Watch Live: Biden travels to Louisiana to survey Hurricane Ida damage
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President Biden is heading to Louisiana Friday to survey the devastation wrought by Hurricane Ida and speak about what his administration is doing to help residents recover.
Mr. Biden will receive a briefing from local officials on Ida's impact and deliver remarks in LaPlace, Louisiana, before taking an aerial tour of several of the hardest hit communities. Mr. Biden is expected to spend about six hours on the ground Friday. The Category 4 hurricane tore through Louisiana and Mississippi earlier this week, and many residents are still without power. Even as Ida lost strength, it caused tornadoes in the mid-Atlantic, and created historic and deadly flooding in New York.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.