President Joe Biden toured storm injury on Wednesday in hurricane-ravaged Fort Myers, Fla., forward of a highly-anticipated assembly with Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Florida is reeling from the impacts of Hurricane Ian, which made landfall as a Class 4 storm alongside the state’s gulf coast final week and has brought on mass devastation and flooding throughout the state. It has killed at the very least 72 folks — with the dying depend nonetheless anticipated to rise as search and rescue efforts proceed — and left some beachside communities leveled and buildings lowered to rubble.
The president, together with first girl Jill Biden, will survey the injury on Florida’s west coast by way of helicopter earlier than touching down in Fisherman’s Wharf in Fort Myers. DeSantis, together with federal and native officers, will then temporary Biden on catastrophe restoration efforts.
