make sure we have calm and that we don't destroy the things that are beginning to be dramatically improved inside the city of cleveland. the community leaders have been terrific. they have been very responsible. they know they have a governor who listens to them and wants to help them. >> thanks so much for joining us. appreciate it. thanks for watching. erin burnett "out front" starts right now. next breaking news. charged, the woman at the center of the prison break investigation in custody, charged with helping two killers escape a maximum security prison. her friend "out front" tonight. more news in the manhunt for the convicts tonight. 1,000 officers chasing 700 leads. has the trail gone cold? was the president of an naacp chapter pretending to be black? her own parents say yes. they say she's born white. let's go "out front."

good evening. i'm erin burnett. we begin with breaking news in the new york manhunt. the female prison worker joyce mitchell has moments ago been charged with helping the two convicted killers escape from a maximum security prison. tonight, the two prisoners evading about 1,000 law enforcement officials. mitchell is in police custody. a source with knowledge of the investigation tells us that mitchell had a relationship with both prisoners, richard matt and david sweat. we are learning tonight that investigators believe mitchell's husband, who works at the prison may have been involved in the escape plan, at least known about it. he was not charged tonight though. meanwhile, on day seven of the manhunt, a warning to the killers on the run just a moment ago. >> we have a message for david

sweat and richard matt. we are coming for you. and we will not stop until you are caught. >> that happened as i said in the past ten minutes. we will speak to a friend and neighbor of joyce and lyle mitchell. first, we begin our coverage with alexandra field in new york. the district attorney moments ago at that microphone announcing the charges of joyce mitchell. what more did he say about her? >> reporter: good evening. the district attorney saying authorities have been talking to joyce mitchell for days. she has been cooperating. she's under arrest tonight. they say the information that she provided in the interviews has been relevant and helpful to the search. 51-year-old joyce mitchell is now facing charges for helping two convicted killers escape from a maximum security prison in upstate new york. law enforcement officials tell cnn mitchell gave richard matt and david sweat blades drill bits and eyeglasses with lights

attached. now investigators are zeroing in on whether anything else helped the prisoners escape. questioning mitchell's husband who may have known about the plan. he worked at the prison's tailor shop. >> we have information coming through through interviews through our investigation that he possibly could have been involved or had knowledge of what was happening. >> reporter: questions have swirled around the seamstress since the fugitives made a break for it and emerged outside the clinton correctional facility. authorities say the hacksaw blades and other items given to the fugitives were purchased in the past few months. police say mitchell was set to meet them with a getaway car. but she never showed. instead, hospitalized for a panic attack the same day of the escape. mitchell had a relationship with both escaped prisoners, richard matt and david sweat, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation. but it's unclear which one she favored. in fact state department of

corrections officials had received a complaint about the relationship between joyce mitchell and one of the two escapees. but the department reportedly didn't find enough evidence to support the claim. >> that was alexandra field reporting. she's right outside that school where they have the press conference moments ago. news of the charges shocking joyce mitchell's family and friends, including her neighbor sharon courier who joins me on the phone. i know you live a few doors down. you have known her 15 years. just moments ago, she was charged with helping these killers, bringing contraband to them helping them escape. can you believe it? >> caller: no i can't believe it. i really can't. i'm really shocked. i never thought she was like that. she's a very nice person. >> and, sharon we know she told authorities that one of the killers made her feel in her word special. what do you think could have motivated her?

>> caller: i really don't know. i don't know what she was thinking. i don't know. maybe charmed her or something or money. i don't know. >> charm or money. >> caller: i don't know. something had to make her do that. she's not like that. she's not even a flirt or anything. she's just a nice person. >> she is accused, sharon of giving the men blades drill bits among other things. we are waiting to find out more. but that's what we have learned are among the contraband items she may have smuggled in. did she have any familiarity with those tools that you were aware of as a longtime neighbor and friend? >> caller: no. i've never seen her having any tools of any kind or anything. i wouldn't know where she would get them. unless she got them at the prison. i don't know. i was shocked. i'm just so shocked that she even participated in something like that. she never acted like that.

