of life, because it's all races across the board, and my prayers, it's we will see value. >> you have a big heart, my friend. >> great to be with you tonight. god bless you. >> you, too. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. 7:00 eastern, and we begin this evening with breaking news. a possible major break through in the intense manhunt for two that broke out of a maximum security prison two weeks ago. there's a huge spike in southwestern new york states, specifically in allegheny county near the town of friendship. police are converging on what they call a credible sighting. a tip that two men fitting the

descriptions of the two were seen. police call the parameter a, quote, hot pot. matt and sweat are convicted murderers and considered to be dangerous and desperate. hundreds of police officers are manning road blocks and checking inside every vehicle that tries to drive in and out of this area. friendship, new york. look at the map. friendship, new york, it's about 300 miles from where the two prisoners escaped back on june sixth. just into cnn, we have a press release. it reads the new york state police investigating a possible sighting of the escapees. on the afternoon of june 20th, a witness spotted two men along the railroad line that runs

along route 20 in the town of friendship. state police and u.s. marshals and officers and other law enforcement are currently searching along an area of i-86 and route 20 in the town of tpreupb friendship. while this is an unconfirmed sighting, the state police is asking residents who live along this area on the new york/pennsylvania border to be on alert. if these men are spotted please call 911 immediately, and do not approach as both are considered to be very dangerous. media in the area are asked to stage outside of sp amity located at 5591 state route 19 in belmont, new york. they are saying the media has to move out of that area to a safe position as they create a

parameter. if anybody has any other information regarding the escapees, please onated one r 1-800-give-tip. the u.s. marshal service has placed the two on their most wanted fugitives list. what can you tell us? >> reporter: people on the ground, poppy, are telling us that town of friendship is shut down by the search, a very active search, and helicopters in the air and k-9 units on the ground, and checkpoints set up along that highway and all throughout town, one resident telling me this is a very rule area surrounded by forests.

he told me there is a one-traffic light town essentially, and nobody is being allowed in or out, without going through a check point or car search that one of his friends tried to come in town and police checked the license to make sure they live there. a cemetery caretaker, where the grid searches are taking place, he told me that he is scared, he is sitting there with his rifle watching this unfold hoping that it ends soon. of course, this is an unconfirmed sighting, but there are several things to take note of here. last week police in a neighboring county received tips of unconfirmed sightings there were two men matching the description of the escapees walking along railroad tracks east of there, and state police that were leading this investigation did not receive that tip until tuesday and it

was not until yesterday they were able to find surveillance video from a business. this was just hours after the search here near the prison essentially went cold, and they got this tip, and they went and looked at the video and could not confirm it and it was not high quality enough and sent it to the state police crime lab for further analysis and enhancement and hours later, this afternoon, residents telling me around 4:00, police converged on friendship with another similar sighting, although still unconfirmed, where they are now concentrated hoping this may end the two-week long search. poppy? >> stay with us as we bring in deborah feyerick who joins me on the phone. i want to caution here, because i think people can get very excited when they hear this news, but this could very easily not be them. >> yeah, you are sraabsolutely right, poppy. there have been multiple times

in the last two weeks since they escaped, there have been alleged sightings and people want these guys to be caught but unfortunately it has turned out the tips are false sightings or just incorrect, so authorities right now, they are investigating that area along the railroad tracks in friendship, new york, and a law enforcement source told us earlier it appears to be a credible sighting. investigators did find the tracks near friendship, new york, and you have heavily armed state and local police officers along the federal agents and u.s. marshals walking along the railroad tracks saturating the area as heavily as they possibly can, and we have been cautioning for the last couple weeks, these guys may be laying low, and richard matts a clever man and

he escaped from prison and tried to escape from the mexican prison as well and he knows how to avoid capture now because he learned from his mistakes, and so while these sightings are coming in and they are being called credible and possible, and all of those things, you have to be very, very careful because right now as long as they lay low and they don't make a mistake, they will remain hidden. once they surface, once they make themselves vulnerable, mistakes may come more easily, and richard matts is going to avoid that at all costs, poppy. >> it's your law enforcement source that broke the news that they had this credible sighting. if call it a credible sighting, they probably met in person with who saw them.

