overcome and inspiring a new generation announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening. for the defense, accused murderer alex murdaugh taking the witness stand today in south carolina dramatic and at times tearful testimony from the man at the center of the country s most closely followed criminal trial murdaugh under questioning from his lawyers saying i didn t shoot my wife or son and addressing what has appeared to be some of the prosecution s strongest evidence murdaugh from the witness box admitting he lied about his whereabouts the night his wife and 22-year-old son were shot to death. chalking up the lies to opioid addiction and paranoia under cross-examination, murdaugh, a former lawyer, also admitted to stealing from clients. the prosecution has maintained the murders were part of murdaugh s attempt to escape accountability for financial misdeeds we begin tonight with catie beck reporting from walterboro, south carolina. reporter: after ne
drove them to the scene. also today, the police department revealed that a sixth and then a seventh officer had been, quote, relieved of duty. as you know, five have already been fired and charged with second-degree murder. their specialized scorpion unit is now disbanded, and there could be more charges to come. we re going to talk about that tonight with a local district attorney. also our legal team on the potential difficulty of getting convictions under tennessee s hurt statute, and our law enforcement experts weigh in on effect or lack of one body cameras had on their behavior, including one suspended officer who came on to the scene shortly after mr. nichols had been pulled over. this is part of his camera s recording, and a warning, it is graphic, both on what you see and what you hear. get on the floor. get out of the car. i didn t do anything! i didn t turn your ass around. all right, all right, all right, all right. on the ground, on the ground. all r
more fall in the wake of the brutal beating by memphis police officers. like today, the city firebombed not-so-termination of three personnel. , tully, empties and lieutenant who drove them to the scene. also tonight, the police department revealed that a six, that a seventh officer had been, quote, relieved duty. as you know, i bet already been fired and charged with second degree murder. their specialized scorpion unit is now disbanded, and there could be more charges, and administrative changes to come. we talk about that snow to the local district attorney, also, our legal team on the potential difficulty of getting convictions center tennessee s murder statute. a lot enforcement experts weigh in on the effects, or lack of won the officers body cameras had on their behavior. including one suspended officer who came on the scene shortly after miracles a loafer. this is part of his cameras recording, warning, this is graphic both in terms of what you see in what you hear. i
doesn t sub single meal migrants on the screen camped outside the watson hotel in protest as the city demanded that they pack up and make spac for women and children migrants. shelters have been set up and summon the men refused to go even trying to negotiate with city officials. the brooklyn site and accommodations are unacceptable. the food was, it wasn t that decent meal for a human being. it was damaged. it was ruffles and chips. it s practically making people go backwards. there s no moving forward with all the important strides he made. city officials say more than 42,000 asylum-seekers have arrived in new york city from texas this last spring. the city resources as a relates to shell shoot shelter and food and other services. at was when thuds see csf to try to we must get this resolved but there is a crisis right now and it should be court made by the national government and we need to expedite the right to work because it is just unfair to cities like el
secretary of state antony blinken that there must be an immediate ceasefire in gaza. but mr blinken wants humanitarian pauses . israel, though, insists there will be no temporary truce until all hostages are released. thejordanian foreign minister ayman safadi said the killing of civilians by israel could not be justified by its claim of self defence. he said the entire region was sinking into a sea of hatred that could define generations to come. secretary blinken s visit is exactly four weeks after the hamas attacks on israel in which 1,400 people were killed, and there is no let up in the israeli military response in gaza. its offensive is focused on the north of the territory, where it s thought up to 400,000 people are still living, even though israel has urged civilians there to move south. the hamas run health ministry in gaza says more than 9,400 people have been killed there in the past four weeks. we will have more on the diplomacy shortly, but we start our cover