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, insurance fraud and consp
Sir richard branson. They went to the very lowest part of what is considered space where they were briefly weightless for a few minutes and then they returned which, you know, that s cool. This is not that though. This is actually a genuine honest to god actual space mission. Spacex rocket is going to launch four amateur astronauts although one does include a billionaire. Don t you worry, we re getting another billionaire into space. They re going to go into orbit 360 miles above earth. The crew is composed entirely of civilians. There is a billionaire who funded the trip, a physician s assistant from saint jude research center, data engineer and geo science professor. Got a very cool second chance. Those don t usually happen. What we re going to witness basically is the closest thing that we ve ever seen here in the u. S. At least to the kind of dream that we were sold as children, right? the futuristic dream of space travel available to normal people, nontrained astronauts, people be
A new era in space travel. The question is, are we witnessing a new start of an era in space travel? it s way too early for this. Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that some days would like to buy a oneway ticket to mars. I m jonathan lemire on this thursday, september 16th. We ll start with the news. The u. S. Has reached another grim milestone in its fight against coronavirus. New data shows that more than one in 500 americans has died from covid19 since the start of the pandemic, one in 500 americans. According to an nbc news tally, there have been more than 41,689,000 cases. So far 55% are vaccinated. 63% have received one dose. The fda will meet to discuss whether booster shots will be necessary for the majority of adults who are vaccinated. Nbc news correspondent miguel almaguer explained. Reporter: the battle over boosters as vaccine boosters make their case ahead of friday s fda review of pfizer s booster shot for the general public. And there you go, perfect.
Implgts maybe you ought to see him more than once a week to get used we can talk with like a 47second delay. You act like it s the first time in ten years. Hello, joe. How are you? i am doing fine. Thank you. Good morning. Live from the international space station. Exactly! exactly. Hello, my fellow earth. Anyway, yeah. We got together. Uhhuh. Willie and i always get together do the editorial about 2:30, 2:45. Go for a run. Yeah. Ah. Go for a run. Go through the park. Push each other, too. Yeah. Miss you, 2:30 in the park running through the park and go how are we going to set this show up? so we decided to go really, really salacious today. Yeah. Lean in to the tabloid stuff. We know it sells, gets clicked. It does! we know what the people want. Kim kaye s met gala outknit? kind of like that. Really close to that. You know, willie, that famous warning from so long ago, when paris hilton got out of prison. No. I don t remember. I m still struck by you know we were talking about what a
The group says it supports the rioters who have been prosecuted for their participation on the assault on the capitol last winter. Joe biden is supporting mark milley as former president and supporters demand that milley be fired or tried for treason. Did general milley do the right thing, sir? i have great confidence in general milley. Milley and his backers say the conversations with his chinese military counterpart were routine cause of reassurance to 20 or more allies and adversaries alike following the insurrection. The controversy erupting, of course, over those stunning revelations in bob woodward and robert costas new book. Joining me is pentagon correspondent courtney kube and michael mcfall, former u. S. Ambassador to russia. Thanks, all. Jonathan lemire jen psaki are standing behind general milley. How much angst is there about this book? i pressed the white house press secretary yesterday in her daily press briefing and certainly, they are supportive of general milley. The