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we start with the national lead. any minute we expect the first court appearance for the prom innocent south carolina lawyer at the center of a series of family tragedies. alex murdoch is in jail. someone shot and killed his wife and son back in june. but it s not that case that has him behind bars. his attorney admits the attorney hired a hit man to shoot him in the head for his son to collect life insurance but that failed and the setup is not half the story. martin savidge starts us off from south carolina. reporter: his life in a scandalous spiral. alex murdoch surrenders to law enforcement to face charges in a scheme in which he was the target a warrant for arrest detailed the botched murder attempt meant to provide millions of dollars of life insurance money attorneys say. murdoch arranged for cur missmith to shoot and kill him but the plan failed because the shot wasn t fatal. smith is charged with an assisted suicide, pointing and presenting a firearm, insuran ....
new data has him convinced it is needed. welcome to the viewers in the united states and around the world. i m jim acosta. you are in the situation room. we begin with the breaking news. new washing from department of homeland security about the potential violence surrounding this saturday s washington, d.c. rally in support of the mob that stormed the capitol january 6. former president trump lending support in a statement saying our hearts and mind are with the people being persecuted so unfairly relating to the protest concerning the rigged presidential election. it wasn t rigged. cnn crime and justice correspondent shimon prokupecz is working the story. there s new warning from department of homeland security. give us the latest. reporter: yeah. that s right. the warnings coming from online chatter according to the department of homeland security in an assessment, intelligence briefing that they just released saying there s the potential of violence and a lot ....
that was richard staffer, asking the family of brian lawn laundrie to please come forward. he appealed to she appealed to them parent to parent. they know each other. they were about to get married, this young couple and they re begging for whatever help he and his family can give them to be forthcoming with that. watch this. we believe you know the location of where brian left gabby. we beg you to tell us. as a parent, how could you let us go through this pain and not help us? as a parent, how can you put gabby s younger brothers and sisters through this? martha: so we have brand new body cam footage, which is stunning when you watch this in its entirety. it s about an hour long. the police questioned the couple. this was in august. a witness has reported that this couple was fighting in the van. obviously was aggressive enough that they called something in to the police in utah. watch this. what s going on inside? we were fighting. we had some personal iss ....
have arranged getting killed so that his son could get a $10 million insurance policy. sounds bizarre. a lot of doubts. but for now the focus in this hamilton county, south carolina courtroom is just to get an arraignment on the committing insurance fraud charge. then it could expand from there. let s get the latest from steve harrigan in hampton county with more. steve? we re keeping an eye on the first court appearance of alex murdaugh who stands in front of insurance fraud charges. he hired a former client to shoot him in the head by the side of a rural road in south carolina. the alleged gunman, curtis smith was released on $55,000 bond. murdaugh surrendered himself to police. he arrived in a t-shirt and fluorescent sneakers. his hands were cuffed. murdaugh gained notoriety when his wife and son were brutal religioned down this summer outside the family s large hunting lodge in rural south carolina. it was murdaugh that discovered the bodies, murdaugh that called ....
for california governor newsom who easily defeated a republican-led recall that could have removed him from office. newsom s coronavirus policies validated by democratic voters who said no to the recall by a nearly 2:1 margin. the california governor thanked his supporters and warned about the dangers of republican efforts he says to undermine democracy. we said yes to see you inside, we said yes to vaccines, we said yes to ending this pandemic. we may have defeated trump, but trumpism is not dead in this country. the big lie, january 6th insurrection, all the voting suppression efforts happening across this country, what is happening, assault on fundamental rights, constitutionally protected rights of women and girls, this is a remarkable moment in our nati nation s history. larry elder who pledged to repeal newsom s coronavirus restrictions acknowledged his loss despite vowing to fight in the days before the vote. my opponent governor gavin newsom [ boos ] com ....