joyce mitchell details her relationship with two dangerous killers and shares exactly how she helped them escape. >>> donald trump on the record on cnn about an aids controversial comments about rape. that is coming up. >>> good morning, everyone. welcome to "early start" i'm john berman. wednesday, 4:00 a.m. july 18th. christine romans is off today. >>> the two missing 14-year-olds missing at sea is entering its sixth day. the coast guard has expanded the semp area and 41,000 square miles, the size of ohio. the boys's boat counseled cap-sized sunday. cohen's mother tells kate bolduan they are still alive. >> we know the courage and skills that they have and we know how athletically fit and able they are. both of our boys learned how to swim before they learned how to walk so we just feel very very confident that they will be able to stick through this. they know that we are coming for them and we will get them. >> cnn's martin savidge is in florida with the very latest. >> reporter: the coast guard has

the more they look into joyce mitchell, the plot starts to unravel. betrayal and a plan to murder. [ horn honks melody ] well, well. if it isn't the belle of the ball. gentlemen. you look well. what's new, flo? well, a name your price tool went missing last week. name your what, now? it gives you coverage options based on your budget. i just hope whoever stole it knows that it only works at progressive.com. so, you can't use it to just buy stuff? no. i'm sorry, gustav. we have to go back to the pet store. [ gustav squawks ] he's gonna meet us there. the name your price tool. still only at progressive.com. >>> on the surface, this woman seems the most unlikely accomplice to a crime. 51 years old, she is a wife and a mother, married to the same man for 14 years. but joyce mitchell has secrets. secrets that have handed her in jail. accused of helping two dangerous felons break free. >> i get many escapees on america's most wanted that would have never gotten out if wasn't for the woman who helped them. >> in this case, authorities say joyce mitchell is t

but joyce mitchell has secrets. secrets that have landed her in jail.ed of helping two dangerous felons break free. >> i did many escapees on "america's most wanted dwhats would have never gotten out if it wasn't for the woman who helped them. >> in this case, authorities say joyce mitchell is the one who helped them with their plan. how and why did this wife and mother become involved with two convicted murderers? it all started with david sweat. who in 2013 was working in the prison tailor shop. there he befriended mitchell. eric jensen also worked in the tailor shop with the fugitives and joyce mitchell. david sweat was jensen's supervisor. jensen said many believed sweat was having a sexual relationship with mitchell. >> she used to keep him back in the mess hall. we would go to the mess hall for lunch. he would be there eating all kinds of fried chicken, barbecued chicken. that was specifically after labor day. i remember that. she brought it in on a styrofoam tray. >> for him. >> yeah. it was like the handsome jock asking the chubby fat girl to th

you have joyce and sweat blaming each other. sweat has got to be the worst witness in the united states. no jury is going to, going to believe him. will they even prosecute the incomplete conspiracy that never went forward. it is not clear that the conspiracy happened much less who is involved in it. >>en a situation, jeff said, sweat know it a reliable source, frankly neither is joyce mitchell i suppose. where do you try to as an investigator how do you fry to figure this out? because he and joyce mitchell the two actually know what happened are giving completely contradictory accounts. >> basically you try to get as many, many details as possible. burrow as deeply as you can into their story. try to get as many facts you can get and fact check. one of the thing i used to do when i would do this debriefing or interview would be to ask the person -- look if this is true, how can i prove it? something else you have to look at as well, how did it come up during the interrogation or during the interview? was maybe the idea somehow

joyce will be formally sentenced in september. john? >> alexander field, thanks so much. >>> donald trump is standing by his man, even while creating some distance between himself and one of his special counsel, michael cohen who triggered an uproar when he told a "daily beast" reporter you cannot rape your spouse. cohen has since apologized for the remark and trump tells cnn's don lemon, the matter is closed. >> do you still stand by michael cohen? >> no. you have to understand, michael was extremely angry because he knew it never took place and he knew this website was a joke, considered a joke. he was angry and maybe he didn't understand the question but, no, i don't disagreed with him. in fact, when i read it i disagreed. who knows what he said because, frankly, i'm not sure they reported accurately but assuming he said it, no, i disagree with that. >> you're not going to fire him or get rid of him? >> no, i'm not. he was very angry because they issued a false story to get publicity for themselves and to try to make themselves relev

