it ended up slamming into punta gorda. would just horrible, horrible devastation just two years ago hammered well, right now but you can see i'm standing in the ocean, the storm surge here. >> you are the last couple of hours to ever probably i feet of water above sea level on this location. >> so you can imagine that the surge is probably about 17 rounds and still coming in and kind of coming in like a tsunami now, all of a sudden, in the last 20 minutes, we're getting strong winds here are very dry, not much rain in the case of fortunately here punta gorda right now, we do have power, but i'm in here that have surged into the downtown area expecting? it puts a gorda i understand you. >> whether never have predicted about ten to 15 feet of surge. i think we'll probably get around that ten foot of surge. we are on southern part of the storm. we are where the sturgill surge will be the most impactful here in fruit and gorda and closer you're out as well all the way up so we're. still i think i can expect another to come in

i'm sure throughout the course of the morning, let's now go live to punta gorda, florida. we're going to bring in charlotte county sheriff bill primal. sheriff. thank you very much for being here. actually, it sounds like we may have just lost our sheriff, bill from el who were hoping to speak to here to ask him exactly what many of those he is trying to help and rescue right now. so i while we try to track, our sheriff back down, we're going to continue to cover this breaking news, hurricane milton's are the latest from hurricane milton got throughout this morning stay with us eastern every single day using batteries equipment making the switch to battery with one of the best decisions that we made as a company headed. >> it's better to be ahead of it now and then get on it later built for you built for work right now by two ap3 hundred s battery he hasn't got a third ap3 hundred esper free real still find yours that henry meds provides hope i love henry meds for a couple i will resend very, very convenient for our patients. >> it's simple. you get online, you're going to

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based out of california it helps communities with disaster relief, geordie on the ground in punta gorda is team rubicon vp of operation, good to see you, thank you very much for being here, give us a sense of what you seen on the ground. >> thank you for having us all, great day to be a a shirt, were important punta gorda and we are seeing damage and as we move north we have several teens canvassing the area and multiple counties and we've been working in pascoe county as a result of hurricane helene and we had to do a safety stand down and the operation is getting back up and running we will see more ruth roof damage and a lot of inlet flood warning there is more to come. with milton. maria: there is more in terms of debris and terms of what, you're talking about the cleanup. >> right, obviously the cleanup, again with the end led flood warning's, there is still areas that aren't safe to go when and we will going quickly when it is safe but the other thing that is not debris it is not recovery this is an emotional toll especially on a lot of floridians as you alluded to the second majo

was talking about, the wind actually blew the water out of tampa bay, but it blew it into puncher gorda. it blew it end all the way from about sarasota southward. that's where the wins were on shore. and then from st. pete all the way over toward tampa, they were just winds out of the east and then out of the north. but look at st. pete at 18 inches of rain since midnight last night. and for clearwater beach, 14. so we know 18s, not really an issue. it's not like something that's all that can't be right. that must be something wrong if you get another reporting station within a few miles that says something very similar we know that that data is really probably pretty bad. still have flash flood emergencies anywhere from lakeland, almost almost all the way over towards orlando. we have a considerable flash flood for orlando, but this area this is larger than three or four counties combined and it is all in an area that had ten inches of rain or more since midnight. so there's not really like a small little neighborhood that got ten and it can run off. where's it going to run? because th

it ended up really hitting punta gorda very, very hard. i have no sense of how this storm compares to others. we won't know that as the administrator said, until later, but the power of this one is it's certainly making itself known right now, kaitlan. >> yeah, absolutely. anderson, please stay safe. thank you all so much for joining us. don't go anywhere. our breaking news coverage will continue. cnn news night begins right now abby philip alongside my colleague, anderson cooper, who is in the middle of hurricane milton, right now in florida, this monster storm making landfall tonight and it is right now rocking cities on florida's west coast. we've got our reporters fanned out at areas all across the state that are being hit the hardest tonight. but first, we're going to go to anderson in braden town. anderson anderson take it away. you are now seeing so much wind, so much rain. tell us what you're experiencing bradenton this is a community that than was expecting a bad head and it's certainly that is what we have been seeing over the la

