The 57-year-old, reporting live from Bradenton, Florida, was on a walkway explaining how the rapid hurricane winds were thrusting water from the Manatee River onto land when a large white object flew into the frame, hitting him.
“[The wind] is now just whipping off the Manatee River. It is coming in from the north, I guess, northeast, and the water now is really starting to pour over,” Cooper told his viewers while soaked in water from the storm. “If you look at the ground–whoa!” he said as he was hit by the object.
The news veteran stumbled slightly before pressing on. “That wasn’t good. We’ll probably go inside shortly,” he noted before drawing attention to the water spilling onto the ground.
Later in the broadcast, Cooper picks up the object that struck him. “This came from the river, thankfully it’s just styrofoam,” he says before putting it back down behind a tree. “That’s just one of the things. We’re starting to see stuff that’s in the river itself ripping up and then getting airborne.”
Responding to the circumstance, fellow CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins assured the audience that Cooper was in good condition.
The moment Anderson Cooper gets hit by flying debris in Bradenton, FL.
— Nick Danger, Third Eye 🕵️♂️ (@Farjar138) October 10, 2024
WTF 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/2mrLbQpgGZ
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