blocks away. obviously a significant amount of water here that moved a lot of things around and shirted houses off their piling. so there was quite a water surge event here. obviously probably not as bad as our sister barrier islands to the north. we pray for them and we understand what they are going through. having to take this storm, you know, on the chin like we did two years ago.

we'll get our mess cleaned up and help them as soon as we can. >> brian: safe to say the worst is over as i look around, i don't see the wind. i don't see any rain, so it's gone? >> yeah. the water has rereaded off the island. we do have some of the standing water on the side streets. as tied is going down here, we will start to see some of that drain out. then we will be able to really see what is laying on the ground and get those wires out of the way and get it cleaned up so people can drive onto the island. >> steve: mr. mayor, before the storm there was a worry there was so much debris in a number of west coast towns from helene still out on the street waiting to get carted off by debris haulers, did you guys have that problem because once you have a hurricane come through with 120 mile-per-hour winds, those just become gigantic flying projectiles we are fortunate we pulled two of our contractors doing other projects on the island to assist with removing a

lot of this sand. our partners in lee county brought a lot of their trucks and equipment down plus our staff. i would say we had about 90 to 95% of the helena debris picked up before this storm hit. so we were fortunate in that aspect. we didn't quite get it all. >> brian: all right, mr. mayor, thank you very much. >> ainsley: the mayor of tampa said don't come back yet. check our website. i wonder for you for people that live in the fort myers area. i think we lost him. >> the roads weren't clear. that might be the answer. the sun now up in florida revealing devastating flooding as winds and rain continue to batter the state. as storm chaser brings us the latest of what he saw. >> steve: that is a street in orlando that is flooded. ♪ ♪ some days, you can feel like a spectator in your own life with chronic migraine,

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♪ >> ainsley: this is a live look at cocoa beach, florida, as winds from hurricane milton are causing a lot of damage. >> steve: and beach erosion as well. danamarie mcnicole is live in cocoa beach at this hour. danamarie, what do you see? >> well, good morning, guys. i could tell you here on the ground in cocoa beach there is a lot of destruction from a tornado that ripped through yesterday evening. i want to describe what i'm feeling right now. winds are still very strong. we're on the back side of milton here of cocoa beach. our fox weather team reported about a 60 mile-per-hour wind gust recently so we are still feeling that wind but not as of the rain here. again on the back side. what you are looking at right now, this is a super cuts. about 45:00 yesterday a tornado warning came through cocoa beach. it ripped through the

neighborhood around 6:45. i mean, this is complete destruction. the windows came out. there is obviously a lot of things in and around the area. there was projectiles flying. weave also saw video of a wells fargo that had it roof completely ripped off. there were columns as well down. so the wind and the strength of this tornado that whipped through this neighborhood really we did see a lot of devastation. the west coast was waiting for milton while the east coast up and down, we were waiting for those tornadoes. now, fox weather did report about 126 different tornado warnings up and down the coast. breaking records in areas like miami. now, people here, they were ready for tornadoes, but they really didn't know what to expect. one couple said waiting 20 to 30 seconds to go out of their home to check what was going on saved their life. take a listen. >> pump was running so i said i would come out and turn the pool

pump off which is behind the screen she said no, don't go yet. it wasn't 20, 30 seconds later where the wind just went crazy. the tornado came in. and all this happened. i would have been stood right here turning the pool pump off when it happened. so i got a lot to thank her for, more than normal. >> the clean-up process starts right now in cocoa beach. taking a look at downed power line. something we are seeing often here again, the super cuts behind me completely destroyed. we are going to be getting an idea of the bigger devastation in this area. so, of course, the tornado that came through but right now on the back side of milton, we are just getting those heavy winds and it should clear up a little bit more with calmer weather as the afternoon progresses. i will send it back to you in the studio. >> steve: all right, danamarie, thank you very much a live report from cocoa beach. we also saw in that image from orlando. it looked like some first responders were going down the middle of a street. we think they were going door to

door to make sure to make sure people are safe. >> ainsley: there they are. >> steve: they have got sticks so they know they are going and don't step into something really deep. >> lawrence: um-huh. >> steve: meanwhile our next guest capturing this time lapsed video of massive flooding in tampa overnight. look at that. joining us right now from lake land, florida is storm chaser mark -- good morning to you. >> good morning, great to be here, thank you. >> steve: good to have you as well. you have been through a lot of these storms as a storm chaser. we know that people had a warning. what kind of a storm was it where you were? >> well, where i was, we ended up here in lakeland, it was pretty rough. where these cameras where where people shouldn't be. that's why we set them there tampa to punt that gorda capturing the impacts of milton right in your face. some of it was just that that's