she's a good mom. she was a good wife. she's a good person. >> you talk about a good mom, wife person. not a flirt. it's an image of her -- you know her well. it's a real image. >> caller: i know her well. she went to school with my older children. she went to school with them. they were teenagers and everything. she was never anything like that. >> we have gotten a different picture from others. her ex-husband said she's a serial cheater. someone else said she's a troublemaker. it sounds to me like that doesn't fit at all with the woman you knew. >> caller: it doesn't. the woman i knew she wasn't a troublemaker. her first husband, he cheated on her and never took care of his son. i don't think he should be talking. >> officials have previously investigated joyce for a relationship with one of the two men. did she ever sharon talk to you about her job, about these men, about any men in the jail? >> caller: no.

never. she never even talked about her job. no. she never brought it up or anything. >> sharon i appreciate you taking the time very much. thank you so much. >> caller: well okay thank you. >> i want to go to paul callen former prosecutor and criminalist casey jordan. you heard a neighbor. she has known joyce. in a sense, what she was saying didn't surprise you. >> no. it's the same thing neighbors say when we discover serial killers. so many people have if you won't call it a double life a very secret life. in this particular case with joyce mitchell that's what was so exciting. if she's a classic person who has the idea that the thrill of going to work every day and having something to look forward to. we have been talking about it the obsession with the alpha male bad boy. women with low self-esteem, women who were abused as

children, they need that sense of romance, almost a regressed feeling of teenagers. their lives are mundane. >> i call it love makes you crazy. it causes a lot of crime throughout the united states. >> so we just heard the district attorney. moments ago he laid out the charges. contraband and criminal facilitation. these charges together could carry a maximum of eight years and could carry less. there could be more charges. what do you think happens from here? part of me layperson, i say they have waited aid week to charge her. they have gotten everything they could get out of here. it wasn't enough to actually find them. >> they drained her dry. the word was that she went in without a lawyer. normally you would surrender with a lawyer and a deal would be cut in exchange for information, a recommendation for a lighter sentence. instead, she was questioned i understand, without a lawyer present. >> that's our understanding. >> these are serious charges, promoting prison contraband is

smuggling items that are banned into a prison seven years in prison is the maximum, two and a third is the minimum. the other charge criminal is a list -- criminal is akrimcriminal sewis a solicitation. >> they say her husband may have helped or known. casey, when you hear this neighbor she also -- i had a chance to speak with her earlier. she told me joyce and lyle were holding hands. they had a happy relationship. there was no indication there was anything wrong in the marriage. and yet a source close to the investigation is telling us she had a relationship not with just one of the killers but with both of the killers. >> i'm not surprised. she craves the thrill of having someone pay attention to her, adore her. you have to keep in mind that for her to keep getting away with this for her to keep a relationship with an unmate at

work ongoing, she has to hold hands with her husband. she has to throw everybody off. she has to put on a perfect public face. i will be curious -- the question mark now is not joyce mitchell. it's lyle mitchell. how much did he know? if he was in charge of maintenance in that same tailor shop perhaps that's how she got blueprint to give to the guys. that's how she got the tools. maybe he suspected, but he isn't complicit. i'm interested to hear his perspective. >> the fact that they charged her now, they didn't charge the husband, they are charging her, what does that mean in the broader sense of are there other people out there that might have helped them? i go back to the point of they drained her dry in your words. that wasn't enough to find them. she doesn't know exactly where these guys are. >> i'm wondering how many people do know. they have been out long enough now that whatever their -- >> seven days. >> whatever their initial plan was, it may have been varied by weather or by the pursuit of the police. they could be in a different area than they originally planned to go to.

>> it's just stunning. casey, in terms of the husband, you suspected him of being involved. i want to understand the motivation. if it's true his wife is sleeping with two other men. why would he help -- i don't understand. >> i don't necessarily think he knew that there was an affair going on. i'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt. i think that she was bamboozled by the inmates. i think she kept him close. if he's the maintenance worker, he knows the inner workings of what's behind the wall. i've been saying i will bet he's an engineer. i bet he knows where the steam pipes are. he would have access to the blueprint and the plans. i think she may have gotten them from him without him knowing. never forget a complaint was made by someone in the facility that she was having a relationship with one or both of these guys. >> which had been investigated in the past. >> maybe it was lyle who reported her. maybe it was her own husband who turned her in. give him the benefit of the doubt until we hear where he stand on this.

