but brian todd is at the court. people i believe, perhaps plaintiffs in the case have been coming out and there's been cheering. brian todd what's going on up there? >> well jake we just saw a crowd rushing up here. i'm going to actually walk up the steps. our cameraman is not ray loued to go up these steps. i'm going to go up the steps and see what's going on here. an extraordinary thing because the protesters generally as a rule are kept on the plaza in front of these steps. there's some people here speaking. and these are celebrants who are applauding the ruling as some of the attorneys and others come out. i'm at the back of the crowd working my way forward. i cannot see who is speaking. but it's really extraordinary that the crowds are let up the elevated plaza on the steps leading -- >> big cheers at the supreme court right now. brian, while you're engaging in your hike let's go to pamela brown who also is there and maybe can shed light on what's going on. >> jake you can see behind me here huge crowds going u

brian todd is in south carolina tonight. brian, you have spoken to a friend of the shooter. what are they saying about the signs? this isn't something that just sudden suddenly happens. >> reporter: there were warning signs. we spoke to a friend of dylann roof's from their middle school years. they lost touch then reconnected recently. he painted a very disturbing portrait of dylann roof's behavior in the weeks leading up to the shooting. he talked about dylann roof's ideas about provoking tension between the races. here is what he had to say. >> he was just saying he wanted segregation. he wanted a race war. he wanted white with white and black with black. >> reporter: what did you say? >> i didn't agree with his opinion at all. we just argued about it. >> reporter: he says on the night that dylann roof talked about starting a race war, he said he had a lot of vodka. he drank a litter of it. it disturbs him and he said then he decided to take action. he says he took dylann roof's gun away from him that night and decided the next morning that he didn't want to be accused of

i want to bring in brian todd and we have tom fuentes a former fbi assistant director. search is miguel marquez. brian, let's get the latest on this. we know she's been giving a lot of information, but it looks like the cuffs are on. >> it looks like they're closing in on her possibly making a case. we're told by a source with knowledge of the investigation, telling our producer she's in and out in police custody. we heard just a few moments ago she was being to be arraigned on the unknown charges. the charges we were told earlier that she could face this from the d.a. promoting prison contraband and accessory to the escape. those are possibility charges for her. not clear if those will be the exact charges, but earlier today, the district attorney andrew wiley said those were possibilities for her, and if she is booked on those charges and convicted she could serve up to seven years in prison on those charges. >> okay. >> we know she had been very cooperative, according to the d.a. she sought them out every day, she had not retained an attorney. she had been giving them

brian todd, cnn, washington. >>> we will be back after this very short break.ou're with cnn. >>> welcome back, everyone. the love locks have been unbolted from a bridge in paris but now art is in their place. arabic letters now cover the bridge. lovers had attached so many small padlocks on to the bridge's metal frame, their weight threatened the bridge's stability. the new look is drawing mixed reviews. >> it's a cool combination to bring together the classical stuff and more modern, nitty gritty stuff. that's a cool combination. paris is supposed to be the city of love and we have horrible drawings on the bridge. although the padlocks weren't nice to look at, the idea of the padlocks was a nice idea, romantic. >> romantic. >> always happens with art. mixed reviews. >>> the padlocks were meant to symbolize enduring love. >>> people in parts of the middle east are on alert as a tropical cyclone nears landfall pedram javaheri joins us with the details. this is pretty rare, right? >> it is, yeah. average speaking we see this once per year. but sometimes you go th

brian todd is here in "the situation room." he's looking into this part of the story. what are you finding out? >> tonight we're getting new information how this automatic started to unravel. rich art matt got sick then inexplicably fired on a camper. it was a crucial split between them. that turned the tide for law enforcement. >> the tale of two takedowns begins nearly six days ago. that's when david sweat says he decided to break off with richard matt because matt was slowing him down. one laws enforcement source tells cnn there's evidence matt was sick possibly from contaminated food or water. underwear with matt's dna on it had been fouled near an old outhouse. 12:20 friday afternoon, a key clue. cabin owner bob willett gets a call from his son who checked on the cabin near dwayne new york. >> when i was talking to him on the phone, there was a gunshot then. >> those shots might have been fired at those fired at a passing camper. he immediately notices something out of place. >> just move out one counter to another, and it was -- it was a ring and it was wet. the

brian todd joins me now from columbia, south carolina. brian, what have you learned?rson, we have this just in tonight from our editorial producer, elon byrd, who spoke to the shooter's fracture. the father confirmed that not only he, but that his daughter, the shooter's sister, placed separate calls to the police tip line in the hours after wednesday night's shooting. so you have now three members of the shooter's family who placed calls to the police in those crucial hours. you have the father, his daughter, the shooter's sister, and an uncle who placed calls to the police tip line. three members of that family, calling police in those crucial hours. also tonight, we have learned that the shooter likely planned some kind of an extreme act for quite some time. that there may have been a dispute within the shooter's family, about his purchase of a gun, and that he had some violent ideas about provoking tension between the races. >> reporter: the license plate saying confederate states of america, patches on his jacket, the flags of apartheid era south africa in rhodes

