WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.067 THE WATER IS GOING DOWN, BUT 00:02.078 --> 00:03.381 VERY SLOWLY. 00:03.416 --> 00:05.917 IT NEEDS TO RECEDE ENTIRELY FOR 00:05.928 --> 00:07.951 THE CLEANUP TO EVEN BEGIN. 00:07.962 --> 00:09.438 THIS MORNING THE TRAGIC 00:09.449 --> 00:10.565 AFTERMATH OF MILTON COMING INTO 00:10.566 --> 00:11.983 FOCUS. 00:11.994 --> 00:15.105 THE POWERFUL HURRICANE LEAVING 00:15.139 --> 00:16.835 DEVASTATION STATEWIDE. 00:16.846 --> 00:18.688 HOMES RIPPED OFF THEIR 00:18.689 --> 00:19.641 FOUNDATIONS. 00:19.642 --> 00:23.064 WHILE IN DAYTONA BEACH, WHOLE 00:23.098 --> 00:24.292 COMMUNITIES SWALLOWED BY 00:24.293 --> 00:25.349 FLOODING. 00:25.360 --> 00:28.222 IN SARASOTA, WASHED UP STREETS 00:28.224 --> 00:29.268 AND DEBRIS. 00:29.279 --> 00:31.126 >> THE STORM WAS SIGNIFICANT. 00:31.137 --> 00:32.970 THANKFULLY, THIS WAS NOT THE 00:32.981 --> 00:34.502 WORST CASE SCENARIO. 00:34.536 --> 00:37.027 >> Reporter: STILL, ALL ACROSS 00:37.038 --> 00:38.784 FLORIDA BEFORE AND AFTER 00:38.795 --> 00:40.848 PICTURES TELLING THE STORY. 00:40.882 --> 00:42.831 AT LEAST NINE CITIES 00:42.842 --> 00:44.243 EXPERIENCING RECORD RAINFALL. 00:44.245 --> 00:45.556 FIRST RESPONDERS HELPING 00:45.567 --> 00:47.268 HUNDREDS DURING THE HURRICANE. 00:47.279 --> 00:49.105 MORE THAN 500 PEOPLE RESCUED 00:49.116 --> 00:50.839 FROM THIS FLOODED APARTMENT 00:50.873 --> 00:53.026 COMPLEX IN CLEARWATER. 00:53.027 --> 00:55.384 A 14-YEAR-OLD BOY FLOATING ON 00:55.385 --> 00:56.204 DEBRIS SAVED. 00:56.215 --> 00:58.968 AND THE COAST GUARD RESCUING A 00:58.979 --> 01:00.552 MAN MILES OFFSHORE CLINGING TO A 01:00.563 --> 01:02.408 COOLER. 01:02.442 --> 01:06.943 IN TAMPA, SOME NEIGHBORHOODS 01:06.944 --> 01:08.100 STILL UNNONEINUNDATED. 01:08.102 --> 01:10.334 ARE YOU SURPRISED TO SEE THIS 01:10.345 --> 01:11.441 AMOUNT OF WATER? 01:11.452 --> 01:14.029 >> YES, AT THIS EFL. 01:14.030 --> 01:16.155 IT FLOODS EVERY YEAR, BUT NOT 01:16.190 --> 01:17.087 THIS HIGH. 01:17.098 --> 01:20.338 >> A WOMAN IN HER 90s IN A 01:20.372 --> 01:21.549 FLOODED HOME ALL ALONE. 01:21.560 --> 01:22.798 SHE WAS SCARED AND DIDN’T WANT 01:22.809 --> 01:23.677 TO LEAVE. 01:23.688 --> 01:25.409 THEY FINALLY JUST CONVINCED HER 01:25.410 --> 01:27.974 TO GET ON THE BOAT AND GET OUT 01:28.009 --> 01:29.643 OF HARM’S WAY. 01:29.654 --> 01:31.670 MANY RESIDENTS IN MILTON’S PATH 01:31.681 --> 01:34.795 PREPARED FOR THE HURRICANE BUT 01:34.829 --> 01:36.923 WERE OVERWHELMED BY A STRING OF 01:36.924 --> 01:37.449 TORNADOES. 01:37.460 --> 01:39.984 >> WALKED OUTSIDE AND THE 01:39.995 --> 01:40.773 NEIGHBORHOOD ANNIHILATED. 01:40.784 --> 01:44.868 >> Reporter: AT LEAST 38 01:44.879 --> 01:46.250 TORNADOES TOUCHED DOWN. 01:46.261 --> 01:49.098 FROM ABOVE PORT SAINT LUCY, YOU 01:49.132 --> 01:52.147 CAN SEE HOMES SHREDDED. 01:52.158 --> 01:54.675 A TORNADO STRUCK FOUR PEERS. 01:54.710 --> 01:56.639 DESPITE BEING TRAUMATIZED BY 01:56.650 --> 01:58.096 HURRICANE AFTER HURRICANE, MANY 01:58.097 --> 01:59.733 RESIDENTS SAY THEY’RE COMMITTED 01:59.744 --> 02:00.584 TO REBUILDING. 02:00.618 --> 02:02.453 >> I THINK WE GIVE EACH OTHER 02:02.464 --> 02:03.422 THE STRENGTH TO CONTINUE. 02:03.433 --> 02:05.176 >> Reporter: STEF, BOY, THERE IS 02:05.210 --> 02:06.902 SO MUCH WORK TO BE DONE, BUT 02:06.904 --> 02:08.963 WHAT ARE SOME OF THE BIGGEST 02:08.974 --> 02:10.470 CHALLENGES THAT OFFICIALS ARE 02:10.471 --> 02:12.032 FACING GOING FORWARD? 02:12.034 --> 02:13.868 >> Reporter: WELL, HODA, THOSE 02:13.902 --> 02:15.607 RESCUES, FIRST OF ALL, THAT WAS 02:15.618 --> 02:16.466 THEIR PRIORITY. 02:16.467 --> 02:21.674 ONCE THEY GET THE RESCUES, THERE 02:21.676 --> 02:23.574 IS SO MANY LOGISTICAL 02:23.575 --> 02:24.117 CHALLENGES. 02:24.118 --> 02:26.443 THEY ALSO HAVE TO RESTORE WATER. 02:26.454 --> 02:28.375 THERE IS A VITAL WATER PUMP HERE 02:28.386 --> 02:30.334 IN THE CITY OF TAMPA THAT NEEDS 02:30.335 --> 02:31.217 TO BE RESTORED. 02:31.218 --> 02:33.068 THEN FOR PEOPLE IN THIS 02:33.079 --> 02:34.507 NEIGHBORHOOD, THIS IS A 02:34.509 --> 02:35.953 LOW-INCOME NEIGHBORHOOD, ALL OF 02:35.964 --> 02:36.907 THESE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN 02:36.941 --> 02:37.365 DISPLACED. 02:37.366 --> 02:39.227 THEY NEED SOMEPLACE TO LIVE.