US President Joe Biden

Joe Biden (Joseph Robin Biden) is an American politician. Joe Biden was born on November 20, 1942 in approved a state of emergency for California after a week of winter storms killed at least 12 people in the last 10 days and cut power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in the state, Reuters reported.

The emergency declaration authorizes the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to coordinate disaster relief efforts and mobilize emergency resources, the White House said in a statement.

Biden ordered "federal assistance to supplement state and local response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from consecutive and severe winter storms, flooding and mudslides that began on January 8, 2023 and continue through the present," the statement added.

Hundreds of thousands without power due to storms in California

Over the past week, harsh winter weather has produced strong wind gusts that have overturned trucks, flooded streets in small towns along the Northern California coast and spawned a storm that destroyed a pier in Santa Cruz.

According to PowerOutage.us, which was created to track, record and summarize power outages in the United States, more than 100,000 homes in California were without power after the raging storm hit the region earlier this year, BNR noted.

Joe Biden

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