Anderson Cooper hit with debris during live broadcast while covering Hurricane Milton

While covering Hurricane Milton live on air, CNN's Anderson Cooper got hit in the face by debris just minutes as the storm was hitting Siesta Key, Florida.

As he was speaking about the storm, Cooper was struck by some debris. He quickly recovered from the hit and said, "Woah! That wasn’t good. We’ll probably go inside shortly." The CNN host, 57, was reporting on the storm just a few miles from Siesta Key in Bradenton.

Moments before, he had been explaining how the nearby river was seeing a storm surge from the hurricane. "You could see it in the light there, (the wind) is just whipping off the Manatee River. It’s coming in from the northeast and the water is really starting to pour over,” Cooper said, right before he was struck in the face with a rectangular piece of debris.

The reporter later picked up the piece of debris, which appeared to be a piece of styrofoam that had blown into the reporter. Cooper, who has long been known to go and report on hurricanes, continued speaking to the camera, and reporting on the events occurring around him, according to the New York Post.

Along with getting hit in the face with the styrofoam, waves spurring from the Manatee River amid the heightened levels and wind gusts from Milton knocked Cooper around a bit as he spoke to a colleague.

On Wednesday night, there was another reporter who was involved in a dangerous incident, where a tree fell on his and his crew's vehicle. Fox News' Robert Ray was finishing up a news hit at around 7:52 pm when a tree fell on the car.

“I had just gotten done with a live report, where I was showing the Manatee River, which is right beyond this tree, walked to my vehicle, looked at my phone,” Ray said of the incident. “All of a sudden, boom, the whole tree comes down and partially goes into the vehicle.”

Hurricane Milton made landfall yesterday at around 8:30 pm in the Tampa Bay and St. Petersburg areas. The landfall of Milton comes just days after the deadly Hurricane Helene, which tore through the southeastern United States.