smoke came out of manhole covers, and then, manhole cover blows off this is what we know so far. calls came in, around 10:45 about smoke coming out of manhole covers, near the area of walnut and second street. we're told that a transformer underground blew up, causing the smoke to come through the manhole covers. now, police, firefighters, peco crews are on the scene, trying to get the situation under control. several buildings in and around walnut st. have been evacuated. we know one building had smoke inside. there are about 100 customers without power. crews here at the scene know the bumm being of the customers are in society hill towers. we talked with chef walter, from the city tavern restaurant, about the situation. >> very severe. they were afraid some of the manhole covers would blow up. so we had to evacuate, all of my staff is hanging out here, all of the people have reservations forlorn love have to find another place i guess. i don't know. >> and you're tacking live look at chopper three over the scene. again, police and firefighters and peco are here, at the scene,

getting into one manhole. rejecting that manhole thinking it was too close to houses. the next day, making the real run into a manhole popping out of a manhole that was less populated. also sweat detailed that he was the mastermind it was joyce mitchell who had the idea of killing her husband. mitchell's attorney saying that simply is not true. mitchell did not pick up the men so they tried to flee on foot to canada. sweat telling authorities, he had a number of close calls. he was hiding in a tree as an officer walked right by him. he remains in the hospital this morning. he is under heavy guard from what the hospital tells us. he remains in fair condition. john christine. >> kyung lah in albany. >>> new changes underway at the prison. clinton correctional has a new superintendent. michael kirkpatrick, after two deputies were put on paid leave. other changes, frequent checks of cells and catwalks. >>> a new business setback for donald trump. he has been fired from nbc for painting mexican immigrants as rapists. now macy's is following suit. although trump says he dump

first getting into one manhole, rejecting that manhole thinking it was too close to some houses. the next day, making their real run into the manhole popping out of the manhole that was less populated. sweat detailed that he was the mastermind it was joyce mitchell who had the idea of killing her husband. mitchell's attorney saying that is simply not true. mitchell certainly did not show up to pick up the two men. they tried to flee on foot to canada. sweat telling authorities while he was on the run, he had a number of close calls. one where he was hiding in a tree as an officer walked right by him. he remains in the hospital this morning. he is under heavy guard from what the hospital tells us. he remains in fair condition. john christine. >> so many interesting developments. thanks. more big changes are underway at clinton correctional. a new superintendent michael kirkpatrick after the superintendent and two deputies have been put on paid leave along with nine security staffers. other changes include more frequent checks of cells and catwalks and elimination of the honor bloc

as he gives out information, whether or not they went to the first manhole or the second manhole, thatinconsequential compared to was there a drug ring in here who helped him. those are the things we want to pull out. >> what does he get from officials in return? >> there's only going to be so much he can get. first off he's going to have to be protected from the rest of the inmates. there's going to be a lot of people mad at him. the whole prison system is getting a close look now. >> that would be colsolitary confinement. he doesn't want that. how could they figure out where to put him? >> they could give him a choice of three or four prisons to go to. there's small incentives to play with him so he does continue to give them information. he knows he is in for the rest of his life. it's on his best outlook if he does play ball and give them the information they need. >> what do you think of the timing the fact we heard from state officials he was talking, then we heard 12 prison officials from top executives, the superintendent who are now on administrative leave. does that mean he s

so they located a manhole in between that manhole and the tunnel system. >> it certainly says a lot about security in the honor block and the prison itself. the question is 12 people who had the duty of keeping this sort of thing from happening, how did they let this happen? they were put on forced leave including the summit and his deputy. and that's not all. we're also learning how long in the making and digging this escape may actually have been. what have you heard about how long they were doing this? >> it's really interesting. we're at the time line. investigators believe matt and sweat were gathering information about hunting cabins and terrain in that area for more than a year. eight months ago, it was the first time that corrections officer gene palmer brought in a screwdriver and needle point pliers and brought the men in the back of the cat walk. so all of this was so carefully orchestrated. >>> the needle nose pliers. >> yes. we know that joyce mitchell spent several months bringing muffins to get the cells moved together and also convinced gene palmer to bring in that frozen

