memorable state of the unions in the past. welcome back. we begin this hour with the breaking news in turkey and syria where tens of thousands of emergency workers continuing the frantic search for survivors from the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake responsible for killing more than 5,000 people already. more than 23,000 people have been injured. turkey s president erdogan saying that ten cities within his country are disaster zones and declaing a three-month state of emergency. countries pledge their support. matt bradley is in turkey. turkish officials say they have made 8,000 rescues. what are you seeing there today? reporter: yeah, we have not seen anyone taken out alive from this building, one of 6,000 here in turkey that the government says have been completely levelled by those twin earthquakes, some of the most devastating, most powerful this region has ever seen. this neighborhood is reeling from this event, even though this appears to be one of the only buildi
trace: we re getting a new look at the seized documents. some marked secret and top secret. chief washington correspondent mike emanuel has more from the d.c. newsroom. good morning. a 36-page filing from federal prosecutors meeting a federal judge s late night deadline. they argue the motion for a special master in the case fails for multiple independent reasons. in this filing prosecutors write the government also developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the storage room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government s investigation. the government also released this photo which contains a number of files with bright yellow or red cover sheets signifying top secret material. they appear spread out over a carpet. the court filing said they were recovered inside a container in the former president s office. prosecutors write three classified documents that were not located in boxes but rather were located in the desk
awhile. great to have you. stocks have been rejoicing. more on that in a second. now on something that is happening that would make you wonder why are they rejoicing? edward lawrence with more. we end a week with more bad economic data for this administration. now, the fed s favorite inflation indicator, if you see inflation, is now at the highest level since january of 1982. in fact, the hit song at that time was let s get physical by olivia newton john. pc inflation year over year after 6.86. core, which is without food and energy costs 4.8% year over year. when you look at this month compared to last month, the increase at 1%. that s the highest increase since march of 1980. now it s a lot of numbers but you get the idea here. republicans will remind you that all of this is because of president biden s policies. they re doubling and tripling down on failure at a time when we may be in recession, at a time when the american people are hurting in so many different ways
ahead of the president s address tonight, steve kornacki is looking at some of the unique state of the union moments from past years and including how the tradition of presidents inviting guests began. joining us now nbc news national political correspondent steve kornacki. steve, take us back to how this tradition started. i was there for this one. this is quite a story. we all know how this goes, right? it will probably happen tonight at some point during the speech, the president will recognize somebody sitting up in the gallery, maybe an everyday american, maybe a prominent person, but somebody whose story dove tails with the president s message, with the president s agenda, with the policy proposal, or maybe just designed to sort of lift the national spirit a little bit. where that began, what it all goes back to was january of 1982, ronald reagan s state of the union address, just two weeks before this state of the union address, there had been a tragedy, an air florida jetline
week by an australia judge. a former school teacher 74-year-old dawson. the murder happened in january of 1982 when his wife went missing without a trace. the husband said she left him. people close to her didn t believe it. what the judge believed is dawson deliberately killed his wife to pursue a relationship with a teenage student he was having an affair with who babysat the couple s children and lived in their house. it came after decades of police investigation into the case. their line was they had suspicions about him they didn t have the evidence. the ruling came as a relief to the family of the wife. it is all because of a podcast about the murder called the teacher s pet downloaded 30 million times globally popular. it came out in 2018. a short while later dawson was charged. dawson was out on bail and he