named joyce mitchell. who is joyce mitchell?le aged woman, a mother and a wife. >> reporter: and a civilian worker at that honor block tailor shop. >> she had been working there for a period of time prior to her contact with sweat and matt. >> reporter: as they walked back and forth, they regularly stumbled over a sort of speed bump. eventually realizing that underneath ran a heat pipe from that power plant. if only they could crawl through it they were home free. >> so every day, they had this, you know, layout -- of their, you know, potential escape route that they were looking at. >> reporter: someone should have suspected matt might try to escape. he'd done it before. he reportedly scaled the jail's barbed wire fence. now, this one he's planning to go under. now the brazen one joins up with sweat, the master schemer, the one who drew maps and lists for his every crime. but matt, the natural ladies' man takes his relationship with joyce mitchell to another level. he gives joyce some of his paintings, similar to these celebrit

obviously you see joyce mitchell was emotional. let's bring in paul cowan who is here with us as well as gary hayward who worked as a prison guard and ultimately also served time in prison so has some experience on both sides. paul, the deal, 2 1/2 years to 7 years in prison, pleading guilty. what does the county get out of, it what does she get out of it? >> she got a great deal. i think her attorney negotiated a very, very good deal. let's face it, this is a very serious offense. these guys are murderers set loose on the community. they could have killed somebody. ound this deal she could be out in as little as approximately 2 1/2 years. it's more likely she'll serve more time but she's parole eligible after that short period of time. so that's a very, very good deal for her. now, she could do the entire seven years depending upon what the parole board things. >> good deal for her but then what does the prosecutor or the district attorney, he's not going to obviously just let her loose. what do they get out of it ? >> well, the p

joyce mitchell's husband. joyce mitchell denied she had anything to do with the murder plot. david sweat said she did. lyle mitchell weighing in through his attorney. telling cnn yesterday afternoon, quote, lyle only knows what joyce has told him. that is she did not want to hurt lyle. again, joyce mitchell telling investigators she had nothing to do with the murder plot. also telling her husband she did not want him hurt and did not want anyone to go through with it. john christine. >>> jason, thank you. overnight in tunisia, police arrest eight people involved in the terror attack in the resort. eight people will be honored with a moment of silence this morning. this as british officials confirmed two most wanted were killed in coalition air strikes. one a top lieutenant of osama bin laden. the other a senior isis leader. for latest on the developments i want to bring in cnn's phil black in tunisia. good morning, phil. >> reporter: good morning, christine. eight people in custody, including a woman and the authorities are still looking for more. they released details of one

joyce. >> thank you, a late night shooting left a man fighting for his life in the hospital. gunfire rang out before 10:00 last night. near the 500 block of west hill creek drive in the cress he didn'tville section of philadelphia. and that's where police found a 44-year-old man with gunshot wounds to his face and chest. he's in einstein hoocht tonight. in critical condition. police say the victim and another man arguing before the gunfire started. authorities are looking for that shooter tonight. police say a monroe county woman dying from a/to her throat blamed her boyfriend in her final words before passing away. 25-year-old darn originally told investigators that his girlfriend, 41-year-old accidently stabbed herself with a kitchen knife. a neighbor who tried to keep her alive, she did pointed to him as the cul pretty and police charged him in her death. philadelphia police investigating a sexual assault in cobbs creek, they say a 26-year-old woman was walkinging on carting ton street around 3:30 this morning. a man came up from behind dragged her into the cobbs creek gol

page pate obviously joyce mitchell agreed to a plea deal.aband charges, one year in the county jail concurrent to run with the 2 1/3 to 7 years. is that what you got? >> it is. there's some other conditions. she has to give up her teaching certificate. she's got to continue to cooperate in the investigation. i think that's important. i think that's what got her to this point to begin with. it's her cooperation that allowed her to get what i think is a pretty favorable deal when you consider the fact they could have charged her with the allegations of having sex with someone in custody and with the allegations of conspiring to murder her husband. so at the end of the day i think she got a good deal. >> so how long do you think she'll actually spend behind bars? >> that's a great question carol. under new york law they impose in cases like this an indeterminate sentence. you heard there's a range here 2 1/2 up to 7 years. she's not going to serve the 7 years unless she gets into prison and really causes some trouble. i think normally under the

newly released documents reveal the details of what joyce mitchell knew and when.'ve known about them cutting the hole in the wall for about three or four weeks, mitchell tells investigators in the days following the escaped a mitting she used hamburger meat to smuggle the hacksaws. she goes on into details revealing she sent sweat sexual letters and naked photos but said she only had sexual contact with matt. we were alone and inmate matt grabbed me and kissed me. it startled me. he kissed me with an open mouth kiss. i didn't say anything because i was squaredcared for my husband who works in the facility. she said there was oral sex with matt and other sexual encounters with the inmate that plotted to kill her husband referred to as the glitch. she explains the agreed upon meeting time was midnight. i was to drive my jeep and bring my cell phone, gps, clothes, a gun, tents, sleeping bag, hatchet, fish l polling poles and money from a package. the plan was to drive to my home and inmate mat would kill the glitch. after we were going to drive somewhere, i can't rem

