U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden greet victims and survey areas hit by flooding in Lost Creek, Kentucky, August 8, 2022.

Biden pledged more federal help to flood-ravaged eastern Kentucky on Monday after touring the devastation, which he linked to climate change.

“We’re staying — the federal government, along with the state and county and the city — we are staying until everyone is back to where they were,” he said after visiting with families in Lost Creek, Kentucky, affected by the flooding.

He said the objective is not to “just to get back to where we were, it’s to get back to better than where we were.”

At least 37 people were killed in the flooding last week after storms dropped up to 26 centimeters of rain in some areas of eastern Kentucky in just 48 hours. Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said Monday that authorities expect to add at least one more death to the total.

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