Biden arrives in Florida to survey damage caused by Hurricane Milton [Video]

US PRESIDENT JOE Biden is today seeing up close the devastation inflicted on Florida’s Gulf Coast by Hurricane Milton as he presses Congress to approve additional emergency disaster funding.

Vice President Kamala Harris is spending a second day in North Carolina, hard-hit by Hurricane Helene, to worship with Black churchgoers and hold a campaign rally.

Biden arrived in Tampa and flew by helicopter to St Pete Beach, surveying the wreckage left behind by Milton, including the roof of Tropicana Field that was shorn off by the powerful storm’s winds.

Later, as the president’s motorcade drove along the highway, piles of debris, tattered billboards, toppled fences, fallen trees and closed gas stations were seen.

It passed through a neighbourhood where almost every home had water damage and heaps of belongings were on the curb.

The visit gave Biden another chance to press House speaker Mike Johnson for congressional approval of more …