>> joyce mitchell. >> ms. don't understand will you give me your assurance that you will tell me and i will allow you to confer with mr. johnston? do i have that assurance? >> yes. >> you understand that you have signed the charges against you. you gave up that right to incriminate yourself. have you had time to discuss this matter with mr. johnston to make an intelligent decision? >> yes. >> are you satisfied with the decision? >> yes. >> have you had time to discuss this with any friend or family? [ inaudible ] >> do you understand that rather than accept this negotiable plea deal, you have the right to proceed to trial either before a court sitting alone or a jury? >> yes. >> if you -- [ inaudible ] >> do you understand that if you proceed to trial, you will have a right to take the witness stand, give testimony if you wish have witnesses if you wish. do you understand that by entering this plea of guilty you give up this right? >> yes. >> are you making this decision freely and voluntarily? >> yes. >> are

she blamed joyce mitchell. here is how she put it. >> i feel to this day that if this woman and whoever else was involved didn't give them the stuff, those guise wouldn'tys wouldn't have broke out of jail. they wouldn't have had nothing to do it with. you know i will blame them as well as the two guys. >> her son is a psychopath and nar narsas narsacist. >> if joyce hadn't helped -- joe's point, we don't know everything. they couldn't have done it without her. >> he is in prison for being involved in shooting a cop 22 times and running him over. i would say this is a guy who deserved to be in prison anyway. it didn't get that much worse because of this incident. he is somebody society has to be protected against. >> thank you all. >>> a threat of a major terror attack on the u.s. this holiday weekend. this is the most intense level of concern since 9/11. >>> macy's cutting ties with donald trump. trump firing back tonight. here is what he is saying only to cnn. >>> dukes of hazard reruns dropped. here is the qu

joyce mitchell's husband. joyce mitchell denied she had anything to do with the murder plot. david sweat said she did. lyle mitchell weighing in through his attorney. saying lyle only knows what she has told him. again, joyce mitchell said she had nothing to do with the murder plot and she did not want her husband hurt or anyone to go through with it. john christine. >>> jason, thank you. breaking overnight in tunisia, police arrest eight people suspected involved of the terror attack in the beach resort one week ago. in hours, 38 people will be remembered with a moment of silence across the united kingdom. all but eight of those killed were british. this as two of tunisia's most wanted terrorists were killed in coalition air strikes last month. one, a top lieutenant of osama bin laden and the other is an isis leader. let's bring in cnn's phil black from tunisia. an emotional morning in england. >> reporter: it is, indeed. one week from today is about remembrance. firstly, on the sands near the resort where the attack began. that is where a crowd will gather to think about th

that it was joyce who wanted her husband dead. a lot of developments to get to. jason carroll is out front tonight in new york. jason, this is really the first time officials are giving an account of richard matt's final moments. what can you tell us? >> reporter: the final moments could have been much much worse for the border agent who, as you know ended up firing and killing richard matt. it could have been worse for him. federal authorities are saying that when richard matt failed to obey orders, he raised and pointed the shotgun at that agent before that agent opened fire. you can see from federal agents telling us that that situation could have been much much worse. the shotgun, as you know richard matt picked up when he was on the run along with the alcohol that he ended up drinking. if not for the quick thinking of that border patrol agent things could have been much much worse. >> absolutely. david sweat is telling investigators that it was joyce mitchell's idea to kill her husband lyle. lyle is now speaking out through h

