Morning Comes After Milton

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fox News Radios. Evan Brown on Hurricane Melton. Evan is
down in Florida. Evan, good morning. How bad is it?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Good morning? It is bad? You know, this is the
state has been pummeled pretty hard by this. And just
to sort of demonstrate how widespread these things can be,
there were a number of tornadoes spawned off by this
thing over the course of the last twenty four hours,
and one of them was in Port Saint Lucie or
the Port Saint Lucy area that's on the east coast,

(00:29):
kind of north of the Palm Beaches, not in an
evacuation zone, not in an area expected to get any
kind of direct hit, but a tornado struck there killed
four people, and so that's directly related to the hurricane. Now,
where it did strike on the western side of the state,
the Gulf Coast, it's pretty catastrophic. There was a very
intense storm surge as predicted, it was a little further

(00:51):
south than where it was predicted. That's because the storm
turned a little bit towards the end of the day yesterday,
and so all of that storm surge that was expected
to go into Tampa Bay actually went south to Sarasota,
CS t Key, but Tampa Bay still got walloped pretty
hard with wind rain and with surge, and in fact,

(01:11):
a construction crane in Saint Petersburg collapsed and it looks
like it has destroyed the building that housed the Tampa
Bay Times newspaper and as well as the the Tampa
Bay Rays baseball team. They're Stadium Tropicana Field and they're
roof ripped off completely, so that's pretty awful. The sun

(01:33):
has been up for about an hour and a half now,
so the first responders were not getting out taking a
look at everything to find out what it is they
need to do and how bad everything is. But there
are three point two million power customers are in the dark.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
You're not I suspect that.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
I suspect that number will get cut down pretty quickly
because we have fifty thousand line crews, the fifty thousand
lineman crews ready to go. But you know, but a
lot of their work depends on the roads getting cleared
out first. So there's a whole process to this, and
we're very well rehearsed in this, but it does.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Take some time. Evan, do we know of any of
any deaths other than from the tornadoes? Because they were
you know, all those warnings if you stay here, you're
going to die, and obviously not everybody evacuated. What are
you hearing about.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
We don't know yet to get part of part of
what they're doing now is going to check on people
who didn't leave and then find out what became of them.
So I suspect we'll no more later in the day
on that on that front.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Right now, you're down there in the southeast Tip in
the Miami area, right, did that remain unscared? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Was that? Well, Miami took on flooding, you know, it
got you know that that storm surge did come around
and cause him flooding. Where I am, I'm pretty far inland,
but we had two tornadoes within fifteen miles of our house,
and so that's close enough for my comfort. But you know,
we didn't get much of the way of the hurricane effects.

(03:00):
We had about a twenty mile per hour persistent breeze
later in the day, and I think that's the worst
that it got over here, you know, But we still
don't know how widespread everything will be until we get
a chance to look at everything. And that's you know,
that's what today is for right, and we'll we'll stay
on it.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
Evan, thank you. Great to have you on. Appreciate it
you bet Evan Brown, Fox News Radio. This is the
if you didn't catch this earlier, the fifth strongest on
record in the Atlantic basin in terms of intensity, Hurricane
Milton