gulf beach communities residents are returning to bradenton beach to find many residences damaged oroyed smaller structures washed away. >> unfortunately we don't know the beach tiki massage we have known for that 14 years. airline shots showed the tiki hut in the middle of gulf drive a few days ago. >> up the beach in saint pete beach the storm arrived as they were still piling up debris with hurricane helene. >> military spread everything out in the middle of the road. road impassable. out here taking the blowers to get everything out of the streets no flat tires. >> the family is now repairing damage from two storms at their popular sweets shop on the island. >> sea salt water came in the walls so, we have to take them all down replace it. replace everything, the furniture and cabinets and everything. >> according to gas buddy, more than 8 in 10 florida gas stations were in service as of monday afternoon. but the tampa and sarasota areas were still lingering around 50%. >> it's been pretty difficult because, you know, lines are down the street. and then people are running out of g

it may be the direct landfall right here on bradenton beach.like something that would be a normal part of life. but when a hurricane like this comes in, it's a missile. it's a projekyll projectile. and that's the issue right now with all of the debris field and the piles. and not only bradenton beach, but other areas along the coastline that were hit so hard a by helene less than two weeks ago. all of the people mostly are off of the beach. we've been speaking to officers today and the national guard. they've got everyone out. people are listening. they're fearful. they're fearful of what happened two weeks ago. and then watching all the coverage in north carolina and that destruction. so we await, 15 feet, by the way, let me leave you with this, liz. 15 feet of storm surge, if, indeed, that happens, 5 feet above the top of this house. total catastrophe awaiting. liz? liz: robert, you just really crystallized how serious this is. thank you very much. you and the crew stay safe, and i want all our viewers to know that robert and the entire fox w

reporter: yes, but there's still residents in the dark including the hardest hit areas and bradenton beachduring hurricane milton and heavy winds battering some of the older single story homes and smaller structures were watched away. >> unfortunately we don't know the fate of our beach tiki massage and known for that for 14 years and the tiki hut in the middle of gulf drive a few days ago. reporter: according to the tracking service poweroutage.u.s. and approximately 200,000 customers without power and mostly in the tampa bay area and utility crews hope to have power restored to nearly everyone by the end of the day. 80% of florida gas stations have fuel but in tampa and sarasota, about half of gas stations are still empty. and on the atlantic coast, the man that road the storm out at his mother-in-law's house returned to his own home in the town of stuart to find an unwelcomed visitor, a small alligator swimming in his pool. he called state wildlife officers to come and remove it. they believe the gator had become disoriented in the storm, wandered over from a nearby retention pond and c

robert ray is on the ground in bradenton beach with more. robert?yeah, laura, good evening and to everyone here, the sun has gone down and the darkness descending on bradenton beach. meanwhile piles of sand and debris line all of the roads. this problem is all from hurricane helene, which came in 11 days ago. five feet of storm surge and winds ravaging the tampa area and the barrier islands and then as we know, hurricane milton formed out in the gulf of mexico and is churning right now as a category 5, 165 mile-per-hour winds, and, laura, there was no time to get all of this debrief off of the streets. so what is going to happen? 24-plus hours from now, when this storm makes its way into the land and we don't know exactly where the landfall is, but it is expected to decrease as far as the category, maybe a 3, maybe a 4, but that doesn't matter. it's the impacts. the swath of the storm is massive. and all of this debris that you see right now as the dark of night is falling on us, all of this will become projectiles, missiles from the wind, 120-plus

look at the sand piled up by 5 feet of storm surge two weeks ago from hurricane helene, bradenton beachlf of mexico churning, it is a monster, it's getting wider and it is training to the tampa area but look at this. the debris piles here. look at this. cabinets from businesses, sand, sea shells, the insides of homes, mattresses over here. all of this that has been ripped out of this community as the water rushed in from helene and the wind field. right now we are expecting up to 15 feet potentially of storm surge here. five feet did this during helene two weeks ago, 15 feet is what we may see with a wind field of 125 miles per hour. what happens with 125 mile an hour winds? you see this? pieces of wood like this, this becomes a missile. a projectile. going through the air along with the storm surge unfortunately and to give you an illustration right now of what they are up against and why there is mandatory evacuations, no one is on this island but first responders. this is about 10 feet where basketball hoop since. imagine five feet higher than that, that is what may happen here as mi