emerging from a manhole outside the prison walls. >> we estimate they climbed down and had power tools. and were able to get out tonight facility. >> two dangerous murderers, now free. >> they kill anybody they feel like killing any time. how did they get the tools? who helped them and what was their plan? >> we're leaving no stone unturned. a scend in the woods, false sightings. all part of a desperate search and along the canadian border. from the ground and from the air. >> they could have gone to the north toward canada. >> law enforcement on the hunt. two dangerous fugitives on the loose. and a dramatic ending nobody sees coming. tonight, a cnn special report. the great prison escape. hello. i'm standing yards away from the clinton correctional facility where richard matt and david sweat broke out of. it is the first time anyone has escaped from this maximum security facility since it opened back in the mid 1800s. that bold escape was just the beginning of a story that is almost too twisted to believe. involving murder, in a minute lags and sex. before the sun began to rise over d

the manhole is just a block and a half from the prison. where new york governor andrew cuomo retraces the men's steps hours after they disappeared. >> must have kept you awake with all of that cutting, huh. >> pictures of the tour are proof of an elaborate escape, an escape they practiced the night before. here's how they figure matt and sweat made it out. once they slipped outside of their cell it is believed they maneuvered across this six story high catwalk, eventually dropping to a series of tunnels. from there they broke through a double brick wall and incredibly cut through a 24-inch steam pipe shimmying their way through it. on the other end, a block away from the prison then, they cut yet another hole. this time to get out of the pipe. after that, they cut right through the chain and lock holding down the manhole cover. >> if there was a rabid tiger running around the neighborhood or a rabid lion or something that could kill anybody, well, these are those animals. these guys are those kind of animals, like rabid animals that could

, but they apparently saw too many houses and decided to try for another manhole exit the next night. to our justice correspondent evan perez who is helping break all this new information, i mean you know finally also opening up evidence about this relationship with this woman, you know, who was supposed to be the getaway driver. what has he said about joyce mitchell? >> well brooke this is going to make a heck of a move script. >> right. >> david sweat is claiming that really this escape wasn't that complicated after all. he's told investigators that he and richard matt found a sledge hammer to break a brick wall that helped make their getaway under the prison and he said that a construction worker inadvertently left the sledgehammer you know. he says there were no power tools that were used so sweat also says the idea to kill the husband of joyce mitchell the prison employee charged with helping them that idea came from mitchell according to him an according to sweat also richard and matt were having a slayingship and sweat says he wasn't involved at all. mitchell has said the oppos

up. >> reporter: but they retreated back to their cells. >> if they were able to pop open a manhole cover the night before, why not escape that night? >> i guess they felt they had a plan to have joyce mitchell pick them up in a car and drive away. >> reporter: according to wylie, they abandoned their plan to head to mexico through west virginia. sweat tells investigators matt was sick, drinking, slowing him down. >> there was occasions where he heard the helicopters, the sheriff's deputy vehicle had pulled up in the vicinity of where they were and they were somewhat surprised. and he said matt -- i think he said matt fell backwards and made some noise but the sheriff's deputy didn't locate them. >> reporter: breaking into cabins like this one, sweat says they tuned in to a.m. radio, even changed directions as they moved toward canada. >> he probably thought he was going to make it until he came into contact with sergeant cook. >> reporter: sweat told investigators on several occasions he was just feet from being caught. he mentioned one incident in particular where he was on a tree

he says they reached a manhole but decided that manhole was not isolated enough so they picked a different's get more now from national correspondent jason carroll. >> reporter: david sweat's condition has been upgraded to fair and he is telling investigators a lot, filling in many details about the escape, telling investigators that he was the, quote/unquote, mastermind of the whole escape plan and that falls in step from what we are hearing from a source who tells me that david sweat had a reputation at the prison of being somewhat technically minded and the smarter of the two. he also said they did a dry run the night before and they had been planning this up to six months. they only used those hacksaw blades to cut a hole in the prison wall and through a pipe to lead them to freedom. he also talked about who was involved and who was not involved, meaning joyce mitchell, he says, was involved. 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 noth

causing a pretty scary scene. >> time to backup. >> reporter: smoke shoots out of the manhole on the streets of the olde city, a scene you will only see on "eyewitness news". transformer reportedly blew up underground near walnut and second street around 10:30 thursday morning. >> i'm he in the sure we will get lunch today. >> reporter: workers at city tavern got a firsthand look at the chaos caused from the underground tavern. >> really, really black smoke coming out i mean strong. >> reporter: several buildings were evacuated and this building had smoke in it. police, fire fighters and peco crews were on the scene. several streets were closed and as many as 100 customers were without power. stylists at this salon near second and chestnut street quickly figured out a plan b when their power went out. >> we have clients in here, we had to ask them to go home, ones whose hair was still wet had to go down to the pizza shop, use blue course in there. >> reporter: stylist and clients made their way to this pizza shop to use their outlets. >> yeah, so pizza shop and hair salon in one toda

