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ring those little girls left and right. thank you for joining us. be sure to set your dvr to record your show so you can watch us any time. we'll be back here. ac 360 starts right now. >> we are live for the next two hours because there are a lot of developments. we've just had a major development in the escape of these two fugitive murderers. david sweat and richard matt. sweat, the cop killer on the left, matt the murderer's torturing sadist on the right. the first to break out of clinton correctional facility in far upstate new york. we begin tonight with breaking news about the role that investigators believe this woman, prison tailor joyce mitchell may have had in the escape. it was reported that she was hospitalized the day they broke out with quote, a case of the nerves. her son toby spoke out today about his mom. >> she is not the kind of person
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that will risk her life or other people's lives to let these guys escape from prison. she definitely wouldn't have an affair against my father and it definitely wouldn't be with an inmate. there's no truth tom. >> reporter: there's a report that your mom went to the emergency room with a panic attack. did that happen? >> yes. she was in fact in the hospital that evening. i don't know the exact details. i just know that she was having severe chest pains and she was concerned that that. my mom, she worries a lot about everything. especially with me. people might say, no matter what i wouldn't do that. well when you're put in a situation where a family member's friend or other family members might be threatened or at risk do you a lot of things you wouldn't think to protect your family. in my family family always comes first. >> reporter: were there threats? >> i have no idea. >> that was earlier. just moments ago as we said, a huge new development.
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deborah feyerick has the story. she joins us now. this prison tailor, what do we know about the role she was supposed to play in these guys' getaway? >> we're learning she may have been the ride for these two fugitives. the woman was a civilian employee at the prison. she told investigators she planned to pick up the two men after they broke out and bombed out out of this manhole. apparently she changed her mind. this is significant and it really explains why these two men who planned such an elaborate escape from this correctional facility, why they're on foot. it is raining, it is dark and they right now, they're probably, according to investigators, shelter wherever they can and trying to lay low. we know this woman has to be terrified right now. you heard her son saying she would have done anything to protect her family if she was threatened. it's not clear whether she was. but an investigator that we spoke with yesterday said this
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guy, rick matt he is violent, vicious and extremely cunning. so the pieces are beginning to make sense. >> i want to repeat that. this is a huge development if this is in fact true. what is the source of this and what are they saying? that she was supposed to drive, she was supposed to meet them and drive the getaway vehicle? >> that's what it sounds like. according to law enforcement sources that cnn spoke with this woman planned to pick up the two men once they broke out of that prison. they were supposed to -- >> do we know why she would possibly do that? >> we don't. we do know according to sources that her phone was used to make multiple calls to several of rick matt's friends and associates. it is unclear who made those calls and when those calls were actually made. however, the pieces are beginning to fall into place. again, people have been very
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confused why you would plan this. go to such lengths. they didn't break out in the middle of winter. they broke out when it was much warmer. now, of course they are out there in the elements. we've seen the pouring rain that has been out there. so why there was nobody to pick them up whether it was supposed to be this woman or whether there was supposed to be people who were being contacted on behalf of rick matt or by rick matt. all of that is under investigation. >> and we don't know investigators are saying that her phone was used to call people associated with these two. but we don't know if she made those calls or if they made those calls or somebody else who had access to the phone made those calls. >> that's exactly right. >> meantime there were sightings of two suspicious men that 35 miles away from the prison in
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the town of willsboro. law enforcement descended on that area started an intense search by foot and by air. they've been there all day. the latest on the manhunt from randi kay. are they still searching that area? >> reporter: no, they're not. the search lasted for hours today but it does seem to be winding down. for a long time police were searching the barns and the fields in that area and all of this happening after a tip that the two men were seen walking in the heavy rain and then taking off for the woods. with no sign of them now, authorities can once again turn their attention back to the canadian border which is not very far from here. it seems the only person to have seen richard matt and david sweat was a man in his own yard the night of the escape. this is what he told abc news. >> i asked him, what the hell are you doing in my yard? get the hell out of here. and he was like sorry, i didn't know where i was. i'm on the wrong street. >> reporter: trouble is nobody
