but i want to go to alexandria field who is live in malone new york. what do you know? >> reporter: we learned that just a few minutes ago, law enforcement sources telling us that david sweat has been shot. he's alive and he has been taken into custody. we understand it happened somewhere north of malone and south of the canadian border. this is well within the area that they have been scouring for the last few days. investigators turned their attention specifically to the area we are standing in. it is not far from the spot where richard matt was killed by a tactical team taking gunshots to the head. investigators were acting on evidence and intelligence they received that suggested that richard matt and david sweat had every intention of making their way to the canadian border and crossing their border. a number of cabins were burglar