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President Joe Biden announced that he will visit North Carolina on Oct. 3, making his first trip to assess the damage caused by Hurricane Helene.
“I’m going to North Carolina on Wednesday,” he said in front of members of the press while on a video conference in the Oval Office with both North Carolina’s Gov. Roy Cooper and Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator (FEMA) Deanne Criswell. “It’s planned now.”
Biden said he will land in Raleigh for a meeting with the emergency operations center there before going on an aerial tour.
Biden also said that he would survey damage “without taking resources and burning resources on the ground,” and that he will travel to Georgia and Florida “as soon as possible.”…