Transcripts For FOXNEWS Live Coverage of Hurricane Milton 20241010

Bill thank you sean we are live here as milton is a major storm here in central and western and Eastern Florida tonight. Hurricane milton battering florida moving on shore making landfall as a category three storm 90 minutes ago downgraded earlier from a category five in the Gulf Of Mexico. Lifethreatening storm with a surge upwards of 10 feet expected in several areas of the West Coast. And its a very fierce. Weve got live coverage we will get to it right now. Steve has been in tampa all Day Adam is live in the Weather Centre. What are you seeing right now tonight cree. A sideways rain with heavy Wind Gust. The wind has been strong enough to snap small trees here with those being pushed down so you can imagine how difficult it will be for people to get around and rescuers to move around. With major distraction we arent seeing it in the buildings. We arent seeing Street Signs and is interesting to hear the mayor of Tampa Bay and Governor Desantis says going to be a few hours on your own for the next couple hours hunkering down and they are going out after that droughts below 40 miles per hour still having a few hours a real hardship with millions out po power. Bill im wondering about Daylight Tomorrow thats the first time we get a measure of what they have done to the West Coast. And Worstcase Scenario is just north of Tampa Bay which didnt happen as Tampa Bay is dodging the bullet despite the destructive already in here and in a Mobile Home here in the real worst of it is we could see houses underwater from a Storm Surge. Its really gonna be Wake Up and find out where the next spot in the morning is. Back to you later and Tampa Bay. If you drive 80 miles east from Steves Location which is orlando which is up next. Getting to Fox News Meter allergist and the Weather Centre throughout the day. Theres the coordinate is what we see and its about 60 miles south of tampa a huge part of the story. The top loaded Storms Everything on the north is where the heaviest rain is in the strongest wind has been. We sought recently 83 miles per hour. This shows you the direction of the wind all of it coming from the left and east. It goes overland running over the bay and pushing water out to see being the exact opposite of what you see a Storm Surge of their with a getting 10 feet and 15 feet a Storm Surge and then its pushing that will there. And then with the strong wind funneling out. So if you are south of this talking about the wind coming from the Gulf Of Mexico pushing on land with Wind Gusts here 60 or 70 miles an hour getting higher than that. Pushing in. Naples is 5 feet, Fort Myers, 4. 3 feet. Its a major Storm Surge the problem being you get to sarasota and smaller communities between Fort Myers towards Tampa Bay there just arent any agents. We wont know until Tomorrow Morning with 8 feet a Storm Surge we just cant be certain right now. If you look at the South Side of the storm thats the direction you need become a potential he big problem. Were dealing with this and with gusts getting up as it continues. Also with The Rain coming down taking out power is were seeing half A Million folks which i expect will continue because its going to stay a strong slime wind continuing to come down and thats where it starts to fall. We do expect that category two hurricane to stay a hurricane as it crosses the States Everything here includes Orlando And Wind from 75110 miles per hour obvious enough to take down with those Power Outages and on top of that i think its been the most active Tornado Hurricane that we have ever seen with 126 Tornado Warnings which is still feasible heading into the overnight hours. Bill adam i was watching you earlier today. Heard your reporting and a warning just means attorney has been spotted. Maybe it touches down on the ground but 120 and a Threehour Period just remarkable to me. It is and its not unheard of to get tornadoes when there is a hurricane but the size of the tornadoes at least the ones confirmed its not something to take lightly. Bill there is an estimate there could be as much as 18 inches of rain. I dont know if that will happen but adam do standby dont go far back there in new york. Lets go to Jeff Paul whos live for 20 minutes away from our location in orlando. Things are definitely kicking up now. Where are you jeff and how does it look . We are near lake Williston Orlando lots of unknowns in terms of what Hurricane Milton could deliver to Central Florida folks concerned about two things. Strong wind and what it can do to this area in Central Florida as well as the flooding. The route grounded 30 really saturated so with inches upon inches of rain falling on the heavily saturated ground you have flooding. On Blake Willis you do see intermittent wind picking up not very strong. Of rain has been fairly constant but the concern for a lot of folks is really falling trees without flooding. We spoke with a local who had been living here on Blake Willis the last couple decades whos a little concerned with the tourists and newcomers who have moved to florida arent taking this seriously. Until 2004 it was the case may people didnt think we would have a category