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Murdaugh's home that are like the murder weapons they seized a 300 blackout rifle, seize add shotgun, but that ballistics expert is now saying he's not sure if those are the weapons he can't say they are or aren't, we know that the weapons had similar correctives to the murder weapons but they can't for sure, haven't received official information they had those murder weapons. > > anderson: appreciate it. thank you. there's much more ahead on this busy friday night, we'll get an update on the second chinese balloon over latin america according to the pentagon. what happens and if the tries t...

Same firearm at one point in time, yes, sir. >> but not fired by the same firearm. >> no, sir. that's not what my, my conclusions say. as far as being fired by that firearm or by the same gun, those results are inconclusive. >> trace: so the expert cannot conclude, and they've looked at all the gun, about 30 guns in the murdaugh household, haven't found the murder weapons themselves and cannot conclude the guns the murdaughs had actually killed the wife and son. is this a benefit for alek murdaugh. >> it's good for the defendant. they're saying one gun used to kill the wife and one to kill the...

Collecting shell casings. he said casings all came from the same weapon, the way they're ejected through the weapon. the defense argued that can't be the case. there are no study that is support this. they haven't recovered the murder weapons, but they recovered weapons from murdaugh's property. he's saying they came from the same weapon. the defense is saying the studies don't support that. they fought this expert coming on. earlier today there was a lot of talk about murdaugh's finances and alleged financial schemes. the prosecution wants to prove he had his back up against the wall and was ...

Prosecutors in the alex murdaugh murder trial turned their focus late today to ballistic evidence. this after testimony about murdaugh's alleged financial crimes. cnn's randi kaye is covering the trial for us in south carolina. randi, what is the prosecution trying to show now? >> reporter: well, wolf, they're trying to help the jury connect the dots on the firearms and the finances of alex murdaugh. first of all, for the firearms expert who testified late this afternoon, he discovered shell casings all over the property, not only at the murder scene but all over the murdaugh property. and he ...

Knew about an insurance payout of more than $4 million. here's eva pilgrim. >> reporter: at the alex murdaugh trial today, the defense team pushing a ballistics expert to admit the state doesn't have the murder weapons. >> you cannot and you did not and you are not offering an opinion that item 22 shot gun was used to murder paul murdaugh, correct? you mean, what that ultimately means is that i'm not able to determine that. >> reporter: it comes as the judge decides whether the jury should hear evidence of murdaugh's financial crimes at work and about his greed at home. the judge hearing what ...