it will say, for instance, it's punta gorda, it's answered in hendry county. it will show up punta gorda, so the people know immediately, i am receiving a call from another area. there's something wrong. they are still, all of our dispatchers are trained, our coordinators are trained underneath the department of health certificate so they have all of the things standard training throughout the state of florida that is required statute. so they can take that call is good in hendry county as they can in charlotte county. they will transfer that information. we have redundant systems all across the state. we still have cold war era technology that are copper lines that go through every single emergency management agency in the city, i'm sorry, in the state to another emergency management. that will come in, they will pick up that hot line, call that next county over and say, this is what's going on. and then people will respond to that. gov. desantis: also, i think what you've seen in the past is, um, there is a redundancy and if somebody and, if there is 10 feet

i will talked to police officer in punta gorda. gave him our card. here how can you watch this. 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: ve

in punta gorda, bts carried bye tornado warning a wide the sta florida's record for tornado warning issued in a single t end, more than three dozen tornadosorted on theou. this giant twister in palm beach. i with one in their car. they just pulledhe tornado was suddenly right over them. tonight here, the devastation across this state, the rescue efforts still underway at this hour, and the families who are surviv this. >> david: tonight, millions across florida are getting their the catastrophic damage and widespread flooding caused by hurricane milton. roaring ash a hurricane,ringingpowerful 120ho landfall in sarasota county at 8:30 p.m. eastern last night as we were on t air. >> milton just made landfall. >> david: the winds howling. ceways. tell you the winds hav you can see it blowingd us. >> david: tonight, at least 10 death from the storm and that number is expected to grow. >> this evening more thany 3 million people in f are power. oh,here it was! >> david: transformers exploding, streetlights through the roof of this home. in downtown st. petersburg, trs. the rooff tropicana fihom

we know there's flooding and naples we know there's flooding in punta gorda and all the way up toward port charlotte. we know there's water that shouldn't be where it is. and then if you get down to the other side where the wind was blowing offshore, tampa, that's why you blew all the water out of tampa bay, just like brian todd was talking about. but in the meantime, it was reigning. and in st. petersburg, they picked up 16 inches of rain today alone, up toward lakeland, more than ten inches of rain has already fallen. and look at this stripe of purple. i want you to notice that the purple is ten inches of rain or more there's orlando, maybe orlando executive right there all the way back to tampa. now, if we ever get a white part in there, that will be 20 inches of rain or more, just in 24 hours so far so good on that. but i mean, you know, i mean ten to 12 is plenty and the problem is, it's not ten to 12 in a neighborhood that it can run off its ten the 12 over an entire county. where is it going to go? just to the low spots. and that's where the problem is, and that's why we have t

petersburg. >> we're in one of the barrier islands in the gorda mouth of tampa bay these two people despitet officials have said, we're in evacuation zone a here, this is going to be the worst storm firm area or the tampa bay the greater tampa bay area. they said, look, we're high above the ground. we are in a cement structure. we believe that we're safe. now, what you're seeing are this bridge, this is, that is the dawn saves our hotel right there this is pretty much far as you can get. >> you cannot go further. >> these cars that you see here all of this area was really devastated and leave the storm surge really did a number on these barrier islands and so what age or concern is, is that the debris that is still up in front of these houses that they have been trying to clean up. >> these votes that you see still in their dogs that were not picked up by helene their concern is that is going to come over with the storm surge with the wind knocked out windows some of these people have stormed stutters some of them have hurricane windows one person we talked to you doesn't have hurricane win

they were supposed to hit tampa and then it onto gorda think it was just really devastated when the gorda charlie, ian, irma. >> we've been looking at five in the past, but they end up going south and we've just really locked out. >> you were working at the hospital during hurricane helene and watched your house flood in real time on cameras posted around your home are showing some and those pictures first of all, how much damage did it sustained, but also what does that like? seeing that in real time happening to your house while you are at work? >> you know it's. not fun. but there's nothing that i can do about it. we knew that this was going to be a big storm with big storm surge. and we did our best to prepare ahead of time, we hired movers, we had stuff in trucks obviously, we couldn't get everything out as you can see, it kind of floating around the living room. but it was it was tough i wasn't a biggest i'm not a big fan of watching that kind of damage to our house. we ended up with close to four feet of water throughout the house and we've had to gut it in all the drywall cabinets

