Biden and first lady Jill Biden to visit Hawaii to survey wildfire devastation

President Joe Biden volition question to Maui connected Monday wherever a wildfire has ravaged the land and killed much than 100 people.

Biden and archetypal woman Jill Biden volition conscionable with archetypal responders, survivors and authorities officials and instrumentality banal of the damage, the White House said Wednesday.

"The president continues to marshal a whole-of-government effect to the deadly Maui fires, and helium has committed to delivering everything that the radical of Hawaii request from the national authorities arsenic they retrieve from this disaster," White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said successful a connection announcing the trip.

Biden had faced disapproval for not visiting the land sooner, but helium has been successful adjacent regular interaction with officials to find erstwhile a sojourn could beryllium timed truthful arsenic not disrupt rescue and betterment efforts.

"My woman Jill and I are going to question to Hawaii arsenic soon arsenic we can," Biden said astatine an lawsuit successful Wisconsin connected Tuesday. "That's what we've been talking to the politician about, but I don't privation to get successful the way. I've been to excessively galore catastrophe areas, but I privation to spell and marque definite we've got everything they need. I privation to beryllium definite we don't disrupt the ongoing betterment efforts."