joyce mitchell, soon under arrest as we track down her husband. what do you make of the reports that she was trying to have you killed? >> reporter: lyle mitchell visiting his wife in jail. and why did she do it? i was caught up in the fantasy, she says. i enjoyed the attention, the feeling both of them gave me, and the thought of a different life. joyce mitchell will be sentenced in september. she faces up to seven years behind bars. her lawyer says she knows she made a horrible mistake. gio benitez, abc news, new york. >>> authorities in texas have released jailhouse video. sandra bland, and the young black woman found hanging in her cell can be seen getting her mugshot taken, filling out forms and going in and out of her cell during the period. the footage is intended to dispel rumors that she was dead before arriving at the jail. authorities say such conspiracy theories about bland have led to death threats against officials. >>> the mother of james holmes is expected to take the stand today in an effort to save his life. yesterday his father

without joyces they never could have done it. >> finally, one killed one caught. what else about this whole thing -- we want to know how it was pulled off. i know they are looking for more power tools that were used. what else about this thing befuddles you? >> this is way more complicated than you think. people say, wow, clinton must have been really screwed up. they all are, to a certain extent. but they are doing everything to change. they are putting gates in the catwalk. >> new superintendent. >> and they are cleaning house. accountability comes from the top. i want to tell you that they can check the cells weekly and they can do random bed checks and do all of these things but they are really missing the big point which is that guards and inmates have inappropriate relationships all the time. and there's no accountability for that. so when they start cleaning house and firing cos for inappropriate relationships, female inmates always getting pregnant female guards getting pregnant by male guards. >> one impregnated four women. >> remember susan smith, she wa

joyce. there were was on the list of passengers released by the airline. they all had joyce on the flight. months later i tracked down her sister. hello, it is natalia from the bbc. >> i am very moved by your remembering her name. reporter: when i first spoke to joyce's sister a few months ago she was pregnant and she wanted to see how the delivery went before committing to an interview. she has now had her baby girl and here we are. >> she was everything -- my friend, my partner. everything we discussed together. works, relations, emotions illness. never met someone with the same frequency. reporter: did you feel angry at any point? >> not at the beginning. what were they thinking? so many lovely people. reporter: families of the victims can see the lightning's online. -- belongings online. >> baby shoes, glasses small things that all belong to do someone with a history, for the dreams. -- with dreams. and then i get very frustrated. i said goodbye to my sister. for her to come back, on the plane, on her own. shouldn't be allowed people come back that way

fox 29's joyce evans live in the newsroom. joyce, what did cosby say? >> reporter: lucy according to the times report, cosby quite candidly defends himself here in the full transcript. had a lot to say about claims made in a lawsuit filed 10 years ago settled before ever going to trial. a liar is what bill cosby called andrea couldn't stand a former temple university employee who claimed cosby drugged her and molested her one night at his home. owe he talked about their relationship as mentor/mentee and said the only drug he gave her was ben in a dill and non verbal cues led to a sexual encounter that was consensual saying "i think i'm a pretty decent reader of people and they're emotions that in these romantic sexual things whatever you want to call them". cosby talked about what he called sexual rendezvouses with at least five other women but that he tended to stop short of intercourse with women because he didn't want them to quote succumb to morrow man's. he admitted using quaaludes powerful sedative drugs to lure women for sex. and he insisted that

fox 29s joyce evans joins with the breaking details.oyce. >> iain and lucy, most people suspected it was just matter of time still there are heavy hearts no doubt within the brown and houston families and among fans of bobbi kristina's celebrity parents. whitney houston and bobby brown's daughter was only 22 years old as you said and she had been in hospice care outside atlanta since june 24th. that's when her family decided to take her off all medication after doctors apparently told them that there was no chance. that bobbi kristina would ever recover. on january 31 whitney houston's only child was found unresponsive in her tub underwater. paramedics were able to revive her still doctors placed bobbi kristina on a medically induced coma and live support. now, tmz recently broke the story that local prosecutors had been gearing up for murder case and that bobbi kristina's boyfriend nick gordon would be their first person of interest. now, police said there were bruises on bobbi kristina's face and body after gordon and a friend found h

they told joyce to bring her car packed with sleeping bags tents, a fishing pole.she could get ahold of her husband's shotgun, if he had one, to bring that along. they were going to cool their heels in west virginia until the coast was clear and then head to mexico. >> lou, thank you very much. all that breaking news from the buffalo news. >> thank you for having me. >>> the breaking news at this hour. court document made public. bill cosby testifying under oath he drugged at least one woman to have sex with her. this is a major development. he has denied this again and again and again. we will speak with one of cosby's accusers after this break. that's next. only nexium 24hr gives you nexium level protection for frequent heartburn all day and all night. try nexium 24hr, the #1 prescribed acid-blocking brand, and get all day, all night protection. nexium level protection. a new season brings a new look. a chance to try something different. this summer, challenge your preconceptions and experience a cadillac for yourself. ♪ ♪ take advantage of our summer offers. the

