U.S. President Joe Biden will announce on Friday that the federal government will cover for 30 days the full cost of Mississippi's emergency measures in response to last week's storm that killed 26 people, a White House official said.
As Biden and first lady Jill Biden drove through Rolling Fork, they saw the damage left by a powerful tornado that reduced many of the community's 400 houses to unrecognizable debris.
The Bidens planned to survey recovery efforts and meet first responders, state and local officials and people affected by the recent storms, the White House said.the hardest, with tree trunks snapped like twigs and cars tossed aside like toys. The town's water tower lay twisted on the ground. Biden plans to announce that the federal government will cover for 30 days the full cost of Mississippi's emergency measures in response to last week's storm, a White House official said.
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