The longtime CNN correspondent was reporting near the Manatee River in Bradenton, Florida, which is located just a few miles north of Siesta Key. “You could see it in the light there, [the wind] is just whipping off the Manatee River,” Cooper stated. “It’s coming in from the northeast and the water is really starting to pour over.”
However, as he continued to share more details about Hurricane Milton, Anderson Cooper was hit in the face by pieces of flying debris. “Woah!” he declared. “That wasn’t good. We’ll probably go inside shortly.”He then carried on his report about the storm before the coverage abruptly ended.