'We can do it': Biden brings message of comfort to Surfside

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE and JONATHAN LEMIRE

SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday offered comfort to the grieving and federal support for the ongoing efforts to search for the missing and rebuild after last week’s collapse of a high-rise condo building along the Florida coastline.

Biden, responding to what appeared to be the deadliest calamity of his young presidency, also met with first responders hunting for survivors among the rubble in Surfside. But underscoring the dangers still present in the search, work was halted before Biden arrived due to concerns about the stability of the section still standing.

Biden and his wife Jill arrived in Florida a week after the collapse of the 12-story Champlain Towers South beachfront condominium killed at least 18 people and left 145 missing. Hundreds of first responders and search-and-rescue personnel have been painstakingly searching the pancaked rubble for potential signs of life. No one has been rescued since the first hours after the collapse.

“This is life and death,” Biden said at a briefing about the collapse. “We can do it, just the simple act of everyone doing what needs to be done, makes a difference.”



President Joe Biden listens during a briefing with first responders and local officials in Miami, Thursday, July 1, 2021, on the condo tower that collapsed in Surfside, Fla., last week. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)


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[VMA131Marine]

1. The smart thing to do here

would be to not rebuild on a site that is going to become increasingly vulnerable to coastal flooding due to sea level rise.

[PSPS]

2. We would have never seen a facial expression like that in the last four years.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Biden intends to pick up costs to county, state in Florida building recovery efforts

President Biden on Thursday told Florida officials including Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) that the federal government intends to pick up "100 percent of the costs" to the county and the state for the response to the deadly collapse of a Surfside, Fla., condo building for the first 30 days.

"I think there's more we can do, including I think I have the power, and we'll know shortly, to be able to pick up 100 percent of the costs for the county and the state over the first 30 days. I think I'm quite sure I can do that," Biden said during a briefing with state and local officials in Surfside.

"There's going to be a lot of pain and anxiety and suffering and even the need for psychological help in the days and months that follow. And so, we're not going anywhere," Biden added.

Search and recovery efforts entered their eighth day on Thursday as Biden descended into Surfside, a town neighboring Miami, but were forced to pause due to structural concerns. The death toll rose to 18 on Wednesday with at least 145 people missing following the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South, a 12-story building, last week.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-intends-to-pick-up-costs-to-county-state-in-florida-building-recovery-efforts/ar-AALFkbr

I hear right wing heads popping.

[SheltieLover]

4. Unlike TFG, everything Joe touches has hope & life

[Stuart G]

5. I agree completely..Joe brings: hope, life, a feel good feeling, respect, and love of the U.S.A.

And he sends those ideas out to everyone..What a gift we have gotten!!...President Joe Biden!

...And this is a gift at a very important time in our history, and we are very lucky for that gift.

[SheltieLover]

6. Absolutely!

I couldn't agree more!

[BootinUp]

7. K&R for the humanity. Nt