bradenton beach suffered some of the worst damage, heavy winds battered some of the older single-story smaller structures are washed away completely. >> unfortunately, we don't know the fate of our beach keeping massage. we have been known for that for 14 years. aerial shots show the tiki hut in the middle of the drive a few days ago. >> according to the tracking service power outage .us approximately 80,000 customers are still without electricity most of them in the tampa bay area. utility crews hope to have power restored nearly everyone by the end of the day. according to gas but he, 80% of gas stations have fueled that tampa and sarasota, 50% of gas stations still empty and atlantic coast the man who wrote the storm out at his mother-in-law's house returned to his home in the town of stewart to find small alligator in his swimming pool. he called state wildlife officers and they believe animal became disoriented and nearby retention pond and climbed over a chain-link fence surrounding the man's home. john, as you can imagine the homeowner is going to try to show up that fence even

we are joined i in bradenton beach, florida. surveying the damage what shakes you the most here?o go through this before the storm and then during the storm and then now today, and you know, we walk here on bradenton beach, this is all fresh sand brought in by the surg yesterday from milton. about four feet of surg. e. they never got that 10-15 thankfully and that's the way it came into land but what strikes me the most is just the swath of the intensity, and the damage. i mean, you're talking about a coastline, all the way from naples up into the tampa area and even north and then the interior of florida, orlando and then the other side, the atlantic from jacksonville to daytona beach, to "coco" beach. all these areas having some sort of impacts and deterioration from milton. it's just remarkable, and then the death count continues to rise unfortunately and i want to show you something. look at these piles of debris. again, i can't understate this. you know, this all is from helene two weeks ago, okay? another storm surge and another hurricane that came in, but when you have to

these are scenes all over bradenton beach. and according to the mayor, he says the community here will not play the victim card, that the will bounce back. we are seen neighbors come together. americans coming together and helping each other and being there for one another. as folks are just completely devastated. the scenes here of their community just completely destroyed by 2 hurricanes. and just look at this house right behind me as well. just completely destroyed. some of the homeowners say they when they return the phone notice 18 inches of flood water. other residents say they actually begin good in the inside of their homes after hurricane helene only to evacuate and then be hit by hurricane milton. so for residents further mainland, they're starting to get their power back in life is starting to get back to normal here. britain beach, as you clearly see, it's a long road ahead for recovery for the residents 82 beach. >> well, the national park service announced it killed a coyote officials say was responsible for 2 do

nbc's stephanie gosk is in bradenton beach with more for us.hanie. >> reporter: good morning, ana. life in hard-hit places like this in bradenton beach is getting a little bit easier. that shock of being hit by back-to-back powerful hurricanes is fading. what's left is the enormity of the rebuild. but floridians have done this before. when we talk to people, overwhelmingly what we hear is determination. for many here in florida, the devastation is just now sinking in. >> i have never seen anything like this. most people living here that are alive have never seen anything like this either. >> reporter: president biden in st. petersburg toured the damage and announced $600 million in federal funds for recovery efforts, including $100 million for improving florida's power system. >> we'll not only restore power, but we'll make the region's power system stronger and more capable and reduce the frequency and duration of power outages while extreme weather events become more frequent. >> reporter: the death toll from milton has risen to 24. nearly ha

but in the meantime looking at to go up through manatee county to see the bradenton beach access point and to see how that went? but otherwise, we have no other reports from the island. we have lost power and we really we think we were about 98% evacuated and so we don't really have any reports from the island communicate with any of those few who decided to ride the storm out town manager of all, which is really about 17 miles south of siesta key where hurricane milton came ashore at a category three. so we are getting those reports of a bridge damage just getting into those few people who decided to stay. but again, when the sun comes up, we'll see just how bad that damage is we will continue our coverage here as things pick up in central florida, hurricane milton moving east, we'll be right back week and ask questions like, what does a comedy show doing on cnn too much but i want donald now, can you slice that i got news for you saturday at nine on sheet today. >> let's paint with their america's most trusted aide brand, right? we don't have very well with bare, you can pay the whol

