Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. Breaking news today in the manhunt for those two escaped convicts. It is day 12. Today officials released these Computer Generated images of what david sweat and richard matt might look like now and they are urging the public to report any suspicious activity. Officials say theyre now expanding and shifting the search based on information gathered during the investigation. Theyre scaling back the search in the immediate wooded area around the prison but investigators say that evidence recovered there indicates that the two men may have spent some time there. Youre looking at live pictures from plattsburgh, new york where moments from now we will be hearing from the District Attorney, from new York State Police and the Clinton County sheriff. Nbcs Miguel Almaguer is at that press conference and joins me by phone. Miguel what is the real import of the fact that they are expanding the search. Is that an acknowledgement that they let th
Video of police heading to the scene. Now, at this moment as im speaking the other killer david sweat is on the loose. Theyre on a desperate effort to find him. Law enforcement officials tell us they dont have eyes on him. Officials say the escaped killers may have been on their way to canada. Yesterday they found evidence in the town of malone. It was near there that matt was killed tonight. The two men escaped from a maximum security prison in new york thats 21 days ago. As you can see the distance on the map, about 40 miles per hour. We have people on the ground where this is going on. We have the latest of sweat and the search. I want to start with minute by minute we are awaiting whether they possibly find him. What happens to david sweat in what do you know about the hunt for him at this moment . Reporter well erin that critical moment right now unfolding not far from where im standing along route 30. You can see the barricade thats been set up. You need a police badge to get pas
Been corn erdered . Do they have this location where they are pretty confident they are going to find him today. I just spoke with some searchers not too long ago. I asked that very question. Do you still believe you have him contained . Their response to me was, we hope so. Here is what we are learning right now. The search area for the moment is going to stay the same today. We are in the north northwest area, upstate new york, an dir adirondack mountains. We have a live picture of the checkpoints they have in this area. The roads are closed. You cannot travel beyond really where we are standing right now. Law enforcement is standing right there. If you live in that area you have to go through that checkpoint. There are searches on the ground by the air. There are helicopters today. We understand the canine units are even supposed to be out today. We havent seen them. We have definitely seen the atvs. This area is very very remote. Something we just got information on. We know that t
The Clinton County Sheriff’s Department has identified the teen who drowned Saturday in the Ben Martinsen Wildlife Area as Benjamin Williams, 18, of Donahue.