one or what hurricane are in orlando and then we did. It does seem folks for the most part it a what youre saying where you are at Downtown Orlando but people seem to be listening to those warnings you dont see those people out on the roads. Has people from the Tampa Bay Area And people around Central Florida incurring down in riding this out. We drove out a little bit ago less than a mile away to go to a nearby Gas Station 7eleven which was open. They did avgas and folks working there seemed happy people were coming in getting those lastminute things like Water And Food and ice. Bill thank you jeff. The Attorney General in florida good evening to you thank you for your time. What are you hearing and what are the people in your State Need to know. Good evening i know you are there in orlando as milton is heading across our state. Im in the Tampa Bay area i think its heading from me towards you. We have advised folks to hunt kurt down as we are in the thick of it right now also do be comforted that we have plans for this not only rescue Personnel Law Enforcement officers ready to maintain order as soon as the weather permits safety of those first responders. Sometimes these storms dont meet the moment and that can be a good thing. I dont get the sense of this is the case it appears to me to be a significant storm with massive surge affecting millions on the West Side to your state. Is that your evaluation during this early hours of the storm . This was a storm that the Weather Experts tried hard to predict was going to make landfall on how fast it would be a Big To Storm would be and where the Storm Surge would be. Interestingly we saw tornadoes popping up all over florida on the East Coast even before it made landfall on the West Coast as we do know from speaking with the sheriffs we seen destruction from these tornadoes, fatalities so i think on the other side of the storm we will see some catastrophic damage affects and we will try to predict these things in warren but these things are unpredictable. We are more ready of course and we do plan ahead and make preparations theyve seen a historic amount of resources ready to go from Utility Workers to Law Enforcement personnel and urban Search And Rescue like you said i think this will be catastrophic and that it could be an assessment of not only damage at of property but life. And can you confirm reports of fatalities in st. Lucy which is in the southeast side of the state can you confirm that tonight week. I do not want to get ahead of personnel but i do know from Law Enforcement that theres been damage at the Sheriffs Office but they did at the responder they do believe there are likely fatalities. We will hope for a better outcome. Thanks for your time go to look tonight thank you. Bringing in Tyler Pain the mayor of Treasure Island in florida he decided to stay and ride the storm out. Good evening your Dew West of tampa i assume youre close to the water if not on it what are the Conditions Today . It it evacuates 6 miles inland from my office. We are still getting significant Rain And Wind their weve lost power as you could probably tell but i cant imagine what its like out on the beaches i do hope everybody did take those Evacuation Orders seriously pay only talked of your colleagues a mayor of clearwater said everyone left is that your red of your town also . Yes, i was out on the island around 2 00 today and it was a complete Ghost Town which is it is a good thing the people heated warnings because we were hit hard with hellion in the Storm Surge. Were in the middle of the Debris Cleanup and the contents from their homes or out by the road we had most of the homes in our city under 23 feet of water. So we tried the best we could to have our contractors clean all that up and do so in advance but that made Evacuation Orders even more important because all that debris is most likely flying around at this point causing even more damage. Mayor i met a whole a lot of people at a hotel in orlando over in the Tampa Bay area who evacuated towards orlando where they are getting smacked with this storm again. A few did tell me that hellion 14 days ago scared them they took it as a warning shot. So how do you measure that Reaction Tonight and when you consider the bay of Tampa Hadnt taken a direct hit and more than A Hundred years you can help but get a little complacent over the time thinking you are a pretty safe zone. What youre feeling on that now . Absolutely. My grandparents and dad moved to Treasure Island in 1970 so even residents here for over 50 years and thats what everybody said before hellion. There were plenty of people are didnt evacuate during the storm because before saying it had never happened here we Cant Experience Something like that. Coming off those heels of hellion experiencing it firsthand sharing sharing those stories with friends and neighbors of the terror they experienced with Water Hit heading into their homes and sleeping on the countertops while the water was rising i think encourage people to leave. I would have hated to see what wouldve happened if we had this storm without Hellion Right before because we wouldve fed more people staying on the island and its terrible