brian todd, cnn, washington. >>> we take you to the middle east now.le in gaza have lived in the ruins left behind during the war between hamas and israel. >> slowly, the city and the strip is rebuilding. senior international correspondent nick robertson shares one man's story on the fall and rebuilding of gaza. >> where once mighty houses stood, now crumpled concrete. pancaked floors, rebar twisted in the air, sprouting like angry graffiti. it reveals the scale of destruction in the wake of the war here last summer. according to the united nations, israel's operation protective edge responding to rockets fired from herein side gaza destroyed the homes and severely damaged the homes of more than 5,000 others. until now, little has been done to repair them. behind me, the house nadal once owned. untouched since the war ended. he still visits. a car wheel, his makeshift cooker. he serves tea from a smoke blackened pot. he wasn't in when the rockets hit. >> translator: i tried and tried to get back. then when i saw my house, i cried for a night. then i re

brian todd, cnn, waupg. washington. >> hong kong is getting if ready for a confrontation over democracy. they are introducing a plan to elect the next chief executive. the proposal would let people cast votes for hong kong's next leader in 2017 but only if china gets to vet the candidates first. this is the scene last year when pro democracy demonstrations shut down key parts of the city for some 79 days. let's turn now to ivan watson. he's following this developing story from hong kong. >> i think we know how the vote on reform may go since last year the government didn't budge at all to student demands. set the scene for us there today. what's happening? >> as you can hear it is noisy and scorching hot. we are in front of the legislative council this round building where the assembly room is where the new election proposal which resulted in some controversy in hong kong has been produced and presumably debate potably voted on in the next day or so. this crowd here as come out to support it. signs saying ye

brian todd, cnn, washington. >> in iraq, isis cut off a major dam leading into ramadi. we will tell you how they are using water as their latest weapon. that's ahead here also ahead, hundreds in south korea are urged to stay home after possibly being exposed to the deadly mers virus. more about that. thanks for the ride around norfolk! and i just wanted to say, geico is proud to have served the military for over 75 years! roger that. captain's waiting to give you a tour of the wisconsin now. could've parked a little bit closer... it's gonna be dark by the time i get there. geico. proudly serving the military for over 75 years. >>> welcome back. isis has a new weapon it is using against the iraqi city of ramadi. it closed off a dam north o of the city cutting water supply to pro government towns down stream. and it leaves the city vulnerable to further attack. let's talk more about that with our eyn lee. he joins me now from cairo. ramadi still very much a city in the midst of chaos and isis in control. >> they are letting some water out so they don't compromise the dm's

one of roof's friends spoke with our brian todd and said roof typically kept to himself. t on one drunken night mentioned the plans he had to start a race war. here's brian's story. >> reporter: the license plate saying confederate states of america, patches on his jacket similar bombymbols of a life descending into racial hatred. but it was the behavior a friend says that scared him. >> he was saying he wanted segregation, a race war. he wanted to be white with white and black with black. >> what did you say when he said that? >> i didn't agree with his opinion at all, and i -- we just argued about it. >> he had been friends with dylann roof in middle school, lost touch a few years ago but reconnected in recent months. he says roof recently talked about a 6-month plan he had to quote, do something crazy. he says he doesn't know details of the plan. he said one night recently roof drank a liter of vodka when roof talked about a race war, meek said and meek decided to take action. >> that same night, i took his gun and hid it. and the next morning i didn't want to get in tr

brian todd is out front with new details we are learning about these two. >> reporter: richard matt isunts very distinguishable. his front teeth are reported to be metal, knocked out by prison guards in mexico. he has a marine corps tattoo. david sweat may blend in more. both men are killers. how dangerous and desperate are these guys? >> they are most dangerous. and clearly, their activity clearly indicates they are extremely desperate. both of them killed people. one of them dismembered his victim. they will stop at nothing. >> reporter: richard marttt is serving 25 to life. the murder took place in 1997 in new york. matt fled to mexico to get away served nine years there for killing a man in a bar fight, then was extradited to the u.s. to stand trial in this case. a detective from the case described richard matt as psychotic. owe told he said i have seen him inflict wounds on himself, break his collarbone and not seek treatment. he is totally, totally fearless and doesn't respond to pain. this isn't matt's first escape. in 1986, he broeblgke out of a jail in new york. for those who

joining me now, drew griffin, as well as brian todd.oday we did get a fuller picture, a fuller picture about the shooter's behavior, while in police custody. what he told police. what have you learned? >> reporter: we know that he was picked up by the shelby, north carolina, police and taken to that police station in north carolina, he was put into a room where the fbi first questioned him and then the charleston police detectives questioned him. that entire conversation or conversations were videotaped and audio taped. and according to our cnn affiliate, wbtv in charlotte, this shooter was speaking very freely, apparently, admitting that he had done some research and specifically targeted the emanuel ame church, because of its african american history and relevance within the community there. he also said that when he was going into the church, he had hid his glock gun, his pistol, in that pouch, and you can see that pouch that he's wearing in the surveillance photo that has been handed out by the police. and also admitted, supposedly,

