this is a southern version of a mafia story. enough evil had been done by the family. it s gone too far this time. i have an alex murdaugh on the line. hampton is a small raul community, very few stop lights, country folk. generations and generations of families, the same families. not a whole lot going on, you know. not a whole lot of jobs. a lot of poverty. people like me, we work for our money. we wasn t born with a silver spoon in our mouth. nobody ever had any reason to leave that part of south carolina, and nobody had any reason to come to that part of south carolina. small towns generate big fish in small pools. hampton is pretty much historically dominated by one family, the murdaughs. murdaugh, that name means power. they are a great american family who has a successful law firm and had deep roots in their community. money. position. power. the murdaughs have had control of hampton county for close to a century. they have held the position of t
good evening, everybody. andrew davis out here in hampton county right now with a story that really everybody is talking about. we now know officially that alex murdaugh was shot. alex murdaugh was changing a tire on the side of the road in rural hampton county saturday when a car passed him, turned around, and someone shot him in the head. this is when you wonder if they just started making things up or it was a soap opera somewhere. it seems like it s a tv show more than it seemed like real life, because in this case, how does this get more unusual? and then was it the same person that shot maggie and paul or what may happen as you spin through your mind? murdaugh called 9-1-1 shortly after 1:30 in the afternoon to report he d been shot. he was airlifted to a hospital in savannah for treatment. there was an entry and exit wound. murdaugh s skull was fractured and there was minor brain bleeding as well. when i first got that call, i was fearing for the worst, lik
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good to be with you and happy friday. i m lindsey reiser. right now, more miraculous rescues as the window to save more lives closes in turkey and syria. crews are desperately searching for remaining survivors, listening intently for any faint noises or cries for help. they re also getting some much needed help from man s best friend. very well trained, knows what to look for, and if it responds to the trainer, then the handler rather, they know there is a possible proof of life. the number of lives lost is nearing 23,000 and this morning the lack of food and the lack of heat only intensifying fears of another disaster. we re live in turkey ahead. plus, new bloodshed overnight in ukraine, russia unleashing dozens of missiles, kharkiv and z zaporizhzhia. is in the major offensive ukrainian officials warned of earlier this month? and ahead this hour, president biden is set to welcome the nation s governors to the white house. his message going into the meeting and how h
there s too much of it. three weeks into the new year and already 33 mass shootings in the united states with the latest in california leaving ten people dead, new details on why this tragedy could have been even worse. plus president joe biden facing new criticism from within his own party. to think that any of them ended up in boxes in storage one place or the other is just unacceptable. the fallout continues to grow over the fbi s discovery of more classified documents at the president s delaware home. and germany signals a change of heart when it comes to other countries sending this type of tank to ukraine. details in a live report. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thanks for being with us. well, the community of monterey park in california should be celebrating the lunar new year, but instead it s reeling from a deadly mass shooting. the los angeles county sheriff said the suspect in that massacre died from a self