verdict guilty. verdict guilty. a disgraced former attorney, alex murdaugh, will be sentenced after being found guilty for murder. we ll break down the verdict just ahead. and it sounded like a freight train. just like going by the house. a powerful storm system moving through the southern u.s., bringing the threat of tornadoes and damaging winds, tracking the severe weather plus, in the coming hours, the u.s. will announce more systems for ukraine as ukrainian fighters are struggling to keep russian forces out of the eastern city of bakhmut. disgraced former south carolina attorney, alex murdaugh, will be sentenced in the coming hours after being convicted of killing his wife and son. guilty verdict, verdict, guilty. verdict, guilty. verdict, guilty. the jury deliberated less than three hours thursday before returning their decision, one welcomed by the lead prosecutor. here he is. justice was done today, it doesn t matter who your family is. it doesn t matte
the reidout is up next. tonight on the reidout we fight. we fight like hell. and if you don t fight like hell, you re not going to have a country anymore. we re going to walk down pennsylvania avenue, i love pennsylvania avenue. and we re going to the capitol. a ruling about those comments from donald trump would seem to open up the possibility of lawsuits against the former president by victims of the january 6th insurrection. meanwhile, more transcripps were released from the january 6th committee revealing a whole lot of trump insiders with very convenient memory lapses. also tonight, more of george santos lies are uncovered. we ll look closely at his finances which highlight the glaring need for campaign finance reform. and in state after state, midterm voters rejected election deniers. and now democrats have a golden opportunity to safeguard voting rights. one of the governors leading that fight joins me tonight. good evening, everyone. i m maria ter
good evening. i m erin burnett. welcome to a special edition of outfront tonight in the closing stretch of this extremely consequential election with only two days to go and control of the u.s. congress literally hanging in the balance. the biggest names from both parties are out in full force with the candidates on this sunday in these final hours. in florida the former president trump headlining a rally for marco rubio who is facing of course the democrat val demings there. you re going to elect an incredible slate of true maga warriors to congress many of whom are here right now. in new york president biden is about to take the stage in new york governor kathy hochul s re-election effort. the race between hochul and republican lee zeldin is much tighter than expected as election day nears. across the nation here is how it boils down. 435 house races. 35 senate and 36 governor races all up for grabs. in the house, 56 seats are considered in play. this includes 12 stat
desantis is a bully. no love lost between those two. i think not just for the audience. i think they actual ri loathe each other. charlie crist is touch an interesting political history on both sides of the political divide. desantis made a reference to what krist thought about something six parties ago, referencing how he had been a republican and independent, now he s a democrat. tough race. tough race. welcome to cnn tonight. i m jake tapper. tonight, an uncharacteristic warning from one of the most respected non-partisan journalists in the world. breaking from 50 years of journalistic tradition to come here and warn you about the threat he says donald trump poses still to the united states, threats to both democracy and to american national security. bob woodward became a household name back in the 70s of course when, with his partner at the washington, carl bernstein, woodward broke the watergate scandal wide open, paving the way to impeachment proceedings, a be
telling you about. more important than predicted polls is what people are already doing. 32 million people have now voted. this is election week like we told you it would be. it outpaces the early vote number at the same point in the mid-terms of the trump era. president biden delivered an address on the high stakes amidst the maga supporters. not all but some republicans have done to their great disgrace, minimize or joke about an attempted murder at the home of the speaker of the house. this is the era we are living through. this is where i update you about the vote, i have to tell you as part of the news that the husband of the speaker of the house is out of the hospital tonight after the attempted murder now charged at the state and federal level. meanwhile, more information also emerging about republican efforts that many people warn are main lining violence, that go beyond political speech or the zealous political speech. quote, be ready to do hand-to-hand combat with t