so they located a manhole in between that manhole and the tunnel system where they escaped from. >> what do you think of that possibility, they made it as far as the street poked their head out, didn't think it was a good place and went back into the prison for the next night? >> i think it tells you how emboldened they were about the security going on at the honor block. obviously, the inspector general for the state of new york and the fbi are looking at exactly what was going on in that cell block area. i'm just glad it didn't seem at this point in time to go out into the genera population this type of lax security. i think the honor block is where they have to concentrate their efforts. we have heard of dry runs in the past in other major escapes that occurred in the united states. obviously, that comes down to a lack of complacency and security. >> erin burnett spoke to david sweat's mother on cnn last night. she had a theory why she thinks he's talking as well as who she holds responsible. listen to this. >> no he always told on himself all the time when he was a kid. i was surpris

he says the pair climbed through a maze of tunnels and pipes before popping out of a manhole.saw too many houses around so they decided to head back to the facility and try it again the next night, escaping through a different manhole that time. >> now, prison worker joyce mitchell was supposed to meet them there, drive them mexico. as we know, she never showed up. sweat also now says he was the mastermind of the entire plan. fascinating new details. joining us to discuss, this gary hayward, a former corrections officers at rykers who became an inmate after selling drug in prison. we'll talk about that dichotomy. also former clinton correctional inmate eric jansen. gary, i want to start with you. off complicated or interesting dichotomy here.rikers and an inmate. so these inmates staged a dry run. they might have been climbing around in those walls and tunnels for months and months without being detected. my question to you as a guard, how does a guard not see that? how can guys be climbing around in those walls night after night for months and months without being detected. i

they pushed through a manhole cover. they could have escaped that night. when they got out, they saw there were too many homes. she decide they decided they had would escape through a different manhole the following night. sweat said the two used nothing more than hacksaws. no power tools to cut their way out. these are some stunning new details if, of course i have to emphasize that sweat is telling the truth. >> reporter: if. you have to under score that. we're talking about a convicted cop killer a guy who escaped from prison. he doesn't have a lot to lose. he is talking from his hospital bed. what he is saying is that it was certainly much easier to break out than you might think. after two days of questioning david sweat in a lockdown section of a medical center investigators say they have heard enough for now. sweat telling investigators escaping with richard matt wasn't as complex as you might think. using own hacksaws to cut through their cell walls and a steam pipe, they slipped out of their cells night after night finding a passage way. there the

and emerging up via that manhole at about 11:45.hem in a getaway car but the perfect plot hits its first snag. she doesn't show up. prosecutors guess her conscience has compelled her to back out. >> they had total faith that she was going to pick them up at the manhole at midnight. and when she got cold feet and didn't show up -- they had to regroup. they had no plan. >> reporter: just then these two neighborhood residents are pulling up to their house on the block. what do you see? >> i see a couple of guys in my backyard. i go look at them and i ask him, "what the hell are you doing in my yard?" and he was like, "sorry i don't, i didn't know where i was, i'm on the wrong street." >> reporter: it's all falling apart. true to form, matt starts to freak out but sweat stays level headed and convinces matt to follow him to the woods. they duck into the darkness and disappear. >> i had a horrible feeling the whole time. they had absolutely nothing to lose, two confirmed killers with at least three bodies between them. >> reporter: in th

. >>> only "eyewitness news" has exclusive video of the fire erupting from a manhole. buildings were evacuated until crews go the that situation under control. syma chowdhry is live from olde city now with more on what happened, syma? >> reporter: jessica, it was a chaotic day for folks here in olde city when an underground fire ended up causing many power outages in this area. cbs cameras were only ones rolling when, smoke billowed from that manhole causing some pretty scary moments. >> time to backup. >> reporter: manhole covers blow smoke billowed from underground as a scene caught only by cbs-3 cameras. >> black smoke coming out. >> reporter: crews on the scene a a transformer blew up underground, near walnut and second street around 10:30. police, fire fighters and peco workers were on the scene. several buildings were evacuated while this building on walnut street had smoke inside of it. many nearby streets were closed and as many as 100 customers were without power. businesses like ritz theater were forced to shut down when their power went out even clock stoppe