so to punt a gorda sorted fort myers, there was a lot of flooding south of the landfall not northern landfall because the wind was blowing the other way that st. pete and st. pete beach over 100 miles per hour with gusts there and on top of the tropicana field i would suspect because the wind goes up with height in a hurricane, you it might have been talking about gust of 110 to 115. and think about why a plane flies. because the top of the wing is farther around the bottom of the wing and it gets faster because of that little foil there. well, that's probably what happened with that too. the winds on top of that tropicana field likely exceeded 120 miles per hour. st. petersburg 18 inches of rain today alone, and then all the way over toward lakeland, we still have the flash flood emergency going on there. the rain continues just to the east of orlando as you saw with victor look at this stripe of purple. now there's no white in here. white would indicate more than 20 inches of rain, but i've large area here of greater than ten inches over the entire state from east to west, all the

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it ended up really hitting punta gorda very, very hard. i have no sense of how this storm compares to others. we won't know that as the administrator said, until later, but the power of this one is it's certainly making itself known right now, kaitlan. >> yeah, absolutely. anderson, please stay safe. thank you all so much for joining us. don't go anywhere. our breaking news coverage will continue. cnn

it will shut punta gorda. the people in henry county know automatically okay, i'm actually receiving a call from another area. there is something wrong. all of our dispatchers are trained. our 911 coordinator's are trained underneath the department of health certificate. we have all the same standard train throughout the state of florida that's required statute. they can take that call just as wellin henry county as they will in say charlotte county. we will transfer the information. we have redundant systems all across the state. we sill of world war ii cold war era technology copper lines that go from every single emergency management agency in this city arms are, in the state to another emergency management that will come in. look at the information. they will pick up the hotline bread they will call the next county over and say this is what's going on. newman people will respond to that. >> also what you have seen in the past there is the redundancy. if someone -- of those 10 feet of storm surge somewhere

they didn't confirm that and is areas like punter gorda and fort myers where the storm where it's toughect the area which was built to protect the area after it got smacked ten years ago -- 20 years ago. if you had 80 miles west of here and if you and 50 miles to the east of here that's where get up to around 18 inches of rain tonight and through before the storm exits the other side. there is power outages is that number will skyrocket throughout the night. and the important thing is this. the west coast of florida it's not the immunity you feel when you visit there are live there her vacation there it sure feels like when you go decades without feeling a storm of the magnitude tonight it's the west coast a central florida feeling insignificant ways. it's a long dark night in the sunshine state. we will wake up the things we didn't want to see 13 days after hurricane hellion. >> sean: i wish there was better conditions for everybody especially on the west coast. none the east coach daytona through jacksonville need to watch for the storm surge all is well. we now take you back on the g

punta gorda gusting at 71. the high's gusts we've seen was the 102 in sarasota. this was the latest from the hurricane center. still a category 2. we think it will exit the coast around 7:00 and fly across the state. tomorrow the storm will be mostly over for everyone. first responders can get out at first light and we can see how bad the damage is and who needs the most help. 17 tornadoes that were reported. the one around vero beach was severe. a tornado we would get in the springtime. no more tornado watches because they've been drop. the storm is making its way through the heart of florida. >> thank you. we will check within dish with you later. let's bring in jessie kirsch from sarasota, florida. what's going on there ? >> reporter: we are still in the eye wall. conditions are spreading out. these powerful wind gusts are coming through but with less frequency and more gaps in between them. let's look at this side. a shed here and the siding that's ripping and you can hear clanking and parts of that have been scraping across this parking deck and creating a m

