President Obama plans San Bernardino visit

Fourteen people died on December 2 when radicalized Muslims Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik opened fire on Farook’s co-workers at a holiday party. Farook and Malik, who were married, were killed in a gun battle with police hours later.

The White House says the meeting is set for Friday.

The fight against the militant group in Syria and Iraq and preventing similar attacks at home will be at the top of his list for 2016, the officials said.

Obama is working to reassure Americans heading into the holidays that they’ll be safe from terrorist attacks.

Both incidents have heightened public fears of additional attacks on US soil.

The president will be a “visible campaigner” next year, stumping for the Democratic presidential nominee and other Democratic candidates, senior Obama administration officials told reporters Thursday.

The attack has made Americans increasingly nervous about their security.

Obama has vowed to call for new gun-control measures after every mass shooting.

Yet Obama and his team fully understand they are likely to run into fierce resistance on Capitol Hill to any administrative attempts to tighten gun restrictions, rather than work through a GOP-controlled Congress – a hot-button maneuver the White House legal staff is now assessing.

Press secretary Josh Earnest said Wednesday the president will “visit privately” with the families.

During a previously scheduled trip to Paris last to attend an worldwide climate conference, Obama laid a rose at a memorial outside a concert hall where numerous victims in that attack were killed.