CALIFORNIA/NATURAL DISASTERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “With the confirmed death toll at 71 and the list of unaccounted for people more than 1,000, authorities in Northern California on Friday [11-16-18] searched for those who perished and those who survived the fiercest of wildfires ahead of a planned visit by President Donald Trump. The president on Saturday is expected to get a look at the grief and damage caused by the deadliest U.S. wildfire in a century, and he could face resentment from locals for blaming the inferno on poor forest management in California. In an interview taped Friday and scheduled for broadcast on ‘Fox News Sunday,’ Trump said he was surprised to see images of firefighters removing dried brush near a fire, adding, ‘This should have been all raked out’…Deputies found eight more bodies Friday, bringing the death toll to 71. The number of people unaccounted for grew from 631 on Thursday night to more than 1,000 on Friday, but Sheriff Kory Honea said the list was dynamic and could easily contain duplicate names and unreliable spellings of names.”
–The Associated Press, “Fire death toll rises to 71 ahead of Trump’s California visit,” Politico, November 15, 2018 10:09 pm