what the audience at cpac is hearing. plus we have a stunningly quick verdict in the alex murdaugh murder trial. we ll get expert analysis on this case in just a moment. and also ahead secretary of state antony blinken meet briefly with his russian counterpart for the first time since the start of the ukraine war. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, march 3rd. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin in south carolina where a jury has found disbarred lawyer alex murdaugh guilty of murdering his wife and son. the state versus richard alexander murdaugh defendant, indictment for murder fc code 16-3 verdict guilty. the jury of seven men and five women deliberated for less than three hours before unanimously finding the 54-year-old guilty. murdaugh was also convicted of two counts of weapons possession. the defense and prosecution addressed reporters outside the courtroom. we re very disappointed with the verdict.
fun, we have a huge show ahead including a bad gifts return edition of supermarket showdown. we are going to face off and in quality trivia challenge, plus we are answering your fan mail questions, but first, time for a holiday hangover themed fastest, are you ready? what plenty of folks are happy to see the holidays were known and most people wishes that it happened longer than it actually does, 52% say that they may tried to fit in as many festivities as possible, but the same percentage agree that there is not enough time in the holiday season to do everything they want to do, do you wish that the holidays lasted longer? jimmy: no, and thank you for not acknowledging that i look like a whole santa who got fired for smoking pot with the elves. people are trying to do too much and that s why they think the season is too short, everybody needs to try to stop having the coolest christmas on and scream and paste themselves, let s play some music and have a good time, there we
go for the record. now let s turn to major league baseball spring training and the latest example of the new pitch clock s impact on the game. a quick pitch right there. he got the 16 seconds there or he s got the 12 seconds there i think, and now down two strikes within 8 seconds. wow. if you blinked you might have missed that strikeout. the yankees pitcher taking just 20 seconds to retire the pirates batter. it is a brand new ball game. i m all for it. time now for the weather and meteorologist angie lass man is here with the forecast. good morning, it s march, and we re marching into another winter storm impacting now the east. it started across the country, now has worked its way and we ve seen active weather, tornados
i m rich edson from fox news in washington, between five continues in a moment, but first of the special newsbreak, the winter storm impacting so many americans continues to cause thousands of delays and cancellations for weary post-christmas travelers. in western new york, a driving ban in buffalo, and some other cities in an effort to keep folks safe at home. volume ten of the twitter files drops with the focus on how the tech company reportedly rigged to the kobe debate with the claims that the current and former presidents has ministrations press twitter executives to control the platform s pandemic and there is no holiday break in the border crisis. the biden administration insists it is still enforcing immigration laws as border patrol reports more than 16,000 encounters over the weekend. i will be back at 6:00 p.m.
and the reason that matters is that billions of dollars of customer funds have been misused for research and even lavish personal expenses like apartments in the bahamas from alameda. that s what the s.e.c. is going to be looking into. that s what the southern district of new york, jim, that s expected to bring criminal charges for today later today is going to be looking into as well. there is this other question, this allegation he was using customer funds from the exchange to back up the separate entity, which was in effect an investment bank and, you know, there are legal problems with that as well. thanks so much to both of you. thank you. this major winter storm impacting states across the country is making its way east at this hour. it is a big one. derek van dam is in shreveport, louisiana, where there is a significant threat from strong tornadoes and chad myers is tracking every angle of this from the weather center. derek, i wonder what you re seeing there.