what would make them classify this as credible? >> well, because i guess it seemed credible for lack of a better word. it seemed they had information and whatever the person saw, the descriptions matched the two men that are at large right now, and so they have got to chase it down. a couple weeks ago, two weeks ago, there was a report from a cab driver that said he dropped two men sitting their description at a train station in philadelphia. again, they are doing everything they possibly can, and when we look at the investigation right now, and you see these searches going on, and these are so labor-intensive, and you have men and women doing these searches and you have to consider that investigators are

also investigating prison records and seeing what visitors came and what calls were made in and out of the prison. they are trying to determine if richard matts or david sweet, and they are going to the library, the prison library and looking at books that may have checked out, so this is very intensive, and every u.s. marshal you speak to will say this is a marathon, and this is not a sprint, you have to do the most thorough investigation possible, and the men that are out there they want to find these guys really badly and they are going to go into hot pursuit of tips that appear to be at the top of the level. >> deborah feyerick, fantastic reporting, and thank you. sarah, thank you as well. we will take a quick break and on the other side i will talk about this with tom fuentes, and john cuff, former head of the

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friendship, new york, on the state line between new york and pennsylvania. it's about 350 miles south of where the main search had been on. i want to bring in our experts here, john cuff head of investigations division of the u.s. marshal service and you served for 31 years with the marshal's service. people get excited when there is a credible threat but we have to be very careful here. >> good evening, poppy. how are you? >> good, sir. john, i was just saying the importance of tkedifferentiatin between a credible sighting and tip -- >> yes, in this particular case it has been reported, 1,500 tips or so have come in so far.

this issue of credible versus unconfirmed and so on, and credible, the tipster is giving you what they believe credible information which is a testament to the media and heightened level of public awareness and it's great those tips keep coming in, and the first thing they need to determine is how credible is this and so on. they will do an immediate canvas to corroborate, to come up with any video or people in the community that might have seen the same thing and then they will make a determination one way or the other on the credibility and that's why the word unconfirmed, unconfirmed, meaning you can't really confirm it. so you will still treat it, though, until you can prove otherwise. you are going to do your canvassing and your routine law

enforcement functions you would do in terms of searching and so, and any assets on the ground to include dogs, aviation, the parameter searches and so on, and they will continue to do that until they prove or disprove the tip the best they can. one thing to keep in mind, too, parallel to this and in the background you have the future investigation going as well. so leads are going to be developed out of that as well, and it's so important the public keeps up this calling with sightings and let law enforcement determine the credibility of it. >> right. right. thank you very much. stay with me, john cuff, if you would. let me bring in john swine, a special agent and he led the search for the bomber in 1996. a big thunderstorm expected

tonight in friendship, new york, and a big thunderstorm last week is what delayed the search around the prison because the scent trails made it difficult. >> it makes it hard for the short term and the dogs can reacquire the scent several hours after the storm passes, depending on how quickly the ground dries, and it makes the two fugitives extremely miserable and uncomfortable until they are under cover, or can force them under cover. >> let's hope it makes it tough for the convicted murders. stay with me.

matthew hoarice. what is the hardest part about it, getting the manpower there quickly enough? >> yeah, to get the parameter established before dark, and get the dogs and the helicopters and search teams and special operations teams and get the enthusiasm back up. these guys were in horrible weather and now they are going to start all over again, give up another weekend and being with their families, and as john cuff men tupbtione mentioned, maybe it was a good lead, and in some cases you don't know what happened. >> nightfall comes at 8:53 eastern time, and that is not but an hour and a half from now,

matthew, and what does that do to change the search? >> it's going to be limited to some extend, and as tom eluded to earlier, we have technology that we can use overnight, and if it does rain we will re-engage that in the morning to determine if they are in that area, and we will be doing planning, and what happens at dawn when the sun comes back up. >> what is that technology they are using at nightfall? >> infrared techniques with planes and helicopters, and you best believe now that we are on the ground there, the planners and everybody involved will be planning what happens at daybreak and how we approach this thing on sunday morning. >> when you talk about somebody like eric rudolph, the centennial park bomber able to leave out in the wilderness for five years, and it's different for these two escapees, but would you expect them to hunker down if they are in this area,

the parameter being formed, and how long are they able to survive like that? >> yeah, they are going to have to hunker down for the short term because now there is an intensive law enforcement interests in the geographic area. there are three phases. it showed their imagination to escape from a prison that nobody had escaped from in over 100 years. and this is two weeks. people can live two weeks by their witnesses. even thank youly they will have to reach out for the social ned work and get help and they are going to have to rely on somebody or trust somebody, somebody they know or perhaps a perfect stranger. the third phase, they have to simulate back into society. very few prison escapees, very, very few in our history have ever done that, been able to escape and been able to evade

