This story is based on press pool reports. President Joe Biden traveled to Florida’s Big Bend Thursday and urged bipartisanship as the best way to set a foundation for rebuilding areas of the state and the broader South after the devastation of Hurricane Helene.

The trip marked the second consecutive day that Biden had surveyed impacted areas a week after the storm left much of the Southeast reeling.

The president toured the hard-hit Big Bend area with U.S. Senator Rick Scott and other state, federal and local officials.