Biden offers comfort and money to rebuild after Miami apartments collapse

President Joe Biden, right, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, left, gave a news briefing (Susan Walsh/AP)

President Joe Biden has offered comfort to the grieving and federal support for efforts to search for the missing and rebuild after the collapse of a high-rise building on the Florida coastline.

Mr Biden, responding to what appeared to be the deadliest calamity of his young presidency, was to survey the devastation and meet first responders hunting for survivors among the rubble in Surfside.