matt called mitchell's husband, lyle, the glitch and gave joyce two white pills to drug him. the plan was for matt to kill lyle when they escaped, but she couldn't go through with it and never showed up. she told investigators "i'm really sorry for what i have done." >> what it really came down to is sweat and matt. manipulating individuals to allow them to accomplish their ultimate goal. >> reporter: i really do love my husband, she said, and he's the reason i didn't meet inmate matt and inmate sweat. after visiting his wife in jail today, lyle mitchell said he stands by his wife. >> why? >> because i love her. >> reporter: investigators say the evidence is that just three people carried out this complex escape. richard matt who was killed in the manhunt, david sweat who's back in prison, serving life without parole and joyce mitchell now facing up to seven years in prison. lester? >> john yang tonight, thank you. >>> there are big new developments tonight in the deflategate cheating scandal that rocked the nfl. the league has upheld a four-game suspension for tom brady, sid

our joyce evan in the studio now with a troubling new report. joyce?porter: it's actually pretty scary that. report comes from the cdc and the message is clear. heroin use increasing rapidly around the u.s. and the cdr reports it's raising across age race, income and ethnic groups. doesn't matter. it's going up. nationwide deaths from overdoses related to heroin nearly quadrupled between 2002 and 2013. young people are getting hit particularly hard. heroin use doubled among women and young adults between ages 18 and 25. the cdc says the increase in heroin use can be linked to more people being prescribed medications containing opie yachts like oxycontin and heroin on the street seems to be cheaper and more widely available these days. >>> three quarters of a american adults believe that raising the legal age to smoke to 21 is a good idea. that word also coming from the c d.c. today. while support for such a law was strongest among other people and those who have never smoked, researchers found 70% of smokers also support this concept. the cdc says prev

one prison worker and seamstress joyce mitchell is reportedly happy the manhunt is over. ecstatic according to herp attorney that no one else was hurt. as for her husband lyle who might have been killed by matt and sweat if joyce has gone through with her role as getaway driver peter, i know you've been in touch with your client lyle mitchell. what is his reaction to what sweat has told investigators. that joyce mitchell was the primary plan for a getaway car and they intended to kill him. >> he certainly didn't think that was plan "a" in the beginning. the way he's looking at i, like joyce saved his life that night by not picking them up. >> certainly one way to look it a, i guess. the most optimistic reading of it. the plan was for the three of them on drive to mexico. what did he think of that? i know all along, when you and i spoke before he said he didn't believe there had been any sexual relationship. what does he make of the idea that she was going to take off to mexico? >> well, when i talked on him about it he keeps going back to the fact she didn't go through wi

joyce was out of money.he ninth circuit appeals court which had reversed just one such ruling in the past decade. >> this was the last step in the process. we had lost all along the way. but this was her life. that's a huge responsibility and one that anyone would take seriously. >> now, working without pay, genago submitted the appeal to the ninth circuit's three-judge panel led by judge michael hawkins. >> i was the united states attorney for four years. i prosecuted plenty of cases myself. they are not entitled to a perfect trial. they are entitled to a reasonably fair trial, the defendants in criminal proceedings are. >> a year after filing, genago made a 15-minute oral argument to the court. then they waited. on march 10th, 2000, gloria was busy advising other inmates. she had been behind bars for 14 years. >> somebody came running over and said, you're still here. i said, what are you talking about? she handed me the article from the "l.a. times." and that's how i knew. gloria, you're going home. that

joyce mitchell pleading guilty to one count of providing contraband contraband. she was able to avoid any additional charges for promoting prison contraband conspiracy to commit the murder of her husband lyle mitchell and any sexually related charges. criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor tom kniff is here to break it down. why do you think she accepted the deal? >> it's the carrot and the stick. she would get convicted only of the d felony. two and a third to seven years which she appears to have agreed to and that's an indeterminate sentence in new york meaning at the con clugts of the minimum period she will be eligible for parole. it is possible she could be paroled in a couple of years and will get credit for the month she's already served. the stick is the prosecutors could have stacked more charges on this. the big one being conspiracy to commit murder. >> the idea she could sefb onlyserve only two and a half years in prison -- she was going to allegedly off her husband. >> the reason the prosecutors didn't want to go down that road in order to s

