Good evening, John Berman here in for Anderson, and for a second straight night, parts of downtown Los Angeles will be under a curfew.

It begins in three hours, and again, would only affect a very small part of the city around a number of federal buildings.

Yet again tonight, as he has consistently almost since the beginning, the president painted the situation

with a very broad brush.

I'm very proud to have helped Los Angeles survive. Los Angeles right now, if we didn't do

what we did, would be burning to the ground. And that's not over yet.

That's the president and the first lady on their way into the Kennedy Center for a performance of laymise.

And it bears repeating, contrary to his depiction, even at its worst, the protests over ICE actions now in their sixth day have only affected a tiny part of the city and broader L.A. County.

And the curfew area is even smaller.

Excuse me. Last night, about 200 people were arrested. And the curfew area is even smaller. Excuse me. Last night, about 200 people

were arrested for breaking the curfew. In this evening, officials announced charges against

five individuals accused of taking part in the worst of the recent violence and vandalism.

But again today, like yesterday, things have been fairly restrained, which is not to say there

haven't been significant

developments, both in L.A. and across the country. Ice raids continue in and around the city,

with National Guard troops taking part. Their task force commander, Major General Scott

Sherman, was asked about that today.

Can you specify how many of the troops have been used so far on those ICE operations?

And do you have any concerns about national ground trips being told as a kind of regular law enforcement?

No, so I'll answer that in two parts. First, I don't have the numbers that are on the ice, done the actual ice operations.

We have a thousand that have done operations so far.

That is both the protection of the installations or the federal buildings

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