harlow. i was around president nixon a lot. and i saw mr. harlow. what i remember about them is how far reaching he was at i have on my wall some notes he used in the congressional leadership meeting that he would have on tuesdays. where he described the environmental movement, which was developing in the united states in 1970 or 1971. and president next and was trying to explain the republican senators in congress --president nixon was trying to explain that it was coming. that is when earth day was created. that is when the clean air and clean water acts were passed unanimously. president nixon was far ahead of this time in understanding the importance of the environment. his administration created the epa, which is one of the agencies republicans most detest because of its overreach. bill clinton is a gifted person. i know him very well. we were elected governor the same day in 1978. and he and hillary and honey my wife and i, would see each other often at conferences. we worked on the sam

i'm poppy harlow joining you this afternoon from new york. we begin with the funeral of beau biden. he was a mighty heart who made you want to be a better person. those are the words of president obama this afternoon on a life cut short. beau biden, the oldest son of vice president joe biden, remembered at a funeral mass just a short time ago in wilmington delaware. ♪ his father, the vice president, following the casket of the former state attorney general, soldier, father and husband who

done right. >>> i'm poppy harlow in new york.ow the breaking news in upstate new york on this hunt for two convicted murderers who escaped from a maximum security prison 14 days ago. let's go straight to sara ganim on the ground outside of the prison. this is the most activity frankly we have seen focused on one area in this entire search. >> reporter: that's right, poppy. we know that state police are converging and canvassing an area in friendship new york just north of the border with pennsylvania. they got a credible tip earlier in the day, this afternoon, and authorities telling cnn that they have aviation units and k-9s on the ground actively searching right now for these two convicted murderers who escaped from this prison more than two weeks ago today. authorities also telling us that this is an area that's about 30 miles east of a place where there were two reported sightings last weekend. it's also near railroad tracks that connect those two sightings. i talked to a witness on the ground who told me there is a helicopte

i'm poppy harlow. thanks for joining me. we begin in charleston south carolina where nine people were massacred earlier this week. we are also learning that it is no longer being considered a crime scene. police telling us just a short time ago they have completed their work at the church their investigation there, and they say this house of worship will be open for tomorrow morning's sunday service. also we're learning that it looks like these may be the words of a racist killer. a website registered under the name dylann roof contains a long essay that upholds racist extremism and violence. you are looking at very disturbing pictures of dylann roof that ran right alongside that website. let's go live to charleston south carolina. alina machado is there along with martin savidge. just learned the church is going to open for sunday service tomorrow morning. i can only imagine what that is going to be like. >> reporter: a lot of us are trying to picture that too. we envision that the streets are going to be absolutely filled

i'm poppy harlow in new york.th a harrowing story out of dallas, texas, involving a barrage of gunshots, exploding pipe bombs, and a swat standoff. [ bleep ]. >> guys! >> police are trying to determine what led a man to attack dallas police headquarters in the heart of the city just after midnight. the man opened fire with an assault weapon, then a shotgun, and then planted at

poply harlow is in new york who will pick it up from here. >>> 5:00 eastern. i'm poppy harlow. we begin with breaking news this hour in the search for an escaped convicted murderer. cnn has learned that david sweat has been shot by new york state police. he has been taken into custody alive. he was shot twice in an open field in the town of constable that is just 2 miles south of the canadian border. he was on the run for 23 days when he was captured. right now, he askis being treated inside of a hospital. alice hyde medical center in malone new york. i want to go to deborah who's been working her law enforcement forces. she's learned some kprierd anywhere things just in the past few hoemtmoments. >> we know he was captured wearing camouflage gear. he was just a couple miles from the canadian border. had he been able to cross that canadian border law enforcement's ability to follow him would have been much more difficult. i'm also learning that apparently he was following a trail. it's what's called a fire break that is put between trees. that was the fastest, the easiest trial

