President Biden’s Coachella Valley visit canceled due to weather issues

President Joe Biden's planned stop in the Coachella Valley Tuesday was canceled due to weather issues, officials confirmed to News Channel 3.

Biden was set to stop in the eastern Coachella Valley to sign a proclamation designating Chuckwalla lands a federally protected national monument. Officials said Biden will sign the proclamation next week in the White House.

"Today’s event will be rescheduled for next week at the White House so that key stakeholders can attend," the White House said.

There is a "life-threatening" windstorm throughout California with fire risks. A fast-growing brush fire broke out just before Noon near Los Angeles International Airport, where Air Force One was set to depart from.

The Chuckwalla National Monument would encompass approximately 644,000 acres on Joshua Tree’s southern border, stretching to the Colorado River in southern California.

According to the White House, establishment of the Chuckwalla monument is Biden's "capstone action to create the largest corridor of protected lands in the continental United States, covering nearly 18 million acres stretching approximately 600 miles. This new Moab to Mojave Conservation Corridor protects wildlife habitat and a wide range of natural and cultural resources along the Colorado River, across the Colorado Plateau, and into the deserts of California. It is a vitally important cultural and spiritual landscape that has been inhabited and traveled by Tribal Nations and Indigenous peoples since time immemorial.''

Establishment of the Chuckwalla National Monument south of Joshua Tree National Park, makes drilling, mining and other energy- and industrial-related activity illegal in the area.

If approved, this move would come after years of advocating from indigenous tribes to protect the land.

Gov. Gavin Newsom, who had been scheduled to join Biden at the Riverside County event Tuesday, issued a statement praising the creation of the monuments.

"California is now home to two new national monuments that honor the tribes that have stewarded these lands since time immemorial,'' Newsom said. "Thanks to President Biden and the leadership of California tribes and local communities, we're protecting 840,000 acres of some of our state's most culturally significant lands. This is a huge boost for our efforts to protect 30% of California's lands and coastal waters."

According to the White House, Biden was set to land at Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport in Thermal early Tuesday afternoon.

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