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is sure they've seen them since. and with the clinton correctional facility just south of the canadian border authorities are growing concerned they may try to flee north, if they haven't already. if these guys did cross into canada they may have done so here. this is the border crossing between sham plain, new york. it is about an hour from the prison. this is a high security crossing so it would have been very, very tough. the u.s. border patrol tells me their officers are trained in imposter detection and fraudulent documents. >> we are looking at the vehicles the individuals, opening trunks opening back of doors of trucks and things. very extensive. >> reporter: i assume your team has their pictures at the ready. >> right, yes. we have the photos in the primary booths the officers have them. they know who they're looking for. >> reporter: but there are 300 miles of border in just this sector. a lot of it mountainous and nearly all of it heavily wooded and some parts of the border are
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so easy to cross that authorities are at a real disadvantage. the escape 83s may be looking for a place like this to cross the border. they would have an easier time. border patrol can't secure the entire northern border so there are plenty of spots like this one. open areas where you don't need any passports or documentation to cross the border. watch this. here i'm standing in the u.s. i can keep one foot in the u.s. and put another foot in canada. this is the border right here. or i can just simply walk into canada no questions asked. helping patrol these open areas are highly trained canines. so if they do stop a suspicious vehicle and they think someone could be hiding in the trunk, border patrol has a very special way of finding out. we asked aaron to get inside the trunk of this car, hide himself in there so we could see how they do it. this german shepherd smelled trouble and alerted at the car's trunk. if this was the bad guys forcing
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someone to smuggle them to freedom, this may be the best hope of finding them. >> good boy. >> in those open areas, are there cameras? surveillance video at all? >> reporter: there is video surveillance and cameras in those open areas, and if they see something suspicious they can go check it out. in fact the border patrol. just this morning, they picked up three men after seeing them on the cameras, that they thought they were up to no good. three men they say were from iraq trying the make their way from upstate new york into canada. this is a really vast area and there are just 16 check points. and the rest of it is that open area so that is a whole lot of foot traffic for them to try to keep an eye on, anderson. >> only the someone who knows perhaps better than anyone alive, we stress those words,
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anyone alive knows just what he was capable of. he watched him commit murder. he watched him kid animal brutalize, torture and murder a human being. a man he later dismembered and dumped in the niagara river. seven years ago, mr. bates told a jury what he saw. he testified against matt. tonight he tells us. we spoke by phone a short time ago. >> reporter: so lee, you're one of the people who knows exactly just how dangerous rick matt is. you have seen what he's capable of. what's going through your mine knowing he is on the run? >> wow. wow. it's probably the biggest question on everybody's mind. you've got a dangerous criminal and sometimes you don't know if you're safe what his next move is and it is like reliving a nightmare over and over and over
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again. just seeing him on tv. >> he people have described him as psychotic, he is obviously a killer. can you please explain what you have seen him do? what you know he is capable of? >> i would explain, i would, the better definition is evil. it doesn't matter a religion but if you wanted to take a picture of the devil, that's the face that you would see. and yes, i have seen him kill. he did kill mr. rickerson, his old boss in my presence. and it's disturbing. you know? it is not something that you want to see in life.
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it is difficult on anybody, a regular civilian any kind of person. even your soldiers that go overseas. you never want to see anybody really die. and in 1997 witnessing what he did in front of me it was extremely difficult. and scary. >> can you explain what he did to his boss? it was a long ordeal. i understand he tortured him. i mean did he terrible things to him before finally killing him. can you explain a little bit to people who don't know what he did? >> absolutely. tortured is probably an understatement. at different points in the commission of the crime there, he used up tape to tie him up. he beat him with anything and everything that he possibly can.
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a knife sharpener, a security device, the club from my automobile. he physically grabbed his hands and pulled his fingers back until they snapped. punching him. beating him. yeah. >> this is while he was duct taped in the trunk of the car. >> even before. when mr. rickerson was in the house before richard matt had beat on him in the house in an attempt to find the money. and then carried him to my automobile put him in the trunk and periodically over the 30 hours we were on the road he would have me stop the car, pull over, begin asking mr. rickerson where is his money. i want your money and beat him.