brian todd, cnn, washington. >>> some breaking news, an earthquake has hit malaysia's highest peak causing huge rock slides and shoving down the summit to hikers. the 6.0 magnitude quake hit mt. kinabulu. officials say several buildings have been damaged. there is no official word yet on any casualties and the region is popular with climbers. we will continue to monitor this for you and bring you new details. >>> now, the united nations is offering $500 million in aid to send to iraq. the u.n. says more than 10 million people will need aid by the end of 2015 caused by the fight against isis. cnn's senior international correspondent reports. >> we get an idea of the scale and the urgency of the humanitarian crisis unfolding here in iraq where this punishing summer heat is just part of the equation that's making daily lives almost impossible for people here when the u.n. says they urgently need half a billion dollars now to be able to assist the 8 million to 10 million people out there who badly need their help. these are people who have been on the move. ra plaiddy in the past week, people

brian todd, cnn, washington. >>> you are watching "cnn newsroom." the deadly attack at a tunisian beach resort caught on camera. [ gunshots ] [ bleep ]. >> we will have more of this video showing the frantic chase. >>> also ahead, temperatures are reaching record highs as heat waves build across europe. we'll have details just ahead. >>> and fast-moving fires tearing through the land in northwestern united states. the latest on how much has burned. there's a more enjoyable way to get your fiber. try phillips' fiber good gummies plus energy support. it's a new fiber supplement that helps support regularity and includes b vitamins to help convert food to energy. mmmmm, these are good! nice work, phillips! the tasty side of fiber, from phillips'. >>> welcome back to "cnn newsroom." the man who shot and killed 38 people at a beach resort in tunisia last week had a connection to a libyan terror group. that is the word from the country's interior ministry but it's still unclear whether he had ever traveled to libya. we're told the gunman's cell phone, and

let's go to brian todd. he joins us from south carolina with more on this part of the story. brian? >> reporter: wolf we've been talking to people here in the columbia south carolina area which is the hometown of dylann roof. we have more information on his recent arrest record. according to cord records, he was arrested in february at a south carolina mall not far from here when employees at a bath & bodyworks complained that a white male dressed all in black was asking quote out of the ordinary questions about how many associates were working at the story and when they would be leaving. the police officer who responded to that call said roof was arrested after he found illegal drugs that are used to treat addictions on his -- in his possession. two months later, dylann roof was arrested again for trespass trespassing at the same mall apparently ignoring -- we also found out information about his schooling. this is white nol high school in lexington, south carolina. we found he bounced around the school system here in lexington and richland county nearby. he went here to white knol

learning more tonight from family and friends. >> thank you very much brian todd.ames fitzgerald a former fbi profiler. for some reason that image that don was talking about, the pastor there relaxes. they are downstairs. they are having this conversation. you see the pastor there talking about the bible. i don't know. it's a naked moment of people just being themselves. this guy sat through this meeting with these 13 people. he convinced them he wanted to study the bible. he lied to them and killed them all. what does that same about him that he would sit there for an hour and then kill them? >> it was bible study for the dozen or so victims killed and injured. it was victim study for this guy for roof. he was getting target acquisition, determining who would be the first to take out. who would be the strongest, the ones to resist and then finish the rest of the group as time permitted. i know he left one person there. at least one person alive to tell his story. what we have here is him hiding in plain sight. he is play acting this role that he has rehearsed in h

brian todd, cnn, washington. >>> good morning. i'm carol costello.nk you so much for joining me. let's go back live to washington and to the warner theater. this is where loretta lynch will be sworn in for the second time as attorney general. supreme court justice sonia sotomayor will administer the oath and president obama is expected to make remarks later today. joe biden officially swore in lynch at the justice department back in april. she's been on the job for two months since then. but it's typical to have a second formal welcoming ceremony like this at a large location so that more people can attend and indeed more people are attending. we'll take you back when loretta lynch hits the stage. >>> jeb bush is headed to iowa today taking a victory lap of charming viewers on "the tonight show". >> we face an important election in 2016 whoever we choose will be tasked with changing the course of our country and whipping america into shape. >> you hear that, america? jeb bush said he wants to whip you "fifty shades of grey" style. >> jimmy, i think i

brian todd, cnn, washington. >>> and it has been 19 days since those inmates escaped. official ifs are concerned they may have got en guns from one of the seasonal cabins in the area. >> the search has focused on a cabn in which law enforcement officials say they found the inmates' dna. here's clinton county's district attorney. >> there's a sock that's been recovered as -- listed as white and red. the red could obviously be blood. there was -- i don't have a full detail on the analysis that was conducted on the evidence. that was secured from the cabin and brought down to albany for testing. i do know that a dna profile was from one of the socks. >> reporter: of course you can get all of the details on the search for the inmate and the investigation in to the two prison employees at cnn.com. we have the full story there. >>> at this point, we want to get you to charleston, south carolina, because it is hard to imagine the emotions and thoughts filling the minds of worshipers there on wednesday. they resumed bible study in the same room where nine people were murdered

