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Toyota's lineup of cool, colorful vehicles is ready to ride by your side. Take on fall in a trail tackling Tacoma, or go for the powerful Tundra. Head to toyota.com for more info, or visit your local Toyota dealership today. Toyota, let's go places. Larry Richard with Anchorman Paul Rasmussen in Florida cleaned up underway after Hurricane Milton first made landfall Wednesday night, storm being blamed for at least 16 deaths spawned 20 tornadoes, more than 2 million residents still without power. CBS News Christian Bemenitez in St. Petersburg. Yamilee Barrio gave us a peek inside of her Tampa apartment from the window. Her furniture now partially underwater, but she says she's lucky to be alive. Thank God. Nothing happened to us. There's more people that is worse than us. Yamilee and her neighbors, see the flooding in her neighborhood began after Milton had already passed through. Gracia Menavides, CBS News, St. Petersburg. All good thing is, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you, Florida theme parks, Disney World, Universal, and SeaWorld all plan to reopen today. Wow. It's amazing, you know. So they must have got through the storms pretty well. Yeah, that's actually a surprise to me, and we're also going to check in Orlando. You said CBS correspondent Peter King lives in that area, right? He's in Orlando. Yeah. It's next half hour. We're going to go live to the Bradenton, Sarasota area. They were at the, you know, where ground zero, ground zero where the eye came overhead. And obviously, that's where the pirates spring training. So we have a sister city relationship there. We will get an update in this half hour. Also check in with our meteorologist, Jill Dunberg, about any storms on the horizon to hurricane season is not over. And the massive cleanup and recovery will continue yesterday, Barack Obama visited the University of Pittsburgh, Stumping for Vice President Kamala Harris politics aside, though, at least at first he tried to ingratiate himself with Pittsburgh. It is good to be back in Pittsburgh. I love Pittsburgh. I love the food in Pittsburgh. I don't usually do this, but this is a little bit of a Yelp rating. Just had some of Pamela's pancakes. I first had those 15 years ago when I was running, and I was all like, I need some of those pancakes this time out, even though I'm from Chicago, some of you may know what I was a kid. I was a Steelers fan. So I mean, I didn't know that. Yeah. Yeah. Now he's made us hungry. So Pamela's thing, I would never forget that, but usually they say, you know, usually they throw a permani's reference in there, but I guess he did the Pamela's pancakes thing. Got a thing for flapjacks. I'll tell you what, can we door dash those in? Just him mentioning those points being hungry. I haven't had one for a while. Anyway, so Pamela's got some love. He spoke for about 45 minutes at the Fitzgerald Field House on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh, and they brought all the big guns from the Democratic Party. Right. They had Bob Casey in the mirror, and right? Yes, they did, and he did a surprise visit at one of the campaign offices. And so they continue to come. That said, JD Vance will be in Johnstown tomorrow, Kamala Harrison Erie on Monday, and the candidates continue to, you know, go around the state and come into southwestern Pennsylvania too. So guess who took some reps with this, with the first, with the first guys, the starting offense, speaking of the Steelers, Russell Wilson in Vegas this weekend, the Raiders in their brand new home and stadium 405 is kickoff on Sunday afternoon. And yes, will Russell Wilson finally get a start? Well, that's the question he was asked. Here's what he said. Yeah, you know, I think that we all want to play. We all want to be out there, and this is your 13th for me, and, you know, I've never been this place that I'm in, you know, as well, and it's tough, but also at the same time, you know, that, you know, there's better days ahead, and you also know that there's challenges along the way. I think with George, in particular, I try to, you know, relate to him that, you know, number one is is that, you know, we love him, you know, and we love who he is, we love the player that he is, we love the competitor that he is, and that's the thing that you have to understand is, is George a bad teammate? Absolutely not. Well, so he was speaking about George Pickens there at the end, but the, the first remarks were about, you know, I'd like to be in there. Sure he would. I mean, the guys, the Super Bowl champion, he's probably going to be a Hall of Famer. He is a real talent, and that said Justin Fields, I thought has done a pretty good job. We didn't lose the game against Dallas because of his play. I agree. I agree. I think that the, the Justin's been just fine sooner or later, we have to find out what Russell can bring to the table. Right. I mean, sooner or later. Let's take a shot. If the Steelers can win the next two games, they're certainly winnable games. The Raiders are having their issues at quarterback. The Jets just fired their coach there in town next Sunday. This is a chance to string a couple of wins together again and to be five and two. And let's see what they can do on Sunday. But the big question is still, will we see Russell Wilson? Some of our local experts don't think so yet. Others say will. So they didn't definitively say that, but naturally he wants to play, you know, last year we had an example of what could possibly happen in mid game, a quarterback change. It'll be fun to see when he does play. If he still got the juice, he's certainly done everything right. He and his wife, they, you know, have been gracious. They, they visit kids at Children's Hospital, a lot of that's off the radar. He's been nothing but a class act here. And I hope that he is physically capable of playing the way we know Russell Wilson can play and help this team win. Just a quick side note, the Panthers host California tomorrow at 3 30 at Acryssure. This