this is a live shot of bradenton beach, this got a heavy blow. if you think about it, this is the exact reverse of what we saw in the, the winds doing the damage, and in florida right now. costs are higher and higher. >> rivers are overtopping their banks. and active water rescues, and a number of pets as well. at this late date, still actively rescuing people from this storm. we've seen up and down on the road screens going through neighborhoods lifting debris, at the front of every house behind me. some of this is from a storm two weeks ago, some of it from milton, some a mix of two storms, this area was hit by a 1-2 punch, so much that some floridians say they could be ready to throw in the towel. >> i want to rebuild, get it finished and i think we are probably going to say goodbye to florida because we are getting too old to keep doing this. >> cleanup for many is underway, also without electric power, without running water, without air conditioning, no easy feat. back to you. stuart: thank you, for all your effort and your crew's effort by

nbc's stephanie gosk joins us from bradenton beach with the very latest. morning to you. >> good morning. bit by bit life in places like this in bradenton beach is getting easier. the shock of being hit by back-to-back powerful hurricanes is fading. what's left is the enormity of the rebuild. floridians have done this before. when we talk to people, we overwhelmingly hear determination. >> reporter: for many here in florida, the devastation is just now sinking in. >> i have never seen anything like this. most people living here that are alive have never seen anything like this either. >> reporter: president biden in st. petersburg toured the damage and announced 600 million in federal funds, including 100 million for improving florida's power system. >> will make the region's power system stronger and more capable and reduce the frequency and duration of power outages while extreme weather events become more frequent. >> reporter: the death toll from milton has risen to 24. nearly 1 million residents without power and flooding still a major concern in some

tornadoes out of hurricanes but it certainly happened and right there on your screen you look at bradenton beach, where the pastor we just had on. his church is there. give you the last 20 seconds here. >> bill: i would say on the video you see the homes on stilts still standing. maybe the construction in the last several years did it job. we'll see as the day unfolds, dana. good to be with you today. >> dana: take care down there. harris faulkner with "the faulkner focus" will take you through the next hour. >> harris: breaking news, the national hurricane center is coming through right now. you know every day about this time 11:00 a.m. eastern we get an update. that's if process now. we'll bring you the information when we get it on hurricane milton's torrential rainfall and devastation via the winds and dropping twisters from the sky. many of them well over 100 of them about this time yesterday it had just started with that. and by dinner hour in florida 125 and we are told to expect even more as that number grows and they confirm what hit the ground and what wiped out some neighborhoods, twi

what you saw on the golf cart where all that sand led out to a home, that was bradenton beach on theinto the bay of cam pennsylvania and general, i have to tell you, the initial assessment here is bad. i look at some of these homes and there is extensive, extensive damage, sir. >> again, the assessment is ongoing now. most importantly we're focused on search and rescue to identify and get everybody out that had remained. and then in parallel with that they'll start doing damage assessments and moving normally about 72 hours after search and rescue is completed we move into recovery move and assist state and local authorities in the recovery. as i've said, there is, as you see, extensive damage. a lot of the sand had already been pushed because of the previous storm. the state, along with the guard assisting them, did a tremendous effort really going 24/seven just prior to this storm to try to move as much debris and sand from helene away as possible so it didn't make the effects worse, particularly the debris that could be launched by hurricane force winds. it was heroic efforts on t

look at the piles of debris here in bradenton beach and the sand pushed up sea shell, people's businesses, people's homes pushed to the side. you see this all over the tampa area, st. pete, sarasota here in bradenton. all of these pockets were unable to remove it, liz, because of the fact that this just happened two weeks ago and then now milton, churning, a mandatory evacuations there is no one on this barrier island. matter of fact it is an army national guard and also the sheriff's office and we've been talking to them throughout the day. they feel like most people have taken the warning seriously and gotten out and people are afraid of this storm. no doubt. liz, up to 10-15 feet of storm surge is expected here. let me just put that into perspective. so helene brought in five feet. okay? and you see the damage around me. well, this is about the size of a basketball hoop. 10 feet. this structure. imagine going five feet above that, and having the water rush in from the gulf of mexico taking all of this pushing it and a wind field of 100-125 miles per hour which is potentially what we're

