The fbi launching an investigation into whether convicted killers richard matt and david sweat were part of a Drug Trafficking ring. Possibly a heroin ring. We will have more in a moment. David sweat shot and captured by police yesterday. Tonight is in serious condition. Speaking though for the first time about his escape. Here is what he is telling investigators. He is talking about life on the run with richard matt. He is telling them how they planned their getaway. Here is a picture of sweat badly wounded. This is shortly after he was caught. This location here on the ground he had been shot in the torso less than two miles from the canadian border. As you can see, he is wearing camouflage clothing, not prison garb. He had a backpack. Jay cook is the trooper who spotted sweat near a barn chaz chasing him and shooting him twice. Sweat telling authorities that he and matt were together but not the whole time. They split up five days ago. Sweat says it was he who made the choice to spl
Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. With one dead, the other now in custody and reportedly talking to police, the sordid tale of how those two escaped new york killers planned to make their getaway is coming out, and it involved among other things murder and a brazen run for the border. Of course it all quickly unraveled as soon as they got outside the prison walls. And yet for three weeks they somehow eluded a dragnet the likes of which weve rarely seen. Tonight our Stephanie Gosk takes us inside one of their hideouts as stunning new details of their escape plan emerge. Reporter with two gunshot wounds, david sweat was rushed to a hospital in albany. In serious condition, he is already talking. Sweat says he and fellow escapee richard matt planned to drive to mexico in prison worker Joyce Mitchells car. According to new york governor andrew cuomo, they also planned to kill her husband. On the theory that mitc
We start with the time line of david sweats takedown and gary tuchman. Reporter the word came over Police Radios around 3 20 p. M. Gunshots fired. Scores of police raced to the ironically named town of constible, there was hope david sweat had been captured and fear Police Officers or civilians could have been hurt. One, only one officer was already at the scene. New york state trooper Sergeant Jay Cook. As he was driving down the road he spotted a male who was basically jogging up along the side of the road. He approached him. And as he exited the car the man turned to him, he says hey, come over here. The male who Sergeant Cook saw was david sweat. Only about two miles as the the crow flies from the Canadian Border. The male ignored him. Called out again. At which time the male turned around kind of look what do you want from me . And he recognized him to be david sweat. Sergeant cook says sweat took off from the street into the field. The sergeant chased after him. He was afraid tha
Thanks so much for staying with us. Welcome back to those watching in the u. S. And around the world. Im errol barnett. Im zain asher. Just past 30 minutes after the hour in atlanta. Here are the headlines. Greek authorities have imposed measures to try to prevent a run on the banks. The banks are closed for at least a week after the European Central bank refused to provide more emergency funds. Account holders are limited to 60 euros of cash withdrawals per day at atms. Officials in bahrain say this man landed at Bahrain International airport first before flying to kuwait. Isis has claimed responsibility for the attack. Captured fugitive david sweat is now in Critical Condition at a New York Hospital. He was shot twice in the torso on sunday after being spotted near the Canadian Border. He had been on the run for three weeks after he and richard matt broke out of a maximum security prison. Back to one of our main stories this evening, the greek crisis took a dramatic downturn over the
Im amy robach. David has the night off. Great to have you with us on this monday night. And were following two developing stories tonight, the breaking news on the escaped convict, captured alive speaking from his hospital bed. But we begin with the breaking news that wall of flames in the west a wildfire in Washington State exploding in size. Homes destroyed. More than 1800 acres burned. Hundreds of families evacuated. And if you look closely you can make out whats left of that house in flames. From above entire neighborhoods destroyed and the twist, embers from that fire picked up by the wind setting off new explosions. Abcs neal karlinsky. Reporter tonight, the city of wenatchee, washington, is fighting fire on two fronts, in the hillsides and homes around town. Probably 40, 50foot wall of flame. Reporter really. Oh, yeah, it was unbelievable. Reporter and in the heart of downtown where nearly half the city was forced to shelter in place for a time as ammonia leaked from a series of