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Wednesday's july 4th parade. he says the suspect also plotted to harm the children of military families with remote controlled toy cars packed with explosives. >> he looked for locations to park a van that would be parked with explosives. he talked about taking targets like st. john's cathedral off the map. and just yesterday he discussed giving remote control cars packed with explosives and shrapnel to the children of our military uniform members. >> investigators say the suspect is a u.s. citizen but had become radicalized and allegedly pledged allegiance to al qaeda. news of a brazen be e...

The media. in recent days, leach transcripts of sarah from leaked investigations show her complaining about the quality of food served at the prime minister's residence and using expletives to describe the staff. and an incredible escape from prison as heavily armed men andd a helicopter in a french prison yard and pull a notorious criminal to freedom. nearly 3,000 officers are now searching for him after his great escape on sunday. this is the second breakout for the career criminal in the past five years. just some of the other stories beyond our borders tonight. we will be right back. ♪

>> all right. a manhunt under way in france after a prison escape you might see in a mission impossible movie. a hijacked helicopter landed in a prison yard and took off with a convicted gangster who has broken out of jail before. a stunning jailbreak, purportedly filmed from behind bars. cnn cannot independently verify this video, but these shaky images appear to show the moments gunmen arrived to free that man, redoine faid. his accomplices hijacked a helicopter and forced the pilot to fly to a prison near paris. there they staged a diversion, then smuggled the 46-year-old out of a visitor...

You good? yeah, you? [ roaring ] [ screaming ] nope. rated pg-13. >> reporter: had cal harris won the lottery, it could hardly be as surprising as the news he heard in the prison yard in 2012. this is rare, though. i mean this is really rare for that to happen. >> yeah. >> reporter: what happened? new york's court of appeals overturned his second murder conviction, citing errors made by the judge and ordered trial number three. while everyone waited for that, cal once again went home to the

That was definitely the hardest part for us. i mean, he held it together well but -- >> reporter: what was it like driving home? >> quiet. >> reporter: watching his kids walk away week after week, said cal, was unimaginably hard. >> that was the worst. i went back to my cell and just laid there for hours and hours and just closed my eyes and tried to block it out. >> reporter: three years rolled by. but then came a day in october, 2012, when cal harris found himself crying for joy in the prison yard. coming up -- >> it's rare, though. i mean, this is really rare for that to happen. >> yeah. ...