{"id":27891,"date":"2022-12-27T14:18:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T14:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=27891"},"modified":"2022-12-27T14:18:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T14:18:53","slug":"biden-announces-federal-emergency-disaster-relief-for-the-storm-hit-new-york-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/27891","title":{"rendered":"Biden announces federal emergency disaster relief for the storm-hit New York state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON: U.S. President Joe Biden authorized federal support for New York state on Monday after a severe winter storm left at least 27 people dead in the Buffalo area and tens of thousands of residents without power, the White House said in a statement and quoted by Reuters.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has especially been authorized to coordinate efforts in the greater Buffalo metro area, according to D.W.Com.<\/p>\n<p>Biden spoke with Governor Kathy Hochul late on Monday night to offer\u00a0&#8220;the full force of the federal government&#8221; to support emergency efforts in the state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My heart is with those who lost loved ones this holiday weekend. You are in my and Jill&#8217;s prayers,&#8221; Biden tweeted earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>More than 4 feet (1.2 meters) of snow fell on western New York state in what Governor Hochul has called &#8220;an epic, once-in-a-lifetime&#8221; catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of National Guard troops were deployed to assist emergency personnel on Monday.\u00a0However, roads remain littered with cars and even plows\u00a0burred under snow, complicating rescue efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul said the wild weather go down in history as &#8220;the Blizzard of &#8217;22&#8221; and added that it is &#8220;way too early to say this is at its completion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Local officials ranked it as the worst Buffalo-area snowstorm since a 1977 blizzard that killed nearly 30 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: U.S. President Joe Biden authorized federal support for New York state on Monday after a severe winter storm left at least 27 people dead in the Buffalo area and tens of thousands of residents without power, the White House said in a statement and quoted by Reuters. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has especially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,1378,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-us","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27893,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27891\/revisions\/27893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}