to religious bias. frantic search for survivors, the latest on a fiery and fatal train crash that left at least 36 people dead and 66 hospitalized in greece. an inside look at intelligence on the mysterious so called havana syndrome, and what caused it. but first, that new video just in of the murdaugh murder crime scene and the same scene the jurors toured this morning, and closing arguments are set to resume just about 20 minutes from now. our nbc news reporters are here following all the latest developments, and we begin with what has truly been a fascinating day at the murdaugh murder trial. ellison barber is outside the courthouse for us. i know you ve had a little bit of a chance to sift through some of the footage of the crime scene. what does it tell you? what might the jurors have learned from being there? reporter: they were able to see and we see in moments of this video the pool reporter when the press was able to see what the jury saw outside pointing out e
wouldn t take long to wash yourself off. getting that cart, and head back to the house. and then at 9:02, the defendant over there who wouldn t even admit until forced to that he was even at the scene, all of a sudden he is as busy as he s ever been. 9:02 to 9:06, 283 steps. 9:03, we see the system start up on the car, that could mean he s close by the car, as he returned with maggie s phone and placed it in that car, and then, what do we see from 9:02 to 9:06, not on four-minute period, but he s su doing. what were you doing? and everybody though he has a photographic memory, he could not answer what he s doing during this four-minute period that is so illustrating of what we re talking about here. for four minutes he is not only going 283 steps. this is a defense exhibit, defense 156. 283 steps. and they put in the distance. we heard the distance isn t as accurate. it illustrates the point. that s 208 meters. meter, you know, roughly is a yard, a little bit more, a little b
the second world war or new assessment of the worst pandemic since 1918 china is front and center tonight. on ukraine members of the administration spoke today and over the weekend warning beijing that arming russia would be a mistake. we are confident that the chinese leadership is considering the provision of lethal equipment that would be a very risky and unwise bet. bill burns, the cia director. on covid we learned yesterday that the department of energy has assessed in a newly updated intelligence report that it most likely originated from a laboratory leak. cnn has just learned the reason for that updated report. three sources telling cnn that the department of energy shift was based in part on information about the research that the chinese centers for disease control, the chinese cdc in wuhan, was doing around the time of the outbreak on a coronavirus variant. cnn has previously reported that the lab was studying coronaviruses m bats but it is unclear how closely
outbreak on a coronavirus variant. cnn has previously reported that the lab was studying coronaviruses in bats but it is unclear how closely related the variants were to the strain which started the pandemic. as for the energy department s new assessment, it is described as low confidence and a minority view apparently within the intelligence community. that said, it sparked new calls today from transparency from china. we would wish to see from the prc a greater degree of responsibility, a greater acknowledgment that it is in the interests of the chinese people, yes, we better understand the origins of covid-19, but it is in the or to understand the origins of covid-19. today s development also prompted to leading house republicans to send letters demanding the state department of energy and the fbi to provide testimony and documents related to the ongoing probe of the ten pandemics origin. china s foreign minister also weighed in, calling on relevant parties to quote,
fox corporation report murdaugh acknowledges that fox news anchors pushed election lies on air. after a weekend of blizzard conditions, california faces yet another winter storm, but does all this wet weather mean a historic job is over we will speak with a leading snow lab scientist. plus, a new assessment on the origins of the covid pandemic is only adding to the confusion. good to have you with us. we begin with astonishing testimony from the media titan behind fox news, that could have huge legal ramifications for the network. rupert murdoch has admitted under oath that some fox news anchors endorsed false claims on air about the 2020 u.s. presidential election being stolen. now these are the fox anchors spread for different president donald trump s lies about election fraud, blue dogs, maria buddy romo, janine perot, and sean hannity murdaugh made it clear that he doesn t believe that right wing top network as an entity promoted the lies, but the fox corporation chairm