officers. you know, corrections officers in uniform, and then the inner perimeter, the ones that are doing the hard search, will be your u.s. marshal special operations group, fbi, hrt, new york s.w.a.t., the border patrol units that are all heavily armed, tactical, heavily armored and also probably have night vision, night vision goggles. sure. all right. tell me about a .20 gauge shotgun that, you know, that we ve heard that matt was holding and the tohe took from first cabin. tell us about that. yeah, a .20 gauge shotgun obviously can do some damage. any firearm can. there s more of a skete gun or bird gun. if i had a preference, and i m in a situation like this, the first thing i would want to is pull a .12 gauge shotgun. that s what law enforcement uses in a lot of close-in type scenarios president they do in home entries when they re executing search warrants. they ll use a .12 gauge shotgun.
perimeter with the 22-mile perimeter. they closed off fayette road, route 30 from fayette road to county route 26. and studley hill rodead. the same parameter within where they captured and killed matt. lest they said they have no reason to believe that matt that sweat is not within that perimeter. but they haven t found any new evidence linking him to that area or outside that area. so they re still keeping a close eye on that area right now. yes, it s a 50/50. bill, let manyme ask you this. they re so close to the canadian border. last week the new york state police said they believe they d be headed to canada. why haven t they crossed into canada? well the intelligence is they it was really one of those opportunities where they say they don t know if they re still together. they really had no evidence to link them there. they just said they believed they were possibly heading in
state police tactical officers in heavy gear military style gear in what appeared to be night vision goggles looking over some maps prepared to take on another aspect of this search. they need those rifles because they believe this convict, this escaped killer may be armed. we know that richard matt was carrying a shotgun when he was found in the woods a few miles here and shot and killed by a custom border patrol agent when he refused to comply with their ords orders. there was more evidence recovered earlier this week but they haven t been able to link that yet to sweat. they are not sure the two are together when matt was killed yesterday but they believed that
matt did. is it more common for escapees to stay together or split up and go it alone? you might recall the texas seven case from several years ago. they stayed together all the way up until the time they were caught which was i believe within 30 days later. generally it s after they re out of that danger area and this has been an extended manhunt at this point going on just over three weeks and i could see where they would stay together for psychological and physical support from one another is but at this point here i m just hoping we get something very soon in that hardened area where they re searching right now. i m sure you re echoing the sentiments of us as well. arthur good to see you. thank you, alex. u.s. officials issue a fourth of july warning that
one of these fugitives. that s really what put police on richard matt s trail yesterday, when they closed in on him. a series of tips from individuals who were aware of the situation, alert to it. they called 911 at the right time and police were able to make that capture. alexandra field reporting live for us where they gunned down killed richard matt yesterday. thanks alex. appreciate it. let s talk more about this with senior vice president for a security firm and casey. it seems sort of shocking if they were together they have no scent trail, they have no eyes on him, they believe he s contained but we don t have a lot of details. well remember what the police are telling us and what they know are two different things here. when you saw what happened yesterday, they were in hot pursuit. that s what we were told in the afternoon. that means to me that someone put eyes on them at some point. remember that forest is very very very dense. it s not like an average park