i am poppy harlow in new york.e 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 probably start using this strategy of talking peo

i'm poppy harlow. we begin with a dangerous story. there's a manhunt for two convicted murderers that escaped from prison. they broke out from the clinton correctional facility. they are described as dangerous. take a listen to governor andrew cuomo. >> these are two dangerous individuals, one was incarcerated for killing a sheriff, so these are dangerous people. and they are nothing to be t trifled with. >> cnn paul sandoval is covering the story. what do we know. >> we have a truly remarkable scene right now playing in upstate new york. heavily armed police officers setting up road blocks as they try to search as many vehicles as they can, looking for these two individuals. richard matte and david sweat are the two men that broke out of prison earlier this morning at a facility there in northern new york. staff there at the prison noticed them missing during a head count early this morning. matte a cop killer and kidnapper serving life in prison for beating a man to death. sweat is convicted for some other very serious charges here.

i'm poppy harlow. in a few minutes president obama will depart for the g7 summit in germany where he'll meet with other world leaders. thousands of proefrs are gathering vowing to shut down the summit. take a look. those protesters chanting slogans against military spending and na to. 7,000 police were drafted for g7 crowd control. so far those protests are mostly peaceful. all of this while russian president vladimir putin goes public with his irritation at being banned from the summit as punishment over russia's an connectionation over crimea. putin is hitting back. he's planning a trip to italy where he meets with pope francis. he said there's no need to be afraid of russia only an insane person and only in a dream can one imagine that russia would suddenly attack na to. joining me on the foerngs an expert just back from moscow the director of the center for eurasian and eastern european studies. what do you make of what putin is doing, this move this strategic move going to italy instead of everybo

have a happy fourth of july. >>> top of the hour i am poppy harlow in new york.ted murderer david sweat. they have set up road blocks and looking at each and every car in and out of the area and using helicopters and infrared devices and planes and you name it. a law enforcement sou

i'm poppy harlow joining you live from new york. and we begin in charleston south carolina and a house of worship filled with beautiful voices of faith. hundreds filling the pews of emanuel ame church today, singing and remembering nine lives taken in a horrible act of brutality. one of the victims was the church's pastor. but beyond honoring the victims, the service focused on action. >> it has been tough. it's been rough. some of us have been downright angry. but through it all, god has sustained us. there's a time and place for everything. and now it's a time for us to focus on the the nine families. oh, i know i'm right. so i want to say to the citizens of charleston and visitors, thank you. for being whom god has called you to be. thank you for your flowers out front. thank you for the cards and the e-mails and all the acts of kindness and then finally, i want to say thank you to law enforcement. i got no problem in doing that. respect gets respect. a lot of folk expected us to do something strange and to break out in a riot. w

i'm poppy harlow. we begin in dallas texas where the man who attack add police head quarters and died from a sniper's bullet was at a breaking point. that is what james boulware's father says about his son. out of his mind with anger at the police and at the end of his rope. his final thing planting pipe bombs at the dallas police department climbing in an armored van and starting a deadly chain of events that would end with him and only him dead. we're following the story from dallas. sarah, you had an incredibly emotional interview with this suspected gunman's father today. what did he tell you? >> reporter: yeah, you know, first of all, we asked him if he recognized his son, if he recognized the van that we have all seen that police ended up exploding and then an explosion went off inside that van because there was indeed some kind of pipe bomb in the van. he said yes, that he recognized that that was his son and he recognized the van saying that his son had left texas, taken a bus to georgia and pi

i'm poppy harlow joining you in new york. we are learning much more about the man who was so furious with law enforcement in his city he bought guns and built pipe bombs and brought them to dallas police headquarters and went on a rampage. thankfully no one at police headquarters was injured. the man whose father described him at his breaking point was shot and killed by a sniper. his name is james boulware and he blames the system for losing his job and breaking up his family. his mother said we lost him to mental health long before we lost him to death. you sad down face-to-face with his father today. >> i did. we are actually now hearing from his mother. one of our producers has been able to speak with her in person. she talked about her son and said he did have a mental health history. he was a good man and gave to the church but he had hallucinations sometimes and mentioned the fbi and sandy hook sometimes. he was also talking about her a couple of weeks ago and threatened suicide. these are new details from james's moth

