"I told the governor and local officials, spare no expense," President Biden said, calling the damage "catastrophic."

President Joe Biden on Thursday announced the federal government would cover 100% of costs of the initial federal disaster response to the Los Angeles wildfires.

President Joe Biden is being blasted after he tried to inject a bit of levity into a briefing on the California widlfires by announcing he had become a great-grandfather. However, the comment didn’t land and was condemned online given the disaster that was unfolding just miles away.

President Biden plans to speak Thursday after being briefed at the White House about the wildfires destroying neighborhoods in the Los Angeles area.

As wildfires continued to rage in Southern California, President-elect Donald Trump took to social media with several false and misleading claims casting blame on California's Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom,

"He is the blame for this," Trump wrote about Newsom on his social media platform Truth Social on Wednesday, but Newsom's office called that "fiction."

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Wednesday went after President-elect Trump for recent comments he made about ongoing wildfires in the Los Angeles area. “People are literally fleeing,” Newsom told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in an interview that aired on his show Wednesday.