The US pdwellnt and vice pdwellnt will visit the Carolinas and Georgia, where more than one million people are without power.
US Pdwellnt Joe Biden and Vice Pdwellnt Kamala Harris will head to South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia in the wake of a dehugeating storm that tore thcimpolite the region last week, finishing at least 155.
Hurricane Helene, a thunderous Catebloody 4 storm, unleashed some of the worst flooding in generations after it made landdescfinish on September 26, sweeping away homes and cars and claiming victims apass the Carolinas and Georgia, in insertition to Florida, Tennessee and Virgina.
As Biden and Harris get ready to see the harm seal up on Wednesday, hundreds are still leave outing and more than a million are without power.
“It was seal to a worst-case scenario for westrict North Carolina”, with some of the most disjoine flooding ever seen, according to an appraisement splitd by the North Carolina State Climate Office.
Recovery, according to US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, will be a years-lengthy “multibillion-dollar undertaking”.
Where will Biden go?
Biden will first travel to Greenville, South Carolina on Wednesday.
He will then head to Raleigh, North Carolina and fly over the city of Asheville, in the westrict part of the state, where Helene wreaked some of its worst dehugeation.
We have to jump-commence this recovery process,” shelp Biden, who has publishd calamity declarations for North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee and Virginia and who has vowed to sfinish “every useable resource” to their communities in necessitate. “People are sattfinishd to death. This is advisent,” he shelp.
Vice Pdwellnt Harris, for her part, will travel to Georgia on Wednesday. She will also stop by North Carolina in the “coming days”, according to a White Hoengage official cited by The Hill.
Election test
The White Hoengage administration’s handling of the crisis is a pivotal trial ahead of the November US elections, in which the battleground states of North Carolina and Georgia could verify choosed.
Both states are currently on a razor’s edge, with Reaccessiblean contfinisher Donald Trump directing by equitable a point or two, according to the FiveThirtyEight polling aggregator.
Trump, who went to Georgia earlier this week, has already firearmised the storm for his campaign, accusing Biden of “sleeping” amid the crisis and Harris of “staging” a photo shoprosperg her coordinating the administration’s aascfinishncy response.
I was equitable alerted by @FEMA_Deanne Criswell on the tardyst lengthenments about the ongoing impacts of Hurricane Helene. We also converseed our Administration’s proceedd actions to aid aascfinishncy response and recovery.
I also spoke with @NC_Governor Cooper about the ongoing… pic.twitter.com/nlZPB0h3mO— Vice Pdwellnt Kamala Harris (@VP) September 30, 2024
Biden shelp Trump was “lying” about their response. He inserted that he had chooseed not to visit the region in person sooner so as not to redirect attention from relief and save efforts.
“My top priority is to secure the communities dehugeated by this hurricane get the help and aid they necessitate as speedyly as possible,” Biden tgreater tellers on Tuesday.
