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So what were you so busy doing? going to the bathroom? >> no, i don't think that -- >> did you get on the treadmill? >> no. i was not on the treadmill. what i don't think that i was doing is anything that you have implied that i was doing or cleaning off or washing off or washing off guns or putting guns in a rain coat, and i can promise you that i was not doing any of that. >> in addition to that, he was making a flurry of phone calls and calling his father, but the state is suggesting that the phone calls were helping to establish an ally foribi for hi following murders. he also wanted to sa...

An up expectnexpected momen trial of alex murdaugh. authorities evacuated the courthouse due to a bomb threat. before the incident a forensic scientist returned to the stand for cross-examination. she previously testified that she found gunshot residue on the clothes of the former south carolina attorney was wearing the night his wife and son were shot dead. >> a blue rain coat is of particular interest. she told the coat it had a significant number of gunshot residue particles. randi kaye is outside the cour courthouse. has the trial resumed? >> reporter: yes, it has. just about a half an hou...

Trial so far today is a woman named megan fletcher, a gunshot residue expert for s.l.e.d., the south carolina law enforcement division, and she was talking about that blue rain coat. and that coat was recovered from alex murdaugh's mother's home shortly after the murders took place. and she said that she found significant gunshot residue particles on that rain jacket, 38 particles on the inside i should say and 14 particles on the outside. and here is what she told the jury as well as how the defense pushed back on her. >> a gun inside that rain jacket that had recently been fired and you were...

Charged with resulted in the alleged crimes. >> reporter: about the time of the murders, murdoch stopped at the home of his elderly mother. testimony from her anguished caregiver suggested murdoch may have visited the home to try to establish an alibi. >> why are you crying? >> a good family and i love working there. and i'm sorry all of this happened. they're good people. >> reporter: in a late afternoon decision, the judge ruled against the defense on another matter. the judge said he will permit testimony about a blue rain coat containing gun residue investigators found at the home of murda...

>> was it vinyl? >> it was like a tarp that you'd put on a car to keep your car covered up. >> did he say anything when he walked in? >> no. >> what did he do? >> went upstairs. >> reporter: the prosecution argued in opening statements that investigators recovered a blue rain coat at alex mother's home which had gun residue on it, this special agent from the law enforcement division told the jury she found a blue rain coat tucked away in a closet. >> we located a through rain coat in the coat closet on the second floor. >> when you found it, it was balled up like this? >> that's correct. >> re...