President Biden pledges federal relief, plans to visit Maui after fires | USA TOD...

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President Joe Biden pledged "whatever you need" to the governor of Hawaii in the wake of the state's devastating wildfires.
A whole city destroyed. Generations of native Hawaiian history turned into ruin," Biden said in Milwaukee after touring Ingeteam, a clean energy manufacturing company that produces onshore wind turbine generators.

Biden's comments were his first on the wildfires since the number of fatalities surpassed over the weekend. those from a 2018 fire in California.

Now at 99, the death toll could double or even triple, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said Monday.

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