our video. we are so close to the canadian border and the closer we get to the sketch they are letting us get closer bit by bit where this all happened but this is little activity. what is interesting is talking to folks around here where this happened and i am standing at the corner of poplar drive in a residential neighborhood there was so much talk they could be hopping from hunting cabin to hunting cabin and d.n.a. was found in a hunting cabin several miles from here but this area where this went down is far more residential. those cabins, really are not around here and some of the houses we have been standing under for relief contract rain, this is the only kind of cabins we can see are the ones that the little kids build in the
with unmarked fans and suvs and shotguns in hand to inspect property to make sure that the dangerous david sweat is not hiding out inside. the officers are very carefully approaching every door and very bravely entering all kinds of sheds and garages in backyards asking homeowners if they have any structures on property they want searched. one woman asked them to check out a hunting cabin in the deep woods this the backyard and when she did the troopers then call for backup. there s a reason that 1,200 law enforcement officers now are being so cautious with every step of the 22 square-mile search area. it s because they think the fugitive murderer they have been trying to track down may be at this point unstable. he s desperate. he s got to be ses brat. certainly doesn t want to go back to jail. he s been out here for three weeks, you know. you guys have been here for a short time. you know what the black flies
speculation on when they broke up. the pair obviously traveling together having gone from the hunting cabins. this after authorities say they found their dna on a water bottle, both the dna of matt and sweat, led them to believe that they both at one point were in a hunting cabin. of course they then separated at some point. matt being found in a hunting cabin that was about 200 feet behind a house, confronted with police when he would not put the shotgun down, he was shot dead. and now we re told, according to sources, that the second escapee is in custody, also in a densely wooded area after officials have gone door to door throughout that whole area. so we ale bring you the latest on all of this as soon as we get more from rick eleven thal who is up in new york. do we have rick at the moment? rick is there. what can you tell us about the breaking news? reporter: well, eric, we re
reporter: did he go to check on the cabin in the first place because he was aware of the search and suspected maybe? he lives the hunting cabin is behind his house. the driveway comes out by his house. he s concerned they might get in there. feels better at night, to sleep knowing nobody was in there. that s why he checked it often. reporter: what did he sound like on the phone, when he realized something was wrong? he was excited. he really knew something was out of place. didn t know what really to do. now you hear it all the time any tip, no matter how small, call. that s what we did. reporter: could you tell if anybody had spent a significant time there? not there long. didn t sleep in the beds or anything. reporter: what did the police tell you? was it clear if one person or two had been in there? they know matt was in there. they don t know about sweat. reporter: what did they do to
perimeter police have set up in the past 24 hours. and just the last few minutes we ve seen huge groups of state police cars rushing in and out of that protected perimeter. also members of the border patrol and other federal and state agencies as they swarm this area where matt was shot and killed yesterday. this started coming to a head a little after 1:00 yesterday afternoon. when a driver who was in this area heard a noise. he thought maybe he got a flat tire. he was driving a camper. he stopped about eight miles down the road and he found a bullet hole in his camper. he called authorities. that led authorities to this area south of malone new york. and they found a hunting cabin. inside that cabin they could smell the smell of gun powder as if a gun had recently gone off. when they went to search the woods, they heard coughing and