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welcome to this special 8:00 hour of the "cnn newsroom." i'm jim acosta in washington and we begin this hour with an emotional anniversary of a pivotal moment in american history. on a busy weekend when the race for the white house was taking shape. president joe biden was in selma, alabama, today for the anniversary of bloody sunday, and a speech before some of the country's most prominent civil rights leaders. while outside washington, a very different scene in a very different speech, as former president donald trump spoke to the conservative political action conference, vowing re...

for "ac 360." good evening, and take a look, this is the face tonight of alex murdaugh, convicted killer, his head shaven at a south carolina prison system intake facility on his way within the next several weeks to serving two consecutive life sentences, life without parole for murdering his wife maggie and his son paul. this is the face of a man whose family name was once synonymous with the law in the county in the legal profession and criminal justice system there. at today's hearing in the courthouse where his grandfather's portrait once hung, murdaugh was sentenced. he spoke ...

world. wolf blitzer is off today, i'm brianna keilar, and you are in the "the situation room." let's go right to ukraine, as we follow the pivotal ballots for bakhmut, and growing concerns it could fall to the russians very soon. melissa bell has our report from the war zone. >> reporter: bakhmut still stands, says the ukrainian military -- -- out of sight -- any sign of life driven underground. what is like life for the civilians, for the soldiers? what life? what, what life? you know, the soldiers are doing their work, which is quite -- and civilians are trying to survive. there'...

guilty verdict. signed by the forelady. >> and we had no doubt that if we had a chance to present our case in a court of law, that they would see through the one last con that alex murdaugh was trying to pull and they d. >> wow. what a night. >> so quick. >> so fast. what a night. we'll get into all of it. good morning, everyone. it is friday. we're dwglad you're us with. it took that jury less than three hours. alex murdaugh found guilty of murdering his own wife and son. hours from now, the sentencing, plus this -- >> it just came up. glass breaking out anywhere. tornadoes ripping ...

the u.s. is arming ukraine with more american ammo and rocket launchers. "the lead" starts right now. stocking up ahead of a likely russian spring offensive. the u.s. deploys another $400 million in military aid to ukraine. can president biden secure even more as russians encircle the strategic town of bakhmut? plus, from prominent attorney to convict, the swift prison sentence today for alex murdaugh after a jury took only a few hours to find him guilty of killing his wife and son. and drag shows shut down. tennessee becomes the first in the nation to put new restrictions on the per...