California Governor Gavin Newsom urged President Donald Trump on Wednesday to support federal disaster relief for his state after devastating wildfires destroyed entire neighborhoods in Los Angeles.

There are two major problems with Trump’s order, water experts said: The water will not flow to Los Angeles, and it is being wasted by being released during the wet winter season.

There are growing questions about the effectiveness of a plan to address California's water crisis, weeks after the deadly wildfires.

Trump lost more than two-thirds of the lawsuits filed against his rules in his first term. His win rate of 31% was lower than that of the three administrations prior, according to an analysis by the Institute of Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released water from two reservoirs in the foothills of the southern Sierra Nevada to meet President Donald Trump’s recent directive to funnel more water to Southern California, but some officials there question whether it will actually prove helpful.

The administration of President Donald Trump has followed through on his promises to “turn on the water” in California, but the state’s residents might not be benefiting as much as he’d hoped. This video aired on the KTLA 5 Morning News on Feb.

President Trump’s order to release billions of gallons of water in California’s Central Valley last week — with the purported goal of dousing fires 100 miles away — is being slammed as both ineffective and wasteful by experts and California lawmakers.

President Trump startled some of his most ardent supporters in the San Joaquin Valley by having the Army Corps of Engineers suddenly release water from two dams.