cnn's brian todd has been looking into all of this. brian? >> brianna, the potential confrontations between vladimir putin's forces and u.s. and western forces keep moving. they've been in the skies, at sea, tonight building in eastern europe. the pentagon is looking at moving possibly hundreds of tanks. they're looking at moving bradley fighting vehicles and howitzer cannons into eastern europe. many of them will be moving into places that the russians used to occupy the baltic countries of estonia, latvia lithuania. one u.s. official tells us this equipment will be enough for up to 5,500 troops. those plans and recent u.s.-led military exercises in this region have prompted the russians to issue a serious warning. a dramatic amphibious landing. a u.s. navy hovercraft glides on to the beach. troops storm ashore and fire their weapons. [ shots ] this is a nato landing exercise in sweden. further south, soldiers move through trench lines, deploy from helicopters. these are u.s. and nato troops battle-testing themselves as a possible confrontat

brian todd is in columbia south carolina. he's been trying to learn more about this young man. ou found out? >> reporter: carol, we just spoke to a young man named joey meek a friend of dylann roof's when they were in middle school. they lost touch for a few years but then reconnected recently. joey meek said that in recent weeks dylann roof had talked about wanting to start a race war, that he favored segregation between whites and blacks in the united states that he had a six-month plan to do something violent or crazy. i asked him details about the six-month plan and joey meek didn't really have any details, but he said that dylann roof had talked about a six-month plan to do something. so giving indications of a possible violent behavior of dylann roof in the weeks leading up to this. he said that dylann roof would often talk about this when they were drinking. he said he drank a lot of vodka and when he was really drunk he would talk about this kind of thing. he said one recent evening when they were talking about this and that dylann roof was saying crazy things joey meek

let's go to brian todd. what are you learning?> tonight, very disturbing new details about these two men. one detective who worked on a murder case involving richard matt told cnn he would not be surprised if matt was more involved in the escape than david sweat. richard matt 49 years old, serving 25 years to life convicted of kidnapping and beating a man to death. his front teeth are metal. the result of getting his teeth knocked out by prison guards in mexico. he's got distinguishing tattoos. a marine insignia logo on his right shoulder, heart-shaped tattoos on his left shoulder and chest. david sweat, here's what we know. 35 years old, serving life without parole convicted of first degree murder in the 2002 killing of kevin tarsia a sheriff's deputy in broom county, new york. we have distinguishing tattoos for david sweat. he's got the one saying "rebel" on his left arm and the letters "ifb" on his right hand. going back to richard matt he's a very interesting case. he's considered maybe the more vicious, the more violent of th

brian todd joins me now from columbia south carolina. brian, what have you learned?s just in tonight from our editorial producer elon byrd who spoke to the shooter's fracture. the father confirmed that not only he but that his daughter the shooter's sister placed separate calls to the police tip line in the hours after wednesday night's shooting. so you have now three members of the shooter's family who placed calls to the police in those crucial hours. you have the father his daughter the shooter's sister and an uncle who placed calls to the police tip line. three members of that family calling police in those crucial hours. also tonight, we have learned that the shooter likely planned some kind of an extreme act for quite some time. that there may have been a dispute within the shooter's family about his purchase of a gun, and that he had some violent ideas about provoking tension between the races. >> reporter: the license plate saying confederate states of america, patches on his jacket the flags of apartheid era south africa in rhodesia symbols of a life descend

i have brian todd who we'll go to outside the supreme court with reaction.ple have been sell brit bug, listen there are a lot of people who vehemently disagree. >> that's true, brook. first to the celebrations. this area has been the scene of ecstatic celebrations in the two and a half hours since this ruling came down. this was packed with people. banners all over the place, balloons all over the place, most of those are gone now. still people basking in this moment. for a while, they went up to this elevated plaza on the supreme court which is really unheard of. security people let them up there and it took on the tone of a super bowl victory party as the plaintiffs and their attorneys celebrated but there are voices against it. your voices are vastly outnumbered. but this is what justice kennedy said in his majority opinion about same-sex couples. "their hope is not cob on the demmed to live in loneliness excluded from one of civilization's oldest institutions. they ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law." that's justice kennedy. what's your issue w

our brian todd has this story. >> reporter: joyce mitchell had a relationship with both of the escaped killers, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation. she provided hacksaw blades to richard matt and david sweat as well as eyeglasses with lights on them and drill bits, purchases that occurred in just the last few months, that from two law enforcement sources. a former prison warden tells us mitchell, who warniorked in the prison, would probably have had to go through metal detectors to get to work but likely would not have been searched. how could she get those items through? >> through a lunch box, through a purse, equipment she may bring in to work within the tailor shop. >> reporter: and now the clinton county district attorney says mitchell's husband, lyle, worked in the maintenance department at the same prison tailoring shop where joyce mitchell worked with the two inmates. he tells cnn's randi kaye, lyle mitchell is being investigated in connection with the plot. >> we have information that's coming through, through interviews, just through our investigation,

brian todd spoke with a man who's known her for many years. what did he tell you? >> some interesting things about their past. first, we have new information tonight on joyce mitchell's involvement in this case. corrections officialsed a previously received a complaint about joyce mitchell's relationship with one of the two escaped inmates. that is according to a state official briefed on the investigation. the complaint is what led to investigators zeroing in on mitchell as a possible accomplice. the department of connections did not return calls seeking comment. the official who spoke on that did not specify which inmate but as we've been reporting, a source familiar with the investigation says mitchell told police that escapee richard matt, seen here, made her feel "special." mitchell's son toby told nbc news she is not the kind of person who would help inmates escape. on a possible relationship with richard matt here's what he had to say on that. >> she definitely wouldn't have an affair against my father. and definitely wouldn't be with an inmate. there's no t