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starting from in the house throughout the car ride and then eventually when he opened the trunk and mr. rickerson told him, i'll take you to the money. let me out and richard matt there then that, i don't believe you. you've been playing game. i don't believe you. in a fit of rage he reached into the car, grabbed mr. rickerson by his head and snapped his neck in front of me. >> you actually saw that. you heard that. >> yes, i did. >> i understand even before he was duct taped, before he was put in the automobile in this day-long odyssey began, this nightmare, i understand he also shoved something in his ear?
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is that correct? >> yes. there was a knife sharpener. >> did you think during the time you were driving this vehicle, you had seen what he had done to his former boss. this man is in the trunk of the car. did you think about trying to escape? did you think about getting away from this situation? >> that certainly ran through my head. but then on the other hand he was right there sitting in a passenger seat next to me and he was armed. i had no doubt that i had to try to live. i was going to do anything i possibly could to live. escaping wasn't an option. >> obviously, law enforcement is interested to see whether he would, no matter what the cost stick with his friend who he has escaped with. from what you're saying he will use anybody as long as he can. >> you're absolutely correct.
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he'll use somebody until basically in his eyes they're value zero. and he'll turn on them. but the dangerous part as everybody knows, is that this other individual sweat, is a cop killer. they have something in common that says you know we're out and when they catch us we're done. and their mindset will probably be, they won't take us alive. >> we're going to have much more of my conversation with mr. bates in the next hour of 360. we're on for two hours only the. his response about whether he feels he could be a target now. coming up breaking news. new reporting on the offlimit access inside the prison itself that these two inmates may have had before they made their break which made their break possible.
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potentially very big news in the manhunt. investigators believe a woman who worked with richard matt and david sweat at the correctional facility plan to pick the pair up after they escaped the prison. but at the last minute she for some reason changed her mind. joyce mitchell that's her name. a prison tailor worked with the inmates inside. she is cooperating and providing information according to investigators. she has not been charged with anything. there is new reporting as well on the kind of forbidden access
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that sweat and matt may have had while behind bars still. then it was considerable access. we have yet to confirm this ourselves but it could add another piece to the picture. joining us by phone, the reporter for the buffalo news and buffalo news.com. so your source tells you that these two fugitives had access to the inner passages inside the prison wall for about a month before they escaped. how did they manage to do that without being detected? >> at least a month. they had somehow gotten their hands on a power saw. there was other construction going on in that area that may have covered the sound of the saw. and you could see in some of the photos that have been released at least the back of one of the cells toward the floor, there was a square cut. i asked my source how did they
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hide that? and they had taken a cardboard box and disassembled it. then spray painted it gray and placed that over the hole. kind of reminds me of shaw shank redemption. that photo of rita hayworth. it was something as simple as that. then at night they would go on these nocturnal prowls along the cat walk. and during that month, they encountered apparently a two-foot thick wall. and bored a hole through that. and then they come up to the 24 inch drain pipe and again, photos have been released of that and they crawled through that. and that pipe of course took them outside and they lifted up the manhole sometime between late friday night and early saturday morning. and were free. >> it's just incredible. did your source give you any
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indication as to how they knew these guys had that access for about a month? or at least a month? >> well i think that part of it is the elaborate planning that went into it. as you had mentioned, they had to have had help. and you know perhaps it was inadvertent help in some respects. some direct help as well. and you just don't do something like this overnight. and governor cuomo in his remarks had said that he believed that they had spent quite a bit of time at night going through the passages. but i don't know exactly how the police came up with that time frame of approximately a month. >> it will be fascinating to discover lou, how much they knew in advance about the inner structure of the prison. i talked to somebody who served time there yesterday. who said that he really and
