not found but the circumstantial evidence was so convincing to the jury and to everybody watching at home that obviously, he killed his wife and his son. todd: jackie ibanez joins us live with the very latest, jackie. hey, good morning six weeks, 70 witnesses and three hours to deliberate for a panel of south carolina jurist to find alex murdaugh guilty of murdering his wife and son. guilty verdict signed by the four lady 3223. you can see murdaugh keeping a straight face and escorted out of the courtroom in handcuffs. his only son buster and the gallery shaking his hand in disbelief while wiping his hand down my face his hand. he is to be two counts of murder and a violent crime. he is facing three years to life in prison for each murder conviction. according to the washington post, prosecutors did not seek the death penalty in the case because the state would have to prove there is aggravating circumstances which would include murdering a child under 11, murderin
bianna golodryga picks up our coverage now. hello everyone. i m bianna golodryga. airports are scrambling to get back on schedule after an early morning glitch throws the nation s air travel into chaos. a key safety system for the faa went down forcing a nationwide ground stoup on all domestic departing flights. that s left travelers stranded in airports or trapped on board parked airliners. the ground stop is now lifted, but the backlog of flights is still jamming airports across the country. cnn correspondents and analysts have been following these developments. let s begin with adrienne broaddus. adrienne, are things get back to normal there this morning? reporter: hello, bianna. things are getting back to normal. travelers passing through chicago o hare will experience delays and cancellations. if they stop at the information board, they will see boarding. that s a nice sign for folks leaving the airport. there s also other indications that there have been technology
it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. good to be with you. more than 8,000 flights have been delayed just today after the faa made a rare move in the ground of safety. they grounded flights to work out major flights in a messaging system. pilots use this system to learn about safety hazards in realtime. somewhere overnight, there was an issue with irregularities in the messages that were going out that reflected a bigger systems issue, and this morning at about 7:00, there were still problems validating that the messages were going out. so for safety reasons to make sure that every aircraft that took off was doing so safely, faa implemented a ground stop. secretary buttigieg said it s still not clear what caused this system failure, but it does not appear to be a cyberattack. what is clear is the ripple effect for thousands of passengers so let s bring in cnn s adrienne broaddus. what are passengers telling you, adrienne?
one of the best defenses in the country. of course we would be remiss if we didn t mention how most teams would love a trip to the sugar bowl but the alabama crimson tide not one of them. they lost two games this season by a combined four points both on the last play of the game against texnnessee and lsu, so they miss the playoffs. they ll face kansas state tomorrow, some of the georgia fans in our sports department told me to remind you you can t spell sugar bowl without uga. i apologize for that. i ve been to the sugar bowl more times than i can count on two hands. spent a lot of time in new orleans in college. she was so annoyed we were doing the sugar bowl situation in the show. i ll be watching tomorrow. we kickoff at noon, it s fine. actually love nick saban said yesterday this has been one of the most enjoyable nonplayoff bowl preps they have had. that s one way to see it. yeah. coy wire, we ll be watching. roll tide. thank you so much. all right. cnn
lawmakers have rarely sought to make public confidential taxpayer information. there is some precedent. now we ll see a whole new one today. we ll go live to capitol hill this morning. what time are we expecting these to come out is what everyone really wants to know. reporter: this is going to happen around 9:00 a.m. so just less than an hour at this point and we are mere steps from the house floor where this is going to get entered into the congressional record. what you should expect to see today is the ways and means committee will release a press release that will include the following documents. one of them, trump s personal federal tax returns for the years between 2015 and 2020 as well as the returns for eight of his business entities. here s where the real treasure trove of information could come from, additional work files that the irs might have as they were looking over former president donald trump s taxes. we should talk about the importance of this moment bec