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 b

here, punta gorda, 8 to 12 feet of surge.nds 120 miles per hour. the storm might be lopsided with a lot of wind on the north side. i'm still concerned about orlando. look at daytona beach. thursday, 6:30 a.m., 74 mile per hour gusts. will have a lot of rain, tornados. i'll get into all of that. >> michael: all right, ginger. thank you very much for that. we're going to turn to prosecutors from 13 states and washington, d.c. suing tik tok claiming the app is harming the well-being of children. andrew dymbert is here with more. good morning, andrew. >> reporter: good morning, michael. social media giant tik tok is being called digital nicotine for its effects on millions of american children and teens. this as more than a dozen states file suit against the digital platform. the lawsuit taking aim at tik tok's algorithms accusing the platform of being designed to addict young users by being able to endlessly scroll through content and leading to profound mental health risks including depression, anxiety, sleep loss, body dysmorp

what is so heartbreaking about this is punta gorda in my district just got flooded by hurricane helene were down there last week touring some of the devastation and these businesses were rebuilding and ripping out drywall and now all of them got flooded again. siesta keys another great example was recovering from hurricane helene, got flood, got huge storm surge and they were at the eye of the hurricane. i have seen some footage but it doesn't look too bad from a storm surge in siesta because it could be south of the eye. but you have got all these people recovering from two weeks ago getting hit by hurricane helene who now have all gotten hit again it's very, very challenging. >> todd: people suffered in helene, people are suffering now and are going to be suffering in the days and weeks and months to come. yet, you have the white house, kamala harris says are we concerned about misinformation or disinformation when in a briefing with the fema director, instead of talking about the response. and then you have a reporter asking a ridiculously opinionated and bias question why do you th

will it be punta gorda, will it be fort myers again like two years ago with hurricane ian? people in harm's way with this hurricane than there were with ian, and the storm surge could be equal or worse, and that's why the message is, if you live at the coast, you must run from the water. you must evacuate the coastline if you're asked to do so. set aside your bravado, set aside your past experiences. quote, i have lived here 30 years and nothing has ever happened. well, you know, sometimes the worst does happen and you need to be ready for it. >> yeah, and complacency can be very dangerous, but also even worse, john, there's a lot of misinformation about hurricanes, especially in the wake of hurricane helene. for example, marjorie taylor greene, a repeat offender, posting this on x yesterday. that's on the screen. she's saying climate change is the new covid. ask your government if the weather is manipulated or controlled. john, it seems like an obvious thing, and yet, maybe not that obvious to some. how dangerous is it to be spreading these kinds of lies and conspiracy the

south, if you remember, we were waiting for charlie and tampa and it was weighed down here in punta gorda and so that can happen. it can turn they still do when they get close to land they can turn flood watch in effect, obviously four to eight inches of rainfall. some models now predicting probably in the neighborhood of about 15 inches of rainfall. and that's just the freshwater for flooding that's possible from alberto to barrel, the very earliest category five in the atlantic, to milton, the very latest category five ever in the atlantic ocean, judge, that's unclear, just unclear. when do you expect it to make landfall? >> midnight, wednesday night, thursday morning. okay. so it will be it will be making significant damage by our time on wednesday night show that you and i will beyond alright. >> chad myers. thank you very much. gonna have more on hurricane milton later in the program, as well as reporting from the areas worst hit by helene in north carolina where the death toll it's still a climbing and to that point, fema today said the agency has enough funding to handle the respon

, storm surge in fort myers, already going into the area around fort myers in an area called punta gordaevastating hurricane hit two decades ago. here in orlando, if you think about it. at the moment, we got a little break in the storm. we have had band after band of rain throughout the day. we seem to be getting a bit of. for most of the day on thursday. so i talked about the southeast and the southwest, and you mentioned just how large and how dangerous and how much damage this storm can incur here. if you were to go 50 miles due east of here. you hit daytona beach. there are some predictions daytona could get 18 inches of rain by this time tomorrow night. so we have gone from the west coast to the east coast down to the south. there is a hurricane here, laura, i think it was 2017, hurricane irma. irma came up the west side of florida. it impacted 67 counties in florida. all 67 counties were impacted by this hurricane. earlier today at day break governor desantis said 51 counties will be affected by this storm. that gives gives you a sense about how large this will be. the florida divi