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many of the prisoners he talked to didn't know much about the areas of the prison that they didn't have access to. it is not as if they give you an orientation course of the inner workings of the prison. so it is interesting, based on your report it makes sense, that it was only after spending about a month or so wandering around in the cat walks that they were able to figure out where some pipes might have led. >> i'm sure this prison was built almost 200 years ago, approximately 200 years ago. and it was very circuitous. the cat walk is between two sets of cell blocks. where the passage ways went i'm sure it was very confusing and took them time to figure out. i don't think anybody gave them blue prints. a lot of types we assume that prisoners are stupid. yesterday i interviewed richard
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matt's only son, nicholas harris he is 23 years old. the first thing he blurted out to me. he said you know my father has a genius i.q. why did they not have him under closer surveillance? and of course matt and this guy david sweat were in an honor section of the maximum security prison. an honor block. despite the fact sweat had had some administrative infractions lodged against him. and i believe the other prisoner as well. >> did the son you talked to had he had any contact with his father? did they have a relationship? >> when matt fled after he had murdered and dismembered horribly with a hacksaw, 76-year-old northton wanda man in 1997 and he fled to mexico
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where he was arrested for the murder of a man in a bar fight in mexico and spent several years in prison. then in january, 2007 he is brought back to the united states to face trial in the death of mr. rickerson, a food broker who had previously employed matt. and so -- >> the son hadn't had much of a relationship with him obviously. >> he actually did visit with him at the niagara county jail. which is probably the only place that matt hadn't been able to break out of. matt did try to break out of the mexican prison as well. when the son met with the father he was in his mid teens. he said to me that he had this lingering impression of the father. and really didn't want a relationship with him because he had been raised by a stepfather. he provided a couple of chilling
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anecdotes. he said that the father when he was an infant had broken into the mother's house and beat her up. and that has been corroborated with police records. >> incredible. >> yes. >> incredible history to this guy. lou, i appreciate you being with us. thank you for your reporting. lenny is former commander of the marshal service, the task force for new york and new jersey. also ronald fernandez who runs a similar task force covering the washington, d.c. area. commander, these calls made from the prison employee's cell phone, how crucial could they end up being to this manhunt? >> well they could be. but that is up to the new york state police who are handling the investigation. and i really don't want to comment on anything like that. of a sensitive nature. you can draw your own conclusions. >> i understand. commander, in terms of time line is time on their side?
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is time on law enforcement's side? the longer they are out, obviously, there's greater chances of them being seen spotted. how do you view this in terms of the time? >> that's difficult to say. different in every situation. initially, it becomes a manhunt where you flood the area with law enforcement and you're checking all these different locations, possible hideouts if they're on foot. eventually that manhunt can start to fizzle out and kit turn into a fugitive investigation which takes a different tone. but either way, the importance is having the eyes of the public %-poutthere and calling n. if you could put our tip line on there, the marshal service tip line is 24 hours. and any tip that comes in it will go straight to the new york state police and we've been following up on leads so far. >> we'll definitely put that tip line up there as we have
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throughout the reporting. it is up there in fact right now. what about these sightings? someone appeared to be walking in the rain in the middle of the night. obviously, one wants people to call into law enforcement if they have some questions, if they think they may have seen something. the flip side of that is valuable time can be wasted following leads that don't go anywhere. >> well apparently this sighting in willsboro was significant enough for our folks to head in that direction. and to do a full-court press. he know they had enough manpower setting up a perimeter. the aviation support. the canine s.w.a.t. teams were there. these guys desperate people will do desperate things. if they are on foot, they have to be tired. it is raining. it is getting dark. so you start thinking from a safety point of view also as law enforcement, these guys that are down range, what are they
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thinking? what's their mindset? suicide by cop? there's a lot going through everyone's mind. >> the fact that it is summer, how much does that affect the time line here? the weather is on their side obviously. winter would be a lot more difficult for them. >> sure. it is and it isn't. they have to eat. i don't know how they're doing that if in fact they are still local and on foot. they're in a wooded area the mountains, it is certainly taking a toll on them if the sightings prove to be true. we'll just wait and see. it is an intense manhunt. our focus, our task force at the direction of the new york state troopers are assisting them and they're doing whatever they need to do to take care of these leads coming in. and there's certainly enough of them that need to be vetted and taken a look at. >> commander fernandez, the fact these guys were allowed to wear normal clothes, civilian clothes
