President Biden walks storm-wrecked LaPlace as Ida's death toll climbs, new investigations launched into warehoused evacuees

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with Jennifer Wadsworth | Assistant metro editor

We're heading into the weekend with far fewer outages, slightly shorter gas lines and a clearer picture of what Hurricane Ida wrought as her death toll rose to 10 in Louisiana and damage estimates soared into the tens of billions of dollars. President Joe Biden flew down Friday to see some of the wreckage for himself, stopping first in storm-whipped LaPlace, where he assured help was on the way: "I promise we're going to have your back."

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