19 Nov 2018

Trump visits devastated California wildfire zone

From Morning Report, 7:46 am on 19 November 2018

The death toll from wildfires in Northern California has risen to 76, with over twelve hundred people still unaccounted for. Almost 10,000 homes have been destroyed, and rescue workers continue to search through the rubble in affected areas. President Donald Trump visited the wildfire zones to survey the damage on Saturday, using softer language after previously tweeting that lives were lost due to "gross mismanagement of the forests". He toured the town of Paradise with California Governor Jerry Brown and Governor Elect Gavin Newsom. Marc Albert is our correspondent in California. He talks to Guyon Espiner.