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 Marcia 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 that look in your face and they spit right in your face.

They're animals.

And these are paid insurrectionists.

These are paid troublemakers.

This morning, shop owners cleaned up several looted stores in downtown Los Angeles.

But California authorities have said the majority of last night's protests were nonviolent.

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