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The surprising details on how two killers who broke out of prison and who helped them. wall street posting its worst day of the year. europe in crisis and the deadline to fix it hours away. we are live with the latest. breaking overnight. the president with a plan to help millions of americans working on a salary get paid overtime. welcome back to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. 30 minutes past the hour. happening now, a prison escapee is talking. one surviving convict to who broke out of the maximum security prison is answering questions. 35-year-old david sweat i...

Critical to serious condition. now sweat is revealing details about how he and richard matt escaped, their plan to flee with prison employee joyce mitchell and how it all went so horribly wrong. at least from their vantage point. cnn's miguel marquez has the latest. >> reporter: christine, john david sweat is speaking and investigators want to get him keep talking and well. he is the best link they have to describe how he and richard matt were able to escape from the maximum security prison. telling them so far that plan a was joyce mitchell. they were going to meet her when they popped up out...

I'm christine romans. >> good to see you. i'm john berman. 4:00 a.m. in the east. a prison escapee, he is talking. the one surviving convict who broke out of the maximum security prison is answering some questions from investigators. 35-year-old david sweat is in a secure unit at the albany medical center treated for two gunshot wounds. he has been upgraded from critical to serious condition. he is talking about how he and richard matt escaped and plans to flee with joyce mitchell and how it all went from their standpoint wrong. cnn's alexandra field has the latest. >> reporter: the sergeant s...

Welcome back to "early start." i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. >> a prison escapee is talking. the one convict that broke out of the maximum security prison is answering some questions from investigators. 35-year-old david sweat is in a secure unit treated for two gunshot wounds. he has been upgraded from critical to serious condition. now sweat is revealing details how he and richard matt escaped and the plan to flee with joyce mitchell and how it went wrong. cnn's miguel marquez has the latest. >> reporter: christine, john david sweat is speaking out and investigators want him to k...

Security prison is answering some questions from investigators. 35-year-old david sweat is in a secure unit at the albany medical center. he has been upgraded from critical to serious condition. now sweat is revealing details about how he and richard matt escaped and plans to flee are prison employee joyce mitchell. from his vantage point how it went so horribly wrong. alexandra field has the latest. >> reporter: the sergeant shot david sweat two miles from the border. he took two bullets to the torso, but sweat tells officials he and richard matt planned to travel with joyce mitchell to mexic...