announced that they had done so to the clerk. and now they are just waiting for court personnel to return to the courtroom, in which the jury will announce its verdict. they went in to deliberations at 3:50 eastern time this afternoon, so this seems like a relatively quick verdict for what was a very complicated and lengthy trial. prosecutors trying to prove that alec murdaugh killed his wife and son. they say to create a distraction as his admitted financial crimes were beginning to catch up with him. the murders took place on the same day that people from his law firm approached him and started questioning him about large sums of missing funds. alec murdaugh eventually admitted to stealing money from clients, from other attorneys, vulnerable individuals, some of his closest friends but throughout the trial he insisted and his attorneys insisted that he was not a murderer, that he would never bring any harm to his family. the defendant, mr. murdaugh, suggested that the killi
we are hours away from his sentencing. the hearing will be this morning at 9:30. brian: took the jury less than three hours of deliberations to convict murdaugh in the murders of glinchtsd watson is live outside the court house in water borough, north carolina. convicted of the murders of his wife maggie and son paul. he was remanded almost immediately after the verdicts were read and led out of the coal tap county courthouse facing 30 years the jury came back with the unanimous verdict of guilty two counts of murder and guilty of two counts of possessing a weapon in possession of a violent crime. this after weeks of testimony including from alec who was forced to admit that he lied to police about not being at the scene of the murders after his voice was caught on video by his son paul. in court, the disgraced south carolina attorney didn t really show any emotion as the guilty verdicts were read late thursday evening. his surviving son buster sat a few rows behind him w
new york city. alex murdaugh in the initial hours now of what will be a lifetime behind bars. the judge piling on during sentencing calling the double murder defense an assault on the judicial system. we ve got a live report coming to you in just a minute. plus, reports that president biden has now tapped some of the most successful track governors in the country to help lay the groundwork campaign. and fury erupts again at a town hall in east palestine, residents whose patience is clearly being tested to the limit nearly a month after that toxic train crash. this has touched my family. this has touched my friends, and it will touch me for the cellular level when i get diagnosed with cancer, als or whatever is going to come down the road if i stay in this contaminated, toxic town. more on that and the failure of norfolk southern s ceo to show up, the second time he s avoided coming face-to-face with those residents. but we begin in south carolina with today s dramat
after the f-22 blast of the chinese a balloon as you see out of the sky out of the south carolina coast last sunday fox news live showed you that dramatic event you see there exclusively as it happened. but by then the chinese spy craft and drifted across the entire continental u.s. uniting a political firestorm internation s capitol. we have team of box coverage for you on the story. alexandria hoff with reaction to the latest shootdown retired captain of the navy chuck is on the military mission. brian on the recovery off the chinese flight off the coast of south carolina first oscar lucas tomlinson who was lame on the north lot of the white house with the very latest on what we know about the shootdown. hey lucas. max hey eric, senior u.s. official confirmed to fox news this object was able to successfully penetrate u.s. airspace before being detected by norad and before being shot out of the sky by the fighter jet. president biden spoke about the shoes on yesterday and
of investigation, david roush as well as assistant director josh melton. i m also joined by other members of my staff including earnest brooks, ray lapone and also most relevant for today the trial team and the tyree nichols case, including paul hagerman and tanisha johnson. we re today because of a tragedy that wounds one family deeply and also hurts us all. the death of tyree nichols. we understand and acknowledge the grief of the friends and family of tyree are experiencing right now and the great concern throughout memphis and shelby county about this case. we met several times this week with the family of tyree nichols. they described an almost perfect son, a cheerful and happy person that enjoyed skateboarding and sunsets over shelby farms park. we re grateful to the family of tyree nichols for their patience as we expedited the charges in this case and the understanding on the part of the family that premature release of the video could compromise both. and we did work