HILLSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — President Joe Biden is surveying damage in parts of the Northeast that suffered catastrophic flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Ida.
Biden arrived in New Jersey to tour Manville, then was heading to Queens, New York, on Tuesday.
Ida’s soggy remnants are blamed for at least 50 deaths in the region.
More than two dozen people died in New Jersey.
In New York City, 13 people lost their lives, including 11 in the borough of Queens.
Ida wreaked havoc on Louisiana before it moved up north.
Biden says Ida and other storms make federal spending on infrastructure an urgent priority.
