President Biden Visits Hurricane-Ravaged Gulf Coast: 'I Promise We're Going to Have Your Backs'
Joe Biden.Photo: MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty PresidentJoe Bidenpaid a visit to the Gulf Coast Friday, less than a week after Hurricane Ida made landfall as a category 4 storm in Louisiana Sunday. Hurricane Ida hit just before 1 p.m. local time on Sunday, Aug. 29 — on the 16th anniversary of the devastatingHurricane Katrina. As of Thursday morning,at least 22 people were killed in the storm from Maryland to New York, while Ida has been linked to at least five deaths in Mississippi and Louisiana, perCNN....