two hours around the elementary school and adjusted the perimeter to exclude both schools. we've done this in an effort to minimize the impact on the students and families while we continue with our search efforts. the district attorney and i have an ongoing dialogue and committed to providing them the most up-to-date information so they can make informed decisions about school operations. we're utilizing hundreds of state, local and federal enforcement officers, k-9s and various technology in an effort to keep the community safe. i'd like to provide the media some insight of the scope in place. as a reminder, we're asking the public's help by familiarizing themselves with photograph and description of cavalcante, to check security cameras and call us immediately if they believe they may have seen him. again, we ask residents to secure homes, outbuildings and vehicles. cavalcante has clearly obtained some clothing and other unknown supplies. we want to minimize any opportunity he might have to get anything more. it is very important we keep the pressure on as we continue this hunt. cavalcante is considered extremely dangerous and there is a reward of up to $20,000 offered for information leading to the capture of cavalcante. anyone with information have asked to call our tip line at 717-562-2987. i continue to thank the community for their support and allowing us to latitude to do our jobs while they deal with what i know are extremely stressful circumstances. we appreciate you all more than you know. i wanted to also -- we've had a number 0 inquiries. i mentioned an injury to one of our tactical dogs. i wanted to provide you a brief update. he's doing well. he's been released from the hospital earlier today and is expected to make a full recovery and return to work within the next week. with that we will be happy to take any questions you might have. >> can yo provide details of the longwood gardens event? we saw the helicopter drop low and try to spread the underbrush there. >> an individual reported that he had seen someone matching that description and he provided us a location that he had seen him running through that area. so searchers have gone to that area. we're using people on foot. we have horses out there as well that are assisting with the search, tactical teams and of course the aviation assets that you mentioned. >> how close is this search to that trail location? >> it's not very far from that location. >> what schools were removed from the search? >> that was the greenwood elementary and chads ford elementary. >> how big is this radius? originally two miles and moved to longwood. give us an exact distance. >> it's about an eight to ten square mile area that we're looking at right now. it's a couple miles across. the total mail -- mileage would be eight to ten square miles. >> any validity that he was at walmart? there was a reporting of a sighting there. >> i'm aware of that report. we don't believe that was him. >> given the newly released footage yesterday, has law enforcement been looking in trees, foliage. have you been looking at storm water management within this neighborhood ands will going door to door in various neighborhoods for welfare checks? >> yes to all of those. it's been a very thorough search. >> do you have a strategy for preventing inmates escaping? >> we do. >> can you elaborate on that? >> no. >> what time was the sighting that you're reporting? >> just before >> today? >> yes. >> colonel, do you still believe he's within this eight to ten mile perimeter that you set up? >> i have every reason to believe he's still within that perimeter, yes. >> can you tell us why? >> we've had no sightings outside of that area. we have maintained a secure perimeter as we possibly could. and then as recently as today, we have another reported sighting. >> what are the sides of your perimeter? >> it is bordered on the north by 926. on the east of 100 or creek road. on the south by hillendale and on the west by 52. >> colonel, how much bigger is this perimeter today than last friday? >> it is larger. i couldn't tell you what the difference in size is off the top of my head. >> this is the same as yesterday, right? >> it is. >> any evidence that he's obtained a weapon? anything new on that? >> i don't have any evidence to that effect. i'm sorry. just a minute. >> you mentioned you know it has had an effect on the k-9 officer. is there any truth that he may have attacked cameras at the prison or may not have been working at the time of cavalcante's escape? >> i couldn't speak to what effect anything would have on the cameras at the prison. >> can you talk about the effect on the law enforcement members on the ground? >> oh, makes it very challenging. certainly all of you have been out in the weather, high temperatures, high humidity. they're wearing uniforms with bullet resistant vests, carrying a lot of equipment. adds to the challenge. with that said, i've not heard a single complaint and i believe our people are up to the task. >> did they get cool-down time, water breaks? >> if someone needs it, we absolutely get them some rest. typically what we've been doing is transporting fluids, food, those kinds of things to sustain them and keep them well-hydrated out to their locations. >> thank you. two questions here. >> [question inaudible] are law enforcement working closely with he call police to ensure he won't go towards the borough? some people are planning not to attend even though he's not been spotted there. >> we're working hard to cap sure the escaped convict. we're well-aware of that festival. we're working with authorities, a number of authorities, law enforcement and emergency management to try to make sure that people feel very safe at that festival. >> last question. in terms of technology, how it has changed from 1999 when norman johnson escaped. how has technology changed and helped your efforts to find him? any thoughts on that? >> as with your cell phone, it's changed dramatically in that amount of time. we take advantage of the latest state of the art options that are available. what i mentioned before, we use a wide array of technology. we have a number of federal partners that i talked about previously. all of the assets of all of our agencies are brought to bear. >> creek road is the eastern perimeter. how did you decide to remove chads ford elementary school? >> we carved it out by putting additional officers around there. we cleared that property to carve that piece out. >> the property at the school? >> yes, sir. >> mentioned another prisoner escaped from warren county. >> yes. >> found some