offers to help efforts to end the war in ukraine, we will speak to the prominent indian activist kavita krishnan. >> stood unconditially with the people of vietnam, the people of the wreck, afghanistan, palesne against american imperialism, american occupation, american invasio and so o it is theame way we should stand unconditionally with the people of ukraine. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. president biden pledged billions of dollars of federal aid for people impacted by hurricane ian, which made landfall last week as one of the most devastating storms ever to hit the united states. he viewed the storm's path of destruction by helicopter, flying over fort myers beach, which took a direct hit from ian's category 4 winds. he met with governor desantis, potential rival of the 2024 presidential election. biden said the recovery effort could take years and blamed the climate crisis for adding to ian's destructive power. pres. biden: more fires have burned in the west and southwest, burned everything right to