Biden to travel to New Orleans to survey damage on Friday

NEW ORLEANS, La. — President Joe Biden is acceptable to question to New Orleans connected Friday to survey the harm caused by Hurricane Ida.

During the trip, the White House says Biden volition besides conscionable volition authorities and section leaders from Louisiana communities that person been impacted by the Category 4 storm.

With 150 mph winds upon landfall connected Sunday, Ida was 1 of the strongest storms to ever deed the U.S. It besides struck the authorities connected the 16-year day of Hurricane Katrina hitting The Big Easy successful 2005.

Though powerfulness was restored to immoderate successful New Orleans connected Wednesday, galore are inactive without energy and that whitethorn not alteration for weeks.

Officials are inactive surveying the demolition from Ida, but the tempest has apt caused billions of dollars successful flood, wind, and different damage.

Biden’s sojourn to Louisiana volition headdress disconnected a hard past fewer weeks for the president who has been handling simultaneous crises, including the evacuation of Afghanistan and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.