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Murdaughs testimony on his case. did he help or hurt or have no impact? joining me is the national reporter for the "wall street journal." shes been in the courtroom each and every day and is writing a book about this case. i know what the pundits have said at the jury reaction. we dont get to see the jury. but you do. what can you tell us about them? >> i came back home last night and was checking social media. there was a lot of criticism of the prosecutions cross-examination. and i was surpri...

As the russian troops pulled back last spring from the area around kyiv, the evidence grew of civilian killings, a war crime. ukrainian troops entering the city of bucha found the bodies of dozens of civilians strewn along one of the main streets. a year later, theres still an enormous amount of reconstruction to be done here in bucha, and yet life is starting to return to normal. even on a street like this where the russians killed so many civilians. lets go to the pictures of what happened aft...

Could take is tough to say, lester. >> all right catie beck, thank you. lets bring in our senior legal correspondent, laura jarrett. laura, did prosecutors appear to move the needle today? >> reporter: lester, the prosecution made the most headway attacking his fuzzy time line just before and after the killings and repeatedly calling the jurys attention to his alibi as, quote, his new story but the prosecutor also risked losing the jurys focus when he bounced back and forth between the murders...

Couple days. theres this reasoning capability that im gleaning. i know had of you will disagree and a, absolutely not. its repeating tow you information thats been programmed into the system. but the consciousness idea that ooum feeling comes when im senseing reasoning. i hope im explaining that well. up ahead, a year after vladimir putin invaded ukraine, russia suffered 40 to 60,000 soldier deaths, three or four times as many as the 10 years in afghanistan. 33 countries have imposed sanctions...

From texas a&m took the epas own data and determined there are, indeed, elevated levels of pollutants following the train wreck here that can cause problems over the long term. jon, back to you. jon: mike tobin live from east palestine. mike, thank you. ♪ ♪ jon: disbarred south carolina attorney alec murdaugh took the stand this week, accused of killing his wife and youngest son, charges he vehemently denied during testimony. but he did make some stunning admissions to the courtroom. among t...

Robert nic robertson, well be speaking throughout the day. from icing and record high temperatures, the unusual weather across the u.s. just ahead. and accused of murdering his wife and son. a south carolina lawyer takes the stand in his own defense. up next, the lie he admitted hes been telling since the night of the killings. and wake. how could you? wake up to a newew you. with mucinex nightshift, its not cold and flu season. its always comeback season.

Paul were murdered. >> it is. >> reporter: over and over, murdaugh had told investigators he hadnt seen his family since dinner, and was not at the dog kennels around the time of the murders. but that video extracted from his sons phone was recorded just a few minutes before prosecutors believe the killings happened. murdaugh told the jury he had left the kennels right after the video was recorded and driven his golf cart to the main house on the property to take a nap. >> there is no way that i...

If youre tracking domestic extremist mass killings in the u.s. by decade, there is 2011 to 2020, and a skyrockets. we are, of course, not done with the decade, but we are already on track with five, and it is the month -- i had to think about it for a second, february of 2023, far from the end of the decade. how are you processing that? what do you glean from this chart other than we are getting worse as a society, quite obviously. >> as a society, not only do we have a gun violence problem, we ...

The night paul and maggie were murdered? >> it is. >> reporter: over and over murdaugh had told investigators he hasnt seen his family since dinner, and was not at the dog kennels around the time of the murders. but that video extracted from his sons phone was recorded just a few minutes before prosecutors believe the killings happened. murdaugh told the jury he had left the kennels right after the video was recorded and driven his golf cart to the main house on the property to take a nap. >> th...

Federal prosecutor jessica roth. she now teaches at cardoza school of law. just before the break, we heard randis report that murdaugh admitted to lying as to his whereabouts the night of the murders. that was his voice on the video his son had sent out right before the killing. how much of that timeline, with just a few minutes in between when he now admits he was with his wife and son at the kennels where they were killed, and when prosecutors believed the killings happened, thats got to hurt ...