Biden to survey California fire damage as he urges action on climate change

President Joe Biden On Monday headed West to survey California fire damage as he urges action on climate change.

President Joe Biden on Monday made his first visit to the West Coast as president, with plans to survey wildfire damage and push for action on combatting climate change. Biden first stopped in Boise, Idaho, to visit the National Interagency Fire Center -- which coordinates the federal government's response to wildfires -- before traveling to the Sacramento, Calif., area to view the impact of the Caldor Fire and receive a briefing from local officials. The president has used recent natural disasters to show the urgency of climate change and its deadly effects on the American people, pitching his massive spending plan as a way to rebuild infrastructure in a greener, cleaner, more resilient manner. "From the Yellowstone fire to today, all’s changed, in a drastic drastic way," Biden said while meeting with officials in Boise, referring to 1988 fires that at the time prompted the largest-ever firefighting response in U.S. history. "It’s changed, It's not going back. It's not going back."