america to prevent more of these storms from happening in the future. >> reporter: so there you heard just like from john harwood, the focus is going to be on improvements to infrastructure. we know president biden is expected to meet with families and first responders and leaders of the community to hear firsthand what they experienced around here. and one other aspect apart from the infrastructure improvements and investments that the president's agenda trying to push through congress is the idea of making sure there are better warnings systems in place, so people understand how dangerous a flash flood is so they could avoid this level of loss of life in the future. boris. >> huge component in the number of fatalities is simply how quickly that flooding escalated and became deadly. athena jones, from mandeville, new jersey, thank you so much. later today president biden will visit queens where the majority of those who died from last week's flooding in new york city were found. joining us now is the queensboro