reporting about ron desantis s ambitious campaign strategy, one that s fueled by big money but framed by some equally big assumptions about his opponents. any campaign starts with cash and desantis has already raise add ton of that, $8.2 million in the first 24 hours according to his team. nearly as much as trump raised in the first six weeks of his campaign. now, team desantis says they ll use that money to focus on the first four primary states, underscoring their belief this race could be over by mid-march. according to nbc news his strategy also rests on a potentially shakier premise. first, that it will end up being just a two-person race and second, big donors who talk to the team tell nbc they believe trump will be bogged down by his league woes providing them the opening they need. i want to bring in nbc s dasha burns in miami, she s been writing about the desantis strategy, nbc s senior national politics reporter jonathan allen
fell apart and had no other option but to murder his wife and his son to cover up the misdeeds. everything was falling apart, and i think that s another reason he shouldn t take the stand. he s going to be exposed and have to answer all of those questions, and it really does feed into the prosecution s narrative and their ultimate motive, which actually detracts from the defendant s ability to just simply poke holes and raise enough reasonable doubt to convince one juror to find him not guilty. thank you both so much. as soon as alex murdaugh takes the stand we re going to bring you his testimony live. we are also following breaking news in eastern ohio, the national transportation safety board has just released its preliminary report on the train derailment in east palestine. it comes as transportation secretary pete buttigieg is making his first visit to the community nearly three weeks after the crash. nbc s ron allen is in east palestine, ohio, and also with me nbc s tom costel
tv. there are people here who knew that reporter, his fiancee and i were just embracing. this is every reporter s absolutely worst nightmare. nbc s guad venegas is there for us live. this is a tragic scene, a complicated crime scene, how did this play out? reporter: lindsey it is, it started wednesday morning when orange county sheriffs say a woman in her 20s was shot and killed. detectives arrived at the scene of that incident, conducted their investigation, and then it was five hours later when the sheriff says a news crew, a local news crew that was covering that incident was attacked by gun fire. we now know that one of them was 24-year-old dylan lions who was killed and a photographer jesse waldron who remains at last report in the hospital. the sheriff says the suspect went into a nearby home and shot
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9-year-old girl. that suspect has been detained. authorities say it s 19-year-old kevin moses who the sheriff said had a history, a criminal history including gun charges and of course this investigation will continue as two survivors remain hospitalized according to the last report, lindsey. okay. guad venegas thank you. switching gears, from coast to coast, nearly 50 million people are still under some kind of winter alert. heavy winds and ice storms have left nearly a million people without power and more than a thousand flights have been cancel or delayed as crews work to de-ice runways. this police officer on the left-hand side of your screen running out of the way narrowly escaping getting hit by that semi that lost control on this road in wyoming. nbc s niala charles is live from minneapolis where the snow has been coming down all morning. meteorologist angie lassman with a look at how long it will all