President Biden says he will become a great-grandfather today
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President Biden said he is set to become a great-grandfather on Wednesday with the birth of his eldest granddaughter's first child.
"I'm about to be a great-grandfather, Jesus God," Mr. Biden told USA Today in an interview at the White House on Sunday, explaining that his granddaughter is scheduled to have a Cesarean section on Wednesday.
Naomi Biden, the 31-year-old daughter of the president's son Hunter, announced her pregnancy in November in a social media post to mark Election Day. She married Peter Neal at the White House in 2022, the first time a president's grandchild was wed at the White House.
Wildfires raged across Southern California on Wednesday, leaving at least two people dead and prompting thousands of evacuations as blazes closed in on Los Angeles neighborhoods like the Pacific Palisades and residents hurried to escape. Maps of the region show where the Palisades Fire, Eaton Fire and others are engulfing thousands of acres of land.
A new strain of norovirus now makes up a majority of outbreaks nationwide, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The new strain's emergence, found spreading throughout the country and on cruise ships, offers a possible explanation for the past month's steep wave of infections from the stomach bug.