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Biden pledges ‘whatever it takes’ to assist tornado victims in Kentucky and other states

By Associated Press

Dec. 15, 2021

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President Joe Biden on Wednesday pledged to do "whatever it takes, as long as it takes" to help Kentucky and other states after a series of deadly tornadoes that he said left a trail of unimaginable devastation.
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A man sits on the grass as President Joe Biden and local leaders survey storm damage from tornadoes and extreme weather in Dawson Springs, Ky., Wednesday, Dec. 15.
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President Joe Biden speaks after surveying storm damage from tornadoes and extreme weather in Dawson Springs, Ky., Wednesday, Dec. 15.
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President Joe Biden talks to a child during a press conference after surveying storm damage from tornadoes and extreme weather in Dawson Springs, Ky., Wednesday, Dec. 15.
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President Joe Biden speaks with Judge Executive Jack Whitfield, Jr., Hopkins County, as he surveys storm damage from tornadoes and extreme weather in Dawson Springs, Ky., Wednesday, Dec. 15.
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President Joe Biden surveys storm damage from tornadoes and extreme weather in Dawson Springs, Ky., Wednesday, Dec. 15.
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President Joe Biden and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear talk to people as they survey storm damage from tornadoes and extreme weather in Mayfield, Ky., Wednesday, Dec. 15.
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President Joe Biden speaks with members of the media as he surveys storm damage from tornadoes and extreme weather in Mayfield, Ky., Wednesday, Dec. 15. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is at right.
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President Joe Biden surveys storm damage from tornadoes and extreme weather in Mayfield, Ky., Wednesday, Dec. 15. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear greets people behind Biden.
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People watch and try to photograph President Joe Biden as he surveys storm damage from tornadoes and extreme weather in Mayfield, Ky., Wednesday, Dec. 15.
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President Joe Biden meets with people as he surveys storm damage from tornadoes and extreme weather in Mayfield, Ky., Wednesday, Dec. 15.
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President Joe Biden meets with people as he surveys storm damage from tornadoes and extreme weather in Mayfield, Ky., Wednesday, Dec. 15.
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President Joe Biden surveys storm damage from tornadoes and extreme weather in Mayfield, Ky., Wednesday, Dec. 15.
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President Joe Biden bows his head as he holds hands Jesse Perry, Graves County Judge Executive, right, and Anne Henning Byfield, Presiding Bishop of the AME Council of Bishops, third from right, in Mayfield, Ky., Wednesday, Dec. 15. Mayfield Mayor Kathy Stewart O'Nan is second from left.
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President Joe Biden bows his head as he holds hands Jesse Perry, Graves County Judge Executive and Anne Henning Byfield, Presiding Bishop of the AME Council of Bishops in Mayfield, Ky., Wednesday, Dec. 15. Mayfield Mayor Kathy Stewart O'Nan is at center left.
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President Joe Biden surveys storm damage from tornadoes and extreme weather in Mayfield, Ky., Wednesday, Dec. 15.
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President Joe Biden walks with Anne Henning Byfield, Presiding Bishop of the AME Council of Bishops, third from left, Jesse Perry, Graves County Judge Executive, second from right, Mayfield Mayor Kathy Stewart O'Nan, left, and others as he surveys storm damage from tornadoes and extreme weather in Mayfield, Ky., Wednesday, Dec. 15.
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People survey storm damage from tornadoes and extreme weather in Mayfield, Ky., Wednesday, Dec. 15.
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Ganimete Ademi surveys the debris from her daughter's house which was being built along Moss Creek Avenue in Bowling Green, Ky., Tuesday, Dec. 14. The neighborhood was one of the hardest hit areas in the city after a tornado ripped through the city the previous weekend. Ademi, a 46-year-old grandmother, fled Kosovo in 1999 during the war, in which she lost her uncle and a nephew. Now she looks around her own neighborhood. “I turn my memory back to 22 years ago,” she said.
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Ben Cerimovic, an immigrant from Bosnia, pauses while working to help clean up in a neighborhood devastated by the recent tornado Tuesday, Dec. 14, in Bowling Green, Ky. There's a close-knit, thriving Bosnian community in Bowling Green, which has a robust refugee resettlement program to bring migrants to Western Kentucky. Cerimovic volunteered here Saturday and Sunday, then he had to take Monday off to gather his emotions.
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Rachel Gray helps retrieve belongings from a friend's home Tuesday, Dec. 14, in Bowling Green, Ky. When a tornado touched down in Bowling Green in the middle of the night, its violence was centered on a friendly subdivision, where everyone waved at each other and giggling children spent afternoons tooling around on their bicycles on the sidewalks.
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A Radio Flyer wagon lies among debris along Moss Creek Avenue Tuesday, Dec. 14, in Bowling Green, Ky. When a tornado touched down in Bowling Green in the middle of the night, its violence was centered on a friendly subdivision. Fourteen people died in a few blocks, 11 of them on Moss Creek Avenue. Entire families were lost, between them seven children, two of them infants.
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Search and rescue workers go house to house Tuesday, Dec. 14, in Bowling Green, Ky. When a tornado touched down in Bowling Green in the middle of the night, its violence was centered on a friendly subdivision. Fourteen people died in a few blocks, 11 of them on a single street.
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Jose Rivas, left, looks at tornado damage Tuesday, Dec. 14, in Bowling Green, Ky. Rivas has neighbors among those killed when a tornado slammed through the neighborhood the previous weekend. Entire families were lost, between them seven children, two of them infants.
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Ray Beganovic walks along Moss Creek Avenue Tuesday, Dec. 14, in Bowling Green, Ky. Beganovic said he knows some of the people who died when a tornado touched down in the middle of the night the previous weekend. Fourteen people died in a few blocks, 11 of them on Moss Creek Avenue. Entire families were lost, between them seven children, two of them infants.
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Kate Garrett retrieves a Christmas tree from her friend's destroyed home Tuesday, Dec. 14, in Bowling Green, Ky. The neighborhood was one of the hardest hit areas in the city after a tornado ripped through the weekend before.
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A bicycle lies among the debris on Moss Creek Avenue in Bowling Green, Ky., Tuesday, Dec. 14. The neighborhood was one of the hardest hit areas in the city after a tornado ripped through the weekend before.
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A family photograph lies among the debris along Moss Creek Avenue in Bowling Green, Ky., Tuesday, Dec. 14. The neighborhood was one of the hardest hit areas in the city after a tornado ripped through the weekend before.
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Members of police and rescue units walk along Moss Creek Avenue Tuesday, Dec. 14, in Bowling Green, Ky. When a tornado touched down in Bowling Green, fourteen people died in a few blocks, 11 of them on Moss Creek Avenue.
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Vung Nuam, center, looks through the remains of her home Tuesday, Dec. 14, in Bowling Green, Ky.
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A child's toy car sits near damaged cars and homes Tuesday, Dec. 14, in Bowling Green, Ky. When a tornado touched down in Bowling Green in the middle of the night, its violence was centered on a friendly subdivision, where everyone waved at each other and giggling children spent afternoons tooling around on their bicycles on the sidewalks. Fourteen people died in a few blocks, 11 of them on a single street. Entire families were lost, between them seven children, two of them infants.

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