conditions. Bill a great point unfortunately. Could look at daybreak mayor. Thank you Sir Nain getting to Ashley Harding and heading to milton and sarasota with her husband. Can you hear me . Yes. Okay great and i can see you as well. You did stay it was a direct hit. How would you make it through or at least how are you making it through so far . We prepared as much as we could we have our shoulders up and tried to tie things down. We had family who also decided to stay and we are hoping that together we can help there and be there for each other but it is scary as we are in the thick of it and its crazy. I dont know whats going on as her powers oh. Bill knowing its dark and you cant see much what you hear . You hear the wind coming for the show theres a bit the whistling outside. Its pretty scary ashley is your home built us Hurricane Specifications . It is which is one of the reasons we stayed and hunkered down as we feel safer in our home then out there traveling trying to find somewhere else to go. Bill youve got the shutters i would also imagine the windows are quite thick. Depth thick windows not sure if there Hurricane Proof per se but they are on. The houses made of cement. Hopefully its sturdy enough to sustain the wind and hopefully we are far enough away from The Ocean we wont see that surge although my family is houses on siesta so im not quite sure what we will go back to their. Bill last Question Hellion ripped through their profit weeks ago and scared a lot of people but not you. Why did you feel it was different . I feel like so many people evacuated because of hellion and were terrified and leaving. We knew that we could write it out and hunker down and stay safe so we didnt want to add to the chaos out there and take up new resources really. I know its a scary moment im wishing the best of luck to you and your parents. A beautiful that is on The Ocean. It took a direct hit. We will have to wait until The Sun comes up to figure out whats happening in siesta keep, good luck to you and your husband. Hurricane milton and extreme wind even at this hour. Window 110 miles per hour arising Storm Surge up and down the Gulf Coast we will get an update from the national Hurricane Center 40 minutes from now but in the meantime milton is a monster still out there. More from some of the worst affected areas with our reporters at the Fox News Channel and Fox Weather up and down the Florida Coast we will hear from all of them coming up this hour. Elief, the only topical with 4 powerful Pain Fighting Ingredients that start working on contact and lasts up to 8 hours. Live in orlando this special coverage of this Hurricane Milton is a stubborn force of nature moving across the state of florida with a number of updates to get through 1. 5 million without power downgraded to a category two but packing powerful wind of 110 miles per hour. The worst of it in the county of st. Lucy on the East Coast towards the south part of the state they were confirmed fatalities by way of the associated press. A senior Community Land with Mobile Homes 125 homes got destroyed from the tornado we mentioned a short time ago. The tornado was near Fort Pierce as i recalled from earlier today and there were reports about casualties down there that were unconfirmed until now. The sheriff of the county there showed a 10,000 Squarefoot Iron Building that was twisted into a crumpled heap by a tornado. Thats where the Sheriffs Office keeps its troll cars. Likely patrol is okay but there are confirmed fatalities in the senior citizen community. More information on that throughout the night. Then the other part of florida its on the eastern side from the western side and lets get an update on the conditions they are. Mike good evening what are you seeing and what are you feeling . Well, we have come into a safer area there is still been this ripping through under the area here i dont know if you can hear it as its just battering the area noisy night here brought a spec year old The Street were we talked earlier you see the mild debris as part of the building on the roof. Theres a deck of their going part of the fence out into the road being part of the Rooftop Deck there there is a bar in a pool and its a nice place overall but not Tonight Wind increases with height so with had reported Wind Gusts south with fear of 105 miles per hour. The wind up there might be even higher and rainfall as well as been an issue with a Flood Warning out for this Area A Flash Flood Emergency issue to going until 2 30 for part of Hillsborough County especially the st. Pete area when area had 14 inches of rain so far today with 7 inches in one hour. Thats why theres a Flash Flood Emergency and no reports of any homes needing rescue of this point. Emergency officials were pulled off the roadways for Safety Reasons so the wind is howling on the back Edge Year northwest part of the eye will which has been vicious with wind up to 90 miles per hour at the Tampa Bay Airport Power out and around 60 of customers here have no power. Could we spin around here ill see if i can show you this because its really phenomenal with the wind and the Rain And Debris coming through his you hear things crashing. Part of the