: but they retreated back to their cells. >> if they were able to pop open a manhole cover the night before, why not escape that night. >> i guess they had a plan to have joyce mitchell pick them up in a car. >> reporter: they planned to head to mexico through west virginia. matt was sick drinking slowing him down. >> there were times he heard the helicopters. the sheriff's vehicle pulled up in the vicinity of where they were. i think he said matt fell backwards and made some noise, but the sheriff's deputy didn't locate them zbloonchts. he probably thought he was going to make it until he came into contact with sergeant cook. >>> a new backlash against donald trump this morning amid the controversy about his negative comments about mexican immigrants. mexico don't send a contestant to the miss universe pageant. his other pageant is also taking a big hit. >>> yesterday in new hampshire donald trump reacted to nbc universal's decision to sever business ties. >> they left 51 wonderful girls who worked to hard all their lives to become a representative and go to the miss usa pageant. it

retreated back to their cells. >> if they were able to pop open a manhole cover the night before why not escape that night? >> i felt they had a plan to have joyce mitchell pick them up in a car and drive away. >> according to wylie, they abandoned the plan to head to mexico through west virginia. sweat tells investigators matt was sick drinking and slowing him down. >> there were occasions he heard the helicopter sheriff deputy vehicle pulled up in the vicinity of where they were. they were somewhat surprised. he said matt fell backwards and made some noise. the sheriff's deputy didn't locate them. >> breaking into cabins like this one, sweat says they tuned in to am radio, changed directions as this they moved towards canada. >> he thought he was going to make it until he came into contact with the sergeant. >>> new with backlash against donald trump this morning over his comments about mexicans. miss universe is dropping out. his other pageant miss usa is dropping out. yesterday in new hampshire, donald trump reacted to the decision to sever business ties. >> they left 51 wonderfu

details ahead on the smoking manhole near the philadelphia zoo. >> and the music worlds is remembering bobbi kristina, the only daughter of whitney houston, and bobby brown. the latest on the circumstances surrounding her death. when we return. >> choppy three over smokey seen in west philadelphia, crews are investigating what caused a manhole explosion near the corner of 34th and girard. police and fire responded to help navigate traffic around that scene. no injuries were reported. >>> and, autopsy now planned for bobbi kristina brown who died yesterday after month in the hospital. after being found unresponsive, in a bathtub in her home. the 22 year old was the only child of the late whitney houston and bobby brown. core upon dent daniel not upping hang has the store. >> i bobby brown passed away not long after her family moved the 22 year old to hospice care. bobbi kristina was the only child of singers whitney houston and bobby brown. she was found unresponsive in the bathtub of her suburban atlanta home, january 31st. >> possible cardiac arrest, riverbends manor, 21 year old in t

sweat was shot and captured sunday, he and richard matt actually popped a manhole and got a look outside during their practice run, they decided it may not be the best spot to exit from, they used a different manhole the next day. officers shot and killed richard matt last friday. >>> we're expecting an announcement tomorrow that the united states and cube about will soon open embassies in each other's capitols. the senior obama administration official says an agreement has been reached to re-establish diplomatic relations. the agreement means the u.s. embassy in havana and a cuban embassy in washington will be open for the first time in more than 50 years. >>> starting tomorrow philadelphia homeowners can begin preparing for the hope in a new way. city residents can rent out their homes during events like the papal visits. the pope's official schedule has been released. let's begin with saturday september 26th. the very first thing on the agenda is at 10:30 a.m. when he celebrates mass. thate e mass will be attended by priests and deacons and not the public. the next public event is at

there will be two holes made for him to climb out the manholes. what we know is during his time on the run he was able to elude authorities, there was an incident where it's reported that, in fact, they were very close to certain somebody searching a house that they could hear a conversation being had. there's additional information being reported that david sweat may have hidden on one of those perches on trees where you spot animals. so interesting details. so it has to be corroborated. brianna? >> that's the question, right, larry? how can investigators trust what he's telling them? >> the guy has nothing to lose. he's serving a life sentence, they can convict him for the escape, the burglary or the cabins, whatever he stole, but he's never going to get out and if you look at these steam pipes and he says he's using a hacksaw blade, anybody who's taken a regular blade, because i don't think they were a saw, they're flimsy, how many blades would he have had to use to cut through that? plus the steam pipe. does this mean joyce mitchell was bringi

but decided the first manhole they reached was not secluded enough.at telling investigators joyce mitchell was supposed to pick them up and drive to west virginia before heading to mexico. wiley telling nbc news sweat and matt often tuned into a.m. radio while on the run, continuing to change directions as they moved toward canada. sweat says he and matt were very close to being caught several types. >> the sheriff's deputy vehicle had pulled up in the vicinity of where they were and they were i guess somewhat surprised. i think he said matt fell backwards and made some noise, but the sheriff's deputy didn't locate them. >> reporter: wiley also telling nbc news that authorities were coming the forest floor while he was hiding in a tree stand used for hunting right above them. this is a graphic image of richard matt moments after he was shot. the photoshows matt lying on the ground a gunshot wound to the top of his skull. cnn learns tin mates started planning and may have started cutting through the prison walls six months ago. the scrutiny intensified

