puerto rico today, devastated by hurricane fiona two weeks ago and the president and white house officials did their part to try to tamp down that controversy. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. peter: good evening, bret. white house officials are putting out the word that federal help is on the way for people who need it the most. race is not going to be a factor, despite what the vice president said. hello. surveying damage from hurricane fiona. president biden is already sounding the alarm about storms that won t hit for years. today i m announcing more than $60 million in funding to help coastal areas in puerto rico. [applause] become better prepared for the glorm he says his response doesn t favor friends. times like these our nation comes together, put aside our difference our political differences and get to work. we show up. that s different than what vice president harris suggeste
didn t in fact embrace innovation. put at risk the dependability and, in fact, going to drive up costs unnecessarily and put virginians at a disadvantage and oh, by the way, at a time when they can least afford to see further inflation. and so our policy is an all of the above approach that we are in fact going to embrace our existing clean stack where we have natural gas and nuclear that provide most of the power in virginia. we are also going to embrace innovation and yes renewables in window and solar but also new innovation. i have actually set a 10 year challenge to virginia. our moonshot to develop the first commercial small modular nuclear reactor in 10 years that would be done in southwest virginia. and virginia should be at the forefront of this industry where we have such great capabilities already and we are going to do something that not just impacts the future of the commonwealth of virginia but the nation. and the world. bret: your name has come up a lot in discussion a