is a chance for them a to become bowl eligible and win their sixth game in a row to start the season, which they haven't done in decades. So it should be a fun day and the weather looks like it'll cooperate. So if you want to go, you tell me if you want to go, I'm not, not able to go this time. I was going to, I checked into it. I can't go. I tried to get Aaron to go. She's going to a wedding. It's going to be cloudy in 70 on Saturday. That's not bad. It's actually nice. It's comfortable for fans. Right. All right. Here we go. And that's what people are talking about big weekend. You know, this is a three day weekend for many Columbus day recognized on Monday. And we love a parade in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh's little Italy is Bloomfield, as many of you know, and joining me, Tony Ferraro, who heads up the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame here. I've known him for 30 plus years and big parade tomorrow. Tony, good morning. Good morning, Larry. I'm fighting a little bit of a cold, so I apologize in advance. That's all right. We appreciate you being on to give us the details. So you know, Pittsburgh loves a parade. What's the game plan tomorrow? Well, we're going to kick off March, March off tomorrow, 11 o'clock. But all the activity starts at 9.30 when we try and organize the parade, you can imagine what that goes like. That's like a reality show. I heard cats, I call it. Yeah. All right. Where does it begin? And where should people line up? I would recommend we started at South Millville Street, but anywhere along from South Millville down to the former church on the left-hand side as you're coming down the road. I think it's owned by Arch Masonry now, but that's where we're going to have the review each then, and we have our MCs, Paul Martino and Rick Carlo. Oh, yeah. Give me one more appetizer. Did you say Rich DiCarlo is also win on this? Oh, Rick DiCarlo. He's on the street. Rick, he did. Rick, he did. Yeah. He has a lot of color to it, and a lot of people enjoy the conversations, but the grandstand will be right there, and we welcome people to line the streets. We passed some businesses to open a little early, so you can get a cup of chino. There's a beautiful coffee shop right across the street from it. Right in front of Tiseros is a good spot as well, but this is our 36th annual, and we're proud to say our grand marshal this year is Michael Faciano, and Michael's not new to the parade. He's been involved for every year, this is our 36th annual, and he and his family have been involved every year. He owns a big construction company, and he's very active in the Italian American community. All right, so 11 o'clock in Bloomfield, if you haven't been, Bloomfield's great little part of our community, and the parade will be underway. How long is it usually last, Tony? About an hour and 20 minutes. We'd like to keep it under two hours, so we'll have to pay overtime to the city. The city has been very, very helpful. We have the police, the paramedics, the fire, we really had a lot of good experience working with the city of police, but one more thing I wanted to say Larry, we have a great... The seasons may be changing, but the deals at the sharpest rides are unbeatable as ever. Hey, what's going on? It's your girl, Tasha McKeea, and I need you to join the sharpest rides for their fall into savings events, where they're offering incredible prices on their massive inventory. 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Band coming in from, wow, east Vermont, West Virginia, they've traveled and it's called the Honey Bee Band, and they're really, really exceptional. I want it with a lot of other people that are going to be in the parade, a lot of organizations a lot of small musical entrees, as well as beat the Huxter will be there. You never miss it. So come on out, have a good time, the weather looks great. All right, East Fairmont High School, Busy Bee and Honey Bee Band has been to the tournament of roses parade in California and presidential inaugurations. Apparently, they're a big deal. Impressive. Yeah. All right, Tony. And for those that don't know, Pittsburgh has the fifth largest Italian American organization. So Saturday is the day to immerse yourself in the Italian culture and food. Let's not. And then later wine, but we'll get into that. All right, Tony. Hope you feel better. Thanks for taking the time. Thank you guys. Appreciate the opportunity. Here he goes. Tony Ferraro and Paul Martino and Ricky D. I love, I love when Marty says he does his Paul Martino. Oh, it's hysterical. Katie KTV, former anchor, man, when he says, will they be serving or doves there? From the PJ Fitzpatrick home improvement traffic center, AAA traffic. Welcome to the weekend. This is the big K morning show. I'm Larry Richard, along with our anchor man, Paul Rasmussen and after watching throughout the course of the day, the aftermath of Hurricane Milton wanted to take you back to where they were at ground zero where Milton made landfall Wednesday night, just in the half hour after the 8 p.m., which was sooner than expected. And the eye actually went over the Sarasota, Bradenton area executive director of the Bradenton convention and visitors, bureaus, become a good friend of ours. Elliot Felcioni is there, hunkered down in his home overnight and went out to do a survey of the damage yesterday. Elliot, good morning. Good morning, Larry. Yes, sir. We're fine, man. We're all thinking of you guys and everybody we've seen affected by this storm. So give us the run down there. One of the things we saw was one of the pirates training facilities had some damage and other things there. Give us the update. Yes, sir. You know, I was woke up early this morning and I thought tropical storm Debbie, you know, affected East County homes, 10 inches of water and a lot of homes. And then we went to Helene, where we had just a lot of storm surge and in sand. And now, of course, Milton, the blessing is no storm surge on Annemarie Island, Longbow Key, even going right down the