days later. seems like there's sort of a parallel to be drawn here between the two different types of man hunts. wondering if you have any thoughts on how that situation compared to the search now and if there are some differences between the two that explains the challenge that you're experiencing. >> you know, those are two of the more recent examples that we've had. there's similarities between any situation for a man hunt like this. so we try to learn something from each of those incidents that we handle. take from that how to run a smaller operation. our partners in many cases are the same. in fact, some of the people that are here from the federal agencies are some of the same teams and resources. i was on the warren county search as well. there's some of the same resources. all of us take lessons learned from it. we adapt to the different circumstances that we find. there's different challenges with every particular search. if we moved 20 miles down the road, there would perhaps be different challenges in what we have here, we would adjust to those concerns. >> the speculation being the heat-seeking technology, the thermal imaging technology used is not working because it's so hot? is that correct? is all the technology you're using in that regard working the way it should because of the heat? >> it is. >> there's no -- >> weather can have an impact on it. but it does not take that technology out of the game at all. at times to use the example of thermal imaging, you can get some additional hotspots, rocks, different things like that can cause a hotspot. but it requires you to check a few more things but it does not diminish our desire to use it. >> are you concerned that he's growing more desperate and more dangerous, the time that he spends out in this weather and being hunted by you? >> i believe he becomes more desperate. i believe he has always opinion very dangerous. i've said that from the start. he's murdered two people. one in brazil and one here. very brutal manner. he's a very dangerous individual and he remains so. >> now he -- >> is this the eighth confirmed sighting or are there more? can you walk us through those eight? because it seems like he's going back and forth or out of order on the sighting numbers? >> i don't have all the other sightings in front of me. we can talk about that at another time. >> eight is correct? >> yes. >> what about homes? are you going back and rechecking homes. if nobody is home, are you checking relatives? >> we're checking homes, talking to neighbors. if we don't find somebody home. each one is handled on an individual basis. we typically can check tax records, county records to try to find an owner if we've been unsuccessful. the biggest thing is any sign at all at forced entry. we have found some open homes. in those cases, we try to obtain permission. otherwise, through circumstances, we can at least make sure that that home is not occupied. >> is it essential that he's gotting into any of these homes? we've had people contact us saying things have been taken on your end. >> i have not confirmed a single case to this point. doesn't mean he hasn't. >> [question inaudible] >> have additional special forces arrived, sir? >> we have had tactical teams from all over the country come in and continue to come in. we have some additional resources that are arriving today. part of the team will arrive yesterday and arrive today. it will become operational by tomorrow. one of the things when i talk about after the press conference, to give you some additional insight of how we can do this. we'll have an opportunity to talk about some of those teams tomorrow and give you some idea. i think -- i'll come back to your questions here in a minute. what i would like you all to see is that there is an amazing operation going on here. there's a collaboration between local, state and federal law enforcement agencies. this is not simply a situation where we have a police dispatcher sitting and taking a call and dispatching a police car to go and follow this up. this is a very sophisticated, well-staffed operation that i believe, again, when you have an opportunity to see some of that, there are some portions obviously that i can't show you everything. i think you'd have an opportunity to see enough of it to truly come away with an understanding of the effort that is being made to ensure that we end this as quickly as possible to ensure the safety of the community. we absolutely understand their concern. i get it as a parent why other parents are concerned about their children going to school, playing in the yard, all of those things. again, having been involved in a number of these searches, it the same with every one of those. and we want to end this as quickly as possible. we'll throw every available resource at it to do it. >> are you confident knowing that he's going back and forth from the same place again and again? what does that do to bolster some morale out here? what does that mean for your containment area? >> there's no impact on morale. i have yet to hear a single complaint. i interact with our people. we have shift changes where we brief out outgoing troopers and officers. the morale is high. i talked to hem when they come in after a lengthy shift. morale remains high. these are people volunteering to come here, many from out of the area, who are volunteering in the case of state police, they're being paid. so i don't mean it to sound that they're just volunteers. they're asking their commanders to send them here. that's how high the morale is. >> any sense of where he's going now? can you confirm there's no equipment failure at the prison as related to -- impacted any cameras or technology that could have aided in his escape? >> i can not speak again to the technology at the prison. that is not my focus at this point in time. my focus is on capturing him. there is an ongoing investigation there i'm sure will reveal if there was any kind of a failure. or whether it was a failure of an individual or group of individuals. that will all be determined and acted on appropriately. for right now, again, the priority for me and our focus is on getting him back in custody. >> you do know where he's going. >> i have some ideas. i can't get in his head. i wish i could. i wish i could go to right to where he is. we use our experience, we use the information that is available to us. we also use any number of different techniques to try and push him, to get him to make a mistake and detect that mistake when it occurs. one second. the gentleman back here. >> can you explain why you have this perimeter? obviously -- why doesn't that work? >> for a number of reasons it doesn't work. it's not a perfect open piece of land that you can march through. you have businesses, residences, highways, hills, valleys, wooded areas that can't be pushed through. the number of people that it would take to contain that area and be able to walk should tore shoulder through that area and squeeze and the amount of time that it would take, it's just simply not realistic to do that. if we were talking about one city block or something like that, it would be a different story. it's too large of an area to squeeze in and push like that. >> can you provide an estimate as to how the personnel are currently at longwood gardens trying to track this guy down right now? what tactics and what technology is being used. >> off the top of my head, i can't speculate. we want to keep the perimeter secure while we move response teams there. so i mentioned tactical teams, aviation, mounted detail. some other foot searchers besides the tactical teams. k-9s. all of that is brought to bear in terms of the specific number. i couldn't give that to you. >> [question inaudible] >> there was a report of a man that says that he brought him in to his house and whether or not -- >> we're using tracking dogs. yes, i believe the account that someone broke in. i'm saying i can't prove that it was him. >> has he left any traces that you have found? traces of anything? traces of clothing, food? the one in western pennsylvania, camp sites, has he left any traces at all? >> we have not recovered anything that i can say was his at this point. >> a lot of speculation about his training as a survivalist. can you talk about the different of the search that went on for 48 days and the search you're currently in? >> there's a lot of similarities between any of these searches. the difference is the level of violence. we know that the other one was armed. both violent individuals. very dangerous individuals. the difference is with freen, you're hunting for a person with a rifle that will pep trait the body armor of any of the officers out there. it brings a different dynamic to that search. but there's a lot of similarities in the search as well. that's where i tell you that we try to take lessons from all of those and bring those to the next job. >> so longwood gardens is west of 52. today is the -- >> yes, longwood gardens proper is out there. they have additional property that is within the perimeter. it's in the vicinity of that that i'm speaking. >> that area was not open to the public today? >> i can't speak to whether longwood gardens had that piece open or not. >> so not all of longwood gardens was in the correct? >> correct. >> do you still have men searching? >> yes. >> a question for the district attorney or -- neighbors adjacent to the prison spoke about their concerns for their safety, not the first time that someone has escaped from the prison but now the second time. they are curious about alerts. in may -- they're on record saying in may there was no sirens, no warning. i know you don't speak for the county. as the chief law enforcement officer for chester county, how can you assure the neighbors that not everyone is for themselves on their properties? >> i understand that alerts do go out. the first prison escape in may, he was captured within five minutes is my understanding. i don't know if there was time for an alert to go out. i don't know that information conclusively. they're sending out alerts repeatedly through reverse 911 calls. they keep expanding the perimeter and radius to where they send those notifications. they're on high alert. those communities that are affected immediately are alerted right away. i know the time frame is rapid from when they're alerted until when they have an incident. >> you have concern -- under in. is it supposed to be a facility that holds in these dangerous people? this guy is convicted of murder? >> absolutely, this is an outrage. it shouldn't have happened. i helped convict this man. he was sentenced to life without parole. we're all upset. we are all concerned there will be a thorough investigation. >> you speak about deborah and her family. i'm assuming -- [inaudible]. >> they do have protection. they're terrified. they haven't left their home. they're barricaded inside and concerned about their safety. we have police detail about them 24 hours a day. they're very worried. >> will he be going back to chester county prison? >> no. >> what charges -- >> he's charged with escape. that's a felony. >> where will he go? >> a state correctional institution. >> the one -- >> he was on the way to smithfield to be assigned to another location. >> will you release the video of the escape? >> we're not focusing on that. our mission is to get this guy in custody. that's where our attention is focused at this moment. >> did your office answer the motion seeking a retrial or a resentencing for this defendant, mr. cavalcante? i know the judge denied it. will you offers respond to -- >> we did not respond. the judge decided that on his own. yes. >> a follow up question for the lieutenant. we talked to someone who has taken it upon himself to enter a wooded area and look for cavalcante. a vigilante in this case. what is your message to people that think -- >> first of all, they have no authority other than that of a private citizen to do it. they are risking drawing away law enforcement resources because someone else may see them and report them and we end up having to go investigate that and draw resources away. i would ask them not to do it. i can't prevent them from doing it. they have no authority and run the risk depending what action they take getting themselves in trouble. >> just have to confirm, the most recent sighting is not -- >> i said it was near longwood gardens. >> near. that's not -- >> yes. >> longwood gardens property or near longwood gardens? >> i don't know. i just know where the report was. it was very close to where the camera was, which was on longwood gardens. >> what would you say to those that he's winning right now. it's eight days. he's up against hundreds of people. he has barely nothing to eat and you can't catch them. he's winning, not you. >> we've chased people longer than this an brought them to justice. as i said before, we're not going anywhere. we will capture him. when we do, he's doing to prison. i don't consider that winning. >> there's some numbers near the area where he was spotted by the creek who were concerned that blood hounds weren't being used and the scent was getting lost in the creek. are blood hounds of w