tornados tear through texas and louisiana, right now more than 60 million people are still under the threat of severe storms. ammunition on the agenda today. president biden meeting the german chancellor and sending more firepower to ukraine. it is friday, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. just hours from now, tau alex murdaugh will stand in a courtroom to learn his fate. a judge will issentence him for murdering his own wife and son. guilty verdict. verdict guilty. verdict guilty. verdict guilty. the jury heard six weeks of testimony but took less than three hours to convict him. murdaugh now facing a possible 30 years behind bars. justice was done today. it doesn t matter who your family is, it doesn t matter how much money you have or people think you have. it doesn t matter what you think how prominent you are, if you do wrong, if you break the law, if you murder, then justice will be done in south carolina.
And thats us, by the way. Went away but maybe you can see, maybe you cant, this is belle isle, to the top of the screen is you will see it in a moment is going to be canada. Thats, it right there on the horizon. Behind us, is detroit, michigan. And we are right in the middle of the detroit river, 9 am in the, east examine the, west i am ali velshi, coming to 16 days before election day in belle isle state park in detroit michigan and were bringing you a very Special Edition of velshi 2022 on friday. I had an enlightening conversation across the political spectrum, as the election day approaches, im gonna share more of it with you in just a bit. We kick off this hour with breaking news. Brandnew msnbc news polling, showing you the voters recognize that high stakes, next months Midterm Elections, registered voters are expressing high interest in the election. Tied for the highest ever, ever, in the decades long history of this poll, 57 of registered voters say this coming Midterm Electio
lawyer, it hence the same way. it really is wild to watch it happen over and over again. and so it goes, the will keeps turning, thank you chris as always. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. imagine somebody write you a check. you take did the bank, you cash, it deposit, whatever. and then the czech bounces. you didn t write this check, you had no idea that it was not good. up until today, banks across the country could charge you for that transaction. you would get charged a fee for being a victim of a fraud. that s just one of the laundry list of what president biden is calling junk fees, that he announced his administration is going to cut down on. have you ever shown up to the airport and had your flight canceled, and then the airline tries to charge you a fee to rebook you on a new flight? to our place the flight that they canceled? this thing happens. biden today is directing the department of transportation to make rules so that airlines can no lon
check, you take it to the bank, you cash it, deposit, whatever. then that check bounces, no you did not write this check, you had no idea that it was not good, well up until today thanks across the country could charge you for that transaction. you would get charged a fee for being affect him of a fraud. that s just one of the laundry list of what president biden is calling junk fees, that he announced his administration is going to cut down on. have you ever shown up to the airport and had your flight canceled, and then the airline tries to charge you a fee to rebook you on a new flight? to our place the flight that they canceled? this thing happens. biden today is directing the department of transportation to make rules so that airlines can no longer do that. have you ever gotten an internet bill with a cvs receipt sized list of surprised fees tacked on to it? president biden is directing the fcc to make a rule mandating internet service providers to be print transparent in
our hearts leslie. thank you for the laughs and for the light, for the love, and your incredible warmth. you will truly be missed. and on that beautiful and very sad note, i wish you all the best. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late with us. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow so, here s how it worked in 2020. two years ago, almost exactly in october 2020, we reported here on this show on something that we first learned about from one of the great historic gigantic radio stations and the united states, that the michigan behemoth that is wwj radio in detroit, michigan. wwj has been on the air for more than 100 years. they re just a huge deal in american broadcasting history. they are still on the air today. they are still a big deal today. and just about exactly two years ago, on october, 2020, we learned about a story that was broken by a reporter at wwj, named sandra mcneill. sandra mcneill had gotten a tip fr