fence blew through on that shot i thank you might have saw that. Mike if you need cover go ahead and do it. The governor has warned us for days there is debris from the last storm didnt get it cleared off and on enough they were worried about projectiles is this new and different. There is a fence on the backside of the lower level in the Parking Garage which is why we are here now that the surge is a nonissue closer by which is good but this is a Vinyl Fence not medal and theres nothing left except the post has been blowing out into the road these are pieces of adele Fencing Blowing by once again goes around the area with all that debris also sitting in all these neighborhoods. Unfortunately without the surgery it will not flow anywhere although some of it has been picked up and flown around with the wind going 100 miles per hour. Certainly the high Point Tonight as far as promising news it went south keeping the surge and will keep the surge down there is anything as it moves north out of tampa blowing it out of Tampa Bay towards the gulf. We could check the gage of Clearwater Beach and the tightest coming in but the water is 2 feet below where it should be which is a good sign from a certain perspective. A lot of wind still heading across the corridor getting rid of even more power as we go for the overnight hours. Bill find a good Concrete Wall to stay in next two. Mike has been covering storms for decades. Hes at a local beach just to the west of Tampa Bay on the North Side of the bay of Tampa Reporting live from the st. Lucie county. Now there is a Search And Rescue effort underway after 125 homes were destroyed by that tornado. The Search And Rescue is happening now in the dark of night. Also with me know the democratic congressman from florida representing the southeast side of the State Sir good evening and thank you for your time not sure if you are in florida or washington, d. C. , but i see your picture. Do you have information on whats happening in that senior Community And St. Lucie county . I am in South Florida about three counties south of st. Lucy not too far just about an hour and a half to my house and the story coming out of milton will be the triple whammy. Its the Storm Surge in port charlotte, the wind you are seeing in Tampa And Sarasota but its most known for the 126 Tornado Warnings in florida. Most in florida history, secondmost in American History after the 2011 alabama tornadoes which could be a very dark story with 125 Mobile Homes suffering a tornado people were in those so i dont have specific details on what people are hearing could be a grim situation there. Congressman i mean your description is right. Your state on both coasts is being hit by a hurricane. Correct. The director of Emergency Management and to Governor Desantis had talked about tornadoes and pass storms about how you have to pay attention because you might be in the outer bands but those can have tornadoes. Ive seen pictures of Tornado Damage across the State And Palm Beach County and other places. Im just posting opening the early news were hearing turns out not to be as bad as it might have appeared. Bill lets hope i dont know what you do tomorrow but what you tell your constituents. This storm will be with us all day on thursday and The Sun comes up after the storm clears and we are left to look around and see whats left. They warned us about the storm as a category five on monday. That quickly elevated in strength and struck as a category three but thats no souls for those on the West Coast of florida. Do you think it now did we dodged a bullet or not . I dont think florida did. I think its a very powerful serious storm even as we speak tonight. We will know if they retire the Name Milton thats when it goes down in the history books. When area may have dodged a bullet but thats at another area taking in the chest. So we are all fuller radians we will band together the real work starts when the storm passes the state will come in with firefighters and Police Officers coming in with wildlife and the Department Of Agriculture coming in as they come in to rescue people in need to rescue people as any medical attention and they start with the recovery. We went through this just south from where milton came in. Floridians are resilient weve been through this before doesnt make it easier while going through. They did say Hurricane Season would be a bad one and they were right. Bill ive covered many a storm over the last 20 years in your state. And member seven years ago there were 67 counties affected by the storm. It wont be all of them this time but its going to get close thank you for your time good luck to you in South Florida. Now to Robert Ray West of me 80 miles robert not sure where you are up i know youve had an active evening whats happening on the West Coast right now . Bill good evening from the West Bradenton area. The past two hours have been the most intense Wind Weve experienced in our Hurricane Coverage this Season And Weve been around from bermuda to jamaica to hawaii to the mainland. This has been the most intense and matteroffact Wind Gust above 100 miles per hour in the bradenton area. Earlier tonight we run the Manatee River Amount