let's go to brian todd with the latest details on this obviously very disturbing development. >> wolfnts ago, this officer's attorney gene palmer's attorney andrew brockway resigned from the case. he said he's a small-time lawyer who simply doesn't have the resources to handle this case. the new attorney identified as william dwyer didn't immediately return our calls. tonight we have new details on how at least one inmate referred to this corrections officer and on what he told investigators in a police interview. >> clinton correctional officer gene palmer begins his legal fight. palmer faces charges of promoting prison contraband misconduct and tampering with physical evidence relating to the escape of killers richard matt and david sweat. palmer is expected to plead not guilty. according to court don'ts palmer said he didn't intentionally help matt and sweat, that matt provided him with information on crimes committed by other inmates and gave him paintings which palmer is now accused of destroying. in exchange pam her said he gave rich chart matt paint, paint brushes and the infam

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brian todd here with more on this investigation, this manhunt. give us the big picture right now. where are they focusing in most of their attention? >> wolf right now they're focusing most attention on the town of owls head 22 miles west of clinton correctional facility. where the last credible sighting of the men occurred at a cabin there. 10:30 a.m. on saturday wolf. we have to keep in mind, canadian border is 20 miles north of the area in owls head. possibility the two men may have slipped across the border. you know again, investigators focusing on many areas around here. still have not found these guys. >> the terrain is pretty awful though pretty hard? >> it really is wolf very dense. we will go through some of that. this is the area where the cabin is in. again a lot of dense forest in the area. this covers the search overall covers 75 square mile area of franklin county. you have got to factor in just a lot of what the terrain encompasses here. there are a lot of hills, mountains, ravines, wetlands rivers streams, that they have got to ser.arch over. wetlands in these are

i have brian todd who we'll go to outside the supreme court with reaction. people have been sell brit bug, listen, there are a lot of people who vehemently disagree. >> that's true, brook. first to the celebrations. this area has been the scene of ecstatic celebrations in the two and a half hours since this ruling came down. this was packed with people. banners all over the place, balloons all over the place, most of those are gone now. still people basking in this moment. for a while, they went up to this elevated plaza on the supreme court which is really unheard of. security people let them up there and it took on the tone of a super bowl victory party as the plaintiffs and their attorneys celebrated but there are voices against it. your voices are vastly outnumbered. but this is what justice kennedy said in his majority opinion about same-sex couples. "their hope is not cob on the demmed to live in loneliness excluded from one of civilization's oldest institutions. they ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law." that's justice kennedy. what's your is

thank you, brian todd. >>> and isis has a new weapon. water. the terror group controls a key dam in anbar province and cut the flow of water to loyalist towns. that's also reduced the level of the industry teachic euphrates river making it easier to launch attack. go to our pennell correspondent barbara starr with more. >> reporter: wolf the obama administration likes to say it's a long-term strategy. it will take years to defeat isis but when you see isis' fast-moving operations its fast-moving tactics on the battlefield you have to wonder if the u.s. has time for that strategy. this low water in a riverbed in ramadi is in attack. isis has closed off a dam north of the city. water, the ultimate weapon in this blistering desert. >> there is this belief of if you control the water, you can control your enemy. which in that part of the world is basically true. >> reporter: controlling the dam you cutting the water flow cuts supply to pro-government towns downstream making it easier for isis to attack and crops to die, local officials say. the dry

brian todd is with us working the story. told the ship might have been hit by a small tornado, and it happened so fast the captain didn't have time to send a distress signal. the ship called the eastern star had been making several stops on its journey up the coast from the coastal cities to the city hundreds of miles inland. the river is the third longest river in the world. it stretches about 4,000 miles from the coast into tibet. what are these rescuers up to? we have spoken with veteran rescue divers who say the good news is the water here is shallow, only about 50 feet deep at this point and it's warm. everything else is working against these divers. we're going to show you the overturned hull of the ship. there's a view from above. now, the water here has a lot of swirling current. the visibility here this is the real problem, the visibility in the river here is near zero with all the sediment. you can see how dirty the water is with all of the sediment and pollution, one rescue specialist told us the vizsibility is in

right now i want to go to brian todd in the thick of the protests. brian?porter: some very excited protesters out here in favor of upholding these tax credits. they're chanting aca is here to stay chanting still covered. i'm over here with the leader of the protests. his name is benton strong with the center for american progress. benton first of all, your reaction to the decision. >> i think it's a really important day for health care in america. a great day. we get to see at least 6 million people maintain access to affordable health care. the court upheld it again for a second time. frustrating they took this place in the first place. hopefully we can go forward and make sure more people get covered. >> we heard it may not be the end. marco rubio, presidential candidate, has vowed to repeal obamacare. >> right. >> what's your reaction to that and how strongly are you prepared to carry on the fight. >> the first thing it tells us is the republican never had a plan to fix it. if it had gone the wrong way, then the republicans in congress and the presidenti