i'm poppy harlow in new york. we begin with a harrowing story out of dallas texas, involving a barrage of gunshots exploding pipe bombs, and a swat standoff. [ bleep ]. >> guys! >> police are trying to determine what led a man to attack dallas police headquarters in the heart of the city just after midnight. the man opened fire with an assault weapon then a shotgun, and then planted at least one pipe bomb in a bag outside that later exploded. a hail of bullets hit nearly everything in sight, but amazingly none of the officers or staffers inside of police headquarters were hit. >> some officers say we're very lucky. i believe we're blessed that our officers survived this ordeal. there are bullet holes and squad cars where officers were sitting. there are bullet holes in the front lobby where our staff was sitting. and one staff member had just walked away to get a coke. if they had stayed there during the ordeal they would have been shot and killed we believe, based on the trajectory of the bullets. looking at the

i'm poppy harlow live from new york. we begin with what is just a daring prison escape. 100,000 reward now being offered in the hundred for two convicted murderers who pulled off this escape from a maximum security prison in new york state. federal arrest warrants are now out for these two men, 48-year-old richard matt convicted of kidnapping and beating a man to death and 34-year-old david sweat convicted of shooting a sheriffs deputy 22 times. police say the men somehow got their hands on power tools. they cut through steel walls in their cells and they crawled through a series of tunnels and sewers until they came out through a manhole on the other side of the prison walls. here's what they left behind. yep. a post-it note saying "have a nice day." cnn national correspondent joins us from outside the prison in new york. polo it is extraordinary, and the police now say these guys have a more than 36-hour head head-start. >> reporter: that's right. you know it's very much an impressive feat according to officials, howev

i'm poppy harlow joining you this afternoon. we begin with that manhunt in upstate new york. alone and on the run, escaped killer david sweat is still at large a day after officers killed richard matt. a key concern that sweat could be even more dangerous and desperate now that he is on the run. some 1,100 law enforcement officers are hopeful that they have sweat contained within a perimeter in the adirondacks in upstate new york but they admit they do not have eyes on him. and blood hounds have picked up his scent -- have not picked up his scent. as for matt, he too may have eluded police had it not been for critical mistakes including a sudden urge to cough just as officers moved in revealing his location. let's begin with our jean casarez. jean you were there last night, the breaking news as we just learned late in the day that the officers had indeed shot and killed richard matt. i wonder what the police presence is like where you are right now. >> reporter: well it's intense. it is very intense. it's an urgent manhunt, because they know that they got richard matt but now

. >>> i'm poppy harlow joining you in new york. it's 6:00 eastern, top of the hour here and we begin with our breaking news from new york state. the two men who escaped from a maximum security prison in upstate new york there has been a possible sighting of them that possible sighting taking place right on the state line between new york and pennsylvania. our deborah feyorik citing law enforcement sources, there was a credible sighting of the two men in friendship in new york state, along the pennsylvania border. heavily armed police and law enforcement agents are walking along key railroad tracks. they were armed with shotguns rifles and firearms. this as we have now learned that on tuesday, other sources called in to the authorities telling them there were other possible sightings of both of these convicted killers. it has been 14 days since they escaped from prison. earlier this week we were told the trail had gone cold. this manhunt has intensified. a local reporter was told by authorities to leave an area that was deemed to be

i'm poppy harlow live from new york.cape. 100,000 reward now being offered in the hundred for two convicted murderers who pulled off this escape from a maximum security prison in new york state. federal arrest warrants are now out for these two