joyce mitchell seamstress joyce mitchell wanted her own husband killed.ed inmate david sweat is saying about the prison seamstress who was supposedly to be the getaway driver to mexico. this is one of now the multiple bombshell confessions coming from this convicted cop killer during his 23 days on the run, an escape he says he masterminded. he says he was the guy. richard matt who apparently slowed him down. sweat telling police that he grew fed up with matt who he says was physically out

joyce mitchell soon under arrest as we track down her husband. wrangets do you make the reports she was trying to have you killed? >> reporter: today lyle mitchell visiting his wife in jail. why did she do it? i was caught up in the fantasy, she says. i enjoyed the attention, the feeling both of them gave me and the thought of a different life. joyce mitchell will be sentenced in september, facing up to seven years behind bars. her lawyer says she knows she made a horrible mistake. >> and her husband visiting her today? >> that's right. >> thank you. >>> now to the other developing headline late today involving quarterback tom brady and what we learned for the first time. the nfl now says he destroyed his cell phone and thousands of text messages on it during the investigation into deflategate. the nfl citing that reason in revealing tonight that his suspension for four games will stand. brady seen right there the day he answered questions from the nfl. one prominent sports columnist saying brady's cover-up was worse than the crime. here's abc's

first of all, joyce mitchell said that they were going to mexico. well, david sweat said, yes, we were bound for mexico but we were going to go to west virginia first and another inconsistency as you said is lyle mitchell, the husband of joyce. david sweat saying that it was joyce's idea to have her husband killed. joyce saying no, it's not, and her attorney is speaking out saying definitely not. it was the escapees' plan and idea to kill lyle, but one thing that david sweat is saying is that in one of the tunnels in the prison right behind me they found a sledgehammer. we would always heard it was a toolbox that was found and one of the big changes in the tunnel is that you no longer can have toolboxes there. and there's going to be electronic gates in the tunnel and they're also going to start to take pictures every month of the tunnel areas to compare and contrast to see if there are any new security risks so no one else will be able to escape. >> seems to be a good idea to keep a better eye on the tunnels underneath that prison going forward. je

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we will have live report coming up from jennifer joyce in just a bit. here was the arrival. dressed casual flying from vancouver to filly? >> looks like two briefcase cents, full of money. >> from all of the endorsement offers she's getting. good for her though, i'm sure she is glad to be home. she said she lovers being here actually, let's hear from him. >> it has been unbelievable moment. i think it really start today sink when we got back to la, had the rally with everybody been pretty amazing, now getting back to philly, probably only be here for a day and a half, back home, and then it is world wind roller coaster just riding the wave and enjoying the moment. >> even without sleep at 2:00 in the morning, carli lloyd stopped in the airport to sign autographs and to take pictures of his people there, you can even see having her re aoun juan her fiancee who she hadn't seen in 42 days. that is brian hollins he was thereto pick her up, and we're told that it will be a quick reunion, she is coming back home to unpack and re pack. she is headed up to new york city tomorrow. th

and joyce mitchell, now facing up to seven years in prison. lester? >> john yang tonight. thank you. >>> there are big new developments tonight in the deflategate cheating scandal that rocked the nfl. the league has upheld a four-game suspension for tom brady, sidelining one of its biggest stars. it's a fight getting nasty. it's heading to court as the league reveals brady had his cell phone destroyed right as investigators wanted to see it. nbc's ron mott has late details. >> reporter: six months after it blew up into a major sports scandal, deflategate appears headed for even more controversy, namely federal court. nfl commissioner roger goodell today upheld tom brady's four-game suspension. the league saying the four-time super bowl-winning quarterback destroyed his cell phone and nearly 10,000 text messages putting the ball in the hands of the players association, which has vowed to continue the fight by seeking a court injunction allowing him to play. >> today's revelations i think are definitely a bombshell. it might not be damning in a legal sense but from an optics

