Beginning one week after the remnants of Hurricane Ida hit New Jersey, the state said it has provided 2,400 free or discounted Uber or Lyft rides to date.
The president met officials in Hillsborough and families in Manville and says the damage caused by Ida underscores need to improve America's infrastructure.
St. Hubert's Animal Welfare Center in Madison is one of five areas shelters receiving an emergency transport of adoptable animals from Louisiana shelters following Ida.
Superstorm Sandy is the only natural disaster on record that caused more deaths in New Jersey than the driving rains and floods from the remnants of Ida.
FIve people were found dead at the Oakwood Plaza Apartments in Elizabeth in one incident while three people drowned in Hillsborough in separate incidents.
A South Jersey man recorded as his neighborhood was ravaged from a tornado that raged through Gloucester County during the early hours of Wednesday evening.