US President Joe Biden

Joe Biden (Joseph Robin Biden) is an American politician. Joe Biden was born on November 20, 1942 in suggested today that Hurricane Ian may have caused the death of a "significant number" of people when it passed over the southeastern state of Florida, reports BTA.

Biden said this during a visit to Washington at the headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

"This may be the deadliest hurricane in Florida's history," the US president said.

He noted that the numbers "are not yet clear, but we are receiving first reports of human casualties, which may be a significant number."

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"When conditions permit, I will go to Florida to personally thank" the people involved in the rescue and recovery operations, Biden said.

He specified that he also intended to go to Puerto Rico, a US territory in the Caribbean Sea, where another hurricane, Fiona, killed four people last week.

The Democratic president said he had spoken "four or five times" with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, one of his fiercest critics.

"It's about saving people and saving houses... This has nothing to do with our disagreements on other topics," Biden dryly replied to a journalist's question.

The President of the United States has promised to make available to Florida all necessary federal resources.

Desantis earlier called Hurricane Ian's damage "historic" and mentioned "devastated cities" across the state.

Two people have already been confirmed dead.

Rescuers are in a race against time to find survivors.

This comes as patchy reports of massive damage and the hurricane's fearsome power begin to emerge.

More than 2.6 million households and businesses remain without power, according to data from local power system operators cited by Reuters.

Ian hit Florida yesterday as a Category 4 hurricane on the five-point Saffir-Simpson scale.

The speed of the accompanying winds reached 241 kilometers per hour.

Ian has weakened over land to a tropical storm, but is expected to regain strength and hit South Carolina as a hurricane tomorrow.

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