robert ray of fox weather is on bradenton beach south of tampa right now with the latest.ood evening, robert. >> robert: yeah, good evening to you, bret, and you see the push of sand and debris in here and boarded up windows. helene, go away. idalia for 13 months go away. milton, go away. and what is this indicative of? how many times this area has been clobbered by hurricanes in the past year. all of this sand, bret, pushed in less than two weeks ago by helene, 5 feet of storm surge, in fact, and you look at this, look at the debris fields that dealing with right now. they tried to pick all this up, bret. they couldn't do it because of the evacuations that won't in play and how quickly milton has spun up. unfortunately. and you see people's belongings with sand pushed around. this is indicative of what is happening across many of the barrier islands in the tampa area. less than two weeks ago, helene ravaged not only florida but we know the amount of deaths in north carolina and the tragedy up there. and so here's the deal, bret. 10 to 15 feet of storm surge is expected he

like charlotte, , lee, i think that like okay, you can say that that landfall is going to be in bradenton beach first of all if that's the case you're still going to get some impacts on that and you could potentially have series surge even 100 miles down the coast, but it also could wobble further south and we could get a bigger impact. floridians between those two, you know, they kind of get it. i'm also just look at and ellis county, place i've grown up, if you have a storm of this magnitude, it's not just obviously we want to protect people. we want no loss of life. it will create a lot of property damage but it's a type of storm that potentially can have an indelible impact on the community. there are some hurricanes we deal with that instinct have to do with it. you can pick up any move forward. then there's other storms i.t. hurricane andrew, like a hurricane michael in panama city, like hurricane ian in lee county that just leave a mark. i think people when they see that 180 mullet power, i know it is we can sense of income is projected to be even weaker by the time it reaches. that's th

in bradenton beach, florida, jonathan kerry, fox news. >> well, lots of clouds today here in the bay area as a system moved into northern california. and as you can see behind me, some measurable rainfall, maybe not in your neighborhood, but we were expecting the rainfall to be focused up to the north. and that was the case today, bodega bay, mendocino, you can see over a third of an inch of rainfall. santa rosa 0.21. healdsburg 0.18. so clearly you can see the main message here is the bulk of the measurable rainfall focused up in the northern half of the bay area. of course, all that cloud cover today had a big impact on not having an air show in san francisco, but tomorrow we are expecting improving conditions. but once again, low clouds, maybe some drizzle tomorrow morning and then we will have increasing sunshine, maybe partly sunny skies by 12:00, and then we'll increase the sunshine around the bay as well tomorrow afternoon. here's the satellite and the radar. you can see that system coming on board, especially up in northern california. and we picked up partly to mostly cloudy

in bradenton beach, florida, jonathan serrie ktvu, fox two news. >> early this morning, the fire is burning at the clean green recycling center. cal fire says a large pile of mulch caught fire and that firefighters are still working to stop it. several roads around the scene are closed, and we're told that due to what's burning, it may take a few days to fully put out the fire. hikers in the pacific northwest are collecting pine cones in the fire ravaged forest to help protect the landscape, they say due to wildfires, disease and climate change, some forests are at risk of disappearing without outside help. glacier peak institute is one organization that's collecting bushels of cones full of seeds that could one day replant burn scars across the region. one of the things that's happening in wildfire is it's burning the seed bank. >> i mean, wildfire is essentially destroying the seeds of the future. and so that's why there's this really intense focus on we need to be doing something about this right now. >> there are similar pine cone collection programs across the region, including here in

>> yeah, good afternoon from bradenton beach, white sands you see the gulf of mexico behind me and thatrricane milton is turning with a potential for catastrophic situations. but you see the debris field here is less than two weeks ago 5 feet of storage came in and let me just errors -- illustrate it, one, three, four and five it came we're ripping apart areas in his pocket of the sunshine state as lloyd offered will make his way across and you see the sand that got pushed all the way onto the street here, mandatory evacuations right now, robert. only people that are here our national guard and the sheriff's office patrolling. but look at the sand that got pushed and big vehicles move this to the side and pushed it up and you see -- look at the top of this ice cream shop that you're not supposed to be able to touch, they got a pylon holding up part of the building, all this from the surge in the ween from helene just two weeks ago and you look inside this ice cream shop. lloyd training his camera inside and you can see the chairs overturned in the mud and the smell of rotting dairy insi