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we continue to follow the breaking news here on cnn. i am poppy harlow in new york. new york state offering a reward of $50,000 for information that leads to the capture of either suspect, richard matt or david swea sweat. they are placed on the most wanted fugitives list. and they are offering a reward for either man being captured. if anybody knows anything about their escape, please call ona d onateds 1-800-givetip. and then talking about their state of mind and mentality as

preuzers th prisoners that escaped. >> you are going to have a lot of desperation, but when you are talking about almost two weeks later, the adrenaline has calmed down and they are thinking clearly and strategically, and they are a little bit or maybe a lot elated because they are getting away with it, and this is going to make them boulder and hopefully a little less careful. >> they were able to convince the seamstress in prison to help them. >> these guys are the most master manipulators. they are con artist to the extreme. it means they are going to

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breaking news in upstate new york with a little more than an hour until sunset. police are intensifying their search for two escaped murderers. sources telling cnn there was a credible sighting near the town of friendship north of the pennsylvania state line. state police say this sighting is unconfirmed, but they believe it's a credible tip as to where these two conflicts may be. authorities walking along local railroad tracks, and this is based on a call from a tipster. it's about 350 to 400 miles south to the correctional

facility where they broke out two weeks ago. today's search following two possible sightings last weekend. let's go to sarah beganam who has new information and is right outside of the prison. >> reporter: yeah, we are learning the kinds of leads the police are learning there in friendship, new york. we heard a four-door sedan going southbound on i-390 probably near a rest area near exit 7, occupants being described with two males reported to match the description of the escaped prisoners, david sweat and richard matt.

the second male was described as wearing a medium colored shirt without pants and the subject destination may be pa, and that was from scanner traffic. emergency response teams heard that a little more than an hour ago. i want to give you context. scanner traffic not always reliable. a lot of calls come in and flood emergency response when something like this is happening in a town like this where people know the police are converged on an area and are searching heavily and start to call in, and everything they see that might seem out of the ordinary, and we know there has been an active search since the late afternoon, very rural area, and very intense search near a railway and a creek and a highway that runs through the town, and we know from witnesses, residents there on the ground that the town is essentially in lockdown and nobody getting in or out without

showing driver's license, and one man there said a chopper has been hovering overhead near a creek, specifically. i mention the railroad because we know all this information comes 24 hours after the leads had gone cold, and we learned there was a lead from last weekend, two unconfirmed reports of sightings of men walking along railroad tracks matching these two men's descriptions. the police are taking the leads seriously based on the witnesses on the ground telling us how many police officers have converged on the area. >> tom fuentes, former fbi. you heard what sarah just said,

and i am going to take a look at what the scanner said, and it's saying scanner traffic again, how much greed kwrupbs do we give this, but they spotted two females in the front seat of a car and two males that matched the description of the escaped prisoners -- >> the two males in the backseat, and they were able to see their socks. >> that strikes you? >> that strikes me that this might be a madup broadcast by somebody to give that to the police to fool them. because for them to have seen all of what they are wearing they would have had to get out and walked around and if they know they are being hunted, they are going to -- it just soupdz phoney to me. >> are you concerned about the fact that when you talk about this new search area, it's so far away from the previous search area, and are we talking about new teams of people that would be mobilized down here and

therefore have to go through the ropes, learn the ropes again? >> sure, if we bring in people totally uninvolved with the last process they will need to be brought in and engaged early in the morning and given the information they had upstate new york. it can be done again, but it's something that you have to go through, because they are not privy to everything that happened during the last 14 years. it's a good distance. 350 miles away, and there's a lot of real estate on the pennsylvania and new york border. >> what do you make of this scanner traffic that sarah just reported about? >> well, i don't know that it would be -- it can't be characterized like the last tip which is a credible tip and sighting and this is not a credible sighting until it gets checked out. it will put law enforcement on alert, and if they find that car they will try to interview the occupants. but i would not let that shift