throat of the Manatee River. So that was a blessing. Where you're going to see the most destruction and keep in mind 80 as of last night, 80% of Manatee County still did not have power restored. So you and the island was not restored either. So we're hoping that that gets turned on today on Annemarie Island because you cannot get any contractors, emergency type of vehicles out there as well. But mainly the damage is a lot of mobile home parks. If you had a white PVC fence, it's gone. It sits on the ground. A lot of the older, older homes, cottages collapsed. But I think I'll tell you what, overall, no loss of life. We are in recovery mode. It is surreal to see people's furniture out on the streets when we had Debbie come through and then going to Sandpiles that still exist on the island and now just a ton of oak tree and pine tree debris, just a crazy six months. Elliot, what about the barrier islands? Did you get out to the islands at all or? No, I could have, but one more person would have been too much, but I did get reports. We did lose the rod and reel pier for Pittsburghers that have come to Annemarie Island. It blew away and it may never come back. Once you lose piers like that, the federal government normally doesn't lie to replace them. The city pier on Annemarie, that was one of our landing points for the water ferry. The midsection is gone quite candidly. That surprised me because that pier is no more than seven years old, but we will rebuild it. The historic bridge street layer, you've been there as well. That's in pretty good shape because some of the floating docks are compromised. Paul, a lot of sand, still a lot of debris out there. I will definitely get out there today and I tell you what, thank God we didn't have storm surge because if we did, you're sitting here six months from now trying to get businesses and families back in their homes. Number one is how many people will be displayed from their homes that are residents and then a really important time coming up where economically, the region relies on the snowbirds. And in your case, spring training too and all that goes with it. Yes, and as we sit here right now, we have no occupancy in our hotels. Let me correct that. We have no vacancy in our hotels because we are hosting displaced residents, contractors. We have 400 national guardsmen coming in today with 30 tactical vehicles and we have a ton of power companies that we're mobilizing right now. So, Larry, I really believe in my heart that within the month, maybe in a few weeks, the mainland of the Bradenton area will be open for business. The hotels were not compromised and I believe probably in about a month, we'll have a small percentage of short-term rentals on the islands and a small percentage of restaurants on the islands open for business. And it's our job as the tourism bureau to really keep our target market up to speed with where we're at being very accurate, very honest. So, they come down here and they can enjoy what they enjoy best and hopefully the beaches are still in pretty good shape without the storm surge. We should have some nice beaches for people to enjoy in about a month or so. One other quick question, Elliot, about the tornadoes, I saw a map of where they touched down this morning and it seemed like they were mostly to the east and south of the Sarasota Bradenton area. Was there a tornado touchdown or anything like that in your area? No, sir. Not at all. And I think because we were right in the eye of the storm, I mentioned to Larry yesterday, the most surreal thing, it was so calm the air did not move for 45 minutes. South Sarasota into Lee County, even parts of Collier County, we had 38 touched on tornadoes in the state of Florida from that storm. And as you all know, that three to six o'clock, the dirty side of the storm is really what causes those tornadoes to touch down, but we were blessed, my tornado arm did not go off at all during the storm. Elliot, we appreciate the update. I'm glad no loss of life in your region and certainly you're safe and anything we can do to help support the effort we will do and appreciate it. Now, if you don't mind, we'll check in maybe the beginning of the week after you've had a chance to really absorb the, you know, the beaches and every, every other area around there. Yeah. 100% layer update on the Sarasota Bradenton Airport. The air side terminal did peel back the roof a little bit. It was supposed to be open today. It's going to be open tomorrow morning. So for Pittsburghers that have second homes or live down here, you'll be able to fly into Sarasota Bradenton Airport is earliest tomorrow. Great update. All right, Elliot, stay safe. Thank you, gentlemen. Have a great week. I appreciate your support. Elliot Falcione, executive director of the Bradenton Convention of Visitors Bureau. And I want to mention real briefly, Larry, about that map that I saw of little red dots where tornadoes were reported in Florida. The cluster that was over the West Palm Beach region, that's where they were hit hardest. Right. It looked like more than a dozen right there. It's unheard of in Florida, probably from like up to Jupiter all the way down to say, I don't know, Hollywood. I actually lived in West Palm Beach when I graduated high school, worked in radio there for a year and a half and tornadoes were rare, rare unheard of. Yeah. It's just and to have a 37 of them confirmed, that's incredible. So we'll continue to keep you updated on the big K morning show and we want to check traffic. Then we'll go to Joe Lumberg, get an idea of if there's any additional storms behind this, because remember two weeks ago when we heard of lean, they had already known that the radio, Katie, K a, it says cold and let's see, it has been since April 26th. Last time we've been at this temperature 36 here, it's freeze warnings outside of Allegheny County East and South and the way you said that almost sounded to me like it was, you were happy. No, I'm not. Okay. I mean, it might kill some ticks. 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