A convoy of trucks from Florida's National Guard arrived in Fort Myers to deliver critical supplies in the wake of Hurricane Ian.
"Mr. President, welcome to Florida," DeSantis said, making remarks first. "We appreciate working together across various levels of government."
"I'm sure it's much worse from the ground," Biden said. "But you can see a whole hell of a lot of damage from the air." Biden said 4,000 federal personnel are on the ground in Florida and the Southeast. Search and rescue teams have knocked on over 70,000 doors, he said, with 3,800 people. He also discussed more ways the federal government can help with other actions FEMA, the Small Business Administration and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
"I want to thank President Biden and Jill Biden as well as Administrator Deanne Criswell for coming down here looking at a really really significant damage here in Lee County and there's other places where you have really significant damage as well outside of this general area," DeSantis said Wednesday."We were very fortunate to have good coordination with the White House and with FEMA from the very beginning of this.
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