laura coats, and this is cnn tonight. we ve got two huge stories tonight that we re following, of course right here in the nation s 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 nba s all-time leading scorer. passing a fellow laker, kareem abdul-jabbar. 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 abdul-jabbar. 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, he s got it. he s done it. lebron james i
in memphis, slamone, what s happening a continued fall-out from this incident from the horrific beating after the video what public the sheriff here in the shelby county put out a statement learned two of his deputies were on scene that night and as a result of that because of this video becoming public, he s placed those deputies on leave, so it s two sheriffs deputies that are now on leave, and of course, you know, we re learning more between about this scorpion unit, the team that these officers were part of, the family calling for them to be disbanded well the mayor and police department here saying that that unit for right now is not operating in this city, they have sort of suspended their operations while they continue their investigation. but they re not outright going to say at this point that they re going to disband this unit, they re blaming the problems on these officers and not the unit, the other thing throughout this and of course, watching this video, laura
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lawmaki m sick and tired of the, i m sick of it. i don t ever see this again. i don t ever want to see you again, in this condition, i m serious! i m not making this up about all of these notes. how many of these governors have we seen this doing the same dance that we ve seen today? china s house chris murphy, connecticut who has been with governor newsom, tonight, in the wake of the mass murder at sandy hook elementary school, ten years ago. senator hug, thank you joining. as you what governor newsom, there, as you know i have the strongest gun laws in the country. what more, in your opinion, can be, should be, done? well the problems, guns don t pay much attention to state boundaries, california can have strong line laws. can i could have strong laws. but the weapons across state lines. so these assault-style weapons that are used in these match outings, you can buy them in california and connecticut, what you can buy them in taxes, in georgia, and easily transport the
that s the same type of aircraft and missile that shot down the chinese balloon off the coast of south carolina. one of the questions we asked at the pentagon briefing was if there was so much intelligence to gain by letting the previous balloon fly across the united states and being able to observe it, why was this one shot down so quickly especially when the senators were furious it wasn t shot down earlier. was the pentagon wbowing to political pressure. the decision to shoot it down before it entered into u.s. airspace, the pentagon bowing to pressure from the hill? we re going to judge each of these objects on its own merits. it entered into u.s. airspace on february 9th. we sent up aircraft to assess what it was. the decision was made that it posed a reasonable threat to civilian air traffic. the president gave the order to take it down and we took it down. in the end this was shot down just a few miles over the water. that water frozen so it did essentially fall