in bradenton beach, florida, jonathan serrie ktvu, fox two news. >> the national weather service is issuing a fire weather watch for much of the bay area this week. it's set to go into effect thursday. high offshore winds and low humidity across the region could start a wildfire. fire officials are encouraging homeowners to finish up any yard work to help prepare for fall winds that are headed our way. >> you absolutely don't want to see those activities taking place as we push into that fire. weather watch. although we had cooler temperatures and rain this last weekend, it's quickly drying out with the conditions that we have now, it won't take much to get a fire going. >> firefighters say there are basic steps we should do to get our homes fire ready. things like keeping at least 30ft of clearance around our homes free of any flammable material. we should also check our electrical wiring for any exposed wires. >> all right. gasia. sal. let's go to steve paulson. steve, looking behind us, we're starting to see a little sunshine outside. >> yeah, the fog is retreating. that's a good sign if

advisory from the national hurricane center had it somewhere in the bradenton beach area, and manatee county. you could have a wobble either way. and i think one of the things that's been good is a lot of those folks down in southwest florida like in lee county and charlotte, they're used to seeing the wobble end up going south. and so you've had a lot of people that have evacuated from some of those barrier islands. so just know it's possible that it could hit north of tampa bay. it could hit tampa bay. it could hit south of tampa bay somewhere in southwest florida. but wherever it makes landfall there's going to be impacts far beyond what the cone actually shows now, we have made, as i mentioned yesterday pre-landfall declaration requests from fema, the federal government has approved a portion of our request. there are going to be landfall requests for major disaster declaration and individual assistance. and we anticipate those being approved as well we have 51 counties currently under a state of emergency. as of the 5 a.m. advisory. hurricane milton is still a major hurricane. it

the national guard yesterday was out and about going street by street in bradenton beach, to make surelooks like a lot of folks in this area have certainly boarded up. they have put the sandbags down, and they are taking the precautions, especially on the heels of helene. and the messages have been sent here. no one is in this area along the shoreline. we are certainly moving inward to higher elevation soon because conditions are going to deteriorate rapidly throughout the day, guys. >> dylan, thank you. >> stay safe, dylan. >> indeed. >>> all right, guys. let's turn now to a spectacular show in las vegas overnight. check this out. the iconic tropicana hotel brought down just hours ago. the so-called drop the trop implosion paving the way for something new on the vegas strip. nbc's liz kreutz joins us. she watched it all as it unfolded early this morning. hey, liz. >> reporter: hey, hoda. good morning to you. this was so cool. it was like a vegas magic show. one moment the towers were there. the next, poof, they were done. they used 2,000 pounds of explosive. four miles of detonating c

landfall in areas already battered by helene where mountains of debris already line the streets in bradenton beachd on the street. >> george: ginger and our team are in the storm zone. flight on fire. >> we have a fire in the right engine. >> george: the investigation after flames were shooting out of a passenger plane making an emergency landing in las vegas. we hear from some of the passengers on board. ♪ >> rebecca: travis kelce gears up for tonight's big game. will taylor swift touchdown at arrowhead stadium? we hear from the tight end. ♪ and i'll rise up ♪ >> robin: and southeast strong. help after helene. >> guys are hanging in there, right? >> we're hanging in there. we're okay. >> robin: gma is in the heart of the storm zone as communities come together to lend a hand in the wake of the deadliest hurricane since katrina. >> anything to help someone else and give someone something they don't have makes my day. >> robin: volunteers pouring in from across the country. right now what these people need most. >> we're going to look for propane, fuel, generators, heaters. stuff like that. it's up

