President Biden to survey Ida damage in New York and New Jersey
CBSN
President Biden will travel to Queens, New York, and Manville, New Jersey, next week to survey storm damage from the remnants of Hurricane Ida, the White House said Saturday. He will make the trip on Tuesday, days after visiting Louisiana, which was also battered by Ida.
At least 47 storm-related deaths have been reported in the Northeast, including 13 in New York City and 25 in New Jersey. Another 15 people died in the Southeast. "Storms affect all of us, but what we've got to recognize is the suddenness, the brutality of storms now, it is different," New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said as the city worked to recover.Authorities made two gruesome discoveries Tuesday after a Missouri woman walked into a police station and told officers that she fatally shot one of her children and drowned the other, officials said. Jefferson County Sheriff Dave Marshak said at a news conference that authorities believe both children were killed Tuesday morning.
Strong storms with damaging winds and baseball-sized hail pummeled Texas on Tuesday, leaving more than one million businesses and homes without power as much of the U.S. recovered from severe weather, including tornadoes, that killed at least 24 people in seven states during the Memorial Day holiday weekend.