search his mother s home where he went the night of the murders. you don t know what shoes he was wearing. you have no idea, correct? that is correct. at question, where are the murder weapons? the ballistics expert told the jury that some of the shell casings found at the murder scene and at the property were fired from weapons at alex s home. despite that, he could not say weapons seized from the home were used to kill maggie and paul. my result was inconclusive. how did the gunshot rez cue get on the blue rain jacket found at alex s mother house? ic confirmed 38 particles. in order to be consistent with transfer, an object with a high amount of gunshot residue would have had to transfer to it. an object like a firearm. prosecutors suggested that perhaps he used that to wrap up
with a shotgun and missing assault rifle similar seized from family property. buster said they often went hunting on the property so it wasn t unusual for weapons to go missing from the family s gun room. during cross, the state hammered away at its theory that alec committed the murders to distract attention away millions of dollars accused of stealing from his clients in law firm. and wrongful death malory beach killed in a boating accident involving alec s youngest son paul in 2019. asked about his father s financial issues. buster said he had no indication anything was wrong. as far as you knew, financially the family was so sound. yes, sir. called ballistics expert testified. a person about a foot shorter
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 to shoot it down, we ll look at that and breaking news coverage continues. type 2 diabetes? discover the ozempic® tri-zone.
base. it appears they used their 20 millimeter cannons to shoot through the silks. it does appear that this balloon is taking its time coming down to everett. you would think if there s tons and tons of machinety under that balloon, you don t have to be a ballistics expert or a balloonist to realize it looks like the silks are just floating right now in the sky. they re taking a long time to get down. if there was tons of, you know, material underneath, it would be pulling down, it d be like throwing a car out of the back of a plane without much of a parachute. it would just be screaming down to splash down in the atlantic. so it is quite possible right now that the sophisticated surveillance equipment that was attached to that chinese spy balloon is now not attached and is probably has probably already splashed down in the ocean, so the recovery effort will be much more difficult if it s down in the bottom of the ocean right now, mike. mike: so that sound from president biden was hi
nichols. the medical services division says that robert long and jim michael sandridge waited 19 minutes to provide even basic aid to nichols. long and sandridge were already fired after an investigation. meantime it is week two of the alex murdaugh murder trial and it wrapped in south carolina with prosecutors calling key witnesses. the disgraced attorney is accused of murdering his wife and youngest son at the family s property back in june of 2021. outside the presence of the jury, prosecutors brought in witnesses to testify about murdaugh s financial crimes hoping to present the evidence as a possible motive for the killings. they also brought in a ballistics expert attempting to link weapons at the family s home to the crime scene. cnn s randi kaye with more. this is an example of a 223