Trump's visit to N. Carolina and California

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Al Arabiya News correspondent Benji Hyer previews US President Donald Trump's visits to North Carolina and California, two states ravaged by natural disasters.

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00:00The president has left the White House to visit disaster-hit states North Carolina and California

00:07What are we expecting from his visits to both of these areas?

00:13Yeah, Donald Trump already on the ground now in North Carolina

00:16And then he'll be later in California those two American states that were recently ravaged by different natural disasters

00:24He's currently or he's about to tore damage from Hurricane Helene that hurricane that hit the southeast United States back in

00:32September before flying on to Los Angeles later today where in fact wildfires are continuing to burn

00:39Having in past weeks destroyed vast swathes of the city as you mentioned

00:44This will be Donald Trump's first trip of his second term and he'll be heading west from North Carolina to California

00:52Following threats that he has issued to actually withhold

00:56Federal aid from Los Angeles unless the city changes its water policies. He's falsely claimed for instance that

01:04Conservation efforts are what's responsible for high for fire hydrants in the city running dry

01:11He said in a recent interview that we shouldn't give California anything until they've let the water

01:18Flow down in past moments in a series of other comments

01:22He added that it should be up to the state's the individual states to take care of these disasters

01:27essentially absolving the federal government of

01:30Responsibility and as you mentioned earlier dozens of people killed from the blazes in Los Angeles

01:36Which tore through multiple neighborhoods firefighters often overwhelmed and Hurricane Helene the deadliest

01:42Hurricane to strike the mainland in two decades it left hundreds of fatalities

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