brian todd has been looking into this for us. >> death of the top al qaeda leader in nasil al wuhayashikhtar may also have been -- >> two significant decapitation strikes. from the air. nasir al w. huismt ayshi killed. mokhtar belmokhtar may also have been killed. the recent operations against them seen as crucial victories, or are they? >> i they it's likely to november have much effect on the group at all. >> the snake will continue to move even without the head. >> reporter: tonight analysts who track terrorists are warning they're not likely to be crippled. in some cases, experts is a taking out a leader can provoke a counter strike. >> they will carry out attack immediately following, a, to signal the group is still effective, but additional to show their sense of retaliation, to retaliate against the death of key leaders. >> another reason they have limited effect antsists say group like aqap have groomed oertsds to replace leaders who are killed. >> they are run, to some degree like make corporations. they have a leadership structure, they have successors they're arranged in cate

cnn's brian todd has more details on this suspect whose been a prison guard for more than 27 years. >> reporter: gene palmer begins his legal fight. palmer faces charges of promoting prison contraband misconduct and tampering with physical evidence relate together skres escape of killers richard matt and david sweat. palmer's expected to plead not guilty. according to court documents, palmer said he didn't intentionally help matt and sweat, that matt provided him with information on crimes committed by other inmates. and gave him paintings which palmer's now accused of destroying. in exchange palmer said he gave richard matt paint, paint brushes, and the now infamous hamburger meat. palmer said he gave david sweat a screw drive or and needle nosed pliers to work on the cat walk behind his cell. he said he supervised the work and took the tools back. but he and joyce mitchell could face more trouble. >> worse case they are charged with conspiracy to help these two individuals break out. if the convicts that are on the lamb commit further crimes say they murder someone, kidnap someone,

cnn's brian todd is working this part of the story for us. brian, what are you finding out? >> wolf we have breaking news this evening. we just got a statement from the family of dylann roof. this is the family speaking out for the first time in electronic form with a paper statement on this tragedy. here's what they said quote -- words cannot express our shock, grief and disbelief as to what happened that night. we are devastated and saddened by what occurred. we offer our prayers and sympathies for all those impacted about by these events. our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of those killed this week. we have been touched by the moving words from the victims' families offering god's forgiveness and love in the face of such horrible suffering. wolf that just in from the fa family of dylann roof. also tonight, we have learned that dylann roof may well have been planning some kind of extreme act for some kind. there may have been a dispute within his family over his purchase of a gun and that he had violent ideas about provoking tension between the races.

let's get more from cnn's brian todd. >> if the u.s. has taken out nasser al wahaishi would be but a blow to the structure. he has credentials that are very respected within al qaeda. he had been osama bin laden's driver one of his closest aiding and one analyst says for about four years he never left bin laden's side. in 2009 when branches in yemen and saudi arabia merged he took control of the al qaeda branch called al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. his assent was confirmed by eamonn al zawahiri considered the global leader of al qaeda. that's the same as the leader of isis abubakar al baghdadi. we spoke about the kind of role he has running aqap. >> he's the ceo, the guy that's ultimately responsible. he's fund-raising recruiting setting the policy guidelines for this organization but he has other folks doing the other key operational pieces. >> the other people running operations are indeed very dangerous. you heard barbara mention a moment ago ibrahim al asiri, he is believed to still be alive. he's so devoted to attacking the u.s

his grandfather cold brian todd his father roof's father gave him money to buy the gun for his birthday birthday. alisyn? >> evan that's quite a development. thanks for that. we want to get some insight on the gunman from someone who knew the alleged killer. john mullins is his former high school classmate. thank you for being with us this morning. correct me if i'm wrong. as i understand it you and dylann rough were not tight friends, but shared a close mutual friend. tell us what your impressions of dylann rough were. >> um from what i remember he was always just like kind of quiet. he had that teenager vibe to him, i guess. it's hard to remember because it was so far back. but -- >> did you hear him make racist remarks when you were in high school? >> um they were jokes, i guess, racist slurs, but never taken too seriously until now. now, i'm looking at him in a different manner. >> i mean when you say jokes, can you characterize them for us? what type of thing did he say? >> um i mean they were racist slurs. i'm not going to say them on the tv. but, they were around our black friend

brian todd you discovered some pretty surprising details? >> we have. we have new details, new information about joyce mitchell where she grew up and an account from her former brother-in-law about her earlier marriage and new specific details of her contact with the escaped inmates. escapee richard matt made joyce mitchell feel special. that's what she told police according to a source familiar with the investigation. the source says mitchell did not specifically mention she was in love with matt. >> she was befriended or she befriended the inmates, and may have had some sort of role in assisting them. >> reporter: 51-year-old joyce mitchell nickname till yesterday worked with the two escapees. a source close to the investigation say authorities believe she was going to drive the getaway car for them after their escape but at the last minute she changed her mind. mitchell has been, quote extremely cooperative with investigators, according to the local d.a. she's not been arrested or charged. her son toby told nbc news she's not the person that would he

