Los Angeles Wildfires Complicate Efforts to Increase Housing Affordability

As the Southern California wildfires have made tragically apparent, California Democrats' goal to lower the cost of living are running headlong into the impacts of extreme weather brought on by climate change.

Reporter: Guy Marzorati, KQED

President  Trump is expected to visit Los Angeles today to see the wildfire damage firsthand, but some of the details around the visit are murky. That's after he signed an executive action earlier this week aiming to reroute Northern California water to the rest of the state.

Reporter: Marisa Lagos, KQED

The state’s response to the bird flu outbreak could be hobbled as the Trump Administration pauses all communication released from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.

Reporter: Lesley McClurg, KQED

State Assemblymember Dawn Addis, who represents Morro Bay, says she's introducing legislation to regulate new battery storage facilities in California. That comes a week after a fire at the world's largest such facility in Moss Landing, owned by the Vistra Corporation. 

Reporter: Juan Carlos Lara, KQED

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