Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. And I'm Omna Navaz. On the news hour tonight, President Trump sends thousands more National Guard troops to Los Angeles as protests against immigration raids spread to multiple cities nationwide.

Vaccine proponents raise alarms as health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fires the entire

CDC vaccine advisory panel.

And an increase in U.S. deportations of immigrants from India leaves many with an uncertain

future in their homeland.

In general, people from India who are migrating with improper documents come from the lower

middle class. Many will borrow mortgage-sized sums of money to pursue their dreams.

Welcome to the News Hour.

After a night of scattered protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles, about 700 Marines and 2,000 additional National Guard troops began arriving today.

California Governor Gavin Newsom and the state's attorney general asked a court

to block further intervention from the Trump administration. But protests against ICE spread to

other cities around the country this week. And for his part, the president gave no sign of backing

down, saying the guard and Marines were needed in Los Angeles. In a speech at Fort Bragg today, he called

protesters a foreign enemy and animals and said he would use every asset to quell violence. Special

correspondent Marsha Biggs starts our coverage from Los Angeles.

In downtown Los Angeles today, a tense calm on the streets, with a heavy presence of National Guard members expected to be joined soon by U.S. Marines.

In the Oval Office today, President Trump flirted with the idea of invoking the Insurrection Act.

If there's an insurrection, I would certainly invoke it. We'll see, but I can tell you last night was terrible.

The night before that was terrible.

We had some bad people.

We have people they look in your face and they spit right in your face.

They're animals.

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