my focus from the area where i had the credible sighting of the two fugitives. >> what would the number one priority be right now for the new teams, and a lot of these new teams will have to get back, up to speed, if you will, and some of them have fought been on the hunt for the last two weeks. what is the number one that you tell them leading a search like this right now? >> so you have got to give them complete situational awareness, and you have to let everybody flowing into the area know what is going on and where the parameter is established and you have to rely on the local expertise. the local police, you know, one of the things that i heard in the news release from the new york authorities is they have park police. we used u.s. park service and u.s. forest service and north

carolina state police because they had man tracking skills, so trying to leverage the capabiliti capabilities. >> tom fuentes? >> one of the things that comes up and makes these cases difficult, and we experience in all operations, radio communications, and bringing in authorities from all counties and pennsylvania and police districts coming from a variety of areas, and one of the problems we always had in the operation is radio traffic, and being able to communicate with everybody and they have to establish a new command post down there. but to get the leads in, the information put out, and it's very difficult to get everybody on the same page. >> the complexity of leading something as big as this. thanks, guys. we will take a break. when we are back we will talk to a local reporter on the ground.

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the search for two escaped killers who have been on the run for two weeks, it has significantly intensified. friendship, new york, right on the border with pennsylvania. you are in allegheny county where friendship is, and you are in the middle of the search by the command post there. what are you seeing? >> at first it looked like they were calling the search off a little bit and maybe backing off because a lot of the top investigators with the local state police barracks came back to the station, however i think they were just taking a short break and then a bunch of them went back to the command center in friendship. i was able to talk to one of the troopers before he left and he said they are convinced it was a creditable sighting at 1:30, and that is what has them not giving

up hope in the friendship area. two suspects were spotted at 1:30, and what you saw on tv, all of the troopers and the different police agencies ought working together, that did not happen in two seconds. these two may have had time to get away, get in a car, you know, head south towards pennsylvania, or head north towards buffalo. >> what can you tell us about the public there, the public safety? police are saying stay away from these guys, they are incredibly desperate and dangerous. how do people in the community feel? >> that's the number one thing, the troopers saying on the record, there is quite a gathering of media and that's just the main thing they are trying to get out, please -- they are concerned about public safety. there is a large reward and people are talking about this. $100,000 just leading -- the tip

to catch them and this is not leading to the conviction, and this is just if you happen to see them. $100,000, that's a lot of money, i don't care where you live. that's why they are preaching public safety and they are concerned about all the traffic going into friendship and people looking around. >> john anderson, a local reporter on the ground for us there at the scene. thank you. let's go to the experts. to you, tom fuentes. the weather, there's supposed to be a thunderstorm. what does that do? >> it slows down the officers out there, and i wouldn't expect them to do any search in the wooded area. i think the main concentration now would be to get the parameter up and established and hope they did not get out of it as john anderson just mentioned, they had a long time to have moved on since 1:30 this afternoon, so that will be the priority to get the parameter and everybody set and the

planning going into the grid searches they will start doing in the morning, probably. >> rick, why sit so hard to catch these guys? i know it sounds like a simple question, but never before have escaped prisoners been on the land for more than two days? >> that's a great question. these guys obviously are extremely clever, and they have had some luck. but, you see, that's what differentiates how this will end. they have to be lucky with every single decision they make, and every person they trust, and every decision about which way to go and what route to take. law enforcement just has to have luck with them one time. and then they will be back behind bars. i think ultimately this will srl a good ending and as tom said the parameter has to be maintained and they have to go through the law enforcement

planning steps in order to do a good grid search when they have light again in the morning, and hopefully they are still within that parameter. they also have to have contingency plans for any leads that come in placing the two fugitives outside of the parameter and follow those up as quickly as possible. >> matthew, do you believe it's possible for the two of these men to have been on the land for two weeks with no help on the outside? these are not men of the woods who have all these survival skills like we saw in the centennial park bomber. that's not these guys. these guys have been in prison for a long time, and they did not have time to stash things away. could they have help from the outside? >> they could have come across people who did not have access to social media and did not know, and i can't help but

think, remember, if it rains tonight and the weather is bad and we are uncomfortable, they are uncomfortable. we don't know if the story they gave is a good story a. bad story, or otherwise, and the area we are in right now is not inconsistent of an escape route. >> if they are in that area, why would they go south and not north into canada? >> i think they had what they thought was an opportunity for support for people or friends or family without going into another country. canadians are just as intense in their search. >> they would have to cross the border. >> if they are walking through the boards, there's many ways to walk into canada that would not put them at a check point.

