President Biden is set to visit the hardest hit parts of New York and New Jersey to survey the damage from Hurricane Ida after the category four hurricane left 35 dead across the two states.
The White House announced on Saturday that Biden will visit Queens, the borough hardest hit by Ida and Manville, New Jersey to assess the damages of the storm which left serious damage and killed dozens after it trashed the Big Apple and tri-state area on Wednesday night.
Hurricane Ida pummeled Louisiana last Sunday, before making its way through a swath of the country to cause massive flooding in the Northeast, causing further mayhem and killing dozens.
The severe flooding caught residents of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York off guard – and could draw national attention away from hard hit coastal areas that took the initial brunt of the storm.
A man sorts through belongings from their flooded home in a Queens on Friday following the storm
A resident clears waterlogged electric appliance outside a house in the Queens neighborhood of Flushing after flash-flooding wrecked many homes in the borough
A volunteer works inside the heavily damaged home of the Hossain-Miu family in Millburn on Saturday
Biden's visit to New York and New Jersey will come two days after his visit to Louisiana, where he met with elected officials and residents whose homes were ravaged by the storm.
On his stop, Biden visited some of the hardest hit areas south of LaFourche, Louisiana where the Category 4 Hurricane made landfall and ripped through structures and devastated entire communities.
In a speech to residents, Biden rattled off the list of things the federal government was doing, including bringing in more generators to help those with power, opening up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and working with cell phone companies to get service restored.
'We're working around the clock, with the governor and the elected officials here until we can meet every need you all,' he said.
He placed a reassuring on the arm of one woman and even leaned on a bent stop sign during a neighborhood conversation, where he vowed to help residents rebuild, arguing his 'Build Back Better' agenda and his $3.5 trillion budget plan would help make it possible.
