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The fire and all the old editions in a vault in the office. did they survive? today they started digging to see wham to that record of that part of the state. they had to dig in to see if it survived. they sent us the tape of what they found. watch. >> all right. the front door to the vault had a broken latch. so we were not able to access through the main door. so we actually took a sledgehammer and broke out in the concrete blocks of the vault, as you can see here. this is the vault. and as we...

Simple negligence by exposing a top-secret document. >> this is what they do. this is their business. >> correct. the justice department is extremely harsh and intentionally so on members of the intelligence community who drop the ball by failing to protect these things. >> what motive would a top staffer of hillary clintons or someone in her inner circle have to remove a classified marking from a documents? >> we may know the answer. the fbi has the server. they can look at the email and say if...

Drawn towards evil things. >> while robbing a store, fry stabbed his first two victims, then slit their throats. >> when you walk in that path of darkness, you cant help but walk hand in hand with evil. whether you believe it to be evil or not, i never considered myself a violent person. >> in 1998, fry savagely beat a man to death with a shovel. >> i came from a very good family, but i got involved with alcohol and drugs at a very early age. i was looking for something in my life to fill a hole...

Escape. it wasnt until he was moved into a cell in january near the now deceased richard matt he moved farward with the plan. the 35-year-old used a hacksaw blade to cut a hole in his cell then the back of matts. another inmate heard the commotion, but he blamed it on his artwork. >> he said he used a sledgehammer. thats incredible. >> reporter: by february sweat says they gained access to the cat walks behind the cells. for months he explored the tunnels beneath the prison from 11:30 at night u...

Using a sledgehammer. may 4, they got their big break when the prison turned off the heating system giving the prisoners a chance to cut through the steam pipe with a hacksaw. the convicted killers relished the plan even joking about it bragging it took them 20 years to break out, it would take them only 10. >> again, according to "the new york times," a source says david sweats account is credible. it prompted an investigation into the prison practices and people. as a result we know a dozen em...

Elaborate june 6th breakout. it wasnt until he was moved to a cell next to richard matt that he moved forward with his plan. the 35-year-old says he used a hacksaw blade to cut a hole in his cell and then the back of matts. he says another inmatd heard the commotion but matt a painter, blaming the noise on his artwork. >> he said he used a sledge hammer on that pipe. and to be able to make that noise for a month trying to get through that pipe with a hacksaw, thats incredible. >> sweat says they...

Richard matt escaped from the prison. sweat was free for tunnels under the correctional facility. he would go down to the tunnel after the last head count of the night and return first in the morning. he started chipping away at the concrete wall of the prison using a sledgehammer and hand tools. he caught a lucky break. they turned off the steam to the steam pipe that was providing heat to the prison on may 4th. he was able to short circuit the process basically by cutting through the steam pip...

Block is unfwlooefblbelievable to me. >> he slowly began chipping away at the prisons outer wall with a sledge hammer. the prisoners cut through a cooling steam pipe with a hacksaw. the convicted killers relished the possible legend of their plan even joking about it bragging that while it took shawshank redemption 20 years to break it it would take them only ten. >> apparently they did it in just five months. they had plans to go to mexico. we know that was thwarted when joyce mitchell didnt sh...

Out. he started chipping away at the concrete wall of the prison with hand tools and sledgehammer. he got a lucky break. they turned off the steam to the steam pipe that provided heat on may 4th. he was able to short circuit the process by cutting through the steam pipe with a hacksaw. took him over a month to do it. also interesting detail, they hit a sewer pipe at one point. they thought they could escape through that ala "the shawshank redemption." one other thought, the two joked that "the s...

I get out? he tried to chip through the wall of the prison itself using a hand tool and a sledgehammer he was able to obtain. when that didnt work may 4th they turned off the steam to the heating system. thats when he was able to cut through the pipe. a lot of questions about how he cut through that pipe. he says he did it with a hacksaw and it took him over a month do that according to this account in "the new york times." kate? >> sounds near impossible still. theres also a lot of confusion ye...