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Biff ambivalent on the answer. a week ago he said they expected no other charges of other prison employees. this morning on cnn he said there is an investigation. we are looking to see if there are more charges. i asked him the question as he came out of court today. his response to me was no comment. all right. well obviously we ll be watching. jean casarez. appreciate your reporting. coming up clues to how matt and sweat lived on the run. forensic evidence that helped authorities close in on them. plus state officials who are blocking this. resisting the supreme court s ruling on marriage. the high level state officials who are encouraging them. they say they have the constitution behind them. the question is do they really? legal advice ahead from our jeffrey toobin. can also lead to tooth decay and bad breath? well, there is biotene ....
Were between 40 and 50 vehicles on the rural road with two officers and most of the cars. they threw their cars in park they ran out of their cars. some had guns in hand. throwing on coats. they were returning through the field. and then the ambulance came in. and the field. and headed done to where he was shot. reporter: you can see the tire tracks of the vehicles in the wet field. also crime tape remains where the field turns into forest. which would have been the beginning of sweat s rut to canada. to see all this was overwhelming. reporter: two ambulances raced to the nearby hospital. leading to fears more than one person had been shot. but sweat was the only person who had been hurt. [ cheers and applause ] in franklin county where most of the 3 week long manhunt was centered there was great relief. 200 residents gathered in front of the county courthouse to show appreciation to law enforcement agents who risked their lives off to find the two escapees. they did an amazi ....
Looking for the killers. but it came done to one man, sergeant jay cook whose alert patrolling on this quiet road put an end to the fears of a region. gary joins us now. close to where just steps away in fact from where david sweat was shot taken into custody. how long would it have taken swelt to sweat to actually get to canada from where you are if he hadn t been caught? well earlier in the evening, andersen i took a hike in the woods to get an idea of the beginning of the journey to canada. this is wilderness. i mean a forest. not woods. there are no paths whatsoever. it s mosquito infested land. there are holes that you step in that go very deep. very dangerous. it took me a decent pace. about 15 minutes to go a quarter mile. 15 minutes to come back. if you had the desearire to go fast inmate escaping the law you could probably do a mile in less than an hour. two miles less than two hours. when he got to this spot at 3. 20. yesterday, no police officer here yesterday, sweat could ....
He seemed frozen in court. he seemed distressed. he seemed uncomfortable. and he just seemed very scared to tell you the truth. he didn t speak to anyone except to the judge when he had to say a few words. he signed the waiver to go into the larger court. when he arrived the media here absolutely surrounded him asks him every question he didn t respond to anything. and when court was over he just drove away. but these are very serious felonies. because they re alleging he brought tools from the outside to the inside four different times for matt and sweat. seemingly so they could fix their electric box on the other side of their cell in the catwalk. the same area that they happened to get the hole and escape from. and then also that he allegedly burned and buried paintings that they made for him after they escaped from prison. what if anything is the da saying about whether or not other prison employees could be charged with helping these guys escape. is he saying anything? you kno ....
We start with the time line of david sweat s takedown and gary tuchman. reporter: the word came over police radios around 3:20 p.m. gunshots fired. scores of police raced to the ironically named town of constible, there was hope david sweat had been captured and fear police officers or civilians could have been hurt. one, only one officer was already at the scene. new york state trooper sergeant jay cook. as he was driving down the road he spotted a male who was basically jogging up along the side of the road. he approached him. and as he exited the car the man turned to him, he says hey, come over here. the male who sergeant cook saw was david sweat. only about two miles as the the crow flies from the canadian border. the male ignored him. called out again. at which time the male turned around kind of look what do you want from me? and he recognized him to be david sweat. sergeant cook says sweat took ....