coming up this hour, an honor that is long overdue, president biden will award a vietnam veteran with the medal of honor for his incredible bravery almost 60 years ago. we begin with breaking news out of south carolina where just in the last hour disgraced ex-lawyer alex murdaugh was sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars. after he was convicted of murdering his wife maggie and youngest son paul in a high profile case that captivated the country. in the murder of your wife, maggie murdaugh, i sentence you for a term of the rest of your natural life. for the murder of paul murdaugh, whom you probably loved so much, i sentence you to prison for murdering him for the rest of your natural life. before he was sentenced, murdaugh addressed the court this morning. i m innocent. i would never under any circumstances hurt my wife maggie and i would never under any circumstances hurt my son paul paul. pretty much all he said. last night in just under three hours
now. there also was a case, a death years ago of a man named stephen smith. initially local police said that they believed he was killed in a hit and run accident. his family has adamantly said they do not believe that that s what happened here. buster murdaugh, the sole surviving son of this family, his name had been mentioned in some different circles, in different inquiries as it related to the death of stephen smith. police have not named anything official, tieing that death to this family. but the law enforcement division, south carolina law enforcement division, they said that they were opening an investigation to look into the circumstances surrounding stephen smith s death because of information that they found while they were investigating the double homicide of maggie and paul murdaugh. so those are all things to watch moving forward. the most immediate thing for alex murdaugh will be those charges, those 99 charges related to financial crimes.
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death toll has been climbing up north. can you update us on the camp fire? reporter: yeah. the camp fire now has officially claimed 48 lives. we have not been given an update on exactly how many people remain unaccounted for, but the last time we did get anything official, they were talking about possibly as many as 200 people still missing. in those situations, having been in a lot of these fires, i can tell you lot of those people may turn out to be people who can t get a cell signal, who have not been able to reach out to loved ones who are in a shelter or have fled the immediate region. you hope they will be found alive. i can tell you officials around the camp fire are bracing for a lot more bad news to come. that is already the deadliest fire in california state