WATCH: White House holds briefing as Florida recovers from Hurricane Milton

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said at Thursday’s White House briefing that the government has “the capability and the capacity to respond to and recover from multiple simultaneous disasters” in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton.
Watch the briefing in the player above.
Still, Mayorkas cautioned that Congress needs to allocate more funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, saying “we will need additional funds.”
Additionally, Mayorkas condemned hate speech and false information spread online following landfall by Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton.
Mayorkas said that falsehoods are having a negative impact on survivors and hurting the morale of rescue workers.
WATCH: Biden gives update on recovery efforts after Hurricane Milton strikes Florida
Mayorkas said the government is “seeing horrific, hate speech of all types, propagated on online platforms,” pertaining to people trying to help address the damage from the storm.
President Joe Biden was briefed early Thursday by Homeland Security Advisor Liz Sherwood-Randall and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell on the initial impacts of Hurricane Milton.
Biden held another briefing in the White House Situation Room on the federal response to the storm, and the role the Pentagon and the Coast Guard are playing in disaster response.
Vice President Kamala Harris joined that briefing by videoconference from Las Vegas, where she is holding campaign events.