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let's pull it up so we can see what we are talking about here. i believe we have video of it. i don't think we do. there is a margoing on. there we go, in charleston, south carolina. that is going on alongside of another rally there in south carolina today. meantime, a racist manifesto coming to light, purportedly written by the shooter, dylan roof, a very, very troubling document. cnn working to fully authenticate he was the author of it, but the statement is laden with racist remarks and

lays out why charleston was the target for this massacre. it's incredibly troubling to read this and hear what they purportedly had to say, at the same time there in charleston you see the evidence of the community continually coming together. >> reporter: yeah, poppy. no doubt the focus here today and the focus has been since the moment this happened has been on the victims, on healing and unity, and now even though this manifesto surfaced online today, the talk has not been about the man test yo and what is in it, but the victims.

there are parts of the manifes manifesto, these parts that we are addressing do shed insight into what could be the turning point for him and why it is he chose the city as his target. the author writes i have no choice, and i am not in the position to go into the ghetto and fight, and i chose charleston because it's the most historic city in my state. at one time had the highest ratio of blacks to whites in the country. we had no skin heads, and nobody doing anything but talking on the internet. somebody has to have the bravery to take it to the real world and i guess that has to be me. chilling words, poppy, if in fact this was written by roof. >> amazing to see the strength of the families of the victims, some of them saying in the bond

hearing yesterday, you have broken my heart and i will never forget but i forgive you. thank you for the reporting all evening on this. before we go, i do want to get back to the breaking news and let you know what we know in terms of the possible sighting of the two murderers escaped from a prison upstate new york. just the past few moments we received emergency scanner traffic in that town that a car was spotted with two women in the front and two men in the back, men who the scanner traffic said fit the descriptions of richard matt and david sweat. hundreds of police officers are manning road blocks and checking inside every house and car and vehicle and everything that tries to get through there. they are forming a parameter

that they have deemed a hot spot. friendship new york is about 300 miles from the prison from where they escaped. what are we learning? >> reporter: good evening. it was just 24 hours ago that police were saying here their leads had tpwaugone cold, and ne news of a potential sighting in the area of friendship, new york, just on the border of pennsylvania. i want to give you some context of the rail lines, thethe freight train lines that we looked at, and it shows the lines that go upstate new york, and it's very clear. there is a freight station that is about 15 miles from the prison where they escaped two weeks ago, and it's a five-hour walk -- i am saursorry, about a

1/2 hour walk, and it would lead them through irwin, new york, and there was an unconfirmed but potential sighting last weekend, and it's just being followed up on today and then from there, there is a junction, and could have easily taken the men west through the friendship area where police are now searching. of course authorities on the ground are racing the sunset tonight because with the darkness and the challenges of that also comes the potential for bad weather. stormy weather in the forecast for friendship, and that kind of stormy weather is what really set back authorities in the first few days of their search here in the area when rain literally washed away the scent picked up by dogs, and so authorities racing the clock tonight going through the raura

area, and a town with one traffic light essentially on lockdown. >> why do authorities give this tip called in, why are they giving this one so much credibility? >> reporter: there have been a lot of leads that have not led to a capture. it's unclear why this one piques authorities' interests. we know from people on the ground that people are told to stay in their homes, home searches are happening and car searches are happening, and we know they are taking this very seriously, poppy. >> we appreciate the excellent reporting from you all night, five hours live with me on this breaking news. i appreciate it so much.

i am poppy harlow in new york, and thank you for joining us tonight. we will keep a close eye on this breaking news on the manhunt on the two convicted murderers, and we will, of course, bring any updates to you. have a good night.