. >> brian todd has more on the threat posed by al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. >> reporter: if the u.s. took out nauser al what hashy, it's dealt a blow to what is considered to be the most dangerous branch of al qaeda itself. he had been osama bin laden's driver, one of his closest aids. and one analyst says for about four years, nasser al what shary never left osama bin laden's side. his ascent was confirmed by eye man al sa waury. he eventually got a $10 million bounty placed on his head by the u.s. state department. that's the same as the head of isis, baghdadi. i spoke about the role he has running aqap. >> he's the ceo. he's the guy ultimately responsible for all of those things. he's fund-raising, recruiting, setting the policy guidelines for this organization as a whole, but he's got other folks that are doing some of the key operations. >> reporter: and the other people running operationing for aqap are very dangerous, ibrahim al asiri who is still very much alive. this guy is so devoted to the cause of attacking the u.s. and its allies he once placed a bomb inside the bod

brian todd, washington. >> joining me to talk about kalif's life i have his brother, kamal and rahimnd the family attorney who has filed suit against the nypd the bronx d.a. and department of corrections. welcome you all for being here. so sorry for the loss of your brother. kamal and rahim, to you first. i can't imagine being in your shoes. i can't imagine the loss being furious over this whole loss of your brother. this past weekend would have marked one week since he took his life. how did you hear what happened? >> i was working and i found out through my next door neighbor. >> and when you heard, knowing your brother as well as you do were you surprised? >> yes. >> were you surprised? how did you hear? >> my other brother called me and he told me what was going on and i just came back in from my house. i rushed over there and by the time i got there, the officer came to me and he said sorry for your loss. i said what do you mean sorry for my loss? and he said, nobody told you? i said tell me what? and then i look and i see my brother laying face down. >> you saw him? >> yes. he

brian todd has the details. >> reporter: 49-year-old richard matt is by all accounts very distinguishable. his front teeth are reported to be metal. he has a marine corps insignia on his shoulder, hearts on his chest and left shoulder. david sweat may blend in a little more. but both are stone-cold killers. >> how dangerous and desperate are these guys? >> they are most dangerous. and clearly, the activity clearly indicates they are desperate. both of them callously killed people one dismembered his victim. >> reporter: richard matt is serving 25 years to life for kidnapping and beating to death his former boss whose body was found dismembered. the murder happened in 1997. matt fled to mexico to get away. served nine years there for killing a man in a bar fight and was extradited to the u.s. to face charges in the other case. he has cut himself, broke his call color bone and not seek treatment. he is totally totally fearless and doesn't respond to pain. this is not matt's first escape. in 1986 he broke out of a jail in erie county, new york. the knowledge of sweat's escape is chilling. >>

brian todd, cnn, washington. >>> now with more on the implications of mr. putin's latest move, we are joined by cnn military analyst, lieutenant colonel frank kern. always a pleasure to talk to you, sir. a day after they criticized the plan to put them on russia's border president putin announces plans to add 40 intercontinental ballistic missiles to his nuclear arsenal. where is this all going and how concerned should we be? >> this sounds like the cold war again. it is an escalation. we do something, he does something and pretty soon it escalates out of control. we have to make sure we address this now. the 40 missiles he's talking about is scaled back. he said six months ago he wanted to increase the arsenal by 50. that's an es skalation. it is putting him up against the limitations that we have agreeped to with the russians. looks like he wants to open up a new round of tension. it's not just in the baltic states. if you look across eastern europe and i was just in eastern europe talking to people about this, you can feel the tension. people are very co

let's go to brian todd watching the story. >> well president obama's conversation with the ukrainiancy of what's happening in ukraine. and their concerns over what vladimir putin might do next. mr. obama is sending his u.n. envoy, samantha power to ukraine next week this all comes as the security situation there is growing worse by the minute. pro russian rebels blast away at ukrainian forces. one rebel scrambles into an underground shelter. the worst fighting inside ukraine in months has the ukrainian president issuing a new warning, telling his military he's convinced of russia's intentions. >> translator: a full-scale invasion along the full border with russia we must be truly ready for this. >> officials at the white house, state department and in u.s. intelligence aren't commenting on whether they share the belief that vladimir putin might launch a full-scale invasion of ukraine. but tonight u.s. officials tell cnn they're concerned about attacks by combined forces of russia and the separatists. >> it goes right on applying its playbook in new territories as though this council

our brian todd takes a close look at the sclefb and enigmatic leader that is the head of the islamic> reporter: he's fully ascended to the podium. spoke softly, and sent chills down the spines of intelligence and military officials around the world. "you should take up jihad to please god and fight in his name." wearing signature black, flashing an expensive watch -- his sermon in mosul in 2013 was for an aberration for a man called the invisible sheikh, known to be obsessive about secrecy. >> this their are rumors this guy used -- there are rumor this guy used to cover his face even when meeting with his own people. somebody who took extraordinary precaution when was it came to his own security. >> reporter: baghdadi now has a $10 million u.s. bounty on his head. how does he manage isis? one hint comes from accounts of a period when he was actually in u.s. custody. at camp buka in remember, a u.s.-run prison of over 20,000 insurgents, al baghdadi became a trusted inmate by his american captors, allowed to roam freely around the camp ads an ambassador. -- as an ambassador. apew amed