what the technology allows to us do to get into these places where reporters and people like me and other storm chasers simply cannot be. we solved that problem with technology. >> brian: what was your path? what was your path last night? >> well, my path, after i got everything set up the last camera system was there in tampa. and by the way that flooding of course was from rainfall, not the storm surge. had an excessive amount of rain in tampa. my path coming from tampa over to like land on i 4, which why by the way i was the only one on the interstate there. i have never seen that before. i have been to florida allot either on vacation or work. literally from tampa all the way over to my hotel here in lake land empty as could be. >> lawrence: look at that boat. >> that's the boat the camera doing its work. that was specifically put there for this event. i will talked to police officer in punta gorda. gave him our card. here how can you watch this. we can see what is happening without having to put people in harm's way. >> steve: mark, rather than

people think oh, storm chaser he is like in a tank that drives into the eye of the hurricane or tornado or something like that. you preposition cameras throughout the storm zone and now today you are able to look at all these images that are stunning. >> yes. that's exactly right. you know, i have got a family, seven wonderful children. they all want me to come home. and that's what this allows me to do and plus, look i. can be in all of these different places at once. i work with fox weather so we are able to tell the story across all these different areas to augment not replace what reporters are doing but this augments the storytelling and it's done in a safe way then we can get the science out of it later, how fast, how bad? what are the different patterns we are seeing it storm surge education, there is a lot more to this than just seeing the weather, especially after it is all over. >> steve: very smart. >> ainsley: thank you for it.

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♪ >> brian: we have a fox weather alert now to orlando where some streets are completely submerged and responders have been going door to door making sure folks are okay. >> ainsley: look how many mailboxes there are. ari, what are you seeing? >> yeah, you know, where i am, it's less of a water problem and more of a wind problem. so i'm in downtown orlando, still raining a little bit. although i don't think we are going to see any additional flooding issues from the rain because it's starting to move out. and i know the flash flooding was a very big deal in other parts of town. but, here, it really was the wind. you guys saw it was between about 2:30 and 5:00 a.m. on the west side of that eye wall came through nonstop brutal wind. look at some of this damage here. we just changed locations. and we have found ourselves some damage. now, damage like this is very isolated. at least from what we have seen. but, you can see at this intersection, two sets of stop lights have come completely

down. one of them is almost completely down. the other one is completely down. this is going to be -- it's going to take a little while to clean this up. the rest of downtown, just to give you an idea of what the damage is like. you know, you look down the street here, maybe we can get this a little zoom on this, jake. trees down like that. we're seeing a lot of, you know, medium size tree branches, some smaller trees are down. i'm honestly impressed at the amount of stuff that didn't come down here because that wind was just crazy while it was going on. but you can see some more tree debris down here. lots of that. all over the roadways here in downtown atlanta. now, the worst of the storm is over. but, it has such an impressive wind field. the wind is still gusting easily over 25 or 30 miles per hour. and obviously as we are trying to survey damage, it would be nice if the rain would let up a little bit, but, at the end of the day, it's a storm that expanded as it made landfall, remember when it was out in the gulf of mexico, you were seeing all those viral satellite images, category 5 milton with that tiny little perfect looking

eye. it got a lot more raggedy. it got a lot larger, bigger wind field. and so, that played into how this effected the orlando area. you know, when i woke up this morning. i was surprised to see we were actually in the eye wall. a lot of forecast models had it going south of orlando t definitely was a pretty tough hit here in the downtown area, guys. >> steve: okay. ari, i'm looking at the airports in florida. even though the eye of the hurricane has gone through orlando and is now out in the atlantic, orlando airport is closed, tampa's airport is closed. palm beach international is closed. miami is open though. far south enough, apparently it is open and ready for action today. >> yeah. i mean, i guess that makes sense. when you think about it. the storm came in from west to east it. went across central florida. and, you know, it's off the coast now and kind of moving away to the northeast. so the conditions improved a little bit quicker the farther toward the south and the west that you live.

but, you know, for the people that got hit directly by this, we are going to be talking about how tampa bay dodged a bullet as far as storm surge went. they still had significant wind damage. you saw saint petersburg and areas got the storm surge farther down to the south. this is going to be a very memorable storm. keep in mind, it's a different story and different areas. there are some different aspects to this one. i think one very memorable part of it, the tornadoes, i mean, that was unbelievable. i couldn't believe what i was looking at on radar yesterday. you don't see that every day. >> ainsley: we saw the police officers, it looks like they were changing shifts behind you, ari. it's interesting, you are right. look where ari is, there is no flooding. also in other parts of orlando there is. >> brian: 1900 flights were canceled yesterday, 2200 today. >> lawrence: florida residents waking up to destruction coast to coast. the state's lt. governor is going to join us, next. ♪ ♪

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