WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US President Joe Biden has warned that Hurricane Ida will be a major life-threatening storm and has promised all the necessary federal assistance to the states that will be affected.
Hurricane Ida made landfall in the US state of Louisiana as a Category Four storm on Sunday, with winds of 150 miles per hour (over 240 kilometers per hour). Notably, Ida hit the Gulf Coast on the 16th anniversary of the disastrous Hurricane Katrina.
Speaking at a Sunday meeting of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Biden said, as seen in the video footage released by the White House, that Ida was a "life-threatening" storm.
