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Have guy number two encircled if they dont know if he was with guy number one at the time they took out guy number one? >> >>. >> whats interesting here they dont have evidence to suggest that he left the area and they dont have evidence that seems to indicate that hes here. they have really the hardest piece of evidence this confrontation with richard matt yesterday that turned deadly for that escaped inmate. so now, investigators are working on that as this potential lead a few moments ago, we...

You back to michael holmes in atlanta, georgia for other news. michael? >> many thanks to you, becky and the team on the ground in tunisia. the latest developments for the two escaped fugitives in the state of new york. police scouring the woods in up state new york leaving no stone unturned to track down david sweat. sweats accomplice richard matt was killed in a shootout with a tactical team. they found a 20 gauge shotgun next to his body. jean casarez has more on how they are tracking down ...

Vehicles flying down here. in fact there are more on their way and going through this road block down here. what we know is that richard matt has been shot and killed according to senior new york officials but that his sidekick david sweat, is roaming in these woods right now. chris? >> stephanie, it sounds like -- again, we dont have a hard confirmation of the last -- of any spotting of david sweat. theres some reporting we have that there was evidence at the site where richard matt was shot an...

Their belief that one if not both fugitives were armed is that they had a trail camera picture within the last few days that showed two men along a trail, one holding a shotgun, that they believed was, in fact matt. so they had photographic evidence to support their belief that they likely had a gun, and then secondly the story that im hearing right now so far unconfirmed is that one if not both of these fugitives attempted to hijack a vehicle somewhere in the vicinity of malone, that the driver...

Going out in a blaze of glory as the cops got close. and you know theres probably 10 to 20 cops for every -- you know, for one of them if not more. >> yeah, and we have to imagine that, to stay together, if they indeed were together -- and again law enforcement has been operating under the assumption confirmed in some places by a photo, both of their dna found in one cabin, that they have been operating together. theres obviously some kind of sustenance a person can draw in these conditions from...

One of the suspects wa was armed with perhaps a shotgun and the shooting took place, again, richard matt shot and killed. the hunt on for david sweat in this wooded area. as you can see from some of this video, the enormous response you know there have been reports that as many as a thousand law enforcement officers have been involved in this 21-day search flooding that area which is now about 35 miles north and west of the prison where they escaped en route to canada. and the question is had th...

But it really does appear they were going very slowly and carefully searching for essentially vacated hunting cabins that they could use to get food and it appears at least from the early reporting were getting here possibly weaponly as well, right? >> right, exactly, look the weapon is the key to the highway. when they got the shotgun, thats the key to the highway. and what matt was likely doing and sweat was down by the road. they want to carjack somebody they want to get out of there. they ha...

Federal officials, border customs and border patrol state forestry officers are flooding into that area right now. weve just been told by law enforcement officials theres been a second round of gunfire as they try to close in. they believe they may be closing in on david sweat. i can tell you, chris, that multiple law enforcement officials are telling nbc news that how this happened was that a customs and border patrol tactical team -- these are the people who patrol the borders along the canadi...

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