Joe Biden travels to Louisiana to assess damage from Hurricane Ida

The president of the United States, Joe biden, travels this Friday to New Orleans, Louisiana, the state most affected by flooding and high winds left in its wake by the powerful Hurricane Ida.

The White House said in a statement that Biden will travel to assess the damage by hurricane Ida and meet state and local leaders of affected communities.

Biden said the Louisiana area of ​​”Major disaster“Due to the impact of the tornado, which made landfall in this state with maximum sustained winds of 150 miles per hour and even more intense gusts.

Ida destroyed much of the electrical wiring, especially in the New Orleans metropolitan area, leaving more than a million million Louisiana customers in the dark.

Its neighbor, the state of Mississippi, also suffered the whip of the hurricane, which is already killing four in those states and a trail of as yet unquantified property damage amid the flooding.

Biden also approved the declaration of “major disaster” for Mississippi, that enables rapid mobilization of federal government resources support the tasks of local and state entities.

During her daily press conference, the spokesperson for the White House, Jen psaki, assured that the president’s trip was planned “in close coordination with leaders in the field“, To be sure of”at the right time” and without interfering with the rescue and restoration tasks of the area.

Psaki noted that Biden has been in contact with the executives of two of the largest Gulf companies, Entergy, the Southern Company, as well as the Edison Electric Institute, which is made up of all electric companies owned by US shareholders.

The spokeswoman said the ruler was working “with all levels of the federal government” accelerate the restoration of electrical service, a task that can take some time.

New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania flood death toll rose to 43

At least 43 people have died from torrential rains, flooding and high winds as the remnants of Hurricane Ida swept through the northeastern United States., the majority in the state of New Jersey, according to the latest authorities’ counts collected by local media.

“I am saddened to report that at this time, at least 23 New Jerseyans lost their lives because of this storm, ”New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy told reporters.

New York Police say 15 people were killed, while three others died in the suburbs of Westchesterthe authorities said. Three people also died near Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, an official there confirmed.

Thousands of people had to be evacuated from areas of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut due to flooding as the remains of Hurricane Ida, already downgraded to a storm, which they caused in the region, with rains that the authorities have qualified as historic and which have set records.

Water flooded the basements of buildings, trapping people in their homes, as was the case with a 22-year-old and his mother who died in a cellar in Queens, according to the channel ABC7, or an elderly man who was in his vehicle in Passaic, New Jersey.

The Governor of New York, Kathy hochul, who declared a state of emergency on Wednesday night, told a press conference on Thursday that US President Joe Biden had offered federal help to assess the damage and called for “the money to flow” as soon as possible to devastated homes and businesses.

“We are experiencing a historic weather event with record rains throughout the city, with brutal flooding and dangerous road conditions.”warned the mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, on social networks.

The storms are among the remnants of Hurricane Ida, which, now decommissioned as a storm, has passed through the eastern part of the country since entering the state of Mississippi and Louisiana, where it caused severe flooding.

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