>> it may be a limited conspiracy. because who is aiding and abetting on the outside? both of these individuals are under police surveillance. which would suggest that they may still be close to the prison, hiding in the woods, in a cave a cabin, some place that hasn't been searched. >> she may have thrown them off trail. >> there's always of course that a sinister interpretation. thanks to both of you. more breaking news after this. authorities believe the two killers are on the run together. here is the thing. there has been 700 leads, 1,000 police are looking for them. why haven't they found them? an investigation, how exactly are police trying to track down the two killers? there's a heat seeking technology that can spot a possum on the ground mile away from a helicopter. we will show you how it works. they are using this technology tonight. a case similar to this prison break. one convict escaped the same prison and avoided capture for six years.

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breaking news police issuing a warning to two killers on the loose tonight. authorities will not stop hunting until men who escaped seven days ago are caught. nearly 1,000 state, local and federal law enforcement officers are now hunting in the manhunt for two convicted killers who escaped that prison. they have been following more than 700 leads in the seven days that richard matt and david sweat have been missing. miguel marcos is live in the search area where they are hunting. here is what i notice when i look at you. it's pouring rain. how is that impacting the hunt? >> reporter: it's miserable conditions out there for both the searchers, the hundreds of searchers out there now. we have seen them change shifts.

many coming through here. certainly, worse for those two people on the run. like an army law enforcement moving into neighborhoods, keeping the pressure on leaving nothing to chance. residents here hypervigilant, hopeful this nightmare of killers on the loose will soon end one way or another. >> i'm home right now. i have every door locked. everybody is scared worried. >> reporter: a former marine and an english teacher says one saving grace in this part of the world, guns. a way of life. how many guns do you own? >> about 50. >> reporter: 50? five zero? >> yeah. i have four gun safes. >> reporter: hunting and shooting so common place the escapees may have more to worry about than the official searchers.

the fact that two escapees may worry people. but -- >> they are not really worried. >> reporter: at 83 years old, still a crack shot. look at the bull's eyes. bang on my friend. >> i've been doing it for a long time. >> reporter: he might need to be. investigators pouring through nearby gas station surveillance video where two convicted murderers may have been rummaging for food. people in this area when they talk about joyce mitchell i should say, they scratch their heads as to how she could actually help. there's pure anger out there for her as well. perhaps it's best that she is behind bars or will be shortly, because there's a lot of upset throughout this community that all of this is caused by this escape. >> thank you very much.

jonathan gilliam, an fbi special agent and gary heyward who served time in jail and an author. thank you for being with me. 700 leads. you heard miguel talk about, it's swarming with law enforcement, nearly 1,000. why haven't they found them? >> well i mean they did get an eight-hour head start. wherever -- we started off with two scenarios. they may not be there. that's the worst scenario. a lot of people are starting to come away from that and think that because the dogs pick up scent, they are there. we concentrate on the scenario they didn't have help. they had eight hours to get three miles away. this is a big area. it's very swampy. you see how bad the weather is. their ability to maneuver and get away is as hard as it is for the guys to come in and search for them.

that's probably what's delaying this process. >> as someone who served time there, today they had a farm that was the focus. they thought for a brief while that they were there. everybody was converging on that space. then they said no. law enforcement were leaving. a few false alarmed. >> i think that one of the key parts is joyce mitchell. if you can get her to talk. to see whether they did have help besides her. as he said if they had outside help they could be gone gone somewhere else. if they had a vehicle waiting for them besides miss mitchell. if it was for monetary gain if they had to pay somebody to get them. you don't know why she did it. out of love or monetary gain. if they had some way of paying people to help them they could have been -- they could be long gone. >> there could be another story here. before this -- most he is