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they popped a manhole and got a look outside and decided to use a different manhole on saturday.fficials say 12 more staffers at the new york prison have been put on administrative leave. a senior official tells nbc news those 12 include three members of the clinton correctional facility's executive team and nine security staff employees. the prison superintendent and his deputy in charge of security are on the list. according to the officials, it's part of an ongoing review of the june 6th escape. >>> as many folks in our area get ready to head to the shore for the holiday weekend, beach patrol crews are increasing efforts to prevent tragedies in the water. nbc 10 was in north wildwood at the harrisburg inlet. officials are calling it one of the dangerous areas along the shore where folks dock their boats and the water leads to an open ocean. neighbors tell us they've seen people drown in this area before. >> he was standing on the jetty and he saw someone floating by. >> if you're not a good swimmer, swim with somebody don't swim alone. >> there are signs along the beaches to w

. >>> exploding manhole on a city street. what caused this to happen? >>> oh boy. that was a manhole explosion in long beach, california. people panicked at the sound of the blast. many so of them running and screaming as smoke rose from the streets. this is the city's second underground electrical vault explosion in just two weeks. this time it knocked out power to more than 30,000 people. >>> well the drugstore chain cvs is accused of deliberately overcharging some customers for generic drugs. a federal lawsuit says cvs submitted claims to insurance companies at inflated prices according to the suit. some customers were charged a $20 co-pay for a month's supply of drugs when in fact a 90-day supply of those same drugs actually cost just $12. >>> the apple iphone event may show us more than just a mobile device. buzzfeed reports we will see a new apple tv complete with a touch pad remote and siri voice control. it sets the stage for a subscription internet tv service. >>> facebook is one step closer to its goal of bringing the internet to remote parts of the world

but they decided to wait until the next night when they could find a more isolated manhole.ning accusations build up against the prison and how it was run. 12 prison employees are put on leave, including three top executives. let's bring in cnn correspondent jean casarez who's right outside the prison. jean you have new information on richard matt the escapee who was killed by police. what are you learning? >> reporter: that's right. the medical center in malone new york confirmed with me that they have the body of richard matt. 245i also they also tell me that a family member is not going to be claiming him so he will become property of franklin county new york. he will have a county burial. and she expects as soon as today the county will come and pick him up. ironically the medical center is where joyce mitchell went when she had her anxiety attack that she didn't pick up the inmates to escape with them. secondly it is where david sweat was taken by ambulance on sunday after he was captured and shot. and now the body of richard matt is there also. cnn has obtained a pictu

by manhole to find the failures and repair them. more than 2,000 pepco customers waited. then shortly after 9 p.m. a critical repair was made and the lights flickered back on. and no word yet from pepco tonight about what exactly caused the outage here in northeast. whether it was heat-related and perhaps most important whether they think the system can stand up to several more days of very lie temperatures. reporting -- high temperatures. reporting live in northeast d.c. garrett haake, wusa9. >> garrett, thanks a lot for that report and remember in times like this spend more time in air conditioned places if you've got the power. >> exactly. keep hydrated. >>> a sweltering start to the week, but have we passed the dangerous heat and humidity? >> over to first alert chief meteorologist howard bernadine who is tracking that heat and humidity. >> today -- howard bernstein who is tracking that heat and humidity. >> today was the worst of it. we got to 98 degrees this afternoon. that was the hottest day of the year and the hottest since

accessed the manholes. to see where they came out of. decision to leave on friday. >> msnbc's national roertd adam reiss on this story the whole time. adam, the prosecutor speaking style there is so sort of plodding and methodical you forget the point of what was so surprising here which is the idea they would get that close to getting out and then go back, do it all over. explain your reporting on what that was about and what else is new today. >> reporter: sure, ari. good afternoon. he's taking full credit claiming he was the mastermind, that this was in the works for six months. all the way back to january. he would take occasional trips outside of his cell into the catwalk. he claims he never used power tools but just hack sacks and talked about that dry run. david sweat by himself through the catwalk, through the pipes up think the manhole cover and locked out. it was just too busy for him. too his n't residential and went back in. the original plan as you remember, they were going to come out meet up with joyce mitchell. we learned

