CNN anchor Anderson Cooper experienced the storm’s wrath firsthand.

Cooper was hit in the face by flying debris while reporting live amid the powerful winds brought on by Hurricane Milton on Wednesday evening.

Cooper, stationed near the Manatee River, was trying to explain how the storm affected the waters when he was confronted with Milton’s wrath 30 minutes after the storm made landfall on Florida’s west-central coast.

“You could see it there in the light, (the wind) just blowing off the Manatee River. It’s coming from the northeast and the water is really starting to overflow,” Cooper said.

“Whoa, okay, that wasn’t good,” Cooper added after he was hit. “We’ll probably go in soon.”

The 57-year-old father of two later picked up the culprit, a rectangular piece of Styrofoam that had been blown from the river directly into the reporter.

Cooper, known for his on-the-ground hurricane reporting, took the incident to heart and continued his report on the Manatee River water rising above the riverbank and onto the walkway above.

In other parts of the live show, Cooper stood further away from the water, but the rough waves managed to reach the reporter and knock him over as he spoke to a colleague, video posted to X captured.

Cooper’s live reporting during the storm raised concerns about his well-being among concerned viewers.

“He is fighting for his LIFE and I can’t look away,” one commenter wrote.

“CNN better blackout Anderson Cooper on New Year’s Eve for this,” read another comment, referring to Cooper’s annual “New Year’s Eve Live” show, which he has hosted since 2002.

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Another reporter was also involved in a dangerous incident along the 58 kilometer long riverbank on Wednesday evening.

Fox Weather correspondent Robert Ray had just finished a live report twenty feet from the river when a giant pine tree fell on his and his crew’s vehicles around 7:52 p.m.

“I just finished a live report showing the Manatee River, which is right behind this tree. I walked to my car and looked at my phone,” Ray recalled as he stood in the fallen tree.

“All of a sudden, boom, the whole tree comes down and falls partially into the vehicle.”

Ray gave his full weather spot as he stood among the branches of the fallen tree.

Milton, which grew into a catastrophic Category 5 storm, made landfall as a Category 3 at 8:30 p.m.

It had weakened to a Category 1 storm and retained its classification as of 5 a.m. Thursday.

The storm’s winds caused problems across Florida, spawning deadly tornadoes and ripping structures apart.

Several people were killed after more than a dozen powerful tornadoes linked to Hurricane Milton ripped through parts of Florida on Wednesday, authorities said.

In St. Petersburg, the roof of the Tampa Bay Rays’ stadium, Tropicana Field, was torn off by winds that measured up to 90 miles per hour.

A crane working on a high-rise in downtown St. Pete collapsed, sending part of it crashing into the building that houses the offices of the Tampa Bay Times.