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More on Biden's visit to LaPlace, Louisiana, from the Associated Press:

Giant trees knocked sideways. Homes boarded up with plywood. Off-kilter street signs.

Less than a week after Hurricane Ida battered the Gulf Coast, President Joe Biden walked the streets of a hardhit Louisiana neighborhood on Friday and told local residents, I know you're hurting, I know you're hurting."