this would not be a good manhole to come out of. this is absurd and unbelievable. >> they said let's try it another night. right now the authorities, gretchen are saying that they believe that the prison guards may have been asleep. both nights they were asleep and missed these guys. here is what's startling about this though gretchen. this planning started back in january of this year. david sweat has already alluded to that with the authorities, that they've been planning this breakout for a while. they recruited several people from inside the institution. as we know joyce mitchell is one of them. i understand there is another prison guard that they've just indicted. so they recruited people to be part of this major scam. that institution has some huge problems that they really need to correct. >> joe, what are you hearing about what else is going on inside? the reports are now that they really didn't need power tools, that it was only hacksaws. >> we're hearing that as well. it's kind of hard to believe that that could happen, bu

. >>> plus underground flames forced manhole covers to explode.he major problem it caused for people in a nearby aquarium. >>> and a look at the big word, the dow back over 18,000. yesterday jumping up a bit. this morning early trading it's up 55 points. scott mcgrew is going to join us with your business and tech news after this. >> announcer: you're watching "today in the bay." >>> later today we could learn more about the case against the pan accused in the charleston church shooting massacre. 21-year-old dylann roof expected in court later. that hearing is being held to determine whether documents in the case will be released to the media. roof is also going to be presented with the indictments in the case. he faces nine counts of murder, three counts of attempted murder and a weapons charge. >>> prison officials in texas are mourning the death of one of their officers this morning. they are trying to figure out what went wrong. timothy davidson was escorting an inmate to his cell when the inmate attacked him with an object. officials haven't

but there were too many homes in the area so they decided to try a different manhole the next night. the district attorney's office is now investigating how this went unnoticed after three weeks on the run matt was killed by police. sweat is in a new york hospital recovering from a gunshot. >>> new jersey golf nor chris kris -- governor chris christie launched his campaign. >> we have a president in the oval office that ignores the congress and a congress that ignores the president. we need a government that remembers you went there to work for us not the other way around. [ applause ] >> christie is the 14th republican candidate to enter the race. after announcing his white house run yesterday, christie headed for new hampshire where he is holding a series of town hall meetings this week. >>> donald trump is suing univision for dropping his two beauty pageants miss usa and miss universe. he declared some mexican immigrants bring drugs and crime to the usa and they are rapist. the lawsuit claims breach of contract, defamation, and first amendment violation. in a statement they called

and did actually pop one of the manholes up.-- there being a number of houses in that area that it might not be a good spot to exit from. >> reporter: now, we learned that they were going to meet up with joyce mitchell. she didn't show. they were going first to west virginia and then mexico. obviously we remember she got cold feet and didn't show and started to make the way through the woods into canada or make the way towards canada. richard matt she says was getting sick. he was drinking just going too slow and went ahead without him. after 18 days. he said that he was -- came close to getting caught. he was in the tree stand and looked down and there were some border patrol agents and he said it was so close to getting caught but he managed to elude them and listen to the radio, a.m. radio and whatever direction searchers were going on he'd go the other way. he thought he was home free. >> one mile from the border. thank you, sir. appreciate the details. looking at washington state girl scout troupe that raised $260,000 from

one thing we learned is they were actually able to make their way to a manhole twice. they did a dry run once and didn't like the location of the manhole they got out of the first time. well that's not a safe spot so went to a place where they would in the be in a residential area. they wept to a secure area and back into the prison sometimes soon. >> i can't imagine he's going back to dannemora. >> don't know where he's going. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> a brand-new poll showing a fierce battle for the republican nomination. guess who is on top of the poll? >>> a bizarre mystery in australia. an american vanishing five >>> the fight for the republican nomination is heating up. a poll showing a tight race in the all important race. at the top, wisconsin governor scott walker with 18%. for the big news the battle for second place, donald trump locked with ben carson at 10%. rand paul and cruz at 9%. our panel is here abc news political director rick. >> you cannot have a better six months than he has in tha sense. he has not gotten into the race. based on a couple a

that they actually did a dry run the night before but came out of a different manhole and decided that wasn't the best way to make their escape. so they followed through with their escape the very next might. also saying, don, that they only used hacksaws to dig through their prison cell wall and then to dig through the pipe that led them out to escape. he also said some interesting things about who helped, which was joyce mitchell and who did not help, jean palmer, you remember him, the prison guards who was arrested for his role of passing that piece of frozen many meat. he said that jean palmer knew nothing about what happened. so this is someone you heard the term singing like a canary, this is a man who continues to sing for investigators. >> jason, what did we learn today about the hours leading um to richard matt's death? >> a lot more information coming out about richard matt, as well. appare apparently, before he was captured, including food, m&ms, also found some purple flavoredly kwor and was clearly drinking before he was caught. he also had a shotgun. and fired several sho

