Alice Hyde Medical Center in malone new york. I want to go to deborah whos been working her Law Enforcement forces. Shes learned some kprierd anywhere things just in the past few hoemtmoments. We know he was captured wearing camouflage gear. He was just a couple miles from the Canadian Border. Had he been able to cross that Canadian BorderLaw Enforcements ability to follow him would have been much more difficult. Im also learning that apparently he was following a trail. Its whats called a fire break that is put between trees. That was the fastest, the easiest trial for him to be able to follow. He was wearing camouflage beer. Were getting a photograph approved right now. Theres a photo of him sitting on the ground. Were told it was a new york state trooper who is the one that shot him. You have to keep in mind that the people in that area searching for him, they were the best of the best all tactical units, people with extreme experience in tracking these individuals, tracking individuals like this. So we are now told though that he has been taken to the hospital. He was shot twice. Again, he was clearly wearing clothing that he much stolen from a hunting cab. Do we know what condition or rather, we know what the condition is we know hes live. Were trying to clear this picture. Let me ask you, what do you know about what happened . Was there a fire fight . Did he have a weapon . Did he surrender freerly . Its unclear. Based on the photograph, it looks like he has something on his hip, perhaps some sort of a knife. We understand that he was shot, it appears from Law Enforcement sources that he was shot in the back. That could mean anything. It could mean that he turned around. It could mean that he was startled that he heard them coming that he was trying to run. Another thing thats going to be interesting so teesee, that will be specifically whether he was with richard matt. He did cover a decent amount of ground from where matt was shot in malone new york to where he was shot in constable new york. About 20 miles or so. And the weather is terrible. Cell service in that area is horrible. I was hearing from Law Enforcement that the search was very, very difficult because of of the weather that has plagued that area for so long. Canadian authorities have been briefed on the possibility that he could have crossing into canada so they were ready. There are sensors all along the border. All of that was being monitored. The authorities knew that it was a possibility he could be getting there. Do we know if anyone else was injured . Well, its interesting because a number of ambulances did go to the hospital. I did ask sources about that. Its Standard Operating Procedure to take individuals, Law Enforcement who have been involved in the shooting to a hospital give them a little bit of coverage. So they would probably be checked out as well. It does not appear that any Law Enforcement personnel was shot in any way. You can see one of the ambulances there, not clear whether hes in that ambulance or whether i think there was a second ambulance as well. Hes being treated. And the injuries theyve got to keep him alive. Ill tell you, though if hes kept alive and he talks, the chances of him providing information against both Joyce Mitchell and gene palmer is significant. If he dies then it is a very different case against these two individuals in terms of their role and what they were able to do. Were working on getting that picture cleared for the viewers now. We are going to be talking to our legal experts about that. Just to reset for you here. Deborah has been working for three weeks breaking news left and right on this story. David sweat was in prison for life escaped 23 days ago, has now been shot twice and he is in Police Custody being treated as a local hospital. There will be a Law Enforcement press exxon frens at 6 45 eastern time tonight. We will bring you information from that. I do want to get to jean in the field there. Shes at the hospital i believe also Polo Sandoval with us as well. You have been getting reaction from people in this community frankly, a communicate that has been absolutely traumatized. People who have been scared to go to sleep at night. How do they feel now . Reporter they are elated. And were right here live. Were right outside the emergency room of the alice Hyde Medical Center. David sweat is right inside the doors of the emergency room hyped me. We were able to confirm on record with the hospital that no Law Enforcement officers at all were injured. But we were on our way to where we believed this was happening. And all of a sudden there was a caravan going at a high rate of speed with numerous Law Enforcement officers and two ambulances. And we now know that was one that was taken there protectively. But one of them was in fact we belief carrying david sweat because he now is in that hospital. Ive been listening to Law Enforcement talking month themselves. I heard them as you can see, look right behind me you can see right here as Law Enforcement continues to come up. Because they continue to come to this hospital one by one, theyre being guide from the Law Enforcement in the street. I did hear one officer tell another they are expecting medical equipment to be delivered to this Medical Center. This is an acute care facility. 