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First midterms. so big night for the democrats on election night. its continued to be since then. our margins have not moved a whole lot. looks even politically across the board. >> just over the midterms. hard to get to 2020. i want to turn to the president. he kept bringing up the forest management issue. how did he perform given that he was flanked by governor elect. he talked about what a sad day it was and how hard it was to see the devastation in the state. he had been blaming forest manag...

California is a lot of funky things, but when this state comes tgts with the peop comes together with the community of chico, it will get rebuilt. well do everything we can with all the resources we can get. the entire city is pulling to help the town of paradise. >> we have rain next week. thats the immediate issue. but rain, you talk about mud slides. you talk about all of the other issues. how are you set up to handle that? >> the city of chico is not set up to help with that at all and thats...

Welcome back to "up." california is going through the deadliest wildfire in that states history. the death toll from the camp fire near sacramento now stands at 76. president trump was in california yesterday visiting the state and surveying the damage from the fire. nbcs scott cohn joins me now from paradise, california. tell us about the presidents visit. he went to three or four sites within the state and whats your sense of his takeaway from his visit to california. >> reporter: well, he spe...

Talking about president trump possibly softening his tone. as a reporter, i see that president trump really doubling down on his hard-line stance on immigration and in some ways even talking about race and that ad that was deemed to racist to air on fox news, helped republicans in florida. for republicans theres no question that they ran a race that was centered around race. you have the governor-elect of florida not to monkey up things and talking about an african-american man. there were roboc...

Do to governor. at the same time theyre facing the decision of how long theyre going to hold out the fight, they could use some legal maneuvers to do so. what it seems like, all of that is going to come to a head. >> all right, dan merica, thank you. meantime, president trump has been making his way cross-country to get to california. you see air force one just landing there at the beale air force base in colorado. we dont have his exact itinerary but of course as we learn it, we know he will ...

Forest management. . president received commitism from some after he suggested more could be done in california to prevent these sorts of fires. he has received criticism from fire officials. despite that, he says hes going to deliver his message face-to-face. listen to this. >> and the new governor and governor-elect. we will be talking about forest management. ive been saying that for a long time. this could have been a lot different situation. but the one thing everybody now knows this is wha...

Just moments ago. >> i want to thank the mayor, the governor and governor elect. the fema folks that we have relied on a lot in the last few years, it has been incredible. law enforcement has been beyond anything that anyone could have believed. to see what happened here no one would have ever thought this could happen. the federal government is behind you, were all behind each other. and we have been attack speaking and gavin and i have gotten to know each other and were going to help each othe...

Bill nelson, frankly, hes had a number of cases here in tallahassee before judge mark walker down the street at federal court. those have not gone their way, frankly. so remains to be seen whether bill nelson will continue with that path and follow andrew gillum and possibly concede his race to rick scott the. >> now, has there been a response from desantis? >> reporter: we have not seen a response from desantis. i guess we can now say governor elect desantis. he has frankly gone about the busin...

Destruction and despair in parts of california, at least 74 people dead and more than a thousand others missing in wildfires burning across the state. the so-called camp fire in northern california has become the deadliest and most destructive fire in that states history. thousands are now living in makeshift campgrounds. their homes singed and completely burned out, and their futures uncertain. including in the destroyed town of paradise where half the police force is now homeless. >> my 3-year...

Governor-elect. both of whom, of course, are democrats. press secretary sarah sanders says the president wants to show support for the victims. >> i think this will probably be one of the harder days that weve had in the two years of this administration. and i think the biggest message and biggest takeaway will be the president saying were here, and thankfully the presidents got big shoulders, and i think hes going to go there to offer them up to people that need somebody to lean on. >> that was...