we'll take you to the prison in a few minutes, but first brian todd is joining us.ew information, a detective who worked on richar matt's murder case. that detective described richard matt as quote, a vicious violent individual. >> he's very distinguishable. he front teeth are reporteding to metal, knocked on you by prison guards in mexico. he hayes a marine corps insignia on his right shoulder heart-shaped tattoos on his chest and left shoulder. david sweat may blend in more but both men are stone-cold killers. how dangerous and desperate are these guys? >> they are most dangerous, and clearly the activity indicates that they are extremely desperate. they will stop at nobody. >> rich art matt is serving in prison for killing and dismembers his boss. the murder took place in 1997 in new york. matt fled to mexico to get away served nine years there for killing a man in a bar fight, then was extradited to the u.s. to stand trial in the ricker son case. a detective in that case described him as psychotic. david bentley told "new york times" i've seen him inflit wounds

cnn's brian todd has new details on that part of the story. >> reporter: corrections officials had previouslyeceived a complaint about joyce mitchell's relationship with one of the two escaped inmates. that's according to a state official briefed on the investigation. the complaint is what led to investigators zeroing in on mitchell as a possible accomplice. that official did not specify which inmate, but a source familiar with the investigation says mitchell told police escapee richard matt made her feel special. >> she was befriended or she befriended the inmates and may have had some sort of role in assisting them. >> reporter: 51-year-old joyce mitchell nicknamed tilly is a training supervise at the correctional facility where she worked with the two escapees. a source close to the investigation says authorities believe she was going to drive the getaway car for them after their escape. but at the last minute she changed her mind. mitchell has been, quote, extremely cooperative with investigators according to the local d.a. she's not been arrested or charged. her son toby told nbc news sh

cnn's brian todd on the scene in lexington lexington, south carolina, the suspect's hometown. what's the latest you're picking up there? >> reporter: wolf tonight 21-year-old dylann roof is accused of a hate crime. as mentioned we've learned he has waived extradition in north carolina and he's being flown back to charleston. also we're getting new details of his arrest and of his recent run-ins with police. 21-year-old accused killer dylann roof in custody captured hours after he allegedly opened fire in a historic black church in charleston, south carolina killing nine. >> that terrible human being who would go into a place of worship where people were praying and kill them is now in custody where he will always remain. >> reporter: police seized roof after his vehicle was spotted in shelby north carolina about a four-hour drive from the deadly rampage at emanuel ame church. he was armed but investigators don't know if it was the alleged murder weapon. also police say, roof's father gave him a .45-caliber gun for his 21st birthday in april. cnn has learned roof had run-ins wi

cnn's brian todd is on the scene for us. he's getting more information. i know you've been speaking brian, with one of roof's friends. what did he say? >> reporter: yeah wolf we've been speaking with joey meek he was a friend of ryan -- excuse me dylann roof's from their middle school years. they lost touch, then reconnected in recent months. meek gave a very disturbing portrait of dylann roof's behavior in recent weeks, in the weeks leading up to this shooting. especially he said he had some very violent ideas about provoking tensions between the races. here's what he had to say. >> i mean he was just saying he wanted segregation, he wanted race war, he wanted to be white with white, black with black. >> what did you say when he said that? >> i didn't agree with his opinion at all. we just argued about it. >> reporter: now meek says that on the night that dylann roof talked about starting a race war, he said roof had had about a liter of vodka, that he was really drunk. when he talked about this plan to maybe start a race war, meek got very concerned and

brian todd has more details. >> this is one of the most jarring cases of injustice we've come across. they're suing the city of new york and law enforcement agencies there for $20 million. the brutal treatment of this young man is unmistakable in this security camera video from the prison. >> chaos inside riker's island prison. gang members assault khalife broward, this disturbing security clam rah footage shows the gang beating him, being held back, and are barging into an isolation cell and beating him again, corrections officers were powerless. >> this seems like lord of the flies, what's going on here. >> there is obviously a lack of control. they do not have the capacity. and this is not to demean the officers they're clearly outnumbered. and they do not have the physical capacity to totally protect the inmate. >> this video was obtained by the new yorker magazine which first reported khalife brodard's story. this video shows him being slammed to the ground his head smashed, this time by a corrections officer. after he appears to say something to him. >> verbal assaults don't cou

brian todd is joining us with new details. >> new details on this plot. joyce mitchell's husband loves his wife but is angry with her, and doesn't know if he will stay with her. if she had picked up the inmates, and if he had been with her, they would both be dead. >> lyle mitchell claims he had no idea of the plot until the day after richard matt and david sweat escaped from the clinton correctional facility. in an interview with nbc, joyce mitchell's overwhelmed husband said there was another piece of news he got that day, at least one of these two killers had planned to kill him. >> she told me matt wanted her to pick him up. i would never leave without lyle. never. and he said well i'll give you some pills to give him, to knock him out, and then you come pikus up. she said i am not doing that i love my husband, i am not hurting him. >> she may have loved her husband, but lyle said three times during the interview, he wasn't sure he loved her. she had a sexual relationship with one or both of the escaped inmates. lyle mitchell said absolutely not. >> h