Laura coats, and this is cnn tonight. Weve got two huge stories tonight that were following, of course right here in the nations capital, our continuing coverage of the state of the Union Address. Meanwhile, another sided country in los angeles, we have breaking news on another major story, in the world of sports. Entertainment, and frankly american culture. Lebron james tonight breaking the record to become the nbas alltime leading scorer. Passing a fellow laker, Kareem Abduljabbar. Once he broke this record the game was actually stopped for the celebration that was certainly do lebron joined on his court by his family, by the man he also passed, Kareem Abduljabbar. And even the nba commissioner, adam silver. In other words, everyone was watching to see whether tonight would be the night that he actually did it. I came into the game, and watch what happened in this really important, powerful moment. Lebron, for the record, hes got it. Hes done it. Lebron james is now the alltime leadi
correspondent omar jimenez is in los angeles, along with cnn contributor bob costas as well i m excited to talk to you both i want to go to you first omar, on this. because you are really in the room where it happened, so to speak. we witnessed that he finally did it. he was finally there, what was the mood in the stadium to see that happen? well, there is a big question i think going into, this was lebron actually gonna go for tonight, or is you gonna take us time so to speak, and try to do it on thursday. it is very clear in the first few possessions, that he was gonna do it tonight. it might have been clear before that, hand when he walked into the arena in an all-black shiny suit, ready to, go all about business. and when we got to just point a few points left. every basket seemed to bring a bigger cheer for this crowd, and of course when your two points away, from him breaking kareem s record. every cell phone you can think of was out, when the moment