skaupeeskaup -- most escapees are caught quickly. obviously here seven days. is time working for or against the searchers? >> well you know, again, it depends on did they have help or not? i tell you who helped them inadvertently that needs to be looked at that's this prison giving them green jumpsuits. you are surrounded by woods. why would you give somebody something that is green? to wear every day. if they escape that's why hunters wear orange so they can be seen. there are certain things that led up to this that i think have really been -- have made it more difficult for the overall search. >> right. at this point, i guess i could be wrong, but the assumption is they have found other clothes or someone delivered them clothes or she did. >> but, again, that goes back to this prison. what is going on inside that

allowed this woman and this guy to have a relationship when they were -- they didn't split them up. i think -- we were discussing this earlier. i think that they had help making the cuts. to think that they could go in with a saw and make those precision cuts without -- it's so -- it's as loud as a jackhammer. >> you agree with that. you have been agreeing all the way along that you think there was other help. do you think they are together? that's another crucial question as they hunt. >> i'm not rooting for them. but if they were out there, the best bet would be for them to stay together. i would think that they would think that to stay together so they can make moves at the same time. if one get caught you don't know if he will turn on other, give away a location. i would bet that they -- >> stay in it together? >> yes. >> what about this? they have killed before. will they kill again? >> even the way they goad the

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breaking news at this hour. two convicted killers on the loose, day seven of the hunt. right now, the first arrest. joyce mitchell a prison worker charged with helping the men on your screen escape from the facility. a high security -- top security prison in upstate new york. law enforcement owe fishes arefficials are saying that she gave the men hacksaws drill bits and lighted glasses. she had a relationship with both. her husband is under investigation as well. although breaking in the past hour authorities saying they have not yet decided to charge him.

no charges as of yet against lyle mitchell. he did work in the prison as well. right now, nearly 1,000 law enforcement officers are hunting for the convicts. 700 leads. and yet those men are still on loose. many of the leads are being followed from the air. they use a thermal imaging technology. if you are a helicopter can spot a tiny animal by heat. it's amazing. we got an exclusive firsthand look from the air at that very same technology being used to hunt down the killers. >> we got a call of shots fired. >> reporter: l.a. sheriffs deputies. >> a police crew in the sky. >> reporter: flying to their first call of the night as we quickly learn they are not just any air support. >> looks like a black and white image. that's not right. >> it's a picture generated by

measureing differences in heat. the lighter the color, the hotter the temperature. >> reporter: you are looking at video from a thermal imaging camera. technology being used to hunt for killers in upstate new york. under where we are sitting, a 360 view of los angeles in the dead of night, able to spot anything warm. >> you see the heat from the engine. this car is very hot. it has been parked in the last 15 minutes in the driveway. >> reporter: even in a dense area. >> you see a large black area. there's a critter on the ground. >> reporter: in the center? >> yes. >> reporter: how far away are we? >> three-tenths of a mile. a person on the sidewalk next to the park. >> we have a jogger. >> caller: you can tell that was a woman. i can see her hair. a fugitive trying to crawl away you would be able to pick it up. >> yes. >> reporter: how essential is the technology like this?

>> especially at night, you can't do it without it. that wooded area. >> reporter: one of the most striking examples the arrest of tsarnaev. who can forget this image? a camera saw him hiding in a backyard in a boat under a tarp before any ground officer approached. there are limitations in a search as difficult as the new york prison break. >> you can't see through trees, leaves. it gives you that edge over the bad guys. i have seen them hiding thinking okay they can't see me. they can't see me. we're looking right at them. >> reporter: with the high-tech eye in the sky. shane hobel is with us. luke has used this technology in many hunts. you know just saw this video.

our reporter was able to see a possum from a helicopter using this technology. how crucial is something like this? >> this technology is fantastic for us at night as law enforcement officers. you can get a great picture. it paints an excellent picture that you couldn't see at night otherwise. there are some limitations. it's not x-ray. you can't see through things. seeing some of the pictures i have seen from the search area in new york those guys have quite a task ahead of them. the wrodooded area. >> we hear that there are homes around in this area that are temporarily abandoned, summer homes that haven't been opened up. lots of structures that they could be in. if they were in a house like that if the water wasn't turned on heat wasn't on they are the only warm thing in the house, would you be able to see them or no? >> probably not. unless they leaned up against a

