U.S. President Joe Biden statement on Hurricane Milton:
In preparation for tonight’s landfall, I have approved emergency declaration requests from the State and the Seminole Tribe of Florida. We have thousands of federal personnel on the ground. And we have staged 20 million meals and 40 million liters of water.
At my direction, Secretary of Defense Austin has pre-positioned search and rescue teams, helicopters, and high-water vehicles as close to the storm as possible so they are ready to conduct life-saving missions.
@FEMA_Deanne Criswell will be on site tonight in Florida in the State’s Emergency Operations Center.
And I will stay in close contact with her and senior officials over the next several hours.
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