President Obama begins two-day trip to Southland

President Obama arrives at the Frank G. Bonelli Regional Park in San Dimas to announce the executive order designating 346,000 acres of the San Gabriel Mountains as a national monument.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)

Framed by the San Gabriel Mountains, President Obama announces an executive order designating 346,000 acres as a national monument, at the Frank G. Bonelli Regional Park in San Dimas.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)

President Obama signs an executive order making the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

President Obama signs an executive order making the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)

President Obama holds 2-week-old Lucio Madrigal after the signing of the executive order designating a national monument.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

U.S. Secret Service agents get in position minutes before President Barack Obama speaks.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Security personnel position themselves on a hill beside the stage before President Barack Obama arrives.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)

Security personnel make a final inspection of the stage before President Barack Obama arrives.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)

A Secret Service agent stands guard minutes before President Obama arrives on stage to announce an executive order designating 346,000 acres of the San Gabriel Mountains as a national monument.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)

Kidscoop Media members, from left, Eden Rees, 9, Olivia Torrington, 9, Cassius Bythewood, 13, and Larrina Ellison photograph and wave as President Obama departs Los Angeles International Airport.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Ariel Jalali, chief executive of Sensay, far right, offers President Obama a job during a Q&A session at Cross Campus in Santa Monica.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

President Obama greets DeKoven Ashley, co-founder and chief operating officer of thrdPlace, an online platform for community planning and development, before speaking at Cross Campus in Santa Monica.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

A member of the audience asks President Obama a question during his stop at Cross Campus, a shared office complex in Santa Monica.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

President Obama at Cross Campus.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

President Obama hugs Rep. Steve Israel, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, with congressional candidate Ted Lieu, left, during a surprise stop at his campaign office in Venice.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

A crowd tries to get a glimpse of President Obama as he leaves state Sen. Ted Lieu’s headquarters in Venice after a surprise visit.  (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

President Obama with Rep. Steve Israel and state Sen. Ted Lieu at Lieu’s campaign headquarters.  (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

President Obama arrives at Los Angeles International Airport on Thursday.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

President Obama heads to a helicopter at Los Angeles International Airport.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

President Obama arrives in Los Angeles.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)