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Biden Arrives in New Orleans to Inspect Ida Damage

U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in Louisiana on Friday preparing to survey the damage after promising full federal support to Gulf Coast states and the Northeast, where Ida's remnants dumped record-breaking rain and killed at least 50 people from Virginia to Connecticut. READ MORE: Biden will discuss the storm that left about 1 million people without power and 600,000 others without water with Governor John Bel Edwards and local officials. The president also plans to fly over hard-hit areas including Lafourche Parish, where the parish president said one fourth of the homes in his community of 100,000 people had been destroyed or heavily damaged. Biden noted Thursday that the Gulf region first hit by Ida is a center of the nation’s oil production and refining infrastructure. Most of the areas refining capacity was knocked offline, and Edwards said government fuel shipments would be among the list of needs he plans to present to Biden. Biden said Thursday the government was moving quickly to make sure gasoline continues flowing throughout the country. Ida came ashore Sunday in Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane, the fifth strongest to hit the U.S., killing at least nine people before traveling north through the eastern U.S., triggering torrential rains and widespread flooding Wednesday in New York, New Jersey and surrounding areas. LINK: https://www.voanews.com/usa/biden-arr...