Biden, Harris travel to areas devastated by deadly Hurricane Helene

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2 October 2024 at 2:37 pm·1-min read

Amid ongoing rescue efforts US President Joe Biden and and Vice President Kamala Haris visited areas in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia hit by calamitous flooding in the wake of hurricane Helene. Biden said the devastated areas will require "a multi-billion-dollar, multi-year recovery".

US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris headed Wednesday to areas devastated by Hurricane Helene, after Harris's election rival Donald Trump sought to turn their handling of the disaster into campaign fodder.

Biden touched down in South Carolina and greeted local officials and first responders ahead of a survey of catastrophic damage and parts of the sprawling rescue and recovery effort across the US Southeast after the enormous storm left at least 159 people dead in six states.

He flew by helicopter over the flood-hit city of Asheville, North Carolina, one of the places worst hit by the storm's deadly rampage through the southeastern United States.

Biden will also visit a rescue command center in the state, where more than 70 people were killed.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, traveling with the president, described Helene as a storm of "historic strength" that brought calamitous flooding to cities and remote mountain communities.

"We have towns that have disappeared, literally," he said aboard Air Force One. "This is a multi-billion-dollar, multi-year recovery."

(AFP)

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