watching on rest again across the country tonight we are monitoring hot spots we have got reporters from coast to coast when I check in with Kevin cork who has been outside the White House where it started he said peacefully earlier today at what you're looking at live now there uh... in within uh... view of the White House is a totally different story tonight as the looming eleven p.m. curfew uh... is coming uh... Kevin let's check in and see what uh... your take is on whether that's actually going to happen tonight well you're unfortunately shenan seeing uh... a terrible scene fires burning here along each street we do smell who what who boy we're getting tear gas and uh... unfortunately i can add uh... just a moment ago it does appear that st. John's churches on fire the parish office uh... we went downstairs and it is on fire walk this way and uh... this is awful we saw graffiti once the door was broken we saw something similar happened earlier and uh... you can see uh... there's definitely a fire here this is the parish office come on back come back up that's good so they're trying to clear the area shenan with uh... uh... with the pepper spray and with the tear gas to try to clear people no i don't know that there's anything we can do to put that out i didn't see it extinguisher uh... we're back out here on each street eyes of burning a bit as you can imagine as i tried to disperse the crowd hopefully to get fire personnel over here to try to put out some of these fire shenan it's uh... it's a sad scene this is a beautiful church historic as you know we're only in the parish office uh... st. John's church is uh... a landmark in many ways so it's very difficult to see this building open flames so hopefully they can get here and uh... put out the fire that's what we see right now shenan back to you yeah and kevin so people know that is an historic church that's just across lafayette park from the white house numerous presence dozens of presidents have sat in those pues they have gone there in times of national trouble they've gone there for regular sunday services uh... for generations and generations presidents and their families have walked across lafayette park and gone and sat in the pues of st. John's uh... it's somewhere usually on in on inauguration day you'll see them go there and have a prayer service uh... welcoming in the new administration uh... it is something that has been done as tradition for a long long time