US President Donald Trump toured storm-battered areas of the Carolinas on Wednesday, handing out meals to residents and promising the “100 per cent” support of the federal government to victims of Hurricane Florence.
“Washington is with you. Trump is with you,” the president said during a briefing at emergency operations headquarters in Conway, South Carolina.
Trump began his tour of the storm-damaged region in worst-hit North Carolina, flying into Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point aboard Air Force One.
“Some of the floodings is actually epic,” Trump said at a news conference. “We’ve seen all the pictures where houses are literally covered beyond the roof.”
From Cherry Point, Trump travelled to New Bern, North Carolina, a town at the confluence of the Neuse and Trent rivers that suffered severe flooding.
“We’re giving you a lot of help,” Trump told one resident as he walked along River Drive in a low-lying neighbourhood of New Bern made up of brick…
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