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Wednesdays july 4th parade. he says the suspect also plotted to harm the children of military families with remote controlled toy cars packed with explosives. >> he looked for locations to park a van that would be parked with explosives. he talked about taking targets like st. johns cathedral off the map. and just yesterday he discussed giving remote control cars packed with explosives and shrapnel to the children of our military uniform members. >> investigators say the suspect is a u.s. citize...

The media. in recent days, leach transcripts of sarah from leaked investigations show her complaining about the quality of food served at the prime ministers residence and using expletives to describe the staff. and an incredible escape from prison as heavily armed men andd a helicopter in a french prison yard and pull a notorious criminal to freedom. nearly 3,000 officers are now searching for him after his great escape on sunday. this is the second breakout for the career criminal in the past ...

>> all right. a manhunt under way in france after a prison escape you might see in a mission impossible movie. a hijacked helicopter landed in a prison yard and took off with a convicted gangster who has broken out of jail before. a stunning jailbreak, purportedly filmed from behind bars. cnn cannot independently verify this video, but these shaky images appear to show the moments gunmen arrived to free that man, redoine faid. his accomplices hijacked a helicopter and forced the pilot to fly t...

You good? yeah, you? [ roaring ] [ screaming ] nope. rated pg-13. >> reporter: had cal harris won the lottery, it could hardly be as surprising as the news he heard in the prison yard in 2012. this is rare, though. i mean this is really rare for that to happen. >> yeah. >> reporter: what happened? new yorks court of appeals overturned his second murder conviction, citing errors made by the judge and ordered trial number three. while everyone waited for that, cal once again went home to the

That was definitely the hardest part for us. i mean, he held it together well but -- >> reporter: what was it like driving home? >> quiet. >> reporter: watching his kids walk away week after week, said cal, was unimaginably hard. >> that was the worst. i went back to my cell and just laid there for hours and hours and just closed my eyes and tried to block it out. >> reporter: three years rolled by. but then came a day in october, 2012, when cal harris found himself crying for joy in the prison ...

Longer applied. and under the new rules it was better to be classed as a criminal than a jew. then for criminals were given a trial. by jews were fair game. we were tried on charges of attempted escape helping the enemy and forgery. but the public defense lawyer didnt show up. and as strange as it might sound today. we didnt want anyone to defend us anyway which is the best the longer the sentence the better. we already knew that prison would be preferable to a concentration camp and it wasnt ve...

>> reporter: family and friends stepped in, took care of his small kids who began a weekly ritual visiting dad in prison. taylor, the eldest. >> you go and get to see him for two hours a week and youve got a bunch of other people talking and its loud. and you cant really have a private conversation. that was definitely the hardest part for us. i mean, he held it together well but -- >> reporter: what was it like driving home? >> quiet. >> reporter: watching his kids walk away week after week, sa...

>> reporter: had cal harris won the lottery, it could hardly be as surprising as the news he heard in the prison yard in 2012. this is rare, though. i mean this is really rare for that to happen. >> yeah. >> reporter: what happened? new yorks court of appeals overturned his second murder conviction, citing errors made by the judge and ordered trial number three. while everyone waited for that, cal once again went home to the house on empire lake and his four growing children. tanner, the younges...

>> reporter: watching his kids walk away week after week, said cal, was unimaginably hard. >> that was the worst. i went back to my cell and just laid there for hours and hours and just closed my eyes and tried to block it out. >> reporter: three years rolled by. but then came a day in october, 2012, when cal harris found himself crying for joy in the prison yard. coming up -- >> its rare, though. i mean, this is really rare for that to happen. >> yeah. >> a new chance at freedom, new urgency ...

14 civil complaints were filed wednesday. at least three other lawsuits have been brought since october 1. next week thomas "special report" will take you to las vegas to get answers. fox 10 in phoenix, guards at lewis prison in buckeye arizona recover a crash drone meant to deliver drugs and cell phones. the drone was found inside the prison fence but outside the prison yard. its believed to be the first such attempt in arizona but at least a dozen others such schemes have been reported in the ...