i'm poppy harlow in new york. thanks for being with us.up next "the seventys: peace with honor." >>> vietnam is the most divisive, morally abrasive war americans have ever fought anywhere. >> it's time for the great silent majority to stand up and be counted. >> how do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? >> we will refuse to do it. you may be in jail, but you won't be dead. >> military pressure will continue until a peace settlement is achieved. >> we can achieve peace with honor. >> the americans are leaving. the vietnamese must stay and face uncertainty. >> in vietnam we've reached the end of the tunnel, and there is no light there. ♪

i'm poppy harlow joining you from new york. on that man hunt for escaped convicted murderer david sweat. police admitting their bloodhounds not able to pick up his scent anywhere in the area where his fellow convict was shot and killed. richard matt just yesterday. right now roughly 1200 members of law enforcement have set up a hard perimeter in new york state, upstate in the adirondacks. still, no sightings of david sweat. he is believed to be armed, possibly with a gun taken from a ne

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. >>> top of the hour, i am poppy harlow in new york.begin tonight in upstate new york in that manhunt for convicted murderer david sweat. they have set up road blocks and looking at each and every car in and out of the area and using helicopters and infrared devices and planes and you name it. a law enforcement source said there have been no sightings of sweat yet and no blood hounds picked up on anything either. police also say that matt who is a convicted murderer was armed with a shotgun when he came face-to-face with officers yesterday, and when he refused to drop the weapon they shot and killed him. authorities believe they stuck together while on the run and with matt dead they hope to close in on sweat. what is the sense you get, alex, from the authorities on the ground there? do they think they have sweat contained? >> reporter: the fact that they have not moved the parameter is the best indication we can get, because in the weeks we have been covering this you will see them change the area. they are calling it a hard of paramet

poply harlow is in new york who will pick it up from here. >>> 5:00 eastern. i'm poppy harlow. we begin with breaking news this hour in the search for an escaped convicted murderer. cnn has learned that david sweat has been shot by new york state police. he has been taken into custody alive. he was shot twice in an open field in the town of constable that is just 2 miles south of the canadian border. he was on the run for 23 days when he was captured. right now, he askis being t

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i'm poppy harlow joining you this afternoon from new york. we begin with the funeral of beau biden.s a mighty heart who made you want to be a better person. those are the words of president obama this afternoon on a life cut short. beau biden, the oldest son of vice president joe biden, remembered at a funeral mass just a short time ago in wilmington, delaware. ♪ his father, the vice president, following the casket of the former state attorney general, soldier,

i'm poppy harlow. thanks so much for being with me tonight. "anthony bourdain: parts unknown" is next. have a great week. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> my grandparents teach that there are some people who have been in madagascar before. they were very little people and they live in forests and they respect their environment. but then comes many people from other countries, from africa, from asia, from spain, from france. many of us don't know the history. ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, ♪ ♪ >> market. ♪ >> over the years i've let a lot of extraordinary landscapes recede into a blur outside my windows. i've looked, maybe seen, maybe noticed, then gone. we all carry different experiences inside us. we see things differently, don't we? madagascar -- exotic, unspoiled paradise or microcosm for the end of tim

. >>> top of the hour i'm poppy harlow. i'm in for my friend brooke baldwin.s a battle in south carolina and the removal of the confederate flag. two of the most powerful elected officials in the state, governor nikki haley and lindsey graham have scheduled a news conference one hour from now. cnn is the first to report, according to our chief congressional correspondent dana bash that lindsey graham will indeed call for that flag to be removed, to be taken down in a way from the memorial on statehouse grounds. south carolina media outlets also reporting that governor haley will make that same appeal. and republican tim scott is calling for the flag to be taken down. let's head straight to capitol hill. athena jones is live. this is very significant. >> this is very significant for these people to be calling for these flags to be removed and put into a museum. that echos what jeb bush did. he sent it to a museum in florida. and also mitt romney has called for the same thing but it's notable that senator graham and senator scott are making this statement. it sh