off the manhole smoke was coming out of the manhole. seeing a heavy backlog on the off ramp. fire crews remain on the scene by the philadelphia zoo. ben franklin bridge westbound delays continue into center city. patco front trains not running disabled train on the one set of tracks is open. new jersey transit is cross honoring tickets. >> meteorologist david murphy has the accuweather forecast. >> reporter: still partly cloudy overhead matt, but storm tracker 6 live double scan showing we have rain down to the south and off the coast. and maybe a little bit in cape may county. 75 degrees in humid. this afternoon, 8 # degrees there's a chance of drenching showers and thunderstorms at least in some neighborhoods later today and looks like we are off to heat wave number three for the season starting tomorrow. >> coming up on "action news" at noon a momentous day for the boy scouts of america, they will end the ban on gay adult leaders. "live" with kelly and michael is next. i'm matt o'donnell. have a great monday and a great week! # so ge

nearby. >> we heard kind of like a rumble and i walked down and there was smoke coming from the manholes and red smoke it was really weird, 100 people lost power. include society hill towers. >> it was hot and you can't do anything. >> residents heard there was a transformer fire underground, peco says that is not confirmed. the fire department says it was multifacetted watching the carbon monoxide levels in houses and buildings. they were making sure they didn't need to have any one evacuate. >> any time that is on fire, the smoke comes in. >> in means no power and the loss of power for these hot spots, it's an estimated loss of 2,000 if food and 2,000 in business but the society sheridan offer ed them a cool room and a free meal. >> if we were stuck outside i don't know where we would have gone. >> they were thankful you may recognize this balcony, it still does not have power. in fact we just saw a shipment of dry ice to the restaurant to try and salvage the shipment there, 75 of those customers their power is restored. 25 are still in the dark and peco is still working on the problem

you can take a look at this must-see video -- smoke and flames arriving from a manhole in philadelphia. an underground transformer blew up yesterday. that forced the evacuation of several buildings and shut down several streets. 100 customers lost power for couple hours. no word on what caused that transformer to explode. first, it was shark attacks. now, an entirely new problem at the beach. the portuguese man-of-war. these creatures look like overgrown jellyfish. the tentacles are some 30 feet long. this thing is pretty powerful and can kill. they are washing up by the dozens. people have seen them from north carolina to new york with three children stung this week alone. >> they can really hurt and probably kill a kid. >> if they are on the beach till the lifeguard, don't touch. they can stink him even when they are dead. jummy: warm ocean currents and strong winds seem to be pushing these tropical water dwellers closer to the eastern shore beaches in record numbers. a lot of people heading to the beach this weekend. we have to watch out. doug: absolutely. they are nothing to mess w

welding shut manhole covers around parts of the city and strategically placing snipers and spotters in the areas near crowds. officials fear a recent call to arms by the islamic state terror group may inspire a lone wolf attack. >> there are self-radicalized self-organized people on social media. are we concerned about that? absolutely. we're concerned about it. that has been seen in europe so that's a sign that in the united states as in europe and other places in the world we have to be concerned about it and we obviously are. >> joining me now new york congressman peter king who's a member of the house homeland security committee. thank you very much for being here tonight, congressman. >> thank you, megyn. >> compare the threat that we are seeing now to the time frame since 9/11. >> megyn, i have to say i've never seen this level of concern at any time since 9/11. i know on the 10th anniversary we had some concerns. it's always been something coming up. nothing to this extent. nothing -- and this goes back as far as i know at least three weeks the concern was there. it's been build

they chose one manhole, rejected that exit out of that manhole because it was too close to some housesy were able to have time to find another way out to try to meet joyce mimp e8. so, certainly, what we're learning here, don, is that, overall, there were a lot of problems. and, certainly, sweat is helping investigators see that very, very clearly, don. >> let's talk about joyce mitchel e el now. what do you learn about joyce mitchell and her involvement in all of this? >> well, his allegation that, while he was a master mind, he says that joyce mitchell had the idea that the two men, once she picked them up, that she wanted them to kill her husband. he says that the allegation is not true, don. >> david sweat is in the hopt. there are regular patients there, too. >> this is a teaching hospital. there are a number of people who are getting treatments. how does this all work? there is one section that is locked off. it is very much like a jail area inside this hopt. it is behind secured doors. each prisoner, there's about eight to ten at 234i one time. they have two guards per prisoner.