73 beds. It is not a Trauma Center but it is an acute care center. As you can see lets pan over here. Look at the smiles on these peoples faces. They feel safe again. How are you doing . Pretty good. Im glad theyre caught. If one person got hurt even would know them. It would be hard for us to get back to normal living. Reporter thats the Community Standing out here in the rain poppy, because they just want to applaud Law Enforcement. Jean, stay with us. I do want to talk to our viewers about the picture youre seeing on the side of the screen. Lets take it full. This is the first picture we have seen of david sweat since he escaped from prison 23 days ago. Yeah. And we received this photograph a little while ago. But you can see he is wearing camouflage gear. You can see that there is blood. You can see hes being treated by individuals there at the scene. Obviously theyre wearing protective gloves. Its very interesting. You can just make out on his hip what appears to be sort of a case. Whether that suggests he was carrying some sort of a knife, we dont know that yet. The question has been its cold, its rainy, at night the temperatures fall how were these guys able to hide out. There was even talk about what they might be wearing. We knew that richard matt had a rifle. We did not know whether david sweat was armed. It appears one of the ways he was able to survive for as many week z as he did is because he was dressed for the elements. You can see because of the camouflage he could have easily remained hidden even while he was on the run. We are being told that he was heading north and that he was trying to get away as quick as possible because not clear whether he was with richard matt when all of this happened, but he covered a lot of ground between the two between the two shootings essentially. Do we know if hes talking . Right now usually what happens in a case like this is they are going to treat his wounds as quickly as they possibly can. They need to make sure they keep him alive. Usually youll get the best teams of emergency room doctors to make sure that happens. If he dies all the information he has also dies with him. And they do not want that to happen. They will probably question him to the extent doctors allow, but theyre going to have to get him into surgery. Theyre going to have to make sure that he is sedated. What could potentially happen is once he is out of the danger zone then they will effectively begin to question him within the confines of the hospital room. Deborah, stay with me. I do want to go to tom fuentes, former Police Officer himself and talk about this. As i do i think everyones thanks to Law Enforcement, these 1,200 officers who have spent weeks on end hunting down this man and richard matt putting their own lives at risk, frankly, to go after these two individuals. Now, they have taken david sweat alive. Tom, just your reaction to him and frankly, what he is wearing. Clearly not prison gash. Its pretty clear that the number of cabins that they probably broke into they found enough clothing boots underwear, possibly food and water to sustain them somewhat. And then they would obtain the bug bites and other effects of being outside when they moved from one location to another. So but looking at the picture here of his capture, he appears in relatively good shape considering if he was shot twice, it doesnt look like lifethreatening wounds just from this photo. Id like to Say Something about the likelihood of him talking. One of the things about guys like this are typically very narcissistic. They will want to brag now smart he was, how great he was, how manipulative he was, how he convinced joyce, how he convinced others at the prison to help them. I think if the right team interrogates him, and i would have great confidence if it was an fbi team because they would know exactly how to push his buttons and get him to brag about what they did. When you look at a situation like this and how Law Enforcement encountered him two miles from the Canadian Border. Are you surprised ultimately in a search that has expanded as far as mexico at times that he was indeed captured so close to where he fled from . I am surprised. They could have gotten there the first time. They had a eighthour head start from that prison. And they were only 22 miles from the border when they were in jail. If theyd have gone north or northwest, they could have been in canada before morning before anybody was even looking for them. They could have hitchhiked and done just about anything to get there without arousing anybodys suspicion. Especially because they were in civilian clothes. You see these guys and the clothing they were able to make in prison. And then you saw Joyce Mitchell in custody she looked like the poster child for al ka traz with the white and black check jump suit. The fact that they have camouflage from the beginning and could have walked north, yeah they should have been in canada three weeks ago. Tom, stay with me. Polo sandoval is live in new york. Very close to where he was shot and captured. Polo do we have any sense if there was any incentive whatsoever for him to talk . This is a guy that if he survives given the extent of his injuries does he have any incentive to talk to tell authorities how on earth he and matt managed this . Reporter its a very good question, poppy. Keep in mind there were only two people that would be able to answer exactly where these two inmates have been the last three weeks. One of them is dead richard matt. And now you have david sweat, able to provide very curable information. Thats given the information that we have right now, these two inmates were out in this wilderness really through the last three weeks. We are right along route 30. Its about a 20mile stretch that links malone new york with the trout River Crossing into canada. Officials here are blocking traffic here. Weve seen several individuals driving through the rain trying to head into canada. Many of them being turned around. Ive spoken to