i'm poppy harlow. good night. >>> i didn't even think about it. about death.ut shooting at those things, anybody in the camera was shot. immediately. by a russian soldier. at that time, i didn't think about that. but i felt i had to photograph that. >> you were alive and holding a camera at a very important time in history. you had to think, i'm doing something important. >> it's very easy to make beautiful pictures. but pictures which mean something, what's in it. that's a totally different story. ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la ♪ sha la la la la ♪ sha la la la la la la la la ♪ ♪ >> you know these images. you grew up with them. they're burned into your brain. their iconic sequences. framed and lit and scene through the lens in ways that changed filmmaking forever. all made by the same man. so, who made these beautiful things? where did he come from? it didn't begin in hollywood. it began here, in the streets of

i'm poppy harlow, thanks so much for being with me. have a great week. >>> and vacation over as we headed home to our regular beds, our daily lives of school and homework, and ordinary things. maybe my little brother, maybe i, would wake up and look out the window at the night sky and suddenly it would fill with stars and golden mist, and we'd pretend for a second we were somehow deep inside the milky way, a million winking lights, but we knew where we really were. we were almost home. ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha, la, la, la, la ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la, ♪ ♪ sha, la, la, la, la ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la, la ♪ >>> o enchanted land of my childhood, a cultural petri dish from which regularly issues forth greatness. new jersey, in case you didn't know it, has got beaches, beautiful beaches, and they're not all crawling with roid raging trolls with reality shows. i grew up summering on those bea

. >> now poppy harlow spoke to one of the marshalls of tparade. >> i'm from uganda and excited to be here. >> reporter: what does this decision mean to you and to the world, do you think? >> it gives us hope that there's a lot that can be done, despite the hardships that we go through, especially in uganda, holding here in this historical moment for me is really important. it shows that the fight i'm fighting is not a losing battle. as much as we are still fighting to be who we are today, one day in uganda it will come. >> reporter: to you, friday's decision by the supreme court. and then this, the new york city gay pride parade, what is this moment like for you? >> this is a very special moment for new york, isn't it? and for the rest of the united states and to be here as a guest is absolutely wonderful. but as cassius is pointing out, this is an international movement. and when something shifts in one part of the world, it's noted everywhere else. so the decision of the supreme court is bound to have huge effect beyond these shores. >> in a 5-4 decision, the united states supreme

poppy harlow, the '60s marathon begins right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> stand by. here we go. >> take one. >> the average time spent watching television is five to six hours per day. >> holy residuals. >> there's a reason for calling it the boob tube and the idiot box. >> let's change the channel. >> we want to rap about our scene. >> yeah. >> we must give the american viewer the kind of quality that he deserves. >> let's try it again and see how it comes out this time. >> television has grown faster than a teenager, and now it is time to grow up. ♪ ♪ out tv. >> by 1960, essentially every household in america had a television. it was a new way of bringing the world to you. >> when something big happened on television, it really did happen to the entire country and impacted the entire country at the same time. >> keep an awakened eye on the world. >> suddenly television was the main event. everything else changed, even the way in which you went about the business of getting someone elected president. >> david, will you hit the one-minute button, please. 30 seconds a

i'm poppy harlow.an who attack add police head quarters and died from a sniper's bullet was at a breaking point. that is what james boulware's father says about his son. out of his mind with anger at the police and at the end of his rope. his final thing planting pipe bombs at the dallas police department climbing in an armored van and starting a deadly chain of events that would end with him and only him dead. we're following the story from dallas. sarah, you had an incredibly emotional interview with this suspected gunman's father today. what did he tell you? >> reporter: yeah, you know, first of all, we asked him if he recognized his son, if he recognized the van

