washington. disgraced south carolina lawyer and now convicted killer alex murdaugh will spend the rest of his life in prison. a judge handing down that sentence this morning after a jury needed less than three hours to find murdaugh guilty of murdering his wife, maggie, and his son, paul. in the murder of your wife, maggie murdaugh, i sentence you for a term of the rest of your natural life. for the murder of paul murdaugh, whom you probably loved so much, i sentence you to prison for murdering him for the retsst of your natural life. judge clifton newman notably getting very personal before handing down that sentence, talking about knowing alex murdaugh and his family and that alex was a well-respected and gregorius person, but the judge also made it clear that he agreed with that guilty verdict handed out by the jury. he accused murdaugh of duplicitous conduct in the courtroom and on the witness stand and he said the lies finally caught up with him. cnn s dianne galla
caribbean, hundreds of thousands of people have no power or running water. it is difficult. the worst does appear far from over as we watch the track here with turks and caicos and bermuda. now in fiona s path. we are keeping a very close eye on that of course. also this morning new details on the 2020 election. surveillance footage showing what happened inside a georgia election office on the same day voting machines were compromised there. a republican county official and associate seen working with an attorney for former president trump spending hours inside of that restricted area. but let s begin in puerto rico where today marks actually five years since hurricane maria s catastrophic landfall on the island and now the same survivors of that crisis say the devastating flooding from this storm could be even worse. our lay low sanity thyago is on the ground in san juan with the latest. reporter: today the majority of people in puerto rico are waking up without power
good morning to you, a day of vote counting here in washington. i m jim sciutto. vote counting part deuce, i m erica hill. good morning. we are keeping a close watch on washington for just that purpose. a few short hours from now the gop controlled house set to gavel in for a second day as they try to elect a speaker because of course remember without one not much is happening. new members can t even be sworn in. after three rounds of voting presumptive front runner kevin mccarthy not only failed to corral his caucus and secure the 218 votes needed to become speaker, he actually lost support as the day dragged on. we are live from capitol hill. and we will be talking to a member of congress who is central to these negotiations, plus buffalo bills damar hamlin remains sedated in critical condition on a ventilator. this after experiencing that shocking cardiac arrest during monday night football. his uncle tells cnn that he had to be resuscitated not just once on the field
i think it will be quite emotional when the coffin arrives here. certainly the public feeling that as well. let s just turn around here this is just one of the pathways leading down to the palace, people just desperate to have that moment to see the coffin. this is partly because there s going to be very limited opportunities to pay your respects to the coffin because all of these areas will be completely blocked off, full of people during tomorrow s procession, but also at the funeral itself. and lying in state, we re expecting queues of something like five miles. winston churchill, the last major state funeral there were 320,000 people that came out. that was in 1965. we re expecting something like a million people to come and see the queen. that s why i ve got so many people here trying to grab this moment. this is the mount. you can see the palace there. the coffin will arrive tomorrow night from behind the palace. tomorrow there will be a full procession, full ceremoni
workings tomorrow and the role that it played in the effort toover turn the election. just to give a historical precedence to this group and how they have kind of radicalized. i was the propagandist for the oath keepers. committee members believe they can connect the dots between donald trump s inner circle and the oath keepers. the justice department detailing new evidence of militia trainings, of explosives and also a death list ahead of the insurrection, which highlights the threat and extensive planning by these groups as they prepared to bring violence to the nation s capitol. and an abrupt about face steve bannon suddenly saying he is willing to testify before the january 6th committee. this after the former president sent a letter waiving executive privilege. the committee and many legal experts believe no privilege existed in this case anyway, and considering the timing bannon is set to face trial on criminal contempt charges after denying the congressional subp