LeBron James became the NBA's all-time leading score last night.

President Biden also delivered his State of the Union speech.

This is a seven from the Washington Post. I'm Jeff Pierre. It's Wednesday, February 8th.

Let's get you caught up with today seven stories.

First up, we have an update from Turkey. The death toll from this week's earthquake has

risen to more than 11,000 people. A 7.8 magnitude quake struck southern Turkey and neighboring Syria on Monday.

If you want to understand the full extent of the devastation, yesterday's episode of

Post reports, that's our afternoon podcast,

examined the rescue efforts.

More than 50,000 people are injured,

and rescue teams are racing against time

to find people still trapped under rubble.

Abnormally cold weather there is making the task even more difficult.

If you've been hearing the news over the past couple of days and are wondering

how you can help, you can start with organizations like the International Rescue Committee,

the International Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, and UNICEF.

President Biden delivered his state of the union speech in Congress last night.

That's number two. The president defended his record and made a direct appeal to blue-collar workers. the president to

to fundamentally change things

to make sure our economy works for everyone

so we can all feel that pride in what we do to build an economy from the bottom up in the middle out

Not from the top down because when the middle class does well the poor have a ladder up and the wealthy still do very well. We all do well.

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