People are beginning to realise, this is much, much bigger than anyone was willing to believe,’ Biden said
President Joe Biden toured neighborhoods impacted by Hurricane Ida in New Jersey and New York and delivered remarks in Queens in his tour of the aftermath of Hurricane Ida in New York and New Jersey attributed the destruction to climate change and called for Congress to take action.
Biden touched down at Central Jersey Regional Airport in Hillsborough Township, New Jersey, on Tuesday morning.supports HTML5 video While meeting with officials including Murphy and Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Deanne Criswell in Hillsborough Township, Biden said the US is at an ‘inflection point’ in regards to the climate crisis.
‘Whatever damage was done in New Jersey, you can’t build back and restore what it was before, because another tornado, another 10 inches of rain, is going to produce the same kind of results.’ One family in New Jersey whose home burned and then exploded after the Ida floods told Biden that they lost everything they owned.Biden then toured Queens, New York, where several people died who could no get out of their basement apartments during the flooding. The president said it was an ‘eyeopener’ to see the catastrophe caused by Ida firsthand.
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