As President Donald Trump prepares to tour wildfire damage in California, he’s zeroing in on one of his frequent targets for criticism: State water policy.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is heading to hurricane-battered western North Carolina and wildfire-ravaged Los Angeles on Friday, using the first trip of his second administration to tour areas where politics has clouded the response to deadly disasters.

The scale of the destruction is hard to comprehend: The fires have consumed more the 60 square miles, according to state fire officials, and killed at least 24 people even as the search for additional victims remains ongoing.

Loren Benn grew up in Altadena, California. The Eaton Fire burned more than a dozen homes belonging to her family members.

Between the two biggest LA fires, more than 36,000 acres have burned. The entire city of Boston is just over 31,000 acres.

The fallout from the Southern California wildfires has one Boston-based nonprofit expediting the services it offers to families affected by a parent who lost their life to breast cancer or was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer,

It’s frustrating at every level of government,” said Democratic state Senator Henry Stern, who was part of a group of lawmakers who authored the legislation. “I feel like a failure on it, being quite frank.

Five days after assuming the White House, President Donald Trump is racking up a number of wins and losses after issuing a flurry of executive orders. On Friday, he travels to disaster-hit states of North Carolina and California while new developments play out over his immigration policy and cabinet confirmations.

U.S. President Donald Trump walks off Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House returning from California after viewing damage from that state's wildfires on November 18, 2018 in Washington, D.C. | Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

The Boston Red Sox reportedly never pursued slugger Jurickson Profar before he signed with the Atlanta Braves.

UCLA gymnastics assistant Lacy Dagen is helping the Bruins pull off more feats and find more confidence on the balance beam, and its showing in the scores.

Children of parents who got at least one COVID jab had higher MMR vaccination rates -- nearly 81%, compared to just under 61% for children of unvaccinated parents, researchers found. Politics also played a role in childhood vaccinations. Republican parents were 27% less likely to have their kids get the MMR vaccine than Democratic parents.