Obama's Visit to Close Streets in Glendale Area Tuesday

President Barack Obama will conclude a two-day trip to Southern California Tuesday by conducting a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee in Hancock Park and speaking about the economy at the DreamWorks Animation facility in Glendale.

The fundraiser, Obama's seventh in his three-day West Coast trip, will be held at the home of Marta Kauffman, a co-creator of the 1994-2004 NBC comedy "Friends."

Obama will then head to Glendale to tour the DreamWorks Animation campus, meet with film industry representatives and speak on the economy. He leaves foe Washington early this afternoon.

DreamWorks Animation is headed by Jeffrey Katzenberg, who raised millions for Obama's 2012 re-election campaign and donated $3 million to the pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA Action.

"Contributing to the president's campaign doesn't guarantee a presidential visit, but it shouldn't exclude you from one either," principal deputy press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters aboard Air Force 1 Monday.

Earnest went on to liken visiting a studio in Southern California to speaking on Wall Street in New York, at an automotive plant in Detroit or a technology firm in Northern California. He called Tuesday's speech "an opportunity to highlight the success of one business and the success that they're having in creating jobs in California," part of the effort on the West Coast trip to "highlight the breadth of the president's domestic agenda."

The Los Angeles Police Department issued a statement warning motorists that certain streets may be affected by the president's activities Tuesday, including some subject to closure, but the guidance was so vague as to likely prove of limited use.

Affected streets include, from 8 a.m. to 10:45 a.m., streets "surrounding the Wilshire area of Los Angeles," streets between Fairfax Avenue in the west and Western Avenue in the east; between 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. streets around Glendale, Riverside Drive, San Fernando Road and Grandview Avenue to North Pacific Avenue, West Kenneth Road to Victory Boulevard, San Fernando Road and the Golden State (5) and Ventura (134) freeways; from 1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m., streets surrounding LAX.

Obama used speeches at two Beverly Hills-area fundraisers Monday night to defend the much-criticized Affordable Care Act and an agreement on Iran's nuclear program. He pledged to fight for the remainder of his term to assure "that this country provides affordable health care to every single American."

Speaking for about 20 minutes at a fundraising reception benefiting Democratic House and Senate campaign committees at the Beverly Park home Basketball Hall of Fame member Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Obama called his support of the Affordable Care Act "a values question."

"Do we want to live in a country as wealthy as we are where if somebody gets sick they lose their home, they go bankrupt? They have to weigh, can I go right now to the emergency room knowing that may mean I can't pay for my child's school tuition?" Obama told the crowd of about 160 that included Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco.

"That's not the country I want to live in and that's not the county you want to live in, which means we've got to fight for it."

What Ryan Mahoney, a deputy press secretary of the Republican National Committee, called a "fundamentally flawed and unpopular health care law" has drawn criticism for problems with its website, the inaccuracy of Obama's promise that people could keep their insurance policies, and thousands of people having their insurance policies canceled.

Also attending the reception were actors Samuel L. Jackson and Diane Keaton and Los Angeles Clippers players J.J. Redick and Antawn Jamison. Tickets were priced from $2,500 to $15,000 per person.

Obama later spoke for 14 minutes at a dinner at the Beverly Hills-area home of Saban Capital Group Chairman Haim Saban, an Egyptian-born former Israeli, focusing on the agreement on Iran's nuclear program.

Obama said the agreement's provisions for "unprecedented inspections, in some cases daily inspections" creates "the prospect that we'll be able to - - through peaceful, diplomatic means -- remove this cloud that has hovered over the Middle East that had the potential and continues to have the potential of triggering a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region of the world."

"That's the right thing to do," Obama said. "It's good for the United States, it's good for our allies, it's good for Israel."

Approximately 120 people attended the dinner, including Mayor Eric Garcetti and Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks. Tickets were priced at $16,200 each.

Both fundraisers benefited the House Senate Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee between the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee.

The fundraisers prompted a coalition of environmental and progressive groups to conduct a rally and march in Beverly Hills against the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a regional trade agreement.

Opponents of the partnership claim it will undermine state, local and federal laws, including those governing food safety, environmental protections, Internet freedom, workers rights, health care, drug prices and banking and finance regulations.

The Obama administration says the partnership will boost economic growth by increasing American exports, support the creation and retention of American jobs and promote innovation. The partnership consists of the United States, Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Vietnam and Singapore.

Attendance at the rally and march was estimated at 75.

The trip is Obama's 16th to the Los Angeles area since taking office. All but three of his trips have included political fundraisers. He has made 10 trips to the area solely for fundraising.

Air Force 1 landed at Los Angeles International Airport at 5:28 p.m. Monday, with Obama emerging from the plane at 5:35 p.m. to board Marine 1, the presidential helicopter, one minute later for a flight to Rancho Park.

The helicopter landed at 5:56 p.m. Obama then traveled by motorcade to The Beverly Hilton where he met with the family of slain Transportation Security Administration Officer Gerardo Hernandez, the first TSA agent to die in the line of duty, and TSA Officers Tony Grigsby and James Speer who were wounded in the Nov. 1 shooting at Los Angeles International Airport, Earnest said.

Obama will leave the Southland following the speech at DreamWorks Animation, bound for Washington, where his schedule for Wednesday includes pardoning the National Thanksgiving Turkey.