That's where more than three quarters of gas stations were completely out. Folks waited in long lines that stretched for blocks. Officials opened three public fuel sites where customers can receive 10 gallons of gas each for free. Power is gradually being restored, with hundreds of thousands of homes without electricity. That's actually down from a peak of nearly three million after the storm. And officials are working around the clock to clear debris from both Milton and Helene's aftermath. The federal government is covering the full cost of debris removal for city and county governments affected by the storms for 90 days. President

Joe Biden visited Florida over the weekend, touring hard-hit St. Pete Beach and announcing $612 million in funding for electric grid resilience projects. Ongoing flooding issues after Milton have been a major obstacle to recovery as floodwaters recede slowly and in some places continue to rise. CNN's Allison Chinchar gives us a better look at what some places there are facing. Hurricane Milton may be over, but the state of Florida is still reeling from some of the impacts. When you look at the scope of the video, this shows all of that water. The concern here is that that water takes time to recede. So in a lot of these instances, that water has nowhere to go. This is a look at where the heaviest rain was across the state of Florida, that white line indicating where the storm itself,

Milton crossed over the state, the heaviest rain being on the north side. You can see that widespread swath of pink color indicating at least 10 inches of rain across a very wide swath of the state. Now, here's a look at river flooding. All of those purple squares and purple dots that you see there on the screen, those are river gauges that are still at or above major flood stage. Now, two specific rivers to talk about. Many of them on the western coast of Florida have finally crested and are going to start going down in the coming days. But it's quite a different story for some of the rivers on the eastern half of the state that are still going up. So here's a look at one of those rivers on the western side. You can see again, really starting to go back down now and expected to finally get below major flood stage very early Monday morning. On the eastern half of the state, though, quite a different story. This specific river, the St. Johns, this one is not expected to crest, reaching its peak until very late in the day on Wednesday. So those rivers are still going to continue to swell and cause flooding in those local communities until we reach that point. Part of the problem that Florida has is that Florida is incredibly flat state, so the rivers do not recede very quickly like they would, say, in a mountainous terrain. Now to an incredible feat of engineering as SpaceX successfully launched its latest

Starship test flight of the most powerful rocket system ever constructed. The demo mission maneuvered the 232-foot-tall rocket booster, called a Super Heavy, to a massive landing structure after it burned through most of its fuel and broke away from the upper Starship spacecraft. It was successfully caught midair with a pair of massive metal pincers that

SpaceX calls Chopsticks. Recovering and rapidly re-flying Super Heavy boosters and Starship spacecraft for future missions is a feat that SpaceX is testing, as the company considers quickly reusing rocket parts essential to efficiently getting cargo to space.

Top Quiz Hotshot! What is the fastest animal found in the world? Pronghorn Antelope, Peregrine

Falcon, Cheetah, or Marlin?

Ding, ding, ding! If you said Peregrine Falcon, you are correct, which has a diving speed of over 200 miles per hour.

The Peregrine Falcon can be found on every continent except Antarctica, and they were commonly found in the U.S. until the apex predator became severely endangered several decades ago. Now, a U.S.-based conservation group has brought the falcon back from the brink of extinction. Take a look at how they were able to save the species and the wild steps they take to keep tabs on them.

This is Bluff Country, an area in the Midwest U.S. along the Mississippi River known for its steep cliffs and rugged landscape. Part of the Mississippi Flyway, one of the largest

North American bird migration routes, it's also where one particular keystone species had almost vanished.

Monitoring raptors and specifically here Peregrine Falcons is very important right now. We've basically succeeded in bringing back a population of raptors that was nearly gone from the continental

United States. There are other threats that are coming out right now. We've got climate change that's creeping up. Monitoring, I think, is key in making sure that is this population that we successfully brought back, is it doing well?

The widespread use of the pesticide DDT during the mid-20th century was one of the biggest culprits in the decline of the apex predator's population.

DDT and its metabolite, DDE, led to the thinning of the egg shells and crushing of eggs before they could even hatch.

In 1970, the Peregrine Falcon was one of the first to be listed as endangered on the Endangered

Species Conservation Act, and two years later, DDT was banned.

In the 1980s, conservationist Bob Anderson established the Raptor Resource Project and began to reintroduce the Peregrine Falcon to the Midwest.

There was a breeding project where they released 18 falcons down at Effigy Mounds National

Monument. It was from a rock-lined hack box, so it was used to simulate the bluffs that they wanted the falcons to come back and find. So they did that in 1998 and 1999.

The project was deemed a success, and today the group is back to check on them and hopefully place ID bans on the young falcons, which can be a precarious task.

So we're going down to find the young, get them, put them in a kennel and haul them up to the top to band them up a little bit more safely than we'd be able to do on the cliff.

We put the bird banding lab federal marker band on it, which is like a social security number for each bird individually. And then we also put an auxiliary marker on there.

It's just a way of knowing who's where as this population has been growing.

Once banded, the babies are then returned back to their nest.

While the Peregrine Falcon was removed from the Federal Endangered Species List in 1999, continuing to monitor them helps to keep a pulse on the surrounding ecosystem.

Today's story, getting a 10 out of 10, one of the most gorgeous times of the year, pumpkin season. These zoo animals at Brookfield Zoo Chicago got a special jack-o'-lantern treat to munch on over the weekend, and look at them go.

Lucky visitors got to see a pygmy hippo, a bear, an orangutan chowing down on delicious fall delights. It's all part of a program to physically and mentally stimulate the animals they care for.

All right, we have a special shout out today for all our friends up at Oostburg Middle School in

Oostburg, Wisconsin. Rise up. And I also want to give a shout out to all those wildcats, those wily wildcats at East Cobb Middle right here in Georgia. What's up, Nora? Thank you for spending part of your day with us here on CNN 10. Remember, tomorrow's Hashtag Your Word Wednesday, so bring it. Have an awesome Tuesday, everyone.