back here at 4. tonight, the abc news exclusive. the juror inside that room as the jury found alex murdaugh guilty. what it was he says sealed murdaugh's fate. also tonight, the storms headed into the northeast at this hour. the tornados and straight line winds already. we'll time this out. first tonight, the new image of alex murdaugh just in tonight, sentenced to life in prison now. and tonight hear that exclusive interview, one of the jurors taking us inside the deliberations. how many thought he was guilty, how many not guilty, and how they came to a consensus so quickly. and alex murdaugh addressing the judge today, saying i'm innocent, and what the judge said back to him. eva pilgrim just back from the courthouse right here with us tonight. also, as we come on the air, those powerful storms sweeping

through the south into the northeast at this hour. a tornado watch now in effect across several states. a confirmed ef-2 tornado already, winds up to 130 miles per hour. what to expect tonight in atlanta up through washington, philadelphia, new york to boston. rob marciano timing it all out. the remarkable images coming in from parts of california tonight -- families lined up for food. the community writing in the snow, help us. the state of emergency and how long it could take to get to them. the white house doctor tonight revealing a small skin lesion removed from president biden's chest was skin cancer. mary bruce standing by at the white house. the heated confrontation at a town hall in east palestine, ohio. president biden with the german chancellor at the white house tonight. united on ukraine. while overseas tonight, the laughter in fact room after what vladimir putin's top diplomat claimed. and you'll hear it.

back in the u.s. tonight, the family outside salt lake city demanding answers after their son, a college graduate studying law was shot and killed during a police stop. five officers on administrative leave tonight. in turkey, the remarkable moment. you have to see the dog saved after 23 days trapped after that earthquake. and the vietnam veteran, he waited nearly 60 years. he was told the army lost his paper work. the war hero and the moment today, the honor. our person of the week. that room. what it was that he says sealed alex murdaugh's fate. the once prominent south carolina attorney found guilty of murdering his wife and son, tonight sentenced to life and

prison by that judge today. tonight, this just in, the new mug shot. releasing the photo of richard alexander murdaugh, what he said to the judge today, and what the judge said back to him. eva pilgrim is just back from the courthouse. tonight her exclusive interview with that juror as alex murdaugh is sent to prison for life. >> reporter: with his hands and feet shackled, alex murdaugh to be sentenced for the grisly murders of his wife and son, but the convicted killer first proclaiming his innocence. >> i'm innocent. i would never hurt my wife, maggie, and i would never hurt my son, pawpaw. >> reporter: the judge having none of it. >> that is so unfortunate because you had such a lovely family. >> reporter: saying it was heartbreaking to see the lawyer he knew personally go from grieving husband and father to the man guilty of their murders. >> i know you have to see paul and maggie during the nighttime when you are attempting to go to

sleep. i'm sure they come and visit you. i'm sewer sure. >> all day and every night. >> yeah, i'm sure. and they will continue to do so. and reflect on the last time they looked you in the eyes. >> reporter: and given one last chance, alex murdaugh refusing to confess. >> judge, i'll tell you again, i respect this court, but i'm innocent. >> and it might not have been you. it might have been the monster you become when you take 15, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 opioid pills. maybe you become another person. >> reporter: the judge then handing down his sentence. >> in the murder of your wife, maggie murdaugh, i sentence you for the term of the rest of your natural life. for the murder of paul murdaugh, whom you probably loved so much,

i sentence you to prison for murdering him for the rest of your natural life. >> reporter: murdaugh's surviving son buster and his brother looking on as he was led away. inside the courtroom, juror craig moyer, who revealed to abc news in an exclusive interview how the jury reached its decision. when you first got in the room you took a vote. what was the vote? >> it was two not guilty, one not sure, and nine guilty. >> reporter: what was your vote? >> guilty. >> reporter: moyer saying it took less than an hour of deliberations for the jury to agree. >> probably about 45, maybe an hour. >> reporter: that's really fast. >> the evidence was clear. >> reporter: that juror telling me the key piece of evidence was the video with murdaugh's own voice, along with his wife and son, placing him at the scene of the crime. >> hey, he's got a bird in his mouth. >> bubba!

>> he was there at the dog kennel video, which was right before the murders, or right before all the activity on the phones went off. >> reporter: son paul murdaugh, who filmed that video minutes before his death, in the end helping to convict his own father. alex finally admitting on the stand he was there that night. >> reporter: when he said it was him, were you surprised? >> i was very surprised. >> reporter: the defense said there was no way he could've done all these things, clean everything, get it all ready, go to his mom's and get back in that short amount of time. >> i think there's just enough time. >> reporter: moyer, who was sitting just steps from murdaugh on the stand, was unmoved by moments like this. what did you think when alex murdaugh took the stand? >> i didn't think much of him. i didn't see any true remorse or any compassion or anything. >> reporter: even though he cried a lot on the stand.

