Residents of Washington, D.C. and the surrounding region are still adapting to life under federal control after the president seized authority over the city's police force and deployed the National Guard.

Nearly 400 people have been arrested in the Capitol since the takeover last week, and today Mississippi and Louisiana joined a number of other Republican-led states in sending hundreds

more troops to the nation's capital.

In recent days, our team has fanned out across the city to hear how daily life has changed

and what residents make of the president's move.

Hundreds of National Guard troops are now stationed around parts of Washington, D.C. and its iconic landmarks.

Nightly checkpoints have become routine in some areas of the city, as have protests against

the increased security presence.

We don't have the sort of crime problem that President Trump is describing. People do feel safe.

Several D.C. residents, like retired George Washington University professor Jeff Levy,

joined a recent protest in front of the Metropolitan Police headquarters.

What the rest of the country needs to understand is while they have more legal basis for doing it in D.C.,

this is their goal across the country.

Protect D.C.

This Alexandria Virginia native who asked us not to use her name

also join the demonstration.

They're trying to make it less and less safe

and make you more and more scared.

So I hope people will just stand up

and let their voices be heard because

most people do not want this. Lorina and Josie Bowie just arrived in Washington, D.C. from Florida,

as Jaze prepares to begin college at American University. From what I've seen so far, D.C. has been

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