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Biden says feds will pick up 100% of the cost for first 30 days of Surfside search and rescue efforts
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President Biden delivered remarks after speaking with the families of those missing in the Surfside condo collapse.
SURFSIDE, Fla. - 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 had been temporarily halted before Biden arrived due to concerns about the stability of the section still standing. Just before 6 p.m. Thursday, authorities said the search and rescue effort had resumed, WSVN confirmed.
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US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden visit a photo wall, the Surfside Wall of Hope & Memorial, near the partially collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building in Surfside, Florida, on July 1.
US President Joe Biden hailed the resilience on Thursday of families of people killed or missing in a collapsed Florida beachfront apartment building, spending hours comforting grieving relatives as rescuers suspended their work for much of the day due to dangerous conditions.
Biden said there was still hope that some survivors could be found in the rubble, and while the families are very realistic, the president said he believed after talking with them that the rescue and recovery operations should continue.
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US President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visit a memorial put in place for the victims of the building collapse in Surfside, in Tent city area, Surfside, Florida July 1, 2021. ― Reuters pic
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SURFSIDE, July 2 ― Rescue-and-recovery teams resumed picking through the rubble of a partially collapsed Florida condominium complex yesterday, nearly 15 hours after the search of scores of victims believed buried in the rubble a week ago was suspended for safety concerns.
The renewed search effort began shortly after a visit to the site by US President Joe Biden, who pledged federal assistance and offered comfort to the families of those killed and missing in the June 24 disaster.