October 8, 2024 • 5 mins
US correspondent David Woiwod joins Jonesy & Amanda live from Treasure Island, Florida.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Well. More than a million residents in Florida are desperately
trying to escape Hurricane Milton. It's been downgraded from a
Category five to a category four, but it poses even
more danger as it continues to grow in size ahead
of its projected landfall in around twenty four hours. This
comes just two weeks after Hurricane Helene swept through the area.
Channel seven's US Bureau chief David Woywood, is on the
(00:25):
ground at Treasure Island in Florida and joins US Now.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Hello, David, good morning guys. How are you good to have.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
You back on the show.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
David, Yeah, what a terrifying scene. Talk us through what's happening.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yeah, well we are. We're on Treasure Island right now.
So this is one of the barrier islands to Tampa
City there, so it's going to be one of the
first places that actually gets impacted by Milton when it
roars ashore in as you say, twenty four hours or so. So, yes,
it's tracking at about a category four at the moment.
It has been downgraded, but the fury is it could
(00:59):
still go back up to a category five over the
next twenty four hours or so, and then of course
all the damage that has already been done. We're just
driving through communities right now, and I'm looking at street
after street, block after block of these homes that have
just absolutely been gutted by the storm surge and wins
from Hurricane Helen. So these guys have already lost absolutely everything.
It is currently a ghost town because the entire place
(01:21):
had to be evacuated once again, and they're just about
to lose again the very little that they had left.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
And while that storm goes on, a social media storm
is going on as well, which seems to be coming
up on my feed that all the aid that they're
giving they're giving that to illegal immigrants instead of the
victims of the storm. Cell that seems to be.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yes, this is the yeah. No, sorry, I was sorry
to interrupt. Yes. It's become a real part now of
this storm. It's really sort of swayed into that political
territory now. And Donald Trump and his team have been
very vocal on this, and they have been making these claims. Now,
these are claims that have been hit back by Republican governors.
(02:03):
Republican governors in these states that have actually been hit
as well. And we've heard from Kamala Harris and Joe
Biden as well, and they have said so they've had
a very good relationship, and that every resource is now
being thrown at FEMA, that is the National Emergency Agency
and all of those organizations that are helping people on
the ground. So in fact, that has been called out
for being incorrect. Still it hasn't stopped Donald Trump and
(02:27):
his team from pushing that narrative. And as you point out,
you're seeing it on your social media feed. I can
tell you that a lot of people here in Florida
they're seeing it on their social media feed too. And
a place where there is a little bit of an
information vacuum at the moment, it's sort of taken center stage.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
And also, this is the hottest that the Gulf of
Mexico has ever been and even a regular storm amps
up into hurricane territory when it goes over the heat
of the Gulf of Mexico. That water is now so warm.
We're only a month away from the election and it
seems we're talking about eating cats and dogs and climate
change isn't even being discussed.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yeah, it's been pushed right to the background. There's a
lot of personality politics at the moment are certainly cats
and dogs and whatever else has been thrown around over
the past few weeks as well. I reckon that this
could even be the October surprise as well. How you know,
both sides now respond to this emergency disaster, and this
is going to be huge. As you pointed out, it's
(03:22):
growing inside as those hours go on. Now it's going
to be a huge moment for this election. We are
now under four weeks until Americans actually go to the polls.
Early voting has already started, so if they're going to
be voting on how they want their government to respond
in situations like this, it could, you know, be quite influential.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I saw some tiktoks of people in Florida in floods
of tears because the governor DeSantis isn't even taking calls
from the White House, and he claims that they've politicized it.
They're saying, you're politicizing it, and meanwhile people are saying,
can somebody help us please?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah. So we've heard from Kamala Harris today. She's actually
been on the view of the Daytime TV show that
was put to her, and she said that she has
made several attempts to try and get in touch with
Governor DeSantis and that hasn't happened for whatever reason up
until this point. We've also heard from Joe Biden today.
He said that he managed to speak to him and
(04:20):
he has praised to Santus and his response here. So
it's not actually what's happening on the ground that seems
to be the problem. It's the politics around it, and
it's the message that's being sold around that man.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
That's the thing with politics. What a mess? What a mess? Well, Dave,
you've explained it all to us. Thank you for joining us,
and we'll check you out on Channel seven News tonight.
You'll be giving you some more details now and throughout
the day as well.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
We will do. Thanks guys, talk soon.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Thanks to seven years US Bureau Chief Dave Woyward.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
There and in the midst of all that, more than
a million residents are desperately trying to escape this new hurricane,
weeks after the last one.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
People are believing that the thing about the money for
the legal immigrants.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
This is this. In this post truth world, Donald Trump
could say anything and people will believe it.
Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Well. More than a million residents in Florida are desperately
trying to escape Hurricane Milton. It's been downgraded from a
Category five to a category four, but it poses even
more danger as it continues to grow in size ahead
of its projected landfall in around twenty four hours. This
comes just two weeks after Hurricane Helene swept through the area.
Channel seven's US Bureau chief David Woywood, is on the
(00:25):
ground at Treasure Island in Florida and joins US Now.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Hello, David, good morning guys. How are you good to have.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
You back on the show.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
David, Yeah, what a terrifying scene. Talk us through what's happening.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yeah, well we are. We're on Treasure Island right now.
So this is one of the barrier islands to Tampa
City there, so it's going to be one of the
first places that actually gets impacted by Milton when it
roars ashore in as you say, twenty four hours or so. So, yes,
it's tracking at about a category four at the moment.
It has been downgraded, but the fury is it could
(00:59):
still go back up to a category five over the
next twenty four hours or so, and then of course
all the damage that has already been done. We're just
driving through communities right now, and I'm looking at street
after street, block after block of these homes that have
just absolutely been gutted by the storm surge and wins
from Hurricane Helen. So these guys have already lost absolutely everything.
It is currently a ghost town because the entire place
(01:21):
had to be evacuated once again, and they're just about
to lose again the very little that they had left.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
And while that storm goes on, a social media storm
is going on as well, which seems to be coming
up on my feed that all the aid that they're
giving they're giving that to illegal immigrants instead of the
victims of the storm. Cell that seems to be.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yes, this is the yeah. No, sorry, I was sorry
to interrupt. Yes. It's become a real part now of
this storm. It's really sort of swayed into that political
territory now. And Donald Trump and his team have been
very vocal on this, and they have been making these claims. Now,
these are claims that have been hit back by Republican governors.
(02:03):
Republican governors in these states that have actually been hit
as well. And we've heard from Kamala Harris and Joe
Biden as well, and they have said so they've had
a very good relationship, and that every resource is now
being thrown at FEMA, that is the National Emergency Agency
and all of those organizations that are helping people on
the ground. So in fact, that has been called out
for being incorrect. Still it hasn't stopped Donald Trump and
(02:27):
his team from pushing that narrative. And as you point out,
you're seeing it on your social media feed. I can
tell you that a lot of people here in Florida
they're seeing it on their social media feed too. And
a place where there is a little bit of an
information vacuum at the moment, it's sort of taken center stage.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
And also, this is the hottest that the Gulf of
Mexico has ever been and even a regular storm amps
up into hurricane territory when it goes over the heat
of the Gulf of Mexico. That water is now so warm.
We're only a month away from the election and it
seems we're talking about eating cats and dogs and climate
change isn't even being discussed.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yeah, it's been pushed right to the background. There's a
lot of personality politics at the moment are certainly cats
and dogs and whatever else has been thrown around over
the past few weeks as well. I reckon that this
could even be the October surprise as well. How you know,
both sides now respond to this emergency disaster, and this
is going to be huge. As you pointed out, it's
(03:22):
growing inside as those hours go on. Now it's going
to be a huge moment for this election. We are
now under four weeks until Americans actually go to the polls.
Early voting has already started, so if they're going to
be voting on how they want their government to respond
in situations like this, it could, you know, be quite influential.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I saw some tiktoks of people in Florida in floods
of tears because the governor DeSantis isn't even taking calls
from the White House, and he claims that they've politicized it.
They're saying, you're politicizing it, and meanwhile people are saying,
can somebody help us please?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah. So we've heard from Kamala Harris today. She's actually
been on the view of the Daytime TV show that
was put to her, and she said that she has
made several attempts to try and get in touch with
Governor DeSantis and that hasn't happened for whatever reason up
until this point. We've also heard from Joe Biden today.
He said that he managed to speak to him and
(04:20):
he has praised to Santus and his response here. So
it's not actually what's happening on the ground that seems
to be the problem. It's the politics around it, and
it's the message that's being sold around that man.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
That's the thing with politics. What a mess? What a mess? Well, Dave,
you've explained it all to us. Thank you for joining us,
and we'll check you out on Channel seven News tonight.
You'll be giving you some more details now and throughout
the day as well.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
We will do. Thanks guys, talk soon.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Thanks to seven years US Bureau Chief Dave Woyward.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
There and in the midst of all that, more than
a million residents are desperately trying to escape this new hurricane,
weeks after the last one.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
People are believing that the thing about the money for
the legal immigrants.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
This is this. In this post truth world, Donald Trump
could say anything and people will believe it.
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