>> he never cried. >> reporter: he never cried. what do you mean by that? >> all he did was blow senate. >> reporter: did you not see tears? >> no tears. >> reporter: how do you know? >> because i saw his eyes. i was very close to him. >> did you feel like he was a liar? >> i did. a good liar. but not good enough. >> not good enough. eva pilgrim back wit new york back from the courthouse. excellent interview. we know murdaugh will spend the rest of his l he still faces charges for nearly 100 financial crimes. i want to ask eva about the other cases, the deaths the community is still investigating. >> there's a long list. we heard from the son of gloria staterfield, the family's long time housekeeper who die in the a trip and fall. in 2019, steven smith, one of buster's classmated died, it was

called a hit and run. and of course mallory beach was kill in the a boat crash involving his son. that case involving a key role in this trial. murdaugh is facing a lawsuit for the boat crash evenou abo the howid they convince them so quickly? >> he said they looked at the time line and then played the video. >> the video with the kennel vo. eva pilgrim, excellentks andeks. wedotva and the entire team has been working on a two-hour "20/20" special that dives into all these questions. the history of the murdaugh family, what led to this and headli headlines. the all-new "20/20," what led up to that awful day. the murdaugh family murders, 9:00 p.m. eastern tonight, 8:00 central. eva, i'll see you later for

"20/20.." in the meantime, we continue with the other news, the storm moving from the south into the east. atlanta, washington, d.c., philadelphia, new york, boston all in the path. at least seven reported tornadoes already across the south in the past 24 hours. this funnel texas. in firmed ef heading east. damaging winds in huntsville, alabama. and all of this moves north tonight and tomorrow. rob marciano with the images and track of this storm going into tonight. >> reporter: tonight, those powerful storms continuing a path of destruction across the south and now pushing north and east. tornado warnings near atlanta this afternoon. >> i'm talking to you when i say you need to seek shelter and you need to do it now. >> reporter: torrential rain hammering huntsville, alabama, this morning. overnight, a confirmed tornado

touching down in shreveport, louisiana, churning up debris, tearing through trees and homes. power lines exploding in texas. >> oh, my god! >> reporter: straight-line winds up to 80 miles an hour, rolling tractor trailers near dallas flipping boats at this marina in lewisville. drivers taking cover from golf-ball sized hail. the system strengthening as darkness fell. tot rerb as. this is one of at least 20 homes badly damaged or completely destroyed. look at this 2x6 piece of wood here impaling this windshield. this was probably a tornado, but it came in the middle of the eieraymang wind enacross mid-south. the national weather service now confirming it was with ef-2 winds up to a 135 miles an hour. the severe threat continuing through tonight.

>> rob, take us through it. >> reporter: so much wind energy with this, david. it will start to weekend, but turn wintry tonight. we have a couple more hours of a tornado threat across the south. you see the line across greenville and atlanta. snow about the get heavy in detroit, moving through pennsylvania and upstate new york as well, and the mix of snown ith hos. new york city and i-95 corridor. last one will be mostly rain with wet snow. inland areas, i think some spots could get over a foot of snow, ending tomorrow night. meanwhile, the next storm, believe it or not, coming into the west. this is going to slam california with more debilitating mountain snow. this is not what that state needs right now. david? >> rob marciano, just back to new york with us tonight. excellent reporting all week long. thank you. the system moving north started in the west as well, and there is a remarkable anne still playing out in san bernardino

county, families struggling. the national guard promising to help get people out. families write in the snow, help us. this is in the lake gregory area. people waiting in long lines at a food distribution site in crestline after a treacherous drive to get there. >> reporter: that desperate plea written in the snow "help us," tonight, an all-out desperate effort to free families trapped in their homes by feet of snow, some for more than a week. >> the roads are being cleared. there are snowplows everywhere. and you are going to see direct relief coming to your doorstep shortly. >> reporter: we saw that first responders firsthand in crestline. these first responders from cal fire have been working overnight to make roads like this one accessible. in this a case, they are trying to help the gentleman in this house get his car out to see his mother in the hospital. >> reporter: cassidy and kasie ringhofer have been trying to dig out of their home in

