t if they will spend the rest of their lives in prison. the judge could offer them eligibility for parole after 30 years. travis mcmichael, greg mcmichael and william roddie bryan were convicted of murder the day before thanksgiving. their claim of self-defenses with rejected by a nearly all white jury. our national correspondent dianne gallagher is joining us from brunswick, georgia, right now. what is about to unfold. what son the ta is on the tab today? reporter: whether these three men should get the opportunity to seek parole after serving 30 years. that s because georgia law requires a life sentence with these charges. now, they re going to have the opportunity if they wish to speak in their own defense. they re going to be able to their attorneys to call character witnesses, and the family of ahmaud arbery is expected to speak as well. wanda cooper jones, the mother
they chose they chose to target my son, when they couldn t sufficiently scare him or intimidate him, they killed him. reporter: taking aim at a defense attorney s comments during the trial. his long, dirty toenails. reporter: about her son s toenails. i wish he would have cut and cleaned his toenails before he went out for that jog that day. i guess he would have if he knew he would be murdered. reporter: arbery s family was clear, they wanted the maximum sentence possible. my family, we got to live with his death the rest of our life. we will never see ahmaud again. so, i feel they should stay behind them bars the arrest of they life because they didn t give him a chance. the loss of ahmaud has devastated me and my family. so i am asking the men that killed him be given the maximum sentence available to the
toenails. i wish he would have cut and cleaned his toenails before he went out for that jog that day. i guess he would have if he knew he would be murdered. reporter: arbery s family was clear, they wanted the maximum sentence possible. my family, we got to live with his death the rest of our life. we will never see ahmaud, again. so, i feel they should stay behind them bars the arrest of they life because they didn t give him a chance. the loss of ahmaud has devastated me and my family. so i am asking the men that killed him be given the maximum sentence available to the report. reporter: they remember quested of murder after chasing 25-year-old ahmaud arbery in their vehicles while he jogged killing him after they say they thought they sawarbery in an
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down more than predicted, dropping to 3 .9%. we ve got a great team of experts lined up to try and make a little more sense of the data. any second now president biden expected to talk about those numbers. there s a live look there at the presidential podium in the white house. as soon as the president starts, we will take you there. meanwhile, we re also keeping a close eye on this georgia courtroom. that is where the three men convicted of killing ahmaud arbery are set to learn their sentence today. all three face mandatory life sentences, but the judge still has some say in the matter. we re going to get into that in a few minutes. right now president biden s federal vaccine or testing mandate facing its most critical test yet. at the supreme court. as we speak. the justices are hearing oral arguments over whether some private businesses have to require employees to get the shot or be tested. we re going to have the very