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The former vice president’s first acts as a nonelected official for the first time in decades could be a sign of what comes next.

Washington — President-elect Donald Trump said he plans to visit the greater Los Angeles area, probably at the end of next week, after he's sworn into office . "I will be, probably, at the end of the week," Trump told NBC News' Kristen Welker in an interview Saturday.

Some were happy that the traditional plans to hold the inauguration outside were scrapped at the last minute; others were disappointed but understanding.

The question of who is in charge is testimony to the diffusion and, at times, dysfunction that make up the core DNA of the governance of the greater Los Angeles area.

In Los Angeles’s chaparral-covered ecosystem, wildfires in the mountains are an annual ritual. But when those fires leaped into residential neighborhoods this week, killing at least 11 people and destroying thousands of homes, the city suddenly found itself in survival mode.

The two most massive fires have not spread significantly in days, and firefighters are — slowly and steadily — gaining ground on containing them.

Former members of the Los Angeles Chargers just won in the NFL playoffs and are that much closer to a championship.

The Brentwood house she shares with Doug Emhoff is in an evacuation zone, but the vice president has been in Washington.

Additionally Seattle Humane is taking in dozens of shelter animals from Los Angeles to help free up resources in Southern California. More than 220 firefighters from 11 local fire strike teams in Washington made the trek down to California starting earlier ...

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