them. Asking them if its an inconvenience. They said not at all if this means finally bringing this to a close. We were here on a rainy weekend when this allout man hunt was launch launched. Three weeks later, everything now has come to an end again on a very rainy weekend. I do want to get our viewers some more information. This just into us here at cnn. Coming to us from an sand ya field who is there on the ground. What we have learned from alexs sources is that a new York State Police sergeant on roving patrol saw david sweat. After sweat ran, the sergeant shot him. That is according to Law Enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation. It does not appear according to this official that sweat was armed. Tom, to you, learning it does not appear according to a Law Enforcement source that sweat was armed. Does that surprise you . Yes, that surprises me. But it doesnt alter the fact that the Police Officer did the right thing. We know they took a couple shotguns and two or three hunting knives from the cabin last saturday. You would have to presume that matt was not in possession of all of those items when he was shot. You would, you know have to assume that he had the other weapons or at least one of the other ones. Again, even with his bare hands, if he went into a house and took a family hostage, he could kill them very easily with whatever tools or knives they had on hand. There is no way once they had him spotted that they were going to take a chance that he got into the cover on the forest and disappeared once again and continued the threat to the local population. Especially, again, we have night fall approaching. The fact that they were able to stop him, under any circumstances he had the chance to surrender. If he didnt surrender and took off running, then he made his own fate. I want to read to the viewers, we just got this press release from the new York State Police. Heres what theyre saying. It says that at approximately 3 20 this afternoon, a member of the new York State Police spotted a quote suspicious man walking down a road in the down of constable. The state Police Member shot and injured Clinton Correctional Facility escapee david sweat. Sweat was taken into Police Custody alive. Hes being treated at a local hospital. The new York State Police now telling us his condition is unknown at this time. Again, his condition unknown at this time. Deborah, lets talk about this. 3 20 this afternoon. A member of new York State Police spots a suspicious man walking down the road in the middle of the afternoon. That in and of itself would be suspicious. They clearly knew exactly what they were looking for. The fact that they knew exactly what they were looking at really significant. And their ability to respond. The new York State Police, they have their elite teams up there. U. S. Marshals fbi customs and Border Patrol everybody is up there looking for these people. They knew they had a small window of time in which to find them, especially given the information that it appeared they were heading northnorthwest direction towards the Canadian Border. Canadian officials and new york officials have been in constant communication throughout this entire process. Had he been able to get over that border he may have very well been spotted. There are situations when u. S. Can go inside especially if youre in hot pursuit of somebody. But the fact that they were able to identify him, especially since he wasnt wearing the green prison garb. Right. He could have been just any ordinary huntder. Clearly the way he reacted, the way he responded. But i think it is significant. And one of the key things about this investigation is was he with richard matt who was had that shotgun when he was confronted and shot to death three times in the head richard matt was shot and killed. Interesting that here the shots you know usually youre aiming for center mass. Usually youre aiming to kill. The fact that they were able to shoot in order to stop him, but get him alive, that also incredible Tactical Training right there to go on. Your intipgt in Law Enforcement would be shoot him, bring him down. Sure. But again weve seen this in other situations like the Boston Marathon case they needed to get him alive. They need him to be alive. Its not just that these two men escaped. Now the entire correctional facility is going to be under investigation as to what happened. Right. Why it happened and the one things that was really interesting to me that i learned really just recently and that is that all these prisoners know about these catwalks. Its not a secret. They go behind because thats where all the breakers are. If they want to juice their fuse which means get more electricity in order to lose hot plates thats how they do. And sometimes when correction officers have had a bad day with one of these guys, theyll turn the breaker off so they dont get any light to the cell. So they knew about this. Just before this, they interviewed new York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Were going to play that for you a little bit later. That was obviously before this capture. He talked about the investigation going into this prison and getting to the bottom of how this could happen to make sure that it never never happens again. Stay with me. Jean i want to go to you. Jean is on the ground there right at the hospital. We are learning that sweat is at the same hospital jean where Joyce Mitchell went the night that she of the escape the night that she did not pick them up in the vehicle with the whole plan to drive seven hours away the fact that she had chest pains, went to that hospital for treatment, didnt show up