we're not going to put a center on it, but if that happens, sarasota, bradenton, venice, down to punta gordae coral-fort myers is on that right side where the water pushes and pushes one tick north. if this goes into, say, tarpon springs or something like that, which is on that kind of north of clearwater. tampa bay takes that direct onshore flow for a long time. wednesday night into thursday. high tide is early thursday morning. that combo. it's unprecedented. >> well, that is a whole lot of concern. and of course we'll be thinking good thoughts over the next few days. i know this is going to be a rough week for those folks in florida. thank you, and we'll be watching you, when you have moderate to severe eczema, it's okay to show off. with dupixent, show off your clearer skin and less itch. because you have plenty of reasons to show off your skin. with dupixent, the #1 prescribed biologic by dermatologists and allergists, you can stay ahead of your eczema. it helps block a key source of inflammation inside the body that can cause eczema to help heal your skin from within. many adults saw 9

life science logistics, 310 north galloway road lakeland. 43281 cypress parkway in punta gorda. the wire grass ranch sports camp, 3021 sports coast way. wesley chapel florida. that site also has capability to service special-needs individuals. kevin is working setting up a separate site. state-supported shelters to have generators you want access to power. i think your star link at those. they have starley catered it. it's not the four seasons but there are some things there that will make it tolerable to get to the next 24-36 hours. you can find the shelter options at floridadisaster.org/shelters. you can also find your counties em page that floridadisaster.org/county, floridadisaster.org/counties. people have time now to evacuate if they are in the area of an evacuation zone. you see the storm as very strong category for back. i said from the beginning the prognostications are it's likely going to weaken before it hits but it may not. even if it does it still going to be a major, major impact pick you still have time now to make decisions to protect yourself and your family. m

punta gorda siesta key. these are the areas that need to be paying very close attention. the eye of the storm now becoming visible on radar. this is the key west radar. so really when you see that on radar, it really, really starts to highlight the amount of time that we have available to us because there's radar beams can only stretch so far satellite we're taking it from space radar, we're taking it from a beam from the ground. >> so what we're looking at now is a storm surge warning map. and i want you to take note that we know the obvious here, right? western coastline, the gulf coast of florida under storm surge warnings, but also note what's on the east side. that is also a storm surge warning. this will cross over the peninsula and also bring up the seas and the coastal storm surge on the other side of florida. so devastating next 24 hours really really, truly busy 24 hours ahead for you to meteorologists everywhere, derek, thanks very much for no final hours before landfall. take a look both physically and emotional they were all ready picking up the pieces on flo

bay and still the water still well pouring toward where our randi kaye is pouring into the punter gorda areas still water rising in fort myers and it's so somewhere even down there, about a five-foot surge. there aren't any or many surge warning detectors here. so we don't really know if there really was a ten foot surge and probably until daybreak, anderson i mean, i'm really struck chad by the water has risen now probably two inches around me. >> it just last couple of minutes this is like standing in the ocean. i mean, no, they're just waves of water lapping ashore while that is ocean water, it really that is not river water. >> the river water would have already been pushed out. >> so now you're starting to get the ocean water, the gulf of mexico water and it is pushing into tampa bay and into your river and then up your river. >> so we are going to see, now, we looked at that at that board manatee and there was about a three foot surge, a positive surge, not the negative surge. talked about. there with brian, todd's piece. but what we're seeing now is the water beginning to come ba

want to look directly into the camera, sarasota englewood, venice, port charlotte, punta gorda. these are the areas that need to be on high alert for some of the most extreme impacts from this hurricane because of the latest trends this is the forecast track again, a landfall in category four hurricane that is new from the 5:00 a.m. update from the national hurricane center as it makes its final approach late tonight and into early thursday morning, you can see it here on the map. it will quickly sweep across the florida peninsula, bringing devastating impacts not only on the coast, but throughout the interior of the florida peninsula. we are already noticing on the key west radar the eye of this very compact very intense major hurricane and the national hurricane center identifying that as well, because of it's symmetrical appearance on radar and on satellite. so this is a wind forecasts and i want you to see how its bubbling out in size. it is expanding in size. so the impacts of the storm will be felt 100 miles, 200 miles to the north 200 miles to the south. so it's not just

