Biden will visit Florida condo tower collapse site on Thursday
PUBLISHED TUE, JUN 29 202110:56 AM EDT
Christina Wilkie
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President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will travel to Surfside, Florida, on Thursday to visit the site of a deadly condominium tower collapse.
The White House had said Biden would wait to visit until he was certain that presidential security and logistics would not interrupt search, rescue and recovery efforts underway at the Champlain Towers.
Search and rescue operations continued at the site, north of Miami Beach, five days after the 12-story condominium tower collapsed suddenly early Thursday morning.
WASHINGTON President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will travel to Surfside, Florida, on Thursday to visit the site of a deadly condominium tower collapse.
Biden told reporters of the upcoming trip as he boarded Marine One on Tuesday morning, en route to Wisconsin.
Search and rescue operations continue at the site, north of Miami Beach, five days after the 12-story Champlain Towers South condominium tower collapsed suddenly early Thursday morning.
As of Tuesday, eleven people were confirmed dead and 150 were unaccounted for, according to local officials.
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