Biden heads to Carolinas and Kamala Harris to Georgia to view Hurricane Helene damage
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are set to take separate tours on Wednesday of the catastrophic damage resulting from Hurricane Helene, from which at least 150 people have died.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are set to take separate tours on Wednesday of the catastrophic damage resulting from Hurricane Helene, from which at least 150 people have died.
Biden is expected to visit North Carolina and South Carolina days after the storm swept through Florida and traveled north, causing damage as far north as Tennessee and Virginia.
Harris will visit Georgia, which former President Donald Trump toured Monday and where he criticized Harris and the Biden administration for their response to the hurricane.
Biden is first scheduled to land in Greenville, South Carolina, where he will participate in an aerial tour of storm damage. After that, he will head to Raleigh, North Carolina, to be briefed at the emergency operations center and then take an aerial tour of Asheville, one of the areas hit hardest by flooding.
The storm caused severe damage in the western North Carolina city, and many residents have been without running water, electricity and access to cell service and internet.
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