wall for a long period of time and the heat transfer went through the wall they might pick up a hot spot in the house. if they knew it was abandoned, they might have someone check it out. otherwise, if they are under a house it would be difficult to locate them. >> it's useful. but it's not a panacea to use this technology. that hasn't been enough. dogs haven't been enough. we have heard about the use of dogs. is this going to come down to luck they are in this area or they are not, they stumble across them or they don't, which is shocking? >> yeah. like eric frein in pennsylvania. >> the one killing the cops. was found in an airport hangar. >> on a routine sweep. they didn't expect to find him there. he found his way back there. surprised apprehended him. a see a similarity where they are out there desperate, exhausted, probably dehydrated malnourished if they haven't been going back and forth into the suburban areas obtaining

supplies. i see them skirting back and forth. the woods are a great place to hide. great coverage. you could hide from the thermal imaging. it's easy to defeat the dogs. >> you think this will come down to human trackers people like you who are going to go stare down at the footprint, at the wrapper? >> absolutely. it's not part of the police and/or military training set to understand the finest levels of tracking. that's what we do. we teach law enforcement and military personnel. in cases like this reach beyond the blue curtain and reach out to there's trackers that are very talented individuals across the united states and canada. they are here for that valuable resource. this is a perfect example of not reaching out to this. there's two trackers within this area. they are within three hours of striking there. we can be there in a matter of hours. we would go up there free of cost because we're expending a tremendous amount of cost from the public.

we are talking about 1,000 individuals up there wasting this time. they did find tracks. they did find it. there was evidence. >> start using the extra level. >> absolutely. >> how hard is it -- if you are looking at the thermal imaging, you still need human beings. do you agree? you would probably see all sorts of heat signatures. you are moving quickly. you are trying to determine what's what. you can't necessarily see inside structures. >> exactly. i think what he is saying is very true. we can do a lot from the air. we can do it quickly. unless there's a five-mile square area they are checking that's a huge area to check through thick trees with a thermal imaging camera. especially during the middle of the day when it's warm out. it's more difficult with the camera to search. if you have someone on the ground a trained tracker that knows what to look for, that would help in the situation. >> i appreciate both of your time very much. thank you. we will see if it ends up being humans and human trackers that

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officers hunting for the escaped convicts. the search now desperate in its seventh day. significant because no new york prison escapee has evaded capture this long. one inmate at this same place managed to vanish for six years. tom foreman is out front with this story. >> reporter: in the quiet neighborhoods of virginia norm hamilton seemed like a friendly family man. that is until a double shooting in washington left one man dead and exposed a terrible secret. >> he was arrested in an upstairs apartment. the car was stolen. >> reporter: turns out norm hamilton was a burglar who escaped six years earlier with another man from clinton

correctional facility in new york the same prison that held david sweat and richard matt. >> he was quite the con man. >> reporter: a former detective led the investigation and has co-authored a book about how he resumed a life of crime, robbing thousands of homes of an estimated $50 million during a five-year span. >> as he got into it he became more and more brazen about entering houses where people were. particularly single females he would target. >> he tear phiy ry scared people. >> absolutely. >> everybody is triple locking their doors. >> reporter: welch evaded suspicion through keyman maneuvers. he gave his escape partner no idea where he was going. he moved in and had children with a woman who had a clean record which he used for licenses loans, car titles.

and third, he was brutally efficient, stealing jewels furs even gold and silver memorabilia from the home of an astronaut, then selling it out of state. he was caught only when he shot a man during a robbery and the victim ran him down with his car before dieing. >> he is an animal. i don't think i can say the rest on tv. >> reporter: even then he charged with rape, he shaved his mustache mustache hair and eyebrows to prevent identification. he was convicted anyway. could the missing prison escapees pull off such a stunt? >> the only thing good about this case is that there's national coverage. everybody in new york state and vermont and places surrounding it knows of these guys. they have seen their pictures. >> maybe they won't be like welch. it has been seven days. usually it's a few hours. they have gotten this far.

