President Joe Biden will postpone a trip he had scheduled to Germany and Angola, to remain in the White House to monitor Hurricane Miltonwhich is approaching Florida’s Gulf Coast, the White House announced this Tuesday.
The press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, said that the change was necessary “given the projected track and strength” of the storm.
There was no indication when the trip might be rescheduled. Biden promised to go to Africa during his term, which ends in January.
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Hurricane Milton weakened slightly this Tuesdaybut it was still a ferocious storm that could deliver a once-in-a-century direct hit to the populous Tampa region with towering storm surges. and turn the debris left behind by Hurricane Helene 12 days ago into projectiles.
Almost the entire west coast of Florida was under a hurricane warning or tropical storm, as the storm and its 230 kilometer per hour winds rotated near the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula, moving towards the state at 19 km/h and absorbing energy from the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
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