former prison escapee david sweat returned to court this morning. that tops our look at stories around the news nation. sweat was arraigned on three felony counts relating to his big escape from an upstate new york prison back in june. he ll return to court next month. sweat was captured by law enforcement after 22 days on the run. just this hour, danny became the first hurricane of the atlantic season. the category 1 storm has winds of 75 miles per hour and is expected to get stronger in the next couple of days. we ll keep an eye on it. forecasters say it is too early to tell if danny will reach the continental u.s. nine people arrested in st. louis last night following the deadly police shooting of an 18-year-old man. police say he was shot when he point add gun at officers. nearly 150 protesters gathered near that scene shortly after the shooting with some throwing glass bottles and bricks, according to officers. police deployed teargas to break up the protest.
is something that has to stop. i mean everybody has said it over and over again. it has to stop, it has to stop. stop talkin ! please stop talkin , because talk, as you can see, all this talkin is not doing anything. that s amaury brown s cousin speaking. even with an increase in patrols, another 40 people were injured as well in shootings. now we have new details from the new york prison escape investigation. the attorney for joyce mitchell the prison worker accused in the plot tells cnn that richard matt gave her pills to knock out her husband. matt and fellow escapee david sweat planned to kill mitchell s husband before fleeing to mexico. joyce mitchell s attorney says mitchell had no idea what the pills were and destroyed them. matt was shot and killed a few days before sweat was captured.
gregg. whether or not they have having much in the way of success it s tough to tell because the history has been really sort of mixed unless they are with ground troops. they really just haven t had much in the way of real success there, gregg. all right, conor powel live in our middle east bureau conor, thanks. captured escapee david sweat is back inside a maximum security prison for the first time in nearly a month. the 35-year-old convicted killer was moved from albany medical center early this morning, taken to five points correctional facility in romulus, new york. he was receiving treatment after getting shot twice by a state trooper near the canadian border last sunday. his capture ending a weeks long manhunt after he escaped from the clinton correctional facility with murderer richard matt. matt of course was shot dead during the manhunt for the fugitives. it is a rematch four years in the making. the u.s. women s soccer team set
process. things will go your way if you hold on. [ sighs ] someday somebody s gonna make you wanna turn around and say goodbye. say goodbye no, you just made it weird. welcome back. we have the story this story that s been developing this afternoon. new york prison escapee david sweat now back in a maximum security facility. new york corrections officials said swet was at was released from the hospital today and was taken to a prison in the central part of the state. sweat and richard matt escaped from the clinton correctional facilty on june 6th. matt was shot and killed on june 26th. sweat was captured two days later. two prison workers have charged
joyce mitchell that it was matt and that, information it was joyce mitchell s idea to kill her husband. obviously joyce 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