isolated enough, so they chose another manhole to make their escape the next night.three executive staff and nine security employees have been placed on review. >>> the country of greece may be willing to accept a bailout package and in a desperate effort to get cash large crowds formed outside the banks this morning. the government ordered the banks to open up only for pensioners. >> i have not eat since yesterday. >> we live like slaves. >> the prime minister sent a letter to greece's creditors suggesting he is now willing to accept some of the terms in a new bailout packages, terms he'd previously rejected. angela merkel says there will be no more talks in a greek referendum is scheduled for sunday. >>> right after the break why a jewelry store manager publicly shamed a mom on facebook and what she's going to do about it. >> pretty good down burst, mount rainier headed toward fedex and bowie on our storm tracker at about 6:00, heavy downpours, but don't see any hail or high winds. we'll come back, talk about a better chance for showers and storms tomorrow and look

according to the fbi, someone going through a manhole in alameda county and clipping three fiberoptic cables yesterday morning. the cables are buried in an underground vault. that disrupted phone, cable service and slowed internet access to people across the northern half of the state. the lines owned by wave broadband most of the effects were felt in the sacramento area. this is the latest though in nearly a dozen attacks over the past year across the bay area. the others in berkeley, walnut creek, fremont and san jose highlighting the vulnerability of our communications grid. >> these big fiber lines, the backbones to the internet, is where all that traffic is sent to. so it's kind of like a funnel system. and so when it goes into those larger lines, and they get severed, all that traffic goes nowhere. >> reporter: yes. so that traffic is now being rerouted through different companies' lines. it's going to be several days before things are actually back to normal. investigators right now aren't sure if all of these cases are connected or how they may or may not be. they say it's ver

saying that the men poked their heads out of a manhole, but decided it was too close to nearby homes, so they went back and did it again the next morning. sweat was recaptured on sunday. >>> today the white house, they are lifting a long standing ban on cameras and photos on the public tours, to announce that change as the first lady posted this video here on their instagram account. affected today, they are welcome to take photos of the white house to capture the memories for a lifetime as she will be ripping up the old policy. >>> team u.s.a. is on the way to the world cup final. the u.s. women's national team, they would knock off a germany two-nil, now they need to wait to find out who they would face for sunday's match either japan or england, which will be settled later tonight. >>> still ahead at noon, all the buzz about the self-driving cars. nothing new for the farming industry, we'll explain. >>> plus, making a little more to date. details of the minimum wage hike. >>> things should be drying out, the allergy numbers were getting better, be with all the rain that we would ha

manholes.he just hits them. every time. >> yes. >> i'm sure that makes it worse. >> drives her nuts. >> before you go guys, writ behind me was longest truck of portable potties coming over to the big events we will have at the parkway at independent hall. >> it was so fun toy see literally like 48 portable poddies go by your head as they turned around. >> we miss that had. >> hey, karen on this show, no more poddy talk. >> okay. >> thanks, karen. >> bye, guys. >>> speaking of traffic lets get back down the shore because our traffic guy is having way too much fun. can you imagine being on the road trip with bob kelly. he is saying jammo while driving. >> he may be the worst guy to drive. >> good morning to you yes. >> watch the jam car please. i heard you chris. i will will take care of you when i get back there. we are coming live inside gateway 26. hottest arcade on the north wildwood boardwalk. i just gave out tokens to the kid, to play some games. marty, thanks for opening up here this morni

finding a more isolated manhole where escapees were to meet joyce mitchell.weat said while he was the mastermind it was mitchell's idea for the men to kill her husband before fleeing to mexico. mitchell's attorney said she denies that allegation. when mitchell didn't show up matt and sweat headed towards canada. as the intense manhunt through the dense woods dragged on sweat said he grew frustrated with matt because he was out of shape and couldn't keep up. sweat said the two went their separate ways after matt broke in to a cabin and started to get drunk. it was after the two split up that sweat had his closest call with being caught. the district attorney tells abc news sweat was hiding in a hunting tree stand as an officer walked past him. sweat says while on the run he learned officers had killed richard matt and pressed on to the canadian border until a state police officer shot and wounded him. she in albany medical center in a lockdown section only for prisoners. >> how confident do we feel this patient is not going to escape from the hospital? very co

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