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in prison as a perk of living in the honor block, i assume that makes it all the more difficult for law enforcement. it is not as if it is one less thing they have to do when they're outside is find a change of clothes. >> precisely. it is much easier for a witness to see a couple of guys running in jumpsuits, trying to smash into cars or garages or somewhere to try to get clothes. it is one less step they have to take. i want to be the devil's advocate here. we can't assume anything. these guys could be anywhere. and we don't want someone in florida or texas or california that may think that they have spotted them going into a hotel or something, not to call because we're assuming that they're still in new york. we don't know. we want the public to keep their eyes open. this kind of the safety of the community, it is not just on the law enforcement shoulders. the shoulders of law enforcement. it is everybody's responsibility. a civic responsibility. if you see something, call and also people who may have known these guys a while ago, they've
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been locked up for a long time. it is difficult to establish a pattern of life. they've been in prison. so we don't have locations where they used to live recently. places they used to go recently. if there are people who know them from the past and know things about them family members, aquaintances anything like that. it would help us out a lot if they would call and give us that information. we can develop that and it gives our investigation a different direction to go. >> commander depaul if they were to go to canada does that make much difference in terms of the capabilities of law enforcement to continue to track them down? obviously, canadian authorities are very capable. there is a number of assets they have, and the cooperation is pretty good. >> it is fabulous in canada. the cooperation between our task force, the united states
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marshall service and the canada authorities, the toronto fugitive folks up there, rcmp we have great relationship with them. i'm sure there are constant communications with them as we speak because that's a possibility. as rob said we have no idea where they're at. we're just satisfying all these leads coming in. all the times coming in. and keep them coming. we are going to take a look at everyone of them. >> and we'll keep that number up all throughout the next two hours. good to have you on again. coming up next given breaking news we'll dig deep entire what draws some women to men like these two killers and how they manipulate people to do what they want. the latest reporting, of course a woman who worked in the tailor shop there. her cell phone was used to make calls to people who had contacts with some of these two. the exact details on that are not clear. it seems she is cooperating with
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tonight, late details about the help that two escaped killers play gotten in prison. they broke out of correctional facility in upstate new york overnight on friday. they are still on the loose. very dangerous. investigators believe this woman, prison tailor joyce mitchell played a role in the escape. they believe she planned to fick pair up after they escaped to prison. in the last minute she changed her mine. mitchell is cooperating with authorities. she hasn't been charged. as to why she would want to have anything to do with two guys as ruthless as matt and sweat, mary ellen joins me now. there is a lot we do not know about the nature of the relationship if you can call it a relationship between joyce mitchell and either of these men who are now on the run. in other cases, why do women, in cases like this risk everything
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to help somebody behind bars? to help somebody who, you know has a history of committing murder? >> sure. it is really an important question. i think first of all, it is very important to point out that in these kinds of cases, cases in the past that we've seen. the woman is specifically targeted by the individual who is really quite predatory, and predatory behavior is consistent with someone who is a psycho path. in this case i think of the two, richard matt would actually be more psycho pathic than his partner david sweat. psycho paths are very manipulative and he would have been able to exploit her. but it would have taken time. and over time he would have engaged in almost a grooming process where he breaks down her defenses. he makes her feel special. they engage in behavior that she
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never dreamed she would ever engage in. that could be compromising behavior that is either illegal or sexual in nature. and eventually it gets to the point where the woman believes that she is very special and this man is very special and he is changed and he is going to change her life. >> earlier, i spoke to a former friend of richard matt, a man who was an accomplice to the torturer and murder that matt committed. the exact words that you were using to describe his psycho pathic behavior this man was saying how charming matt could be in a way and how manipulative he is. he described him as the most manipulative person he had ever met. what type of person is particularly susceptible to that type of manipulation? in this case she would have known as he convicted felon. >> she would have known and she would have been exposed to a lot of other inmates.