. >> thank you for having me miss harlow. >> what do you think we'll hear from governor nikki haley anddsey graham in less than an hour's time? >> i'm cautiously optimistic. in 2000 my father allowed me to play a small role in the march behind him to take that flag off the top of the state house and i will tell you that there will be so much joy if that flag comes down. i think a lot of times the viewers don't understand what that means. there's a generation of people in south carolina who have felt the sting of waterhoses against their back. they have lied just for sitting in for what they believe. civil rights is not something we have to read in a history book in south carolina. it's something we live. we were overflowed with joy if that symbol is removed. >> i want you to listen to what we all heard yesterday morning, a service at the mother emanuel church. listen to part of the sermon. >> finally, i want to say thank you to law enforcement. i've got no problem in doing that. [ applause ] oh yes. i want to thank law enforcement and the chief of police. >> yes. >> of the city of charl

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. >> brannontalking with poppy harlow. has turned up the heat when he tweeted, quote, take down the confederate flag. president obama tweeting back good point mitt. other republicans running for president skirted the issue. let's talk about the confederate flag and whether it should be on the south carolina's capitol's grounds. greg stewart is a 20-year member of the sons of confederate veterans and jill is a writer for the detroit free press and the new york times. >> good morning. >> greg you spearheaded an effort to keep the confederate battle flag on the mississippi state flag why? >> that was in 2001 and the policy makers then had an effort to get around the public on the vote and the main point of it was to allow the people of mississippi to have a vote and they did. in fact we carried presinks the counties that no one would have known that we would have carried but we carried them by a wide margin. that's the way to do it to give it to the people. >> i will add because i think it's important to let the information o

♪ >>> i'm poppy harlow in new york and we begin with breaking news out of charleston south carolina where racist manifesto purportedly written by the confessed charleston church shooter has surfaced. the statements along with disturbing images of shooter dylann roof surfaced online just a few hours ago. cnn is still working to authenticate it. the statement is laden with racist remarks and lays out why charleston was the target for search a horrific massacre. this as dylann roof remains locked up under suicide watch in and cities unite with charleston. members of a.m.e. churches standing together in solidarity paying their respects to the nine lives that were lost. martin savidge and alina machado are live in charleston. mark garigos and tom fuentes are we me here in new york. alina, it is incredibly heart just to read to imagine that someone could think this write it and then execute it. what stands out? >> absolutely poppy. this is incredibly disturbing. the manifesto, the apparent manifesto is full of hate and makes very inflammatory remarks, not just about blacks but about other minor

poppy harlow, the '60s marathon begins right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> stand by.>> the average time spent watching television is five to six hours per day. >> holy residuals. >> there's a reason for calling it the boob tube and the idiot box. >> let's change the channel. >> we want to rap about our scene. >> yeah.

i'm poppy harlow in new york. captured fugitive david sweat in the hands of police.at this photo obtained exclusively by our deborah feyerick. we have just also learned the name of the officer that shot him. sergeant jay cook. you are looking at a to 0photo of him now. governor cuomo are address the press in a few moments. sweat was being treated inside of a local immediate call center. he is on the move right now, though. he is being taken to albany. bigger facility there where he can be treated. he is on run for 23 days. he was taken into police custody just two miles from the canadian border. just 30

i'm poppy harlow joining you this afternoon from new york. we begin with the funeral of beau biden. he was a mighty heart who made you want to be a better person. those are the words of president obama this afternoon on a life cut short. beau biden, the oldest son of vice president joe biden, remembered at a funeral mass just a short time ago in wilmington delaware. ♪ his father, the vice president, following the casket of the former state attorney general, soldier, father and husband who died of brain cancer one week ago at the age of 46. in his eulogy president obama said beau biden did in 46 years what most of us could not do in 146. >> it is our obligation our obligation to beau to think not about what was and what might have been but instead to think about what is because of him. think about the day that dawns for children who are safer because of beau. whose lives are fuller because of him. think about the day of the dawns' parents who rest easier and families who are freer because of him. some folks may never know that their lives are better because of beau biden, but that's

i'm poppy harlow joining you live from new york.p filled with beautiful voices of faith. hundreds filling the pews of emanuel ame church today, singing and remembering nine lives taken in a horrible act of brutality. one of the victims was the church's pastor. but beyond honoring the victims, the service focused on action.

