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But it turned out they were eventually jail issued t-shirts and bed sheets that these inmates converted into womens clothing. they actually did a pretty convincing job of it. >> yeah! trying to make the best of it, you know. we have our own personal rev long and loreal, mac crayons. we wet them. we play with it. get it nice and dark and it goes into the eyes. all we do is just -- and shes about ready to go. i dont know where shes going to but shes ready to go. weve seen female inmates come up ...

Some may still be alive. >> reporter: they called it the rock, an island prison built so no man could ever escape except maybe frank morris, john england and his brother clarence all serving time for bank robbery when they broke out of alcatraz exactly 50 years ago. it is the stuff movies are made from. but for one u.s. marshal, the escape from alcatraz is still a very open case. >> there has never been a body recovered. we have to operate under the assumption that there is a possibility they ma...

Marshal who believes some may still be alive. >> reporter: they called it the rock, an island prison built so no man could ever escape except maybe frank morris, john england and his brother clarence all serving time for bank robbery when they broke out of alcatraz exactly 50 years ago. it is the stuff movies are made from. but for one u.s. marshal, the escape from alcatraz is still a very open case. >> there has never been a body recovered. we have to operate under the assumption that there is ...

Just days after launching a website to help raise money to pay his expenses. all of it potentially damaging to his case. >> its a credibility question with mr. zimmerman. and now that credibility has been attacked or tarnished. and now hes going to have to rehabilitate it. >> reporter: we could hear recordings of those conversations. and you can be sure the jury will hear them as well. thats bad news for zimmerman. his defense hinges upon the jury believing his version of events the night of the...

Down one floor to the ground. then they crawled under a 10-foot-high razor wire fence, and then they were off. and as you mentioned, the manhunt is on. no clue on how they got that hacksaw, but theyre certainly not the first prisoners to saw their way to freedom. in 1977 serial killer ted bundy sawing through a metal plate and escaping through the ceiling of his cell in colorado. he had gone on a diet in order to be able to squeeze through the opening, and once he was out, he went on to kill thr...

Toilet because its got to breathe. i might sit it here, i might light it at the bottom. as you see, its like a fire. you hold your can over it and you cook. and you hold the can up here. and it heats the can, therefore your water gets hot. >> at san quentin, using fish lines is the customary way for locked up inmates to share food, tobacco, information, anything. >> fish lines are throughout the institution. i mean, thats a common practice for the inmates. its their way of getting something from...

>> at first it was startling watching these tapes when they came in from the field we thought we were seeing inmates wearing womens gowns or miniskirts and thinking its odd that jail officials allow this. but it turned out this that they were standard jail issued t-shirts and bed sheets that the inmates converted into womens clothing and they did a convincing job of it. >> try to make the best of it you know. we have our own personal revlon and loreal, mac crayons. we wet them. we play with it. ...

year, politicians dust off their three-point plans for $2 gas. >> president obama that was march 15th mocking challenger newt gingrich. today he wasnt promising $2 gas. he wasnt dusting off a three-point plan. he did unveil a five-point plan to crack down. >> where speculators artificially manipulate markets by buying oil, creating the shortage and driving oil higher. we cant afford a situation where some speculators can reap millions while millions of american families get the short e...

And it heats the can, therefore your water gets hot. >> at san quentin, using fish lines is the customary way for locked up inmates to share food, tobacco, information, anything. >> fish lines are throughout the institution. i mean, thats a common practice for the inmates. its their way of getting something from this cell to that cell. they rip up bed sheets. sometimes theyll get real fine ones by taking their clothes apart, getting a thread-sized fish line going. they usually anchor it be a pie...

>> at san quentin, using fish lines is the customary way for locked up inmates to share food, tobacco, information, anything. >> fish lines are throughout the institution. i mean, thats a common practice for the inmates. its their way of getting something from this cell to that cell. they rip up bed sheets. sometimes theyll get real fine ones by taking their clothes apart, getting a thread-sized fish line going. they usually anchor it be a piece of soap or something that slides well down the tie...