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so this individual really stands out and therefore his manipulative abilities really stand out. psychopaths read nonpsycho ba'aths better than other people. he would have read her weaknesses. he would have gotten her to the point in the grooming process where she would ave talked about her life. how she views herself. why she is working in a prison as a seamstress or whatever her job was. what she would like to get out of life. so he, psychopaths are very good at using information against them as part of the grooming process. so ultimately it is you and i against the world and he is already getting you to the point where you're engaging in behavior to support him. so you're really you're violating prison rules. you're breaking the law. maybe it's a sexual nature. by the point where he is asking
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for help in breaking out of prison, there has already been a breakdown in what this person would typically be like. so and they don't even realize that it's happening. >> and nbc news in an interview with her son, they're saying she did end up going to the hospital on friday with something that came to a panic attack an attack of nerves. we don't know the full details but it is something investigators are looking at. she is said to be cooperating with investigators. no charges have been filed against her at this point. appreciate your expertise. we do have more breaking news. the police officer in texas who you saw on video, tackling a teenage girl pulling his gun on other teenagers outside the pool party, he has resigned. details on that coming up next. plus a security scare at the white house. the press corps evacuated from the building. the president who was there was not moved. ahhh. beautiful day in baltimore where most people probably know that geico could save them money on car insurance, right?
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back has resigned. in the announce many the police chief's called it indefensible. there are various accounts on what set it off to begin with. a new cell phone video has shown a fight between a young woman and an older woman. take a look. the reporter is there now. that fight that we just watched, the video, is it clear exactly how it started? why it started? who started it? >> reporter: that's a point of contention. what we are told is that the incident in mckinney, texas, it began with that fight we showed video of. it depends who you ask. we spoke to one person who said
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while he didn't hear it, there were others there. the adult was hurling racial slurs at the black teenagers saying go back floonltation. now neighbors we talked to paint a different picture. one man has been a very different supporter of officer eric casebolt. emthis is not about race. he was there before the cell phone video started recording and he blame the teenagers for getting out of control. he said the chaos erupted when those who were not invited to this pool party or didn'there, began jumping the fences to the pool. >> the officer who resigned casebolt is he going to face any charges for what happened? does it end there with his resignation? >> what we're told is that this case is far from over. .to one very vocal advocate in this community who said that earlier this evening, he created a change.org petition to seek charges against this officer in question. whether that will happen or not,
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we just don't know. further angering people here and contributing to the outrage that is very much still evident is that this officer will likely get his pension and still receive the benefits that he has accrued in his more than ten years in law enforcement. some people think that's unfair. i asked the police chief at the press conference if that will be the case and he says he believes that will be the case. that's correct. >> all right. appreciate it. tense moments in the nation's capital. a security threat closed parts of the white house. a bomb threat forced everyone out of the white house daily press briefing. the north lawn of the white house was also cleared. earlier in the day, another threat caused the evacuation of a congressional hearing. the white house correspondent michelle kosinski joins us. what exactly happened and how serious a threat was it? >> reporter: to say this was highly unusual is putting it lightly. usually when we see the most serious threats that tend to
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happen during working hours, an object thrown over the white house fence that you think could be a bomb. the most we see is maybe a lockdown of the white house grounds. but this time middle of the daily briefing we have secret service come in and say this room is being evacuated. come with us. you have to see this as being a serious enough threat that people were taken out of that room. not only that but moved not just outside but off the white house grounds entirely. and then into a building across the street from the white house. we also have to look at this another way. this was clearly for some reason not serious enough to evacuate the president, the press secretary, the press secretary's staff, or the first family. each of whom in the west wing and the white house residence were only yards away from the briefing room. the room that was, you know what the threat was directed at. so you can kind of see this two ways. a lot of questions here. neither the white house nor the secret service are giving any more detail on why they chose to
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the hunt for the fugitives is now in its fourth day suggesting a prison tailor may have been the would be getaway driver. every official we've heard from has said they will be caught. they expressed no doubt about that. the reality is that finding them could take years. there's also the possibility they may never be found. jean casarez reports. >> reporter: it is a tail as old as time. billy the kid, bonnie and clyde
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