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75 witnesses, 800 photographs and exhibits but yet as you mentioned the jury needed less than three hours to reach its vertex. >> the state versus richard alexander murdaugh defendant indictment for murder guilty, guilty, indictment for possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime, guilty, guilty. >> reporter: alex murdaugh was immediately handcuffed and led from the court. no obvious signs of emotion on his face. as he contemplated the reality that the jury simply did not buy his excuses for the initially lying to the police about his whereabouts and movements on ...

About lhis decision to keep his hospitalization secret for days. the white house did not know he was hospitalized until days after he was admitted and according to the pentagon, he had the elective procedure on december 22nd and went home the next day, and then on january 1st, he was taken to walter reed after, quote, severe pain. he was admitted to the, icu. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff was notified the next day. u au austin's deputy took some of his responsibilities the next day, and biden learned a day later, as did the rest of the public. >> he resumed his duties while invest ...

Safety board says air traffic controller did give clearance for his health was passenger jet and a fedex cargo plane to use the very same runway. it happened in austin, texas, at last month. and he has beach chair jennifer hamady says they believed the planes were within 100 feet of each other. investigation is also underway into a close call at boston logan airport on monday where a lear jet pilot reportedly ignored air traffic control instructions and began to take off nearly 500 feet from a jetblue flight preparing to land. with more on the string of near misses, we are joined by pilot and ...

Au austin. >> it's scary here in austin. good to be with you, thank you, and it was this weekend when we toured the icus. we have doctors and nurses that are already so exhausted facing now what appears to be a much meaner virus than we've dealt with in the past. we're watching increases in icu or hospital admissions at a rate faster than what we had seen in the earlier surges. >> i know that soon after the cdc recommended the vaccinated people in high transmission areas go back to wearing masks, the governor there doubled down on local mandates for masks. let's put up on the screen what texas...

Necessary? >> yes, if that's what we need to do to protect the community, that's what we'll do. >> last one here, on schools. masks there banned again -- the mandates are banned. are schools able to offer a virtual option considering some parents don't want to send their kids to schools where masks are optional? and there's the potential of an outbreak if a case gets into some of those schools. >> schools can offer a virtual option. the problem is the state won't pay for the teaching of that child, so the schools lose the money they would have gotten to educate that child by putting them into ...