Fixed...found the fuse box under the steering column, left vertical row, 20A fuse about 4 down.. Removed, cycled the accessory switch to power up the rest of the center console (no idea if I had to do that or not), replaced the fuse...all works fine now....although all radio settings were lost.
no idea what caused it. hopefully never happens again...
now,, will take less than a minute to fix, but trying to figure out where the fuse box was took longer than it should have...hpefully ford will figure out the the bronco and the bronco sport aren't the same vehicle and give the bronco a corrected owners manual.
