Feb 26, 2021
President Joe Biden speaks during an event Thursday to commemorate the 50 millionth COVID-19 shot, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
WASHINGTON (AP) President Joe Biden will exercise his empathy skills today during a Texas visit with a dual mission: surveying damage caused by severe winter weather and encouraging people to get their coronavirus shots.
Biden and his wife, Jill, were traveling to Houston for the president’s first trip to a major disaster site since he took office a little over a month ago.
Severe winter weather across the South over Valentine’s Day weekend battered multiple states, with Texas bearing the brunt of unseasonably frigid conditions that caused widespread power outages and frozen pipes that burst and flooded homes. Millions of residents lost heat and running water.
Biden heads to Texas to see storm damage, visit food b
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