nbc's jeff rossen starts us off from the courthouse in l.a. tonight. jeff, good evening. >> reporter: hey, brian. prosecutors in los angeles say dr. conrad murray was negligent by pumping michael jackson with drugs that ultimately killed him back on june 25, 2009. years later, dr. conrad murray is now on trial and prosecutors called their key witness to the stand, michael's own body guard who says after michael jackson stopped breathing, dr. murray made a stunning request. >> does this appear to be the bottle that you saw on june 25, 2009? >> it appears to be, yes, sir. >> reporter: alberto alvarez says he and dr. conrad murray were the only people there as michael jackson died inside the pop star's bedroom. alvarez told the jury when jackson stopped breathing, murray wanted to clean up. >> he reached over and grabbed a handful of vials. then he reached out to me and said, here, put these in a bag. >> reporter: prosecutors say dr. murray was trying to hide the medication before calling 911. >> at the bottom of the bag there was what appeared to me like

and i said to him, we did our best. >> reporter: jeff rossen, nbc news, los angeles. >> all right. we're also getting reaction of michael jackson's family. many of them sitting in the courtroom watching the trial unfold in front of them. la toya jackson tweeted, quote, on our lunch break. it's so hard for me to breathe in the courtroom from holding back the tears. for man 0 the trial, joined live by anne bremner. thank you for being with us today. i'm going to look today, what's happening, what we think may happen when two paramedics will give their testimony. in previous testimony, they say they arrived on scene, that they -- at least from what what we hear, they say that murray told them lorazapam was given and not propofol. how severe of a blow to murray's case, if they do say that very same thing? >> well, it's a severe blow and yesterday was terrible for murray in terms of the cover-up and saying, you know, get rid of the ivs and the bags. you know, before calling 911. like they always say, it's not the crime. it's cover-up but the crime here of course is horrific if it's mans

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murray's defense team but first we want to get a full report now on what happened yesterday from nbc's jeff rossenwith the latest. jeff, good morning to you. >> ann, good to see new los angeles. seems like every single day there's a new big headline coming out of the trial in the court behind us. the latest one comes from michael jackson's own bodyguard. he was in the room when michael jackson died, when he stopped breathing and he says when that happened, dr. murray made a stunning request. pack up all the drugs. this is michael jackson's bodyguard on the job, protecting the pop star, but on june 25th, 2009, there was nothing alberto alvarez could do to save his boss. >> he was laying on his back with his hands extended out. >> reporter: he is the prosecution's key witness on the stand thursday. alvarez told the jury when michael stopped breathing, dr. murray grabbed the medicine. >> did he then instruct you to take some vials or do something with some vials? >> yes, while i was standing at the foot of the bed he reached over and grabbed a handful of vials, and then he reached out to me and said,

on thursday some stunning new evidence was presented and nbc's jeff rossen is at the courthouse with more. good morning. >> as we end up this first week of the trial and it has been explosive and emotional perhaps more so than i think many people thought, seems like a new headline coming out of here every day and the latest headline comes from michael jackson's own bodyguard who took the stand on thursday, and told the jury that when he was in the room and after michael stopped breathing, dr. conrad murray made a stunning request, pack up the drugs. this is michael jackson's bodyguard, on the job, protecting the pop star, but on june 25th, 2009, there was nothing alberto alvarez could do to save his boss. >> he was laying on his back with his hands extended out. >> reporter: he is the prosecution's key witness on the stand thursday. alvarez told the jury, "when michael stopped breathing, dr. murray grabbed the medicine." >> did he then instruct you to take some vials or do something with some vials? >> yes. while i was standing at the foot of the bed he reached over and grabbed a han

nbc's jeff rossen shows us the tape. >> reporter: we've seen the still images of robyn gardner in arubats frozen in time. now for the very first time we see robyn on videotape in vacation mode looking care free, just minutes before her mysterious disappearance, and there's the man by her side, her travel companion, gary giordano who would soon become the prime suspect. >> for law enforcement this is the holy grail. you want to see the missing person, the victim and the last person that she was known to be with. >> reporter: 3:07 p.m., robyn and gary arrive for lunch at a restaurant by the beach. gary is walking a few steps ahead, they look normal like any other couple and don't appear to be fighting. another camera picks them up, each holding a plastic blue cup as they're about to be seated. they walk out of frame. just one minute later, robyn gets up and walks to the bathroom alone. she gets all the way to the door, wearing high heels, carrying a large purse. then suddenly stops, turns around and walks back toward the bar. seconds later she walks back to the bathroom and goes in for tw