good evening good evening, everyone. welcome to cnn tonight. alec murdaugh will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the murders of his own wife and son. the judge who sentenced him today knew murdaugh professionally and personally before all of this and called him a monster. tonight some legal observers say that those three hours of jury deliberations were too fast for a six-week trial. we ll debate that. plus you what will the future be like for the people of palestine ohio who are dealing with toxic chemicals. tonight a woman who grew up in the middle of a different environmental disaster has a message for the people of palestine. what she says she need to do they need to do starting now. and how would you like that travel the world for a year, all set in confidence, and see all of the historic sites like the taj mahal, machu pitch ooh, the great wall of china, for the bargt price of $30,000. but there is a catch, we ll tell you all about it and see if our paneli
the country philadelphia, chattanooga, phoenix, chicago. just some of the city that is saw shootings over the weekend as families continue to grieve the 21 lives taken in the texas massacre. we ll ask congressman colin allred what more can be done at the federal level. in ukraine, russia striking kyiv with missiles for the first time in weeks. we ll take you live to ukraine. also this hour, new detailing around the fatal shooting of a retired wisconsin judge. police say the suspect was planning others. this morning marks the beginning of the summit of the americas as the white house confirms the leaders from cuba, nicaragua and venezuela will not be invited. the president of mexico said he won t be going then. we begin this very busy hour with the kase lating gun violence crisis across the u.s. at least 12 people were killed in just 48 hours. in yet another string of mass shootings. this weekend marked more deaths in the u.s. than the memorial day weekend in which nine pe
east palestine residents about what they need to do now. that writer, vanessa ogle, joins ow panel. thanks so much for being here. i read your story with incredible interests. you grew up in a small town in central michigan in close proximity to a chemical plant where starting in 1973 toxic chemicals like the flame retardant ppb got mixed up accidentally with the livestock seed. yes. and attend thatted up coloring and affecting your life in your town for decades. so what was it like growing up there? it was something that has shaped a lot of my life. i nah a lot of people who suffered from mysterious health problems, cancer, skin issues, things that make me really concerned for the people in ohio. because it went on i mean, it wasn t just an event that happened one day and within month and then it was over. it went on for decades, and furthermore, then there was another leak from that chemical
interview, the interviewer said, you saw him crying, he goes, no, no, he wasn t crying. those were not tears, how did you know this? he says i was this close to him. i could he see it, it was made up. so they they saw right through him. they knew that he was a conman. so the leaded prosecutor was on the anderson show tonight and talked about what he thought the jury was responding to. here s that moment. a lot of times as a juror you get the to look in people s eyes. they can obviously speak for themselves if they decide to speak. but i think that they saw him lying in action and saw how easily he could do it. and it s hard to get by the fact of lying about being at murder scene with the victims just minutes before they died. that one is hard to explain. he never really was able to explain that. yeah. and interesting you bring up the point about phones.
if somebody alongside us needed help, we were brothers. they were part of us. they were a family. what was it like? very difficult to explain because we were all young guys. there wasn t one of us that wasn t crying. it was scary. sure was. every tenth round was a tracer. reporter: eight d-day survivors, veterans, men who made their way back here. 99 turning 100 years old. this is the last time they say they ll ever come back. one said he would never come back until now. very emotional but also important to remember. d-day was successful.