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False alarms within the past week. there have also been forestry service people new york state forestry people involved in this search just because we're near the adirondack national -- not national adirondack state park corrections officers state police, local police local sheriffs. this has all been a sort of hands-on deck search. they've been in the air with helicopters, not just that infrared technology but cameras, high powered lenses that can read, you know read license plates from an altitude of thousands of feet. they had bloodhounds on the ground. that was one of the early leads in th...

They came in here they started searching. things seem to have gone cold. then yesterday a report here in malone, a cabin was broken into. they found evidence there that was again sent to the state crime lab. enough came back that they were confident that they had a confirmed sighting not visual sighting, but dna sighting as it were of one of the inmates, one of the escapees. then this morning in a field not far away they found more evidence. this really closed in very quickly. they were able to quickly close in on this area. that's why they were doing the searches. the customs border patrol ta...

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Trail of these gentlemen and how far they've gotten which i think is the most striking thing when we look at that map. >> right, they're about what 35 miles from the prison heading towards the canadian border it now appears. that's the malone area that's where this search is centering on at this hour. as john was just explaining, they were moving in as a result of some of the sightings and evidence taken from that cabin. why the shooting why the confrontation? we're hearing from law enforcement sources that richard matt was armed with a shotgun. this is preliminary. but that is why this shooti...

Quite close. there was that trail photo that cliff van zant referred to that appeared to show both of the escapees one of whom was holding a gun. john, you're at the state police barracks just a few miles from where the most active part of the search is happening. is there a sense there that they are very close to nabbing the second fugitive? >> there was a briefing here this afternoon. they told us that not only did they have the dna evidence from the cabin that was broken into in malone yesterday, but this morning they found more evidence in what was called a field site sort of outdoors some...