catastrophic levels of surge from tampa on south, we're talking sarasota, venice, port charlotte, punta gorda this is here's how high it could get there. and when you see the surge, this surge in relation to just an average human in a, in a normal sized room. it is clear why officials are saying get out now yeah. >> kate, even with warnings like that and demonstrations like that, there are some people who are choosing to ride out the storm with us now is brigitte stone, but who lives on santa island and we should note said about was cut off from hurricane ian. i mean, you've been through things like this before yet. you were choosing just stay with storm surges that could reach well over ten feet why do you make that decision decision each time. >> it's just we just don't leave. we just don't leave our home why not? we haven't at on any of them charlie irma helene ian is it important for you to stay? >> i think the most important thing is that we know we won't be able to get back. that's the that's the number one reason number two is there withstand the storm than, you know, live in an arena

venice all the way down to punch a gorda down to fort myers.do know that that swear the surge happened didn't happen in tampa because the wind was actually offshore here. and onshore here. that's how surge happens. so we still don't know exactly what happened down there. we likely won't even know until morning when we get some pictures either some aerials or something on the ground, whether there was is that ten to 15 foot surge? it is likely this storm was a category five for a very long time, building up that surge. and i use this earlier and my wife told me i was corny. but if you take not the first time, but if you take a cup of coffee you take a cup of coffee and you blow on the top fuel going to see a little ripples on the top of your coffee. and they're going to blow to the other side of your coffee cup and that's what storm surge is. you're just taking wind and you're blowing little ripples of water, a little ripples of water all the way to the coast. and then it hits the coast and the coast gets in the way and the water goes on that's

they're very close to sarasota punta gorda florida. victor, tell us what you saw through the night and what we expect as the sun starts to rise yes through the night we saw some pretty strong winds and we saw some heavy rain just like the rest of the state. now, the peak we saw from the wins was about 74 miles per hour that registered at the orlando international airport and gust were added the worst that consistent around 40 miles per hour. you can see now that the wind is almost stopped. there's just a soft breeze. it's not even really registering in these trees behind me and just a drizzle, but that could change at any time because two to three inches more rain are expected for orlando and central florida over the rest of the day. this event, as it relates to the flooding that's potential for this part of the state is not over. we just checked in. you talked about those more than 3 million customers across the state who are without power here in orange county, that number here is getting closer to 100,000 at 93,000 right now, just a

bueno, digamos, en nÁpoles o en fort myers o en en punta gorda, en port charlotte.o difÍciles cada vez mÁs. quizÁ hasta de predecir, no es cierto? se abren muchas preguntas para el futuro de un estado como florida o quÉ piensas tÚ? >> no totalmente, totalmente. o sea, esto va a seguir ocurriendo y va a ocurrir con con mÁs frecuencia y mÁs severidad. ya la evidencia cientÍfica indica que estamos viendo mÁs huracanes de esta magnitud, o sea, categorÍa cuatro y categorÍa cinco alrededor del mundo. no es que ojo, no es que haya mÁs tormentas y mÁs tifones y mÁs huracanes como tal. o sea, el conteo, el recuento de todo. no es que estemos sumando un nÚmero total de ese tipo de tormenta. el el el detalle es que una mayor proporciÓn de las tormentas tropicales que se forman alcanzan estos niveles violentos, catastrÓficos, severos y entonces, para un estado como florida. para contestar tu pregunta. quÉ significa eso? o sea, la resiliencia, la adaptaciÓn al a las a los sÍntomas del cambio climÁtico? eh tiene tiene sus lÍmites? no. o sea, quÉ tan resilientes podemos ser? debem

port charlotte, punta gorda, captiva, sanibel. the surge here from helene six to eight feet.c. >> george: special edition of pop news time. let's go back to will. >> reporter: hello again. we've got a football focused edition of pop news. i am here in kansas city, arrowhead stadium. we will begin by wishing a happy birthday to a man well known around these parts. travis kelce turning 35 years old over the weekend. he had a big party to celebrate. the three time super bowl champ had a slow start to the season but he was back to his old ways last week. he and the chiefs hope they can keep it going on "monday night football" against the new orleans saints. travis' friend taylor, who you may be familiar with, was not at the past two chiefs games which has led to people wondering where she's going to be? travis answered himself. >> she will not be here right now. i know she's coming here for the game. >> reporter: there you have it. she will be here. she was not at the birthday party but she will be here. there will be a game on the field tonight. kelce celebrating with patrick an