to cast doubt on that. i listened to plenty of interviews where the highway patrol investigators were telling family members that they didn t really think this was a hit-and-run. they chased a lot of rumors tying the murdaugh family to this case. a lot of members, this is a small town in hampton. and they said that they there was, you know, the murdaughs were tied in but there was no evidence of the rumors until the murders, you know, when they said they were going to reopen the case into steven smith s death. all right. jake, i appreciate your time. thank you very much. bizarre and deeply disturbing situation and obviously a lot we still don t know. well, up next, california governor newsom with a new strategy in the final days and hours leading up to the crucial recall election. responding to both of you.any and, it s temperature balancing to help you stay comfortable all night. it even tracks your circadian rhythm, so you know when you re at your best.
my back window pops and shattered. highway patrol investigators are trying to get drivers to pull over right away when this happens and call investigators so they have a better idea and a timeline of where those bbs and pellet could be coming from. shannon: jeff paul, thank you. first up, real news roundup, the incoming head of california s largest state employee union saying tonight, his organization will not pack democratic governor gavin newsom for the recall election. fighting wage cuts over last year saying, we re going to run his fleet out of office. the union represents about 96,000 state employees. it s a fight between a passenger and a southwest airlines and attendant leaving that flight attendant without some of her teeth. passenger seen here was taken into custody when the plane landed in san diego between
flames. highway patrol investigators say the van failed to stop for railroad signals. the passenger train was traveling at normal speed when the two collided. nobody on board was injured. investigators looking into that deadly amtrak crash last month in philadelphia ruled out one possible cause of the accident, and it has to do with the engineer. abc s karen travers with the latest. reporter: new clues about the derailment of amtrak train 188. the ntsb said engineer brandon bostian was not using his cell phone to text talk or download data while operating the train, but that doesn t answer every question. there are 400,000 pieces of data involved in the analysis. and because of the extent of that things like use of an app or other use of the phone has not been determined. reporter: train 188 was traveling at more than twice the speed limit, more than 100 miles an hour, when it hit a curve in north philadelphia and derailed on may 12th.