PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — New Jersey's governor is ordering American and state flags to fly at half-staff beginning Wednesday, to honor victims of the storm that heavily damaged the state last week.
Gov. Phil Murphy made the order Tuesday afternoon to remember the 27 people who died, and four people who remained missing, following the storm from the remnants of Hurricane Ida.
The storm's seven tornadoes struck the Philadelphia are and Princeton, New Jersey. It flattened homes in Mullica Hill, along with countless cases of flash flooding.
President Joe Biden toured storm damage in New Jersey and New York, focusing on climate change and saying he's thinking about all the families that suffered losses. He said that better rebuilding is needed to deal with future storms and cited his own $1 trillion plan, now pending in Congress.
"The nation and the world are in peril. That is not hyperbole. That is a fact," President Joe Biden said in a visit to a New Jersey neighborhood that was rocked by the storm last Wednesday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