we had a long stretch along the beach in sarasota, bradenton, 789 golf drive, and you have damage tohe roadway, you had five feet of sand, that got swept up in the storm surge. it was not possible. on saturday, we had negotiated an emergency repair as soon as the storm passed and we saw the damage but i said guys, we've got to get this done quick. some people were saying it was going to take a month or many weeks. i said that's fine, but you've got to do it quicker. so we were happy to have within 24 hours restored access to the longboat key section of golf drive and then last night i was able to announce that it took about 48 hours to complete all 16 miles of the roadway. is been cleared, it's been restored, the temporary emergency repairs have been completed, so now as of this morning, that is open for business for the residents and the businesses there. so we appreciate florida department of transportation doing that very quickly. that is certainly not the norm around the rest of the country. now since the storm has hit him of the state of florida has responded to request for a nu

it looks like it's going head-on as a 4 or more right in to, you know, tampa bay or bradenton or venus beachu know, all of that area that has already been affected. i'm wondering even in this, there have to be that play politics? even in this? >> no, it's a very important point. i think, also, i want to say as the daughter of two pastors that i have prayed today for the people that are in the path of this hurricane. i think it's a reminder to all of us that while we tend to view most things through a political lens, there is just -- we want human beings to be able to survive and live and thrive and be safe with their families, and that is why you shouldn't play politics with things like this. it reminds me of the moment during the trump administration when he shark beat over the poster to change the path of a hurricane. we are talking about incredibly important issues. it's literally life and death in certain circumstances and we need our leaders to believe in science, to believe that climate change is real, and to address these issues with humility, frankly, and just listen to the experts a

joining us now, "today" show co-host dylan dreyer who is in bradenton, florida, and chase cain in daytona beach, florida, and meteorologist angie lassman. bradenton was hit very hard. what are you seeing there when the sun rises? >> reporter: -- helene where the storm surge came up to about three feet. now, we did not get the storm surge here that we were expecting, but we did get wind gusts up to 102 miles per hour at the bradenton airport. we're seeing a lot more wind damage this time around. you can see these big trees just toppled over right into the streets. the crews were just here to tag the fact that the power line has been impacted by this tree here. so, you know, they didn't cut down the tree and clear the road completely because it is actually protecting folks from running into that power line that is hanging low over the street here. but, it is part of the reason why it explains that we have 500,000 people without people here, because the toppled trees come down and the power lines and we're causing just that ripple effect of no power here across the area. so, this whole storm syste

beaches and ft. myers and tampa and bradenton here and upwards of 15 feet and that'll completely overtop homes and destroy coastline un-fort fatly. the vulnerable beaches and that's going to be the catastrophe here and that's why so many folks have been ordered to get out because time is really has rub out in a lot of areas. no evacuations from key west and not asked if evacuate and it's not going to be a hit like they'll experience on the west coast of florida. stuart: afghan national arrested and charged with plotting an isis-inspired attack on election day in america and living many oklahoma city on a special immigrant visa and he was in the system. how did this happen? >> when you have over 10 million immigrants coming into the unit and impossible to vet them all and you do and allow people on the known terrorist watch list to come on in, yeah, they'll slip through and took only 19 people to perpetrate 9/11. one of the most dangerous times in america coming to terrorism and all due to the biden harris plan and enactivity at the -- inabilityivity at the border. stuart: never a suggestion or admission o

the police chief of holmes beach, which is just off of bradenton on the west coast, he was saying toorters there that any residents that are dumb enough to stay need to write on their arm a next of kin phone number in sharp pee because when they come back the next day to retrieve bodies,s they need to know who to call. the storm is going to the be bad. stuart: that was a strong warning. >> yes. got to the point. stuart whoa. madison, thank you. vice president kamala harris appeared on "the view" yesterday. listen to what she had to the say about what a she would have done differently from biden. roll it. >> what do you think would be the biggest specific difference between your presidency and a biden presidency? >> well, we're obviously two different people, and we have a lot of shared life experiences. >> if anything, would you have done something differently than president biden during the past four years? >> there is not a thing that comes to mind in terms of -- and i've been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact. stuart: all right, governor or -- former governor of