what do you think? how far could these similarities go? >> reporter: similarities could go a long way. you point out something wise. this is like investigating a crime. those early hours really matter. every day, every hour that they are not caught gives them more time to get settled in what they are doing or to get further away and it gets more complicated. will they stay on the run forever? probably not. usually people somehow get tripped up. if they start doing the things that welch did, avoiding all contact with other known criminals, acting like normal people and getting access to documents and things that make us all seem normal yeah then you talk about a really long search that could go a long distance too, before you ever find these guys. >> stunning. things like getting the driver's license, getting the mortgage. thank you, tom foreman. a civil rights activist accused of pretending to be

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controversy brewing tonight over the race of a leader in the naacp. the president of the spoekane

chapter of the naacp, a well known member of the african am african-american community. >> reporter: it seems like an easy question sn. >> are your parents, are they white? >> >> she is president of the spokane chapter of the naacp and professor of afrikaner studies at eastern university. for years the 37-year-old has claimed she is black. the caption underneath says her father presumably this black man will be a special guest at one of their events. but this is the birth certificate cnn obtained from rachel's parents. this is her biological mother and this is her father. proving that she is white. the couple says their daughter has never claimed to be black in their presence though due to a

legal dispute they haven't talked to her in years. >> that's her request, rachel has chosen to distance herself from the family and be hostile toward us. she doesn't want to be seen with us because that ruins her image. >> an image the couple who adopted four black children came about gradually around 20007. >> rachel has always been interested in ethnicity and diversity and we had many friends of different ethnicities when sunny washe was growing up. >> reporter: so interested in black culture she left montana to go to college in jackson mississippi before earning a masters degree from howard university a historically black institution in 2002. throughout her career she has fought for racial equality. here she is with baltimore prosecutor marilyn mosbey. also apointed to oversee equality in the police department. on her application however, she indicated that she is white,

black, and native american. now, the city is checking to see if this new revelation has violated any policies. >> the truth here is she is a white woman is exercising extraordinary privilege to try on blackness, some people say to try on everything but the burden to decide how and when she wants to be the thing she can always walk away from. >> reporter: cnn tried to reach her for comment. the naacp is standing behind her saying "we encourage americans of all stripes to become members and serve as leadersen our organization." >> and it is worth point outing that you don't have to be black to be a leader with the naacp and you didn't have to be black to go to howard university. these are some of the issues people are pointing to. at issue is why she felt the need to lie about it. i spoke to the director of the program she teaches for eastern washington university. she always knew she had white in her, assumed she was black. but was more impressed with her

effectiveness in the classroom. what's interesting, a lot of people who know her are actually rallying behind her saying she has been an effective person leading for change in race relations. >> stephanie, thank you very much. that may be the case you heard marc lamont hill. the reporter who broke the news about the mistaken identity, joins me from idaho. maureen, you heard marc lamont hill african-american professor on the network say look as if she is trying on blackness. everything but the burden. it has upset him. what would compel someone to fake racial identity. what's your impression of rachel? >> i don't know why she would do

this. i do know she is extremely intelligent, well educated and deeply passionate about civil rights. and -- you know i think that -- >> she is intelligent. well educated. you have known her, i know for a long time. as a reporter more than seven years. and you actually questioned this issue back in 2009. you asked her at that time if she was black. what made you ask the question then? and how has her appearance changed since you have known her? has it been something that at first obvious it wasn't true. and has become less obvious? or how would you describe it? >> there were questions in the community. because her appearance had -- had changed she had begun to dress more ethnically when she was out in public. and -- you know her her complexion changed somewhat. there were discussions in the community, people questioned it. and i have to say that i often, i always said you know i saw what they were talking about. however, i felt that the work that she was doing was very important. so i mean i just didn't think

about it too much. but when she had nooses a specific racist terrorism landing on her front porch i thought it was important to see if this was because of her ethnicity she thought this was happening or advocacy work. she told the police it was both. i did ask her, i did ask her the question are you black? >> all right, it is an incredible story. and maureen, we appreciate your being with us. thank you very much. as i said maureen, one of the reporters to break this incredible story getting national attention now. >> next aviation acrobatics. okay just iffage in you're taxiing along, you know i don't know. going to chicago. and this how your plane takes off you. think you are dead right? we'll show you what happens next.

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