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Manhunt. >> reporter: when guzman the notorious kingpin was arrested in february of last year after a 13-year manhunt, mexican authorities bragged, they were cracking down hard on major drug traffickers. and promised he would never escape from their maximum security prison. but he did escape in a daring highly sophisticated scheme involving a mile long tunnel beneath the prison wall a major embarrassment for the mexican government. >> they have no control over the powerful drug cartels that operate in their country. and they have no control over the system of justice and incarceration. >> repo...

Greece, the limitations on cash does not apply to foreigners or tourists. they're allowed to get the amount they can out of atms. michelle, thank you for being with me from the greek capital this morning. now back to a major developing story here in mexico. this is an all-out manhunt that's under way for bunn of the world's most notorious and violent drug king pppins. joaquin "el chapo" guzman escapes from a prison 50 miles west of mexico city. officials say he escaped in a hole in the shower area of his cell that led to a one-mile-long tunnel. most likely took month of careful planning. doz...

And ventilated tunnel under his prison cell. the tunnel stretched for more than a mile or 1.5 kilometers and ended inside a half-built house outside the prison walls. it is the second time that guzman escaped from prison. the first time he eluded authorities for more than a dozen years before being captured. sara ganim has more. >> reporter: they call him el chapo or shorty for his small 5'6" frame. but his legend is enormous and now the world's most powerful and deadly drug trafficking kingpin has broken out of prison in mexico again. authorities say this time he escaped through a hole in the...

>> a small plane with five people on board made an emergency landing turning a highway into a runway. it caused traffic delays but luckily no one aboard or on the ground were hurt. no word on what forced the pilot to land on the highway. >> big story today as the notorious drug lord breaks out of prison in mexico and there is fear that the leader el chapo, may never be found again. he slipped out of the prison by a 20-by-20 inch hole in the shower area that went down to a 30 foot drop and a mile long customized lit tunnel with a railroad train track in it that

Joaquin guzman who goes by the nickname el chapo, is believed to control most of the major crossing points for drugs along the border for years sending cocaine, marijuana and meth north to america. >> he's sometimes called the osama bin laden of drug trafficking. >> reporter: guzman was last seen on surveillance video on his way to a prison shower. when he failed to emerge guards rushing in to find an empty cell. the notorious cartel leader had vanished. in that shower area, a hole in the wall 20 inches wide leading to a vertical pipe 30 feet deep complete with a staircase, eventually connecti...