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Remember that clip where the Irish newsreader says, “Don’t make unnecessary journeys” and then gets hit by a stop sign? Well, that never actually happened. She said the sentence, but the stop sign is completely incorporated. She’s safe! Anderson Cooper was less fortunate. While reporting on Hurricane Milton in Florida, CNN sent the reporter into the wind and rain (also known as the blistering storms and torrential downpours), and while reporting, he was hit by a piece of flying debris. Honestly, the fact that the rubble is a thump The sound is a compliment to Cooper’s solid attitude: that man wasn’t going anywhere. “Wow! Okay! That was not good,” he responded. “We’ll probably go in soon.” He then reported for another seven minutes while outside in the middle of a hurricane.

On social media, people began to empathize with Cooper’s fate. “Get my sweet porcelain glass anchor in,” one fan tweeted. Others saw this video through the lens of Cooper’s forced sobriety on New Year’s Eve in 2023, and tweeted about how CNN should make him drink when we ring the bell in 2025. Honestly, we hope he’s drinking now. Give him a nice toddy and a Latino.