US President Joe Biden is postponing his upcoming trip to Germany and Angola due to Hurricane Milton approaching Florida, White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said on Tuesday. The Kyiv Independent according to your information.
The US president postponed the visit to oversee the emergency response to Hurricane Milton, according to the spokesman. The storm is expected to hit the densely populated city of Tampa Bay in full force Wednesday night, less than two weeks after the state was hit by the devastating Hurricane Helene.
A BBC according to his report, US President Joe Biden warned Floridians in a speech at the White House that
Evacuation is a “matter of life and death” before Category 4 Hurricane Milton hits the state, saying it will be one of Florida’s worst storms of the century.
“Escape now, now, now,” he told Floridians, pledging that the federal government would help the state “before, during and after the hurricane hits.” Thousands of federal employees will also be deployed, Biden added.
Gov. Ron DeSantis said Florida has prepared dozens of shelters to help local residents. “We have a site that can accommodate 10,000 people,” he said at a press conference. DeSantis called the storm a “monster” on Monday.
Although the hurricane weakened by Tuesday morning, the U.S. National Hurricane Center warned that it could double in size before reaching Florida on Wednesday.
Milton could be one of the most destructive hurricanes to hit west-central Florida
says the report.
The amount of precipitation may reach 38 centimeters in some places, and storm waves 3-4.5 meters high may develop in the coastal areas.
Biden planned to travel to Germany, and then he would have met with Zelensky
We also wrote on the Index that Joe Biden would have met the leaders of Germany, France and Great Britain on Saturday in Berlin to discuss the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine.
After that, Biden, along with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, would have traveled to the US air base in Ramstein to discuss military aid to Ukraine, which is expected to include President Volodymyr Zelenskyi and other leaders. they participate.
A Sky News according to him, it is not known whether the meeting will be held without Biden. Saturday’s meeting in Berlin and then at the Ramstein Air Base would have been the first time the Ramstein Group met at a leadership level.
The goal of the summit is to send a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin: don’t expect Western support for Ukraine to end, a German government source said. According to spokesman Keir Starmer, the situation in the Middle East would also have been discussed as the conflict continues to escalate.
(Cover photo: US President Joe Biden in Washington on October 8, 2024. Photo: Elizabeth Frantz / Reuters)
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