family that his body had already been embalmed. it was a devastating blow for family. when elliott s mother said the body s already been embalmed, the family was destroyed. i mean, tim fell into the fetal position screaming, the whole family and this was one of those moments, also having to experience the death again. reporter: blair s body is still in mexico. his family is trying to get it back to the u.s. as soon as possible. barnett says the mayor of anaheim, california, is in communication with some high ranking officials in mexico to try and help family with hair efforts. eric their efforts. eric our prayers and thoughts with the family to try and find out exactly what happened and if there are lying about it in mexico. christina, thank you. arthel? arthel: well, eric and christina, more than a year after a deadly on-set shooting, the western movie rust is set
why her husband was outside at that hour. in front of their hotel room many his underwear, a t-shirt and stock socks? it doesn t make sure that he was out there. reporter: mexican attorneys say blair was intoxicated, but blair s family strongly denies that claim. they say a detective at the scene told blair s wife that he had been shot. the cop literally walked over and looked at the body and comes back over and says, yeah, he s got a bullet hole in his head, right? why is a cop going to say that if that s not true? arkansas also blair s family wanted to have toxicology tests run on blair s body before it was embalmed as part of their own independent investigation to prove he was not intoxicated and had fallen over some balcony. however, barnett says a funeral home official had told his
why he s in front of the hotel room in his underwear, t-shirt and socks. it doesn t extends he was out there at all. mexican authorities say elliott blair was intoxicated and died after falling from the balcony of his hotel room but blair s family strongly denies that claim. they say a detective at the scene told his wife he d been shot. they literally looked over and look at the body and says yes, he s got a bullet hole in his head. why is the cop going to say that is that s not true? barnett says blair s family wanted to have toxicology test run on his body as part of their own independent investigation. before his body was involved to prove he didn t fall off a balcony while intoxicated but barnett says they were told by a few will are funeral home in official that his body had
expertise. we ll see you again, thank you. eric? eric: well, google s parent if company, alphabet, it s the latest tech giant to announce a number of layoffs, and they re massive. the company plans to cut 12,000 of 150,000 employees. as big tech braces for what they think could be a recession. alexandria hoff has the late from washington. reporter: those 12,000 employees represent about 6% of company s work force. in a blog post and e-mail sent out to employees, the ceo wrote of the, quote, difficult decision. adding this, over the past two years, we ve seen periods of dramatic growth, to match and fuel that a growth we hired for a different economic reality than one we face today. these job losses add to those already dealt by company like amazon, microsoft and meta. according to layoffs.fyi, since the beginning of 2022 tech firms and start-ups have lashed
he was celebrating his one-year wedding anniversary. mexican authorities say it was an unfortunate accident, but mrl play in his death, and they want their own investigation. christina coleman spoke with the family s attorney and has the latest on disturbing case in los angeles. christina, what are they saying? reporter: hi, eric. well, the family s attorney, case barnett, described blair as a caring, energetic and loving guy. barnett says this is video of blair and his wife enjoying the resort and spa in the coastal mexican city of rosarito just hours before he was found dead. they were dancing and appeared happy at a karaoke bar. barnett says hours later blair s wife woke up around 1:40 in the morning to hotel staff outside her dooring asking if some guy was her boyfriend. she then went downstairs, discovered her husband face down on the ground and started screaming for help. barnett says she does not know