The president toured areas damaged by Hurricane Helene and Milton
President Joe Biden on Sunday will visit areas of Florida ravaged by the back-to-back hurricanes and announce federal funding for projects to strengthen the electrical grid and a "whole government" effort to help the state recover.
President Joe Biden speaks following a briefing in St. Pete Beach, Fla., during a tour of areas affected by Hurricane Milton, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024.Biden also announced $612 million for six Department of Energy projects in the Southeast. Gainesville Regional Utilities will use the funding to help mitigate the effects of increasingly extreme weather in north central Florida, "through storm hardening, as well as faster restoration through deployment of self-healing devices and tools that will enable more efficient and precise dispatching of field teams during outages," the White House said in a statement.
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