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Sweats told police he saw the whole months ago. they finally found one escaping through a steam pipe. after three weeks on the run shothe was shot dead. loren simonetti from fox business is here now. good morning, lauren. >> a new web site called jet.com has just launched. it promises cheaper customers if they pay 50 a year for membership. investors seem optimistic the model will find the cheapest prices even if that means losing money to compete with industry veterans enamel zon.

Out. he started chipping away at the concrete wall of the prison with hand tools and sledgehammer. he got a lucky break. they turned off the steam to the steam pipe that provided heat on may 4th. he was able to short circuit the process by cutting through the steam pipe with a hacksaw. took him over a month to do it. also interesting detail, they hit a sewer pipe at one point. they thought they could escape through that ala "the shawshank redemption." one other thought, the two joked that "the shawshank redemption" character took 20 years to escape from that prison and it took them ten years t...

Of david sweat's story can authorities really believe? >> they have to you know sort of weave through that. they just don't know. they know he is a convicted cop killer. they know he's escaped from prison. but they are listening to what he has to say. they want to hear what he has to say and he certainly is talking quite a bit from his hospital bed. what he has led authorities to certainly believe is that it was much easier to break out of this place than anyone could have imagined. after two days of questioning david sweat in a lockdown section of albany medical center investigators say they ...

Section of albany medical center investigators say they have heard enough for now. sweat saying escaping with richard matt wasn't as complex as you might think, using hacksaws to cut through their walls and a steam pipe they snuck out night after night. and they came across a sledge hammer breaking down a brick wall. they first tried one manhole in a dry run but it was too close to a neighborhood. >> they felt that due to there being a number of houses in that area that it might not be a good spot to exit from. >> reporter: the next night they tried again finding a more isolated man hold where...

Survived a full three weeks on the run. the prosecutor in the case saying the captured fugitive david sweat claims he was the brains and the plot in the works for months. and in a twist that the prosecutor is calling baffling we're hearing that the two prisoners actually pulled off essentially a dry run the night before the real escape. >> they had completed going through the tunnel system that you know they knew and late may that the steam pipe had been turned off. it was no longer being utilized by the facility so that they were basically clear to go through that. they wouldn't be burned thr...