from where i was standing. We had a huge Pine Tree Fall during a Wind Gusts collapse on her vehicle. Everybody is okay and we are all good when we left that area we realized okay that also took out the power in the area. Weve seen Transformers Pop into orange and purple hues in the area. Theres also a Funeral Home to my left and to your right of the television screen. They have generators going but the problem and scary part of all of this in this pocket and over the peninsula is these nocturnal hurricanes. You dont know whats happening debris flying everywhere or if there is rain and tornadoes. Many of those throughout the day and what weve been doing is tracking this storm we started in Tampa Bay and made her way out to sarasota capturing the initial Wind Effects and water coming in before tracking it all the way up here into the bradenton making her way into Tampa Bay tonight does it ruin talking about the different correspondence as have you. Hurricane how lean to be so good ravaged the coastline and the barrier islands. Attacking those places and homes still on the side with projectiles there. We heard that before terrible situation these communities so many people love in florida. And those Power Outages over 1. 6 million customers without power we wont know the full extent of the damage its putting on the great state of florida until the light comes up and probably not even until the evening into tomorrow it continues in some capacity making things challenging which is why first Responders Cant get out tonight because they will not go out and these conditions and should not. I hope Everyone Stake that if you decided to stay you are hunkering down and keeping focus. That is what needs to be done during a situation like this its a menacing storm with milton throwing haymakers all night long and we just pray to everybody here in florida this ends soon. Along night in the Sunshine State for sure. Back to robert momentarily that adam has the latest in our Fox Weather center. Adam we talked about the tornado last time what you have now . Yeah, so the storm continues to track across the State East 15 miles per hour. The Wind Speed where you are a gust up to 54 miles an hour. Worst is obviously still yet to come as that center of circulation is the eastern half of the state. So still a category 2110 mileperhour wind. Let me take you back there real quick because of the upperlevel wind it was sort of frontloaded. So interstate four running from Tampa Bay towards orlando the Rain And Action on the North Side. Bill you are in it in orlando as a continues to intensify. But its along that line we have all The Rain. The purple boxes here are Flash Flood emergencies. There were Flash Flood Emergency declared across the Appalachian Mountains with devastation in North Carolina over the last week and a half to weeks ago. It is going to be dangerous in the Area As its been heavy for so long. Then its an area where the wind has been strongest with wind up to 83 miles an hour a whats interesting about the wind in the Tampa Bay area coming north and east. As opposed to water from The Ocean into the bay and goes into The Ocean. The Storm Surge which was forecasted in a lot of these areas with a reverse Storm Surge down 3 feet but again with The Rainwater coming despite the surge. Its fresh Ocean Water Flooding Tampa Bay on top of this. Heading further south you see the Wind Shift coming off the Gulf Of Mexico pushing this Ocean Water and onto land of maple theres naples at four and a Half Singing over 5 feet high enough to be considered a major Storm Surge doing damage with Fort Myers 4. 6. Is probably higher further north but there arent any gages there. Well have to see what kind of damage it is. I will leave you with this as of the wind is strong and that is continuing to push its way across the peninsula at 15 miles per hour. It would get more intense were you are shortly. Just wondering whats happening tonight. Right with Siesta Key among others as well as sarasota on and on it goes. Adam wheres the Storm Tomorrow when The Sun comes up 8 00 a. M. , where is it in our landor further east . At that point its further east but youre seeing the impacts even on the backside of that. I dont know if i have the map here but by 8 00 a. M. I think youre seeing this on the backside of the storm they doing fairly going. Good work here Trace Gallagher is covered many Storms Host of Fox News At Night joins me now. Trace good evening. As you watch this what strikes you as being critical right now special with the Search And Rescue operation underway and youre talking about this interesting your minds me and that two months after Hurricane Katrina down in New Orleans we were covering for months and then went to florida and it was on the opposite side of the state and it was supposed to hit almost exactly and it made a big turn there for several days rapid intensification heading around the state devastating palm beach. Of my numbers are correct at that point in time there was some 59,000 homes and businesses either damaged and destroyed because of hurricane wilma. One of those extraordinarily rapid intensification heading around the state doing incredible damage. When you look