brannon told cnn's poppy harlow he regrets not taking action earlier. >> i apologize to the people ofouth carolina. i have been in the house for five years. i should have introduced this bill five years ago. i should not have let my friend -- we should not be having this conversation. >> talk about what you did not do it sooner. >> um, i did not do my job. amy: the confederate flag has flown near the state legislature in columbia since the early opponents of the flag say it's 1960's. an offensive symbol to african americans, a reminder of the painful legacy of slavery. meanwhile, some southern whites defend the flag as a symbol of their regional heritage. the debate over the confederate flag has found its way into presidential politics with republican presidential hopefuls being grilled on their positions. so far, the only high-profile republican to unambiguously call for the flag's removal is not even in the 2016 presidential race. on saturday, mitt romney tweeted, "remove it now to honor #charleston victims." president obama re-tweeted his former rival's message saying "good point,

. >>> top of the hour i'm poppy harlow in new york.lowing one of the most audacious prison breaks in recent memory. two convicted murderers on the whose for a second day after escaping from a maximum security prison. new york state officials are now offering $100,000

i'm poppy harlow joining you from new york. we begin this hour with new details on that man hunt for escaped convicted murderer david sweat. police admitting their bloodhounds not able to pick up his scent anywhere in the area where his fellow convict was shot and killed. richard matt just yesterday. right now roughly 1200 members of law enforcement have set up a hard perimeter in new york state, upstate in the adirondacks. still, no sightings of david sweat. he is believed to be armed, possibly with a gun taken from a nearby cabin. nbc news obtaining these pictures of one of the cabins where police believe that sweat and matt hid at some point during their three weeks on the run. now sweat is on his own and they say he could be more dangerous and desperate than ever. cnn's alexandra field joins us live from malone new york. how confident are the police that they do have sweat contained, if they have as they admit no eyes on him? >> reporter: right. no eyes on him, no credible sightings at this point. but we do know they are ke

i'm poppy harlow in new york. we continue to follow the developments out of dallas where the picture is getting a bit clearer after that shocking ambush overnight. it started just after midnight when bullets were flying outside of police headquarters in dallas being shot indiscriminately at the headquarters there. a man driving an armored van just ambushed this police department. also some patrol cars as well. the officers obviously were shocked and they responded. listen. >> armored [ bleep ]. >> come on, guys. guys! >> that suspect who is now dead drove away in this armored van after the gunfire broke out. it was a 13-mile chase into the dallas suburbs. >> to all those knowledge witnesses and everything else here at headquarters all suspects got into a vehicle and are currently in pursuit. there have been rounds that hit the glass that did not penetrate. >> we have a 50 caliber. >> call down to the station asap. we have one of the shooters on the phone. >> the suspect refused to give me his name. stated he's got

i'm poppy harlow in new york. captured fugitive david sweat in the hands of police. take a look at this photo obtained exclusively by our deborah feyerick. we have just also learned the name of the officer that shot him. sergeant jay cook. you are looking at a tophoto of him now. governor cuomo are address the press in a few moments. sweat was being treated inside of a local immediate call center. he is on the move right now, though. he is being taken to albany. bigger facility there where he can be treated. he is on run for 23 days. he was taken into police custody just two miles from the canadian border. just 30 miles away from the prison where he i skescaped. he was walking down a road this afternoon. broad daylight when he was stopped. he fled across a field. and he was shot twice. but he was taken into custody alive. alexandra field joins me live in constable, new york. what are the authorities on the ground there saying? >> reporter: well, they're still at the field, poppy. they're bringing in forensic investigators. they have got to do the processing of that f