beach. it's going to happen somewhere near sarasota between there and i say venice, bradenton, anna maria islandl of that can be on the dirty side. watch as it goes quickly. tomorrow by the late morning/early afternoon it will be back into the atlantic ocean. let's talk about the storm surge though. on the west coast it's much worse even though jacksonville could see two to five feet. fort myers, punta gorda, sarasota and tampa including clearwater. we're watching the winds. anna marie 120 miles an hour. venice 74. that's 9 p.m. tonight. about 3 a.m. over orlando. daytona 74 miles an hour. we will see historic storm surge and unprecedented washing away of homes. you ask those in fort myers and they will tell you how bad it can be >> george: whit johnson is in tampa. >> whit: hey, george, good morning. emergency crews across the state of florida are preparing for this monster hurricane. but they are reminding people, if you do not evacuate, you're essentially on your own during the storm. they will not be able to reach you. as we noted earlier governor ron desantis calling this the largest mobili

pete, tampa, orlando, southwest florida, sarasota, bradenton with that gust of 102 miles per hour there, palm beach but this will ripple through the entire country throughout the day, you guys. >> tom, this was actually a really busy travel week, too. there are a lot of holidays, the jewish holiday, indigenous people's day on monday. how could the storm impact all that? >> reporter: well, the ripple effect -- let me just show you what we got in terms of the other affected airports right now. not closed but other affected airports on the misery map. miami, they're not closed, but they're affected. we've got dramatically affected in terms of flight cancellations and delays today and you work your way up the coast. ft. lauderdale is affected, atlanta, charlotte, then further up the coast, we've got bwi, dca, philadelphia, as well as newark and laguardia. and you're absolutely right. a lot of people traveling because of the high holy days for the jewish holiday, and so into and out of new york and out of southern florida, that will be an ongoing issue. the big caveat, the big variable is going to be ho

bradenton palmetto. it's finally on the backside of that. it's finally done. but now here, over here on the tone of beach, you see some heavier rain showers still coming on shore the possibility isn't zero that some of these small little cells here couldn't rotate tonight as they moved on shore with a little bit of a waterspout that zero but not 100 either. so yes, kinda keep that in mind if you leave your radio on or your phone on, you will know whether there's actually a warning for you still not too late for that to happen, even though the storm has really wound down most of the guests are not about 60 or 70 miles per hour. so here's the storm itself on the satellite lost all of the purples, lost all of the pinks, lost all of the higher cloud tops. so we're not talking about a big storm anymore, but we're still going to talk about four to six months. more inches of rainfall in places that certainly don't need it. there you go. orlando, most of the rainfall is where the wind is because the rain brings the wing, the wind down from the clouds. if you don't have any clouds, we don't have any rain. you're

bradenton is polk county. to look at these numbers, saint pete 18.3in clearwater beach 14in of rain. keep in mind less than two weeks ago we had hurricane helene. this was a big sprawling storm working its way up through the eastern gulf of mexico. yes, it stayed 100 miles offshore, but it produced a record storm surge in both of those places. so spots got flooded out by saltwater. that came from the gulf of mexico in the bay. and now some of these areas in a flash flood emergency are getting flooded out by fresh water. it has been a relentless a brutal run over the last couple of weeks for this portion of florida and even into some of the interior areas. temple terrace is northern parts of hillsborough county. they're well up over a foot of rain recorded, and that is just one hazard. we did see 1118 tpa tampa international airport, which closed down yesterday at about 8 a.m, a gust to 93mph. so yeah, a venice. that's the southern part of sarasota county gusted up to 107. egmont channel. that's near egmont key, which if you visit or you live in the tampa bay area, many people love go

margaritaville in fort myers beach florida just a couple of years ago, that areas devastated by hurricane ian and the margaritaville speech getting for winds and not as far as sarasota, bradentonst. petersburg and tampa. the folks watching and waiting to see where hurricane milton goes. now this. >> we don't know nothing about here. >> our livelihood and our business, where is that help with that? >> we didn't ever expect anything like this up in the mountains. that is for sure. >> my fiance is pregnant and i can even take her to the dock dr. now. >> sandra: carolinians overwhelmed by ravaged homes and destroyed roads there in plenty of frustration how fema has responded to it all. gerry baker and the student or an adroit large "wall street journal" and fox news contributor, jerry, what a day for joe watching massive hurricane to the florida coast and you have these residents in north carolina particularly reeling from that disaster there are two of the response from fema has been scrutinized and criticized. where have you landed on this? >> your heart goes out to people and examples of people in north carolina will be the same in florida. probably thanks to gove governor ron