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
that is why you had house republicans step in because, remember, the district of columbia is not a state. congress, under the constitution, has oversight of it. it can override things that the council does. house republicans passing a bill with 31 democrats joining them saying we are not going to allow. brian: going to block it. griff: going to block it. the senate is going to have people like joe manchin and get on board. and president biden saying okay, you know what? i get it, i m not going to stand in the way. i m not going to veto. i m going to allow congress to block the d.c. city council bill. here is what biden tweeted i support d.c. statehood and rule but i don t support some of the changes d.c. council put forward over the mayor s objections such as lowering penalties for carjackings. if the city votes to overturn what the d.c. council did i will sign it. brian: homicides are up 40%. car thefts have more than doubled. they are down slightly year to year buff the numbers
last night in arkansas. pike county, can you see trees down there. tornadoes are the no the only risk. flooding is a huge concern as well. you can see police and firefighters have to rescue people from their homes, surrounded by water in another county. yell county of arkansas late last night as well. meanwhile in texas it s dark there. many people waking up with no power today. millions in the actually dallas metro area heard tornado sirens going off because of strong winds there. you can even see a funnel cloud as people were on the roads. this storm system we are talking about is the same storm system that impacted the east and the west earlier this week. of the same storm system that snowed in people in lake tahoe with 10 feet of snow. guys? griff: all right. katie byrne, thank you very much. brian: all right. stay safe. meanwhile. griff: let s check in with senior meteorologist janice dean for our fox weather forecast. good morning, janice. janice: yes, take a look at
who have been wanting snow. if you go upstate and in towards new england, that s where the jackpot is going to be. we will continue to watch the watches and the warnings and then we ll see what the snow does for parts of the northeast. griff: at least some people are happy there is no snow. ainsley loves the snow. janice: should we take a poll on the couch? brian, ainsley and griff what do you think snow? no snow? brian: i could take snow this weekend i could actually shovel it because i will be off and redeem get my man card back. [laughter] ainsley: dawn does all the shoveling in the morning. janice: we love you, dawn. brian: thank you very much. ainsley: and she has good arms. brian: nice of to you say. i will tell her every said that. ainsley: i, for the record, love snow. brian: i know you do. that s someone who didn t grow up with it. 20 minutes after the hour. going to go to my own camera. hundreds of chicago residents gathering in prayer i have jilts to ho
stand than a sympathetic wit witness. i actually did find those moments to be sympathetic. i think what resonates with me now what resonated with me then and with the jury was the following: number one, again, you lied, you lied, you lied. there is an old saying in my business you dare what you not admit and you admit what you dare not deny. by admitting to all of the financial crimes, it certainly made it very easy for anyone to find him to be a cold, cruel, heartless thief who was a liar. when you couple that with the fact that he lied to the police about not being at the scene. right before the murders, that that i hate to say it, that really killed him. griff: you think that, randy, was the nail in the coffin moment? there is no doubt.