. >> i'm joyce evans ian off tonight. tough day to stay outside for most people for more than a few minute, when is this thing going to break? lets guess straight to fox 29 meteorologist, dave, we were just out there pretty yuck. >> i and it will break but look at the seven day forecast not the forecast tonight, or tomorrow. there will be a little improvement, this is the excessive heat warning and the advisory, that's what's in effect right now. look what happens tomorrow. >> this advisory in the morton western suburbs gone, it still is hot muggy along i95, south jersey, delaware, but some improvement, in the north and western suburbs. already peaked today. to up 105 104 for heat index in philadelphia, it is down to 99 now. this is the temperature plus the humidity, what it actually feels like, your boyde can't quite cool off. all of this mugginess moisture in the air and temperature so hot. ninety-five is the heat index in allentown, very muggy, and high heat index still some triple digits out there temperatures startin

. >> jenny joyce is live in delran, new jersey, carli's hometown, hi there jenny. >> good morning. just enjoying a nice morning cup of coffee and we invite you to come join us at route 130 diner in delran. of course, we're talking about carli lloyd has lots of people very excited for her and entire u.s. women's national team. as we look at our video you can see carli's huge goals last night with the first ever hat trick in a woman's world cup final game. within 16 minutes she achieved three goals each won electrified the crowd of supporters. in the end u.s. team defeated japan in the five-two win. dave kinchin at a watch party at champs in marlton to see thrilling victory there. he was joined by members of the medicine forward strikers team the same team that carli played for with her youth. she's back serving as a mental toughness coach. players, parents are proud to say the least. >> always training, and we work, all the time so it is really cool how we have train with her and seeing her in our field and announcing her and seeing her on a big stage and performing so well. >> it i

, information it was joyce mitchell's idea to kill her husband.ce mitchell denying those claims and clearly he would likely be deposed in any sort of trial against her in connection with this breakout. now, also david sweat telling vetters that he knew that richard matt had been killed. the district attorney confirmed the men had radios and were monitoring the searchers and the progress they were making and that apparently david sweat also and richard matt came very close to being caught twice, once when the two men were hiding by a cabin, but also one time after sweat had broken off, he was hiding up in a tree perch basically, a hunting perch. >> do we know how they got the radios? >> from the cabins. the cell service up there is very spotty. in order to be able to communicate -- that was something a source had told me more than a week ago that they were concerned that all the communication between authorities was being monitored. you had a thousand people who were up there and the only way they could really speak to one another was through the r

she is joyce mitchell. that's her real name. she pleaded guilty to helping the convicted killers, escape last month. she faces up to seven years in prison. prosecutors said she smuggled the men tools by hiding them in frozen hamburger meat. she also offered to be the get away driver but backed out on that part. both men escaped after they came out of a manhole near the prison. they spent three weeks on the run. search crews eventually shot and killed richard matt 30 miles west of the prison if you remember. a couple days later, police shot david sweat near the border with canada. he survived and police sent him to a different prison where he resides even now. the lawyer for joyce mitchell says she feels sorry for her roll. rick leventhal is outside the courthouse. it was judge napolitano who said these will plead out. there will not be a wide spread investigation nobody wants that on that prison and sure enough it begins. >> not just that there may have been more charges against her, at least that's what her attorney told us. we

joyce mitchell pleading guilty today to promoting prison contraband. and the clinton county investigation is still ongoing at the prison. here's more from the d.a. >> potentially there could, based on the investigation, allegations of other actions that joyce mitchell took or participated in during her employment at clinton correctional facility. if something along that nature arises during that investigation, my office would be advised on it and we could pursue additional charges against miss mitchell. >> all right. with me now i have former clinton correctional facility inmate eric jensen who knew both of these guys and joyce mitchell and also with me criminal defense attorney eric guster. gentlemen, good to see you both. >> good to see you too. >> when i saw her in the courtroom wiping her tears away i got into this discussion of who feels bad for you and who doesn't. i have to ask you, is there any part of you that feels for her? >> no. >> no? >> she knew what she was doing. >> she deserves every bit of time she will be serving? >> right. probably

dave sweat says joyce mitchell is the one who wanted to kill her husband, but that's a claim joyce'sdenies. >>> and the seventh shark attack took place in north carolina yesterday. a 68-year-old man suffered damage to his rib cage leg and hands. >>> engine problems could be to blame for the military transport plane that crashed in indonesia and the airport's chief says a sensor on the propellor indicating the engine stalled. the officials say the plane was flying at a lower than normal speed to suggest engine failure. 141 people were killed when the plane crashed into a residential neighborhood. >>> all right. we want to get to inside politics on "new day" with john king back in his natural habitat inside the beltway. hi john. >> i enjoyed my time there and will come back to visit soon. but yes, i'm back in my natural habitat in washington, d.c. i'm lucky. we'll go inside politics. a busy day to do it. we are doing it differently today to share their reporting, ed o'keeffe at "the washington post." we usually do two reporters but the esteemed democratic strategist is here in the hous