at whats happening in st. Lucie county. You will look because you know and i know and everybody else involved in this nose. There is no way to know whats going on there for several hours because there is no help to be given to those people. They can help each other if they are still down there but for outside help the common, right now its not safe and we have no idea what the causeways look like. We have noida how you get help in or out. Thats the big question is st. Lucy and that whole area going in Siesta Key 6 miles south of sarasota. You think thats where the focus will be on that. Tampa bay dodge the bullet as everybody was talking all night. We have no idea whats expected there and god bless the people in st. Lucie county because that is the big question in all of this. And you cover the storms and occasional tornado pops out. 120 tornadoes in florida. Imagine that. One day that minute. That means the tornado is spotted in the air. Somebody mentioned the torrent of tornadoes that Hit Alabama in 2011 and it was like that. Extraordinary damage done to the University Of Alabama and killed people. It appears its the same and you know if you have never been down to the area in st. Lucie county you know that there are lots of Mobile Homes close to the water. These are very, very fragile and it would be a mistake to stay there but a lot of people all right in this out you out that tornado, to video with the debris on the ground and it makes the carey is more dangerous. The wind is bad but the debris inside with that Tornado Connectivity there getting worse and that is the thing fatal a lot of people we hope the number is low. Bill you watch the track the storm and think if you are in South Florida you are out of the way. We are just hoping for the best. I know you will take over our coverage in about 15 minutes i will see you then. Thank you for joining us talk to you in 15 minutes. Over to sarasota no as the Florida Police Chief Rex Crochet i hope i am saying that right. Good evening to you. Hows the town and what you see him what you hear . Thank you for covering this. Its dark as were looking out the windows its black out there biting at the bit to get out there and save as many as we can and do an analysis of the damage. You are in the Eye Wall i dont how long that lasted, what did you experience . Intense wind on the sixth floor of the building a category five building. And there is a Bowling Alley above us right now as it was quite intense. And i think some people will agree they have the euphoria over and gets kicked in even more intense. You made an out the last time sarasota had a direct hit was in 1960. I know the Growth Youve had not just in population but in building and the way you made the community so wonderful. You would think 64 years without a storm directly hitting your town he almost feel like that, hey . You feel me in but the people around here have so many hurricanes that come and go preparing for everyone like its going to hit. We know we live in paradise and had to lock it down on this one. We all know its the storm of the century. It was hit with intense amount of Rain And Something dangerous about those storms. We spoke with ashley whose riding out the storm in sarasota. The shutters down. And the idea how many people decide to stay in sarasota . I cant tell you but based on the vibe out there a lot of people evacuated. And we felt pretty good and understand how that was going. Chief good luck to you through the night into tomorrow. Also whatever is after that. Bill nikki is with me now marco Island Resident riding out the storm. I know its well south of sarasota. What is your experience now . Its actually better than expected believe it or not. We were really scared of the Storm Surge when it was a category five. Thankfully us and everybody else saw it go down to a three. The Storm Surges down now ive been telling people about my Experiences Everybody has homes here and like i said thankfully the water is starting to reseed now but he is getting stronger my main concern is the water always speaking of the water you got quite the surge based on what i saw south the bill to protect awhile to keep The Ocean out on events like these and it didnt stop owners thats can help her you are . Its going to help like you said is going around the island i dont think theres businesses or houses that did flood. Were over the hurricanes overall im just glad didnt affect us to bed but still scary and dangerous with the Emergency Evacuation we have the Toy Toy Story house gave full to be savior see working the camera why did you stay nikki. Where a big family we always stick together went through en which was pretty scary and we had this house build for this we stay upstairs where we know we can evacuate their if worse comes to worse. I hope it works out for you. Thank you for joining us tonight theyre gonna need it. Millions were urged to get out as there goes to power yet again 1. 