verdict guilty. verdict guilty. a disgraced former attorney, alex murdaugh, will be sentenced after being found guilty for murder. we ll break down the verdict just ahead. and it sounded like a freight train. just like going by the house. a powerful storm system moving through the southern u.s., bringing the threat of tornadoes and damaging winds, tracking the severe weather plus, in the coming hours, the u.s. will announce more systems for ukraine as ukrainian fighters are struggling to keep russian forces out of the eastern city of bakhmut. disgraced former south carolina attorney, alex murdaugh, will be sentenced in the coming hours after being convicted of killing his wife and son. guilty verdict, verdict, guilty. verdict, guilty. verdict, guilty. the jury deliberated less than three hours thursday before returning their decision, one welcomed by the lead prosecutor. here he is. justice was done today, it doesn t matter who your family is. it doesn t matte
just ahead on cnn newsroom verdict, guilty. verdict guilty. our criminal justice system worked tonight. it gave a voice to maggie and paul paul murdaugh who were brutally murdered. we didn t hear anything until plywood crashed through our window. the fbi foiling an alleged plot to kill jewish government officials in michigan. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is 4:00 a.m. in south carolina where alex murdaugh will find out whether he will spend the rest of his life in prison. the jury found him guilty of murder in the killings of his wife and son. murdaugh will not face the death penalty. prosecutors have indicated that they will seek life in prison without the possibility of parole instead. after the verdict was reached, the lead prosecutor celebrated the jury s decision. justice was done today. it doesn t matter who your family is. it doesn t matter how much money you have or people think you have. it doesn t matter what you thin
john berman. we have new developments on the u. s contractor killed by a drone strike in syria. we are now seeing video of an iranian military facility engulfed in flames. this is after president biden authorized a retaliatory strike retaliation. from what the u. s says was this iranian backed one way drone attack an attack that killed an american contractor and wounded five u. s service members. president biden is in canada this morning. we re waiting to hear from him on all this. also at this moment, a top lawyer for donald trump, you can see him there. evan corcoran. he is inside washington, dc courthouse and there is no attorney client privilege protection. corcoran is testifying before a grand jury investigating the former president s handling. of classified documents first, though the deadly flare up of hostilities in syria overnight scene as natasha bertrand at the pentagon following this for us new information, natasha. yeah, john. so we are told from a u. s official
hello and welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and all around the world. i m kim bruen herber. ahead on cnn newsroom. clinging to hope that survivors can still be found, trapped under the mountain of rubble in turkey and syria. well, the u.s. vice president, mike pence was subpoenaed by the special counsel investigating donald trump. what we learned from his testimony. and, russia s new offensive appears to be getting underway in zaporizhzhia s energy infrastructure among the targets. it is ten a.m. across turkey and syria with the death toll from monday s earthquake has now risen to more than 21,000. the hopes are fading that rescuers can find any more survivors. this is the scene in southern turkey, emergency crews blow their whistles when they hear noises under debris that call for silence. but the destruction is immense, an entire neighborhood reduced to rubble under the thousands of families left homeless. many are sleeping in their cars or
happening now, joe biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy can just wrapped up their first high-stakes talks on raising the nation s debt limit. mccarthy telling reporters moments ago that he thinks he and the president can find some common ground. also tonight, mourning in memphis, as tyre nichols is laid to rest three weeks after he was brutally beaten by police. we ll take you inside the emotional funeral and the urgent outcry for police reform. and cnn is in the trenches with ukrainian soldiers on the eastern front, as officials in kyiv warn that russia is gearing up for maximum escalation of the war. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. stories. important developments in the debt limit showdown right now. joe biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy just wrapped up a very high stakes meeting at the white house. their first face-to-face since mccarthy won the gavel. our reporter is on c