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Hurricane Milton has been pummeling Florida's central west coast -- and the killer storm even walloped CNN's most recognizable face -- Anderson Cooper.

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00:00This is, uh, this is, uh, this is, uh, the winds have really picked up.

00:04Anderson Cooper risked his life to bring us coverage of Hurricane Milton.

00:08He was in Siesta Key, Florida, on a pier by the raging, surging Manatee River.

00:14Water's washing over, wind is whipping, and as he's reporting, a chunk of debris smacks

00:18him right in the face.

00:19It's starting to pour over.

00:21If you look at the ground—whoa!

00:22Okay.

00:23That wasn't good.

00:24But he finished his report.

00:26But he finished his report.

00:27You know, these reporters risking their lives to cover these storms.

00:30It takes a certain kind of person to do that.

00:32I don't, I don't, I don't get it.

00:34What do you mean?

00:35This was your whole bit back in the day.

00:37There is a serious problem here, folks.

00:39It doesn't seem particularly safe for the residents.

00:41But when I did it, when I was a local reporter, um, I got criticized.

00:46You were so over the top, the Los Angeles Times wrote an article called The Raging Torrent

00:50of Harvey Levin.

00:51And here's my favorite part of this article.

00:54What?

00:55It swirled.

00:56It foamed.

00:57It raged.

00:58It cascaded.

00:59It surged.

01:00It gushed.

01:01It overflowed.

01:02It overwhelmed.

01:03It was a wild, unstoppable torrent.

01:04And that was only Harvey Levin's mouth.

01:07If you look at the ground—whoa!

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