CNN host Anderson Cooper was drilled in the face with flying debris as he gave a live report in the midst the powerful winds brought on by Hurricane Milton Wednesday night.
Anderson experienced the Milton’s wrath firsthand.
CNN host Anderson Cooper was drilled in the face with flying debris as he gave a live report in the midst the powerful winds brought on by Hurricane Milton Wednesday night.
Cooper, who was posted up near the Manatee River, had attempted to explain how the storm was effecting the water when he was met with Milton’s wrath, thirty minutes after the storm made landfall on Florida’s west-central coast.
“You could see it in the light there, (the wind) is just whipping off the Manatee River. It’s coming in from the northeast and the water is really starting to pour over,” Cooper said.
“Woah, OK that wasn’t good,” Cooper added after he was struck. We’ll probably go inside shortly.”
The 57-year-old father of two later picked up the culprit, a rectangular piece of styrofoam that had blown from the river and directly into the reporter.
Cooper, known for his on-site coverage of hurricanes, took the incident in stride and continued his report of the water from the Manatee River rising above the river bank and onto the walkway above.