5 million. Many words to get out and many did. Including residents forced to abandon their new home weeks from their Wedding Day were trying to get a signal established here with Gabriel A Tom Embracing Campbell if i can do that i will bring them back right now the signals not coming up and you can imagine just looking at the Storm And Radar when he people are affected not just on the west Coast But Orlando and the East Coast. We fuss now is the st. Augustine Beach Mayor Sir good evening to you. I would imagine the wind is coming quite a bit first of all thoughts and prayers with our fellow floridians down in sarasota were here for you happy to help if you need it. Renault this is the strongest the wind has been about 40 height and 50 miles per hour the worst is yet to come we have the right hook as the Hurricane Exits over to the Atlantic Ocean get that back to us thats what im afraid of. Daytona will get rain how much do you expect mayor . Another 68 inches of rain expected about 4 inches this morning from the northeast coming down and touching the hurricane as it was offshore. Weve done what we can in this st. Augustine beach to keep our residents safe from flooding. You get a beautiful town i hope it stays that way. Dylan from st. Augustine one of the oldest towns in all of america here. Short break now and in a moment we will hear from the national Hurricane Center as an 8 minutes time we will get the latest update from Milton Tracking at 100 miles per Hour Category two storm taking up a lot of part of Florida West Coast East Coast we will try to get you an update on Search And Rescue operation in st. Lucie county. Based on early reporting it seems were dealing with our first fatalities from the storm based on the reporting we are getting from South Florida. A break as we are live in our lender with our coverage of Hurricane Milton continuing Onlt Thh . E Fox News Channel eddie. No fraser. Frank. Frank. Fred. 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Where are you and what decision did you make . Hello, thank you for having us. We are currently in columbia, south carolina. We made a Lastminute Decision to evacuate last night around 9 00 p. M. How was the traffic getting out of town . We did not hit any. I think Everybody Kind of saw the Evacuation Orders come through monday and early tuesday and they all left early, thankfully. We did not hit any traffic. You guys are from and are watching that Tv Screen Tonight and what are you thinking about your Home And Town . Yeah, its all terrifying. We just closed last week and just not knowing whats happening, with the power being out, none of the cameras are working so we cant see anything. We have neighbors that are staying, hopefully they stay safe as well. But i guess we will know sometime in the morning, whatever the damages, if there is any. You know, its got to be something else to watch that radar, barreling down into your town. You just think of you hope for the best but sometimes your imagination gets the best of you, doesnt it . For sure. We just closed on our home last week and we were living with my parents in their house and we were definitely hoping for the best during helene but we ended up getting 5 feet of water throughout our house. Our whole neighborhood really. We are hoping for the best throughout the area but obviously theres not a lot of coverage there right now as that is where the eye of the storm just made landfall. Where are your parents . They are with us in columbia. Okay, thats good. Thats good news because Siesta Key took a shot tonight. Im sure you are well aware of that. Have you guys thought about the big Wedding Day and what happens next and where this leaves you . A little bit. We know a lot of the friends and family who are coming down are staying on Siesta Key and a lot of them have already canceled the reservations, like, the condos have canceled on them and so we are now in a position of how many people will be able to make it because the Wedding Day will still come november second and we hope to be able to celebrate it with everyone we care about. Thank you for joining me tonight. Best of luck to both of you. You seem like two really nice young people. I wish you the best of luck in your marriage. Thank you. Thank you. Best to your parents as well and hope the best first Siesta Key. If youve never been, it is one of the most magnificent places in america during a sunset especially. An idyllic piece of america on the West Coast of florida that took a direct shot from the storm that weve been waiting on now for the past four days. So here we are tonight in orlando, we will see where we get throughout the night. It will be a Long Dark Night as i said earlier in the Sunshine State and then again tomorrow we will be dealing with the storm. We will find out what happens with that senior community and all of that those homes that apparently where 125 damaged during the storm as the tornado broke out earlier this afternoon. Our coverage will continue with Trace Gallagher in a moment on Fox News At Night and stay with the Fox News Channel and Fox Weatherford complete coverage of milton. This is quite the storm and its not nearly over yet. Live in orlando, we will see you again Tomorrow Morning on americas news. Trace good evening, Trace Gallagher, 11 00 p. M. On the East Coast, 8 00 in Los Angeles and this is americas late news, Fox News night. Breaking tonight, we continue the coverage of Hurricane Milton now wreaki