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Let's get right into today's need to know headlines. The cost of some diabetes drugs are about to get a whole lot cheaper. Eli Lilly is cutting prices of its insulin products by 70%, Eli Lilly has been under a lot of pressure to lower the cost of its drugs. Now, later in the show, we'll explain how these cuts will work and how this is going to impact millions of people, Alec murders, double murder trial is in its final stages. After more than a months of testimony and more than 70 witnesses, lawyers are making their closing arguments. Listen to what the lead prosecutor told the jurors in this South Carolina courtroom. This defendant was the one person who was living a lie. The defendant is the person on which a storm was descending and the defendant is a person where his own storm would actually mean consequences for Maggie and paul and consequences for those who trusted for a little perspective here, the jury spent that morning at murdock's property. This is the same place where his wife and son were killed if he's convicted, Murdoch faces life in prison without parole and football star Jalen carter has been charged in connection with a crash that killed another player and a staff member. He's charged specifically with reckless driving and racing carter is a defensive lineman out of the University of Georgia. Now he is projected to be a top pick in the upcoming NFL draft authorities believe alcohol played a role in this deadly crash, It happened just a few hours after the Georgia, bulldogs celebrated their recent national championship with a parade. Now on twitter carter wrote, quote, there's no question in my mind that when all the facts are known that I will be fully exonerated of any criminal wrongdoing. And Los Angeles County has agreed to pay Kobe Bryant's widow millions of dollars to settle a lawsuit. Now after Bryant and his daughter were killed in a helicopter crash, county employees took pictures of their bodies and shared them with coworkers. Vanessa Bryant's lawyer said they were shared as quote visual gossip Bryant and his daughter died in a 2020 crash in California. Now, some of the pics that were taken were just gruesome. There were close ups of the bodies. This settlement is valued at $28.85 million. Co plaintiff chris Chester, whose wife and daughter were also killed in the crash, settled for nearly $20 million And over in Europe. Two trains collided in northern Greece. At least 43 people were killed and dozens were injured and one of the worst rail disasters in this country's history, a passenger train carrying more than 350 people slammed into a freight train just before midnight last night. This happened about 220 miles north of Athens, investigators are trying to understand why two trains were on the same track to begin with. So far, one station manager has been arrested and the country's transportation minister just resigned. In the wake of this crash, The death toll is expected to rise as rescuers continue to sift through the burnt wreckage And people on an easyjet flight from Iceland to Manchester. Well, they got a special treat when they looked outside the window, they had a front row seat to the northern lights. The pilot actually made a 360° turn so that passengers on both sides of plane could see this amazing display what you're looking at right now. This is a rare sight to see. The northern lights are typically visible in countries like Norway and Sweden and Finland.