this is dateline. the first time i saw her, i thought she was beautiful. we just loved being together, we were always together. our kitchen back door was opened and the glass was broken. i need an ambulance now. my wife, oh my god. it was him who found her. i said i don t know how to handle that. i wish i could ve been there to protect her. a wife murdered, and later, a husband under suspicion. he was such a nice guy that you would ve never guess that he would ve done something like that. you think he faked that burglary and killed his wife? yes. he wanted the house, he wanted her money, and if he divorced her, he would lose everything. in court, a stunning verdict. this could not be happening, i did not kill my wife. but more stunning still was what came after, a mysterious witness with a secret. this is a woman who essentially says i saw the murderer. and it wasn t tom folly. would her story be the ultimate twist? hello and welcome to dateline.
crisis. let s begin with peter live on the north lawn. hi, peter. jillian, if the supreme court does not intervene, title 42 could end today. the lack of information lately from officials here at the biden white house about what they want to happen after title 42 goe crs curious about what exactly the biden white house wants to happen next. we ve got the biden administration and most democrats who don t see this as anything but a win. they re seeing this an success at the border. every person that you talk to in the biden administration says this is not a problem. you talk to the president, he said there s other problems that we have. officials here are saying less about migrants arriving at the southern border than about migrants being bussed to d.c. the white house says governor abbott abandoned children on the side of the road and below freezing temperatures on christmas eve without coordinating with any local authorities. this was a cruel dangerous and shameful stun
some dying in snow buried cars, others in homes with no power. conditions so bad rescuers needed rescuing. and the travel nightmare continues for thousands of americans, so far more than 3,000 flights have been canceled today, the majority are southwest flights. plus, how a toy and a car led police to find a kidnapped baby. welcome to the lead i m phil mattingly in today for jake tapper. we begin with the rising death toll from the vicious winter weather across the country. at least 49 people across nine states have died from storms, at least 27 of those deaths are centered in buffalo, new york, and surrounding erie county which were hit with a blizzard, winds so fierce they reached hurricane strength, rescuers had to be sent out to help stranded rescue crews facing, quote, some of the worst conditions that any of us have ever seen. many roads around buffalo remain impassable, driving bans still in place in some areas as crews try to clear the streets to restore power
looking at everything to make sure we discover and determine what the motive of our homicides were. again, it s just very important to let you know that we are not done. in most cases of homicides we don t have a quick apprehension, there s usually a lengthy investigation especially when it involves multiple vehiclictims, we are working diligently to ascertain all the facts so we can have a successful prosecution, and that s what is most important now. i was hoping we would be able to release the names of the victims, but we are not able to do that at this time, and the reason is we need to make sure that we have a true verification of their identities and that we make the proper next of kin notification. again, i thought we were going to be able to do that, and out of respect of the lives of the families, we want to make sure that we do that privately before we release the names of our victim publicly. again, you know, we can have a couple questions, again, it s very importa
our authorities are totally committed to keeping us safe from this deadly virus. so that s the protocol. if you re coming from el salvador to the united states legally, you take the test. but what if you re coming illegally? what if you rode the top of a freight train from el salvador up through mexico and just jumped the border when you got here? well, as it happens, this morning, we interviewed an active ms-13 member, a convicted murderer, who said he did exactly that. so the question is, do people like him, the ones who break our laws to get here, have to submit to mandatory covert test and they ve been apprehended by american authorities? and the answer is actually no they don t. under this administration, they don t have to, and they don t. illegal aliens are now exempt from the public health measures that have been imposed by force on the rest of us by the u.s. government. illegal aliens come and go as they please, no one seems to care if they spread deadly viruses to t