level of did deadly chemicals ie air, ground and water in and around east palestine? apparently nobody is. that s highly upsetting when you think about it. talk about a failure at all levels. the first duty of government is to protect its citizens. so it s bad. it s very bad news for reckless politicians, like josh shapiro and mike dewine, who may have made this disaster much worse. tonight both shapiro and dewine are trying to revise their statements about the controlled burn. both are deciding that the toxic mushroom cloud over s, the one they signed off on and endorsed on television was actually a bad thing. it didn t go as planned. it wasn t perfect. and both governors have identified the villain here. not as themselves. of course not. but as the railroad, north folk southern. both are considering lawsuits against the company. in an act of amazingly brazen
claimed his top priority was then to clear paul s name in the boat crash case. thought his priority should have been focusing on finding out who killed maggie and paul. reporter: she recalls murdaugh s devastation, but says they never discussed a search for the killer, despite concern from the family that one was on the loose. i think everybody was afraid. and alex didn t seem to be afraid. reporter: the defense questions focused on family dynamics, especially in the time just before the murders. do you believe alex relationship with maggie was? it was good. it wasn t perfect, but maggie was happy. and i think she was happy. reporter: we expect to hear more testimony tomorrow about what the defense calls alex murdaugh s botched roadside suicide attempt. the man they say murdaugh hired to shoot him, a potential witness on the list. lester? catie, thank you.
maggie suffered, and he assured me that she did not. now, i don t know that i think that s true. reporter: maggie s sister saying after the murders, she found it odd alex was still preoccupied with clearing his son s name. paul had been facing charges for a fatal boat crash. and i thought that was so strange, because my number one goal was to find out who killed my sister and paul. did he ever act scared or afraid that the real killers were out there somewhere? i think everybody was afraid, and alex didn t seem to be afraid. reporter: but the defense team pressing maggie s sister on the state of the murdaugh s marriage. can you tell the jury what you thought of alex s relationship with maggie? it was good. it wasn t perfect, but maggie was happy. reporter: and the state is expected to wrap its case this week. david?