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Obama Visiting Louisiana Today to Tour Historic Flood Damage

HeadlineAug 23, 2016

President Obama is visiting Louisiana today, where some neighborhoods still have up to two feet of standing water left from the historic flooding last week. At least 13 people died and 40,000 homes were destroyed in what the Red Cross has called the worst natural disaster in the U.S. since Hurricane Sandy. Obama has faced criticism from residents and the local newspaper The Advocate for not traveling to the flood zone earlier, comparing his failure to visit the region to President George W. Bush’s failure to travel to New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, although Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards has said until now he didn’t want Obama to come, as he’d rather not redirect resources to a presidential visit.

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