i delved into data showing problems with the mental health of youth, surges in depression or especially true for our girls. this week i found cause to worry ab young men. this headline from the hill caught my eye. most young hen are single, most young women are not. the story reported as of 2022, the research center found 30% of adults are neither married or living with a partner nor engage ed. half of all young adults single. look at these numbers. 34% of women, twice as many, a whopping 63% of men, what explains that? i pulled the study and read with interest. it turns out since 2019, the she single men looking for dates or relationship has declined from 61% to 50%. in 2018, 28% of men ages 18 to 30 reported they had no sex in the past year compared with 18% of women of that age. the hill report said men in their 20s are more likely than women in their 20s to be romantically uninvolved, sexually dormant, friendless and lonely. they stand at the vanguard of an epidemic of de
undergoing a blistering cross examination by the prosecution. they are trying to poke holes in his claim he did not kill his wife maggie and youngest son paul. on the stand murdaugh admitted he lied to police about where he was in the moments leading up to the killing and confessed to being addicted to opioids and stealing from clients. we ll have more in a few moments. first, it is hard to believe it has been one year to the day since russian troops and tanks rolled across the border and ukraine still remains in place. translator: if we all do our home work, victory will be inevitable. i am certain there will be victory. i don t think, i want it this year. we have everything for it. we have the motivation, certainty, the friends, the diplomacy. we are helped by our friends for our shared values so this war doesn t spread, so this aggression doesn t spread. in addition to vowing ukraine will see victory, president zelenskyy met with wounded soldiers at a kyiv hospital t
i don t know exactly where paul went, but he left the house, too. okay. how did maggie get down there? i don t know exactly. but on normal occasions, she would drive, drive a buggy, drive a four wheeler, or very common for her to walk. okay. how about paul? paul wasn t much of a walker, but he would use all of the others. okay. i mean, could be any way, you know? i don t know exactly. i wish i could help you with that. so they left and went down to the kennels? well, maggie went to go to the kennels? and paul left? i m assuming paul left, because, you know, of what happened. i assume paul went to the kennel. and what did you do once maggie and paul left? i stayed in the house. i was watching tv, looking at my phone, and i actually fell asleep on the couch. okay. what time did you woke up? i don t know exactly what time, but when you will get my phone, i think one of the first things i did when i got up was call maggie because i was going to my mo
up in blue and yellow, of course the colors of the ukrainian flag, so was the empire state building in new york city. and we ve got a lot to cover in our second hour of chris jansing reports. let s get right to it. at this hour, turbulence on wall street. why stocks are tumbling right now, and what it means for your wallet. plus, the u.s. moving to seize $75 million worth of luxury real estate in miami beach, the hamptons, and new york city. the owner, a russian oligarch. we ve got the new details on that. also what happened in the first court hearing connected to the deadly shooting on the rust movie set. and court action set to resume shortly. our nbc news reporters are here with all the latest developments, and we begin in south carolina where alec murdaugh is due back on the stand any minute now. nbc s catie beck is outside the courthouse. we were watching together that withering cross-examination from the prosecution today, accusing murdaugh of manufacturing
verdict in the alex murdaugh double murder trial. guilty verdict. verdict, guilty. verdict, guilty. verdict, guilty. convictions on all four charges against him including two counts of first-degree murder in the killings of his wife margaret and his son paul in july 2021. you see him being led away there, put in a van. taken from the courthouse. moments ago, that occurred. we re waiting for a conscience ever conference with the prosecution. it s extraordinary how quickly the jury came to this verdict. what was it like in the courtroom when the verdicts were read? reporter: yeah, it took them just about three and a half hours or so to find alex murdaugh guilty on all four counts. you try to read the jury as they file back into the courtroom. none of them looked to the right where murdaugh sat and the family sat. they all had their heads down as they walked into the courtroom. also, anderson, you could see alex murdaugh we have this presser that is just about to start h