President Joe Biden speaks with members of the media after a briefing in Rolling Fork, Miss., Friday, March 31, 2023. Biden traveled to Rolling Fork to survey the damage after a deadly tornado and severe storm moved through the area. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and Rolling Fork Mayor Eldridge Walker look on. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — President Joe Biden saw for himself the flattened homes, broken furniture and upended lives left behind by last week's deadly tornado in Mississippi and pledged Friday that the federal government is not leaving until the area is back on its feet.