. >> joyce mitchell admitted her role in the plot as part of a plea deal.lso confessed to a relationship with one inmate. here's abc's gio benitez. >> reporter: joyce "tilly" mitchell in snackles stripes and tears, pleading guilty to helping the two murderers escape. >> she was swept off her feet a bit for a period. and then when she realized who she was dealing with, everything changed. >> reporter: in newly released statements, mitchell describes a deepening friendship with inmate richard matt. "he treated me with respect and was nice to me," she says "he made me feel special." that relationship turning sexual. "inmate matt grabbed me and kissed me." mitchell also admits sending naked pictures to the other prisoner, david sweat, telling police matt told her "we were all going to be together." >> she got in over her head and into something that she never should have started, but she did, and she's paying the price. >> reporter: mitchell ads mitts smuggling hacksaw blades chisels, a punch tool and a screwdriver to the prisoners, hiding them inside frozen ha

shot and killed in 2012 and firefighter joyce craig killed in 2014 battleing a house fire and michael goodwin who died in 2013 battleing a blaze

sorry about that john doe renÉe martin joyce cannon monica corral, john beatty.eter gillick, david romulo, tom carter david gibbs and all of the court link. i just want to point out that the port laborers at an working tirelessly since like weekend after weekend after weekend. as you know, they work very very hard to accommodate the comments of mayors event that were on the waterfront. which quickly led into the fourth of july events about which were equally amazing. then, into this san francisco symphony event. so i want to conflict them, especially those of us who have been those of them brand-new to the port team that is getting well into their jobs trial by fire so to speak. so, just a wonderful evening. there's much more i could tell you about it and i do hope that the symphony will consider returning. i think everybody enjoyed it quite a bit. next, i

joyce mitchell saying all along she did not want to go along with the murder plot.t she loved her husband. in fact i remember her attorney telling you in an interview that that joyce mitchell very much loved her husband and did not want to go through with the plot. lyle mitch mell out turns out he still loves his wife. and still at least in some ways standing by her at least emotionally. >> you are also learning more about the staffing shake-ups at the prizson itself? >> that's right. new superintendent here michael fitzpatrick. kirk patrick. he is now taking over for steven racit, former superintendent. he is on administrative leave with 11 others. this new superintendent what's interesting about what is going to be happening here at the correctional facility is going to have to oversee several new rules. some include inspecting the structure of each cell each week. what he what we mean by that are actually the walls and that catwalk behind the cells those are going to be checked each week. and executive level executive now must be on the 11:00 to 7:00 a.m. shift.

joyce?> thank you sabina. >>> investigators are trying to figure out who shot a man inside an adult bookstore in center city early this morning. surveillance video here just released tonight according to police a 36-year-old man working at danny's midnight concessions was confronted by another man who walked in and spoke quote a gay slur then left. but police say that same man came back got into an argument with worker and then shot him. he ran out of the store along 13th street. the victim is at jefferson university hospital in stable condition. >>> fire investigators are trying to determine what sparked a fire this morning in north philadelphia. flames breaking out in a home on the 2900 block of susquehanna avenue. neighbors say they saw smoke coming from the place and called 911. one resident tried to rescue a woman upstairs but was overcome by smoke. firefighters were able to reach her and she was rush to the hospital. still no word tonight on that woman's condition. >>> and firefighters

he also talked about who was involved and who was not involved, meaning joyce mitchell, he says, wasnvolved. she was supposed to be the get-away driver. but gene palmer, that prison guard here, the one who smuggled in that piece of frozen hamburger meat, according to david sweat, he says palmer knew nothing of the escape plan. also, someone is coming to his defense. his mother, who says her son is not the only one to blame for the breakout. >> i still say to this day, if that woman and whoever else was involved and didn't give them that stuff, those guys never would have broke out of jail so i kind of, you know, blame them, as well as the two guys, david and the other guy. >> reporter: we are getting new details about richard matt and what happened up until his very final moments. apparently, he found some things on the way when he was out on the loose. he found things like food, pop tarts and m&ms and also some grape flavored liquor he apparently was drinking just before he was shot. he also had a shotgun that he fired several times in a trailer. one of those bullets striking a vehi