President Biden departs from San Francisco after APEC meetings
SAN FRANCISCO -- President Joe Biden left San Francisco Friday afternoon following several days in the Bay Area participating in the APEC summit.
Biden arrived on Tuesday afternoon, attending a fundraising event that evening ahead of his high-profile meeting with China's President Xi Jinping on Wednesday, an APEC gala Wednesday evening and a speech before economic leaders at the conference Thursday morning.
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The conference drew several protests, including one that shut down the Bay Bridge on Thursday morning as demonstrators called for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and the militant group Hamas in Gaza.
On Friday, he met with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to discuss immigration and illicit fentanyl trafficking into the U.S. López Obrador also used Friday's meeting to take up the case for Cuba and urged the U.S. president to resume a dialogue with the island nation and end U.S. sanctions.
The president closed out his APEC activities by hosting a leaders retreat where he officially transferred the APEC chair position to President Dina Boluarte of Peru, which will host the next version of APEC in 2024. He left the Moscone Center at around 1:45 a.m. before departing SFO in Air Force One at around 2:20 p.m. Friday. He was originally scheduled to leave closer to 1:20 p.m.
Air Force One is flying into Philadelphia before taking the president to Delaware.
CBS News Bay Area streamed coverage of the president's departure from SFO. The livestream was available on cellphones, tablets and other devices on this page or via the player on the CBSSF.com home page.
