BREAKING NEWS

President Obama will be at the Orange County Fair and Events Center Wednesday for a town hall meeting, the White House announced this morning.

Airforce One will arrive in Long Beach Wednesday morning and the president will give a speech in Costa Mesa later that day. He will continue up north to Pomona where he plans on touring the Edison International Vehicle Electrics Plant Thursday, according to the agenda.

The speech at the fairgrounds will be at 4 p.m. in Building 12 and it is free and open to the public. Tickets will be given away at the fairgrounds on a first-come, first-served basis starting at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

Those wishing to get tickets should enter through Gate 1 or Gate 10 and park in Lot A.

REPORTER ALAN BLANK may be reached at (714) 966-4623 or at [email protected].