theme you re listening to right now on making history at this year s oscars announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening we re glad you re with us tonight a double murder case that has drawn national attention with a prominent south carolina family at its center is inching toward its conclusion tonight with the prosecution resting its case against alex murdaugh, but not before the jury saw for itself the family property where the former attorney allegedly shot and killed his wife and son. the jury driven to the crime scene. later in the courtroom the lead prosecutor delivered his closing arguments telling jurors murdaugh was the only one with the motive, means, and opportunity to commit the murders, and painting murdaugh as someone whose financial misdeeds were about to be exposed and killed his wife and son to buy time to figure a way out. murdaugh has denied committing the murders. catie beck has more for us tonight reporter: alex murdaugh was l
latest. reporter: in what would be an historic case, the manhattan district attorney closer to bringing criminal charges against former president donald trump in a long-running investigation. we will look at the facts and the law and let the investigation and justice and what justice requires will dictate how much time we take. reporter: prosecutors are giving trump the chance to testify before a grand jury investigating his alleged role in that $130,000 hush money payout to adult film star stormy daniels days before the 2016 election to cover up their alleged affair a decade early. since potential defendants are required by law to appear in front of a grand jury, it indicates a decision on whether to charge trump could come soon. it s one thing to lie on your untruth social. it s another to lie before a grand jury. i don t suspect that he is going to be coming. reporter: his former attorney, michael cohen, meeting with prosecutors friday. he was sentenced to three
Story about who he checked first at the scene, supposedly . The first time i remember he checked maggie first and then went depaul to paul and then i heard him say one point that it was paul and it was. Maggie they Cell Phone Forensics Effort also testified for the defense. He analyzed the states data and timeline from the night of the murders. One key finding from him . Maggie murdaughs phone did not appear to be motion activated around the time the state has suggested that Alex Murdaugh may have tossed it from his moving car. Can you tell us how much motion would be required for the screen to come on on the phone . Its very little. And the times that Alex Murdaugh was passing this free never came on. Thats correct. The database indicated it was off. Randi kaye, that witness who was a friend of murdaugh, as he did not seem to do any favors for alec murdaugh. Correct me if im wrong, he said that murdaugh changed his story multiple times when the stories that he told his friend and that
climbing back up to avoid another plane. gio benitez on this tonight. we re tracking yet another storm already. pounding the west at this hour, racing across the country. the real tornado threat expected, and the storm set to hit the northeast, too. rob marciano timing this out. president biden s plan to relieve college debt for millions of students, will it be halted by the supreme court? tonight, the new audio from the court. what the conservative justices are already saying about this. overseas tonight, drones hitting deep inside russia. one of them outside moscow. what the kremlin is saying tonight. and vladimir putin now ordering the fsb to secure russia s borders. james longman with late reporting from inside ukraine. here at home, the alex murdaugh trial. prosecutors taking aim today at that new defense theory that there must have been two shooters. also, the u.s. swimming star found dead. tonight, the family heartbroken in that mysterious death. the former s
what happened? erica, this happened so fast. it s stunning. silicon valley bank shut down by california regulators after the stock crashed by 60% yesterday after the bank said it needed to rapidly raise cash. this is easily the biggest bank failure since washington mutual fell apart in 2008 during the financial crisis. silicon valley bank, if you haven t heard of it, it is a major lender to tech start-ups. the fdic says that depositors that have $250,000 or less, they are insured here. they will get their money. they will get access to their money as soon as monday morning. but we know that some people, some entities, some start-ups, they have more than $250,000, and it s less clear what s going to happen to them. how did this happen? well, when the fed spikes interest rates, things tend to break. we know that the fed rate hikes have hurt the valuation of the tech companies that this bank catered to, also has hurt the value of the bonds that banks rely on to get cash. erica