enrolled in college and graduate education, for example. so it s not only an issue that affects these individuals, it affects communities, it affects families. the president is basically trying to come up with ways to create what i think he would say is more fairness in the system particularly when it comes to non-violent offenders. we know earlier in the week yesterday, he commuted the sentences of some 46 inmates in federal prisons who were serving 28-year sentences, life sentences primarily for drug oe fences, and the president said he was trying to make sure the punishment fits the crime. he is trying to make sure that many of the punishments imposed in federal prison now fit the crime and they don t impact communities any more than possible. reform. he has talked a lot about how america is a nation that believes in second chances, so i think that s another theme he
to construct this tunnel it meant four or five people working day and night for about a year. they constructed 13 linear feet every day underground, and experts say about 350-plus trucks were needed to remove all of the soil and debris. the underground tunnel el chapo used to make his escape is also one of his key tools and the key tools of his cartel. other cartels used tunnels as well to smuggle drugs across the border from mexico to the united states. many of these tunnels were sophisticated. we re joined live by the mexican border in arizona. gabe gutierrez, good morning. good morning. i ve seen more drug tunnels than any other, and this is the latest one. the landlord here is giving us access to show just how brazen and creative these smugglers can be. they are the hidden secrets of the drug war, but the
underground tunnel that allowed el chapo to escape has become a familiar sight to federal agents. smugglers used to drive across or over the border now they often go underneath it using sophisticated lighting and railway systems to sneak drugs and cash into the u.s. terry kirkpatrick spent 28 years as a u.s. customs agent and watched the rise of the drug tunnels firsthand chronicled in his book sixty miles of border. when they build a tunnel and it s not detected they have the freedom to run 7,000 pounds of marijuana and cocaine nightly. 65 tunnels have been discovered along the southern border. more than 100 of them in mogalis. one of them stretches hundreds of feet to a house in arizona. the latest discovery in this
is still to come. another story developing right here in mexico. there is no let-up this morning in the massive manhunt for notorious drug trafficer joaquin el chapo guzman after his daring escape from a mexican prison two days ago. authorities are now offering a $3.8 million reward for his capture and three prison officials have lost their jobs. the kingpin managed to escape from a shower area near his cell that led to a one-mile-long tunnel tunnel.
frantic search for one of the world s most dangerous drug kingpins is escalating this morning. a $3.8 million award is offered for joaquin el chapo guzman. he escaped from a mash mm security prison saturday evening. i visited the area 2r a first-hand look. was keen el chapo guzman disappeared from this prison high security prison in the outskirts of mexico when he enters the shower and finds his hole. he goes down vertically 33 feet and then crosses horizontally about a mile coming out on this structure, the tallest of the two. from there, he virtually disappears. authorities inside the prison didn t call the alarms until three hours after he first went into the bathroom. and there are also new reports the u.s. knew of plots to free el chapo as early as last year. the a.p. reports the dea alerted mexican officials 16 months ago to multiple escape plans, but