crestline for more than a week. you can see kasie's baby on her back as she shovels. >> a few days ago, we were on top of our cars shoveling them out. but our road is too packed in to even leave at this point. >> reporter: they are helping families nearby who have rented airbnbs and are running out of food. overnight, firefighters struggling in the snowy conditions, dragging hoses over massive snowbanks, fighting multiple fires caused by leaking gas lines. officials responding to 1,200 calls for help, removing enough snow to fill the empire state building twice. david, thiss the grocery store where that roof collapsed. all day volunteers handing out food and needed supplies. officials say it could take a weak or more to reach all the areas hid by snow. >> good to have you on world news. we turn to president biden tonight. the white house reporting the president had a small skin lesion removed from his chest and today they revealed it was skin cancer, basal cell

carcinoma, but there's no further -- here's mary bruce. >> reporter: the white house tonight revealing a small skin lesion removed from president biden's chest last month was the most common form of skin cancer called a basal cell carcinoma. his doctor saying all cancerous tissue was successfully removed and that no further treatment is required. >> basal cell carcimona when its excised appropriately should be 100% cured. >> reporter: this kind of cancer is often caused by sun exposure. biden's doctor has previously noted the president did spend a good deal of time in the sun in his youth. it comes just weeks after the first lady had the same kind of cancerous tissue removed from her chest and face. >> i am so lucky that they caught it, they removed it, and i'm healthy. >> reporter: the president's doctor says the site of the lesion on the president's chest has healed nicely and that biden will continue to receive regular skin screenings as part of his routine health care.

david? >> mary, thanks so much. we turn to the toxic train derailment. the residents coming face-to-face with the owner of i mona kosar abdi in ohio tonight. >> don't lie to us. >> reporter: angry residents of east palestine, ohio, confronting government and company officials in a heated town hall. >> are you proud of that! >> reporter: left with still so many unanswered questions exactly one month after that devastating train derailment. >> i want you to tell me why everyone in my community is getting sick. >> reporter: community members lining up to report concerns about their health and their livelihoods. >> this has touched me on every level. >> we are sorry. we're very sorry. >> should have got it right the first time! >> reporter: the epa now ordering the company to begin testing for dioxins, an environmental pollutant that can form during the combustion of vinyl chloride, the dangerous chemical released in the controlled burn after the derailment. dioxins are highly toxic and can cause cancer and other health problems. they also take a long time to break down once they are in the

environment. >> we will direct the company to conduct immediate cleanup if contaminants from the derailment are found in levels that jeopardize health. >> reporter: today, abc affiliate wews was on site as the company began to remove rail from the location of the accident, digging out and sampling the contaminated soil underneath as part of their massive cleanup. norfolk southern warns the track work may cause odor in the area. monostar to haves have been set up to test the quality, and so far they have not found any evidence of dioxin exposure. >> thank you, mona. now to vladimir putin's top diplomat, and what he declared today to laughter in the room. president biden at the white house united on ukraine with germany's chancellor. james longman from ukraine. >> reporter: tonight, president biden hosting german

chancellor olaf scholz at the white house, thanking him for his support of ukraine. it comes as russian foreign minister lavrov, in india for a g20 meeting, was openly laughed at for making these claims. >> the war, which we are trying to stop and which was launched against us using the ukraine -- [ laughter ] >> reporter: the room filled with dlomats and dignitaries. but on the battlefield in eastern ukraine, the situation couldn't be more serious. hi. we meet the commander of ukraine's largest tank brigade at his battlefield headquarters. so, i'm being shown a live stream of the battle situation right now here on this computer. they've got this map up with battle lines drawn through the east where we are now. red planes for enemy aircraft, yellow ones for unidentified, and green for their own. [ speaking non-english ] the commander tells me, "we hope to have new tanks before russia moves in, because if they start their new offensive, it may be too late." there's been a renewed focus on war crimes, david.

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finally tonight here, he is a vietnam veteran, a war hero, and tonight, the moment long overdue, our person of the week. you met him last night right here, retired army colonel paris davis. a vietnam war veteran, a hero. davis, one of the first black officers in the forces, just 26 and a captain when his unit came under fire in north ietnam in 1965. despite being shot multiple times himself, davis refused to leave the battlefield until all of his men were safe. >> i was spending most of my time to keep them alive and keep them off of us. >> reporter: his superiors could

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moving forward finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. new revelations today in a case that prompted this massive police response in a san jose neighborhood authorities now linking the suspect to explosions at two pg&e transformers. good afternoon. thanks for joining us. i'm larry beale and i'm kristen zee now police say those blasts both happened in san jose one, december the other in january the first blast damage to transformer on thornwood drive on december 8th. not far from oak ridge mall the second nearly a month later on snell avenue at santa boulevard the suspect 35 year old peter caressa live just blocks away terrace appeared in court just a short time ago. he's facing nine felony counts including igniting a destructive device arson and possessing bomb-making materials. police. say a search of his home following his arrest on wednesday turn of a large amount of explosive materials as well as chemicals used in the

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