{"id":1662261,"date":"2022-09-28T11:20:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T15:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1662261"},"modified":"2022-09-28T11:20:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T15:20:15","slug":"biden-says-we-are-on-alert-ahead-of-hurricane-ian-landfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-says-we-are-on-alert-ahead-of-hurricane-ian-landfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Says \u2018We Are on Alert\u2019 Ahead of Hurricane Ian Landfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-says-we-are-on-alert-ahead-of-hurricane-ian-landfall%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1662261&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> said Wednesday that the federal government is \u201con alert and in action\u201d as major Hurricane Ian is slated to hit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-florida\">Florida<\/a> later in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have approved every request Florida has made for temporary assistance, emergency assistance, and long-term assistance,\u201d he said,\u00a0adding that \u201chundreds of FEMA personnel\u201d and thousands of National Guard members have been dispatched to the Sunshine State. A search and rescue team is currently on the ground, the president said.<\/p>\n<p>Biden and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, spoke on Tuesday night, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressSec\/status\/1574908623213535232\">according<\/a> to press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden spoke this evening with Governor DeSantis of Florida to discuss the steps the Federal government is taking to help Florida prepare for Hurricane Ian,\u201d Jean-Pierre wrote on Twitter. \u201cThe President and the Governor committed to continued close coordination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both Biden and DeSantis on Wednesday, during separate events, warned that people should heed local officials\u2019 warnings and directions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis storm is incredibly dangerous, to state the obvious. It\u2019s life-threatening. You should obey all warnings and directions from emergency officials. Don\u2019t take anything for granted. Use their judgment, not yours. Evacuate when ordered. Be prepared,\u201d he said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government, Biden added, will be there to help rebuild areas that were devastated by Hurricane Ian.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis said that because of Ian\u2019s close proximity to the western Florida coastline,\u00a0people in Collier, Lee, Charlotte, and Sarasota counties were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/gov-ron-desantis-warns-time-for-evacuation-is-over-before-hurricane-ians-landfall_4760617.html\">no longer safe to evacuate<\/a>. He urged residents to get off the roads and stay inside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need to get to higher ground, you need to get to structures that are safe,\u201d DeSantis said, adding that widespread power outages would leave millions without electricity once the storm strikes. Ian is likely to make its first landfall in Charlotte County, he said, while the National Hurricane Center (NHC) models show<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden said Wednesday that the federal government is \u201con alert and in action\u201d as major Hurricane Ian is slated to hit Florida later in the afternoon. \u201cWe have approved every request Florida has made for temporary assistance, emergency assistance, and long-term assistance,\u201d he said,\u00a0adding that \u201chundreds of FEMA personnel\u201d and thousands of National [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1662261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1662261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1662261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1662261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1662261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}