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An hour. two miles in less than two hours. when he got here to this spot at 3:20 yesterday, if there were no police officer here sweat probably could have gotten to the unguard canadian border by 5:15 in the afternoon. i must say the mounties on the queb beck side would have done a great job with the investigation if it was estimated that sweat was in canada. but it s much more difficult to deal with an international manhunt than a mant manhunt solely here in the united states. i spoke to someone who you also talked to in your piece saying on the canadian side there wasn t a high level of visible law enforcement. gary thank you. david sweat s condition has been upgrated. so has our picture of exactly what he and richard matt had in mind for their escape. we are learning more about their plan a and what they did when it ....
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Police police say contained signs of intruders, a paver underwear and dna from the two inmates. there are numerous items we recovered from the cab ion. reporter: officials say the inmates broke into other places the net tighten. soon richard matt was shot and killed. and by the time david sweat was shot and captured police say all he had to sustain himself was a pack of pop tats. tom foreman, cnn. let s dig deeper with forensic scientist and cnn contributor john kobe listenski. also chris sweker a former fbi assistant director who led the investigation in the search for eric robert rudolph. the fact they were able to get their hands on camouflaged clothing didn t have insects bites, swelling seems to be that they were spendsing a fair amount of time inside some of these cabins? it does. they were doing a great job foraging and.howing from cabin ....
Focused and where it ended. sheriff, i appreciate you being with us. you saw david sweat after he was shot. what did he look like? was he talking? was he saying anything at that point? no. i saw him i was at the alice hyde hospital when they unloaded him from the ambulance and brought him into the emergency room. he was sem conscious. his eyes were barely open he wasn t speaking. and his chest was covered. what made you in law enforcement so sure he was in that area? well some of the fbi profilers had said right along that sweat would try to make an attempt to go north towards the border. i think major guess stated on friday in our press conference that we were casting our nets further north. even after matt s shooting we continued patrols in this area thinking on the possibility that he was really going to try to enter into canada. it s fascinating because in ....
David sweat were working with guards as part of the drug ring. now law enforcement officials tell cnn that some of the prison employees who have been interviewed described widespread availability of heroin at the prison and role of employees getting the drugs inside. we know matt and sweat had a lot of freedom inside this prison. the question now is was there alleged involvement in some of the criminal activity part of the reason for that freedom, andersen. do we know if either joyce mitchell or gene palmer are suspected of being involved in in this heroin ring or other illegal activity? that s one of the big concerns here the fbi has already identified a couple of prison employees other than mitchell and palmer. and so the question the suggestion here is problems run much deeper than just those two people who have now been arrested and charged anderson. we should say that the new york state inspector general is doing its own investigation into security and other lapses that ....