battlefield. now after a year of war, their powerful tributes announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and thank you for joining us tonight alex murdaugh s sometimes failing memory, glaring contradictions and courtroom admission that he had lied to police were all fertile ground for prosecutors today as the accused double murderer spent another day testifying in his own defense. at moments displaying flashes of anger murdaugh on trial for the murders of his wife and 22-year-old son facing more cross-examination today. the prosecution digging into the heart of its case against him. the time line of his actions around the time of the murders. confronting the former attorney with cell phone records, his own words from his initial interview with police, even the number of steps recorded by his smartphone leaving murdaugh at times struggling to provide full explanations. catie beck is covering the trial for us in walterboro, south carolina. when
i m raj mathai. next on nbc bay area news tonight, a snow day as we head into the weekend. we re seeing slick roads, snowball fights, and even some skiing. there s snow in oakland. but that s not all. more wild weather possible tonight. snow, hail, and lightning. we re tracking it all. also, if you re heading to tahoe, you re going to get some epic powder, but beware of the treacherous conditions. we ll be joined by our snow whisperer, kevin cooper. what s up with those sky-high pg&e bills? plus, the giants make a major move. it s all about those beer prices at the ballpark. good evening.
snow, even if it s bathing suit weather here? definitely. reporter: and good news in the future from mother nature. right? yeah. so it start to cool down now, after the rain, and on saturday, it start cool very fast. so in nighttime here, minus 3, minus 5, it is for us good snowmaking, and daytime, clear skies. perfect. reporter: there you go. we get a guarantee of snow from the sochi olympics official snow whisperer, if you have it that way, and also, we can sense now the excitement building, the athletes are starting to arrive. the security measures certainly are getting more tight, and a little bit over a week from now, we can anticipate that this place will be thronged with enthusiastic crowds and quite a bit of olympic spirit. ivan watson, cnn, in thehe
hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of snow from last year under insulation up in the mountains. and they can pull them out if they need them, carol. in the meantime that snow whisperer as i like to call him, he says the russians may be getting some help from mother nature in the days ahead, this weekend there s a cold front coming in. i ve never heard of a snow whisp whisperer. is it kind of like a horse whisperer? you know, this man points out that in finish there are at least 30 different words in the finish language for snow. so this man spent a long time studying snow. and he s giving his well-earned experience to the russians to make sure there is snow on the ski slopes in the weeks ahead. ivan watson, many thanks. let s go back to the safety and security questions in sochi. i want to bring in somebody who once ran security for an entire olympics game, william rathburn was the director of security for the 1996 games this atlanta. welcome. hi, carol.
described as the snow whisperer. he s from finland. he s a snow specialist. and i asked him, is there going to be snow a little bit over a week from now? take a listen to what he had to say. first of all, don t worry about the snow. snow will be guaranteed. guaranteed? yeah. why? because the concept is based on three steps. uh-huh. first of all backbone, order a snow making system. snow machines? snow machines, below zero temperatures we will start them. again, then as a first backup we have snow storages on the mountain. we transport snow. and this is snow from last winter. last winter, yes. that you ve been storing just in case the weather s warm. yeah. and then third, we have an above zero snow making system also over there. incredible. they ve actually been storing