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climbed out like that. a minute by minute timeline of the escape the latest on the efforts to put a killer back behind bars. entire communities are under water in brazil. dozens were killed and thousands without their homes after a cyclone barrelled through the south american country how officials are preparing with more rain on the way >> reporter: an arizona police officer springs into action to save a child's life. the entire ordeal caught on camera, including the moment that toddler began to both again. hear from the hero and the good samaritan who stepped in to help as carlos alcaraz dominates the men's u.s. open, the american women are on trook sw s track t sweep through the tournament here a message to maui. good early morning to you. i'm jessica layton >> i'm frances rivera.

we now know exactly how a fugitive killer managed to break out of a pennsylvania prison newly-released video show the danelo cavalcante climbing out of the chester county prison a week ago an urgent manhunt is still under way as the dangerous inmate is briefed t believed to be headed south. >> reporter: this is the moment danelo cavalcante began his escape early thursday morning. officials officials releasing the video and describing how he crab walked up the wall before pushing his way through razor wire >> while he escaped undetected n though the observation tower was staffed at the time. >> the tower officer did not observe nor report the escape. the escape was discovered as part of the inmate counts that occur when inmates come in from the exercise yard.

>> reporter: the tower officer is now on administrative leave the acting warden says he made his escape at 8:51 a.m. but wasn't determined to be missing for nearly a full hour in the prison was locked down and special count conducted. by 10:01:00 a.m. the public escape siren had sounded and 911 had been notified. >> reporter: his breakout mirrored a similar escape. igor bolte gained access to a visitor's entrance where there was less security. bolte was captured within five minutes and measures were added to the prison. now they're adding more. >> with yet another sighting, they believe he is heading south, confident he has not escaped their perimeter. >> we are committed to the

search, and we will find him we will bring him back into the criminal justice system. in our >> our thanks to george for that update a federal judge has ordered texas to remove the buoys that the state put ninto the rio grande immigration advocates have criticized the buoys on humanitarian and safety grounds, but the order focussed on issues that are more narrow the district judge said federal law barred texas from quote installing obstructions in the nation's navigable waters. the order compelled them to pull the buoys to the shore on the american side. texas will appeal the decision the biden administration announced it would be canceling seven oil and gas leases for alaska they were situated in the arctic

wildlife refuge, a habitat for polar bears and caribou. the decision was met with praise from environmental groups while dan sullivan called it an unrelenting assault on the state's economy. a massacre in ukraine. at least 17 people killed in a missile strike on a crowded market there a child is among the dead. dozens are injured it is the deadliest assault on ukraine in months and came as u.s. secretary of state antony blinken made a surprise visit to kyiv, announcing another billion dollars in aid for the country richard engel reports from ukraine. >> reporter: the people shopping were calm and unsuspecting the first sign they had of danger was the terrible whistle of incoming. but by then it was too late. 17 were killed by the russian

missile, including a child many more were wounded ukraine doesn't have enough air defense systems to cover the entire country and depends largely on u.s. military aid for protection. just hours earlier, secretary of state blinken arrived in kyiv, his first visit since ukraine launched a major counter offensive against russian forces three mont ms ago. he announced more aid. both ukraine and russia are running low on ammunition, but putin may soon get a resupply from north korea's dictator, kim jong un, who has vast stockpiles of just what russia needs now. >> ukrainians are fighting for their own country, for their own future, their own freedom.

russians are not and that gives me tremendous confidence that ukraine will prevail. >> reporter: ukraine's counter offensive has been extremely slow going as troops try to break through heavily fortified russian positions, but secretary of state blinken says it i sayst sta is starting to show progress as covid cases rise, a new booster could be available next week they would be available once the cdc signs off on them. moderna and pfizer say they appear effective against a new variant that has emerged in several states now to shocking images coming out of brazil this morning. entire communities have been leveled by a powerful cyclone. more than 30 people killed and thousands more are now homeless. witnesses say it was like something out of a horror movie. valerie castro has more. >> reporter: the view from above showing entire cities under

water, after a cyclone tore through southern brazil. more than 2,000 were left homeless one woman in agony over he loss [ speaking in a non-english language ] another woman describing her ordeal as she climbed up to a neighbor's apartment while others called out to be rescued. she says it was frightening. people on roofs were asking for help it was a scene if a n a moa horr movie. volunteers struggling to link arms and pull in boats with terrified residents to safety after they were plucked from the rising waters. emergency crews using jet skis to search the streets for survivors and helicopter teams delivering those skewed by air on stretchers to waiting ambulances firefighters even carrying out people on their backs while

trudging through several feet of water. but despite the survivors, the grim reality of death overwhelming one community where government officials say 15 victims were discovered inside one home 80% of structures in that town now submerged. [ speaking in a non-english language ] drone video revealing the d destruction left behind. this man picking throughout debris that was once his home. [ speaking in a non-english language ] the local governor asking for more resources from the federal government, including more rescue helicopters while residents plead for help and prepare for more days of rainfall ahead >> our thanks to valerie for that report. a harrowing situation unfolding in southern turkey, where an international team of rescuers are gearing up to save an american man trapped in a

cave for days. 40-year-old mark dickey was deep inside the cave on saturday when he suffered a health emergency from gastrointestinal bleeding he's being cared for by caredyt on site with blood transfusions. the effort involves about 150 rescue ares and will likely take days he is a veteran instructor with the national cave safety association and was looking to find a new passage through the cave when he got sick. we could see severe storms nbc meteorologist angie lassman is tracking weather systems that could be potentially dangerous. >> we are watching that cold front that could bring us a little relief but make us unsettled. it's going to be a slow mover, it will be around not just today

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back together. we tell you more about slack key melodies ♪ our land is in grave grave danger now ♪ >> reporter: for these slack key musicians. ♪ ♪ ♪ how will they feel ♪ >> reporter: the melody of a classic song, hawaii 8, tells more than the story of a watershed moment restoring the hawaiian language. >> a lot of people see the luau as an old culture. it's not dead. it's alive always changing. when things happen it will change and change again. ♪ ♪ >> hawaiian culture, the slack key, that will live on and will h live on because of the people. and without the people all of this will cease to exist >> reporter: max, sterling and peter. ♪ ♪ specialize in slack key.

le legend has it, it came when the california cowboys gifted the hawaiians guitars. >> they didn't understand how to tune it. >> reporter: so they put their own touch on it? >> yes, they slackened slack the lines. >> reporter: now of a the horror, the musicians know it will bring them together for one, he still has a fishing shop which he's using to help devastated fishermen with supplies >> it's just hard it to fathom >> reporter: but for a man born and raised on maui, he lost his house, his cat, his touchstones. >> just ashes, completely leveled as well as pretty much the entire neighborhood. >> reporter: peter a two-time grammy award winner and father of two is still trying to

process escaping flames with his family >> the hardest part is telling my son he can't go home yet. >> reporter: how old is he >> he's 3. 3 years old. i ha i have an 8 month old baby so i don't really talk about it. >> reporter: the pain palpable for all the people of maui, and yet through hardship there's always been the steady harmony of their music stories >> and our tlarngss to sam brock for that report. hope those stories continue through music. >> thanks

right now at 5:00, back to school. classes resume on a high school campus locked down last friday by gunfire. we're live there this morning with the changes parents and students can expect to