CNN’s Anderson Cooper Hit By Flying Debris Covering Hurricane Milton: ‘OK, That Wasn’t Good’
CNN’s Anderson Cooper was hit by a flying object while covering Hurricane Milton Wednesday night in Bradenton, Florida. The host of “Anderson Cooper 360°” was live on air just after 9 p.m. shortly after Milton made…
CNN’s Anderson Cooper was hit by a flying object while covering Hurricane Milton Wednesday night in Bradenton, Florida.
The host of “Anderson Cooper 360°” was live on air just after 9 p.m. shortly after Milton made landfall, Mediaite reported.
“The wind has really picked up,” Cooper said. “The water’s really moving. You can get a sense of just how fast the wind is moving there. You can see it in the light there. It is now just whipping off the Manatee River. It’s coming from kind of the north, I guess northeast. And the water now is really starting to pour over. If you look at the graph–whoa!”
Just when he said “woah,” the 57-year-old reporter was hit in the chest and face by a square object.
“OK, that wasn’t good,” he continued. “I’ll probably go inside shortly. But you can see the amount of water here on the ground. This is water from the Manatee River. It’s also water coming from the land as well.”