center in albany where he s now being treated under heavy guard. he will be basically in 24/7 lockdown for the rest of his life. reporter: residents here taking to the streets in celebration. the nightmare is finally over. it took 22 days. reporter: a search of sweat s backpack reveals it was loaded with supplies like bug repellant, wipes, and pop tart-tartspop-tarts. it s unknown where he got the supplies. it s believed they were using pepper to throw the dogs off the track. reporter: dna from underwear found near an outhouse was used to lead to matt. as they searched the woods, they heard coughing. moments later, matt armed with a .20 gauge shotgun was
arson investigations are under way. is there a link to the charleston church shooting? i ll get reaction from the head of the naacp. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. the breaking news the case against the prison guard accused of aiding the escape of two killers now is headed to a grand jury. this after gene palmer made a brief court appearance just a little while ago. he s accused of giving tools and other contraband to the convicted killers. david sweat and richard matt. and tonight, sweat is spilling the beans from his hospital bed just hours after his capture near the canadian border. he s revealing new details about the escape plan and how it went wrong. and why he left his prison break partner rich art matt alone in the woods where he was shot dead by police. we have our correspondents analysts newsmakers standing by as we cover all the news breaking now. let s
going to have enough to lose to cooperate but i don t think you can believe i m sure he s a master manipulator. that s probably how he got himself in the position of escape anyway. i think there s a lot to be still investigated. i look forward to hearing what happens. i wouldn t believe a word he says. matthew, what about you? what do you think? this guy s apparently talking, he s saying he was going to escape and they had a plan to get to mexico. what do you make of this? i think it s believable based on what we know, what we ve seen. let s face it i also would like to know how prisoners got cell phones how prisoners were able to have sex, how prisoners were getting items, how prisoners got tools in their cells without being inspected and checked. there s a lot that has to come together. some of it s going to come from sweat, the rest of it s going to come through the fbi investigation. i m sure we ll learn what happened. these are all very very shocking developments. tom, you
reporter: instead, they headed into the woods. sources tell cnn sweat and matt split up five days ago because matt was slowing sweat down and had become ill. a new york state police officer out on patrol by himself spotted sweat wearing camouflage near a barn in the town of constable, new york. he spotted a male who was basically jogging up along the side of the road. he approached him. as he exited the car the male turned to him. he says hey, come over here. the male kind of ignored him. reporter: the officer pursued sweat on foot repeatedly ordering him to stop. when he refused the officer opened fire shooting sweat twice in the torso. sweat was unarmed. sweat airlifted to a trauma center in albany where he s now being treated under heavy guard. he will be basically 24/7 lockdown for the rest of his life. reporter: residents here taking to the streets in celebration. the nightmare is finally
outside the hospital where david sweat is being treated right now. miguel miguel, what s the latest? reporter: his condition has been upgraded to serious. it looks like he will make and it then be transferred somewhere else. but investigators really want to talk to him. he is the best link they have to figure out how they did all of this. there was a lot of discussion about whether or not joyce mitchell was their plan a. it s clear when she did not pick them up she left them scrambling for weeks. the prison break supposed to end in mexico. instead, convicted killer david sweat was captured just two miles from the canadian border. after three weeks on the run. authorities say sweat is talking saying the plan was for prison employee joyce mitchell to pick him and richard matt up and head south. it would kill mitchell s husband and then get in the car and drive to mexico on the theory that mitchell was in love with one or both of them.