We begin with how far a seamstress went to help two prisoners escape. Joyce mitchell confirms she provided them with tools they needed to break out. Heres our Jason Carroll with more. Reporter sources are telling cnn that joyce mitch convinced a guard at the facility to smuggle in a slab of frozen hamburger meat. Inside the slab of meat hackstauaw hacksaw blades. Going as far as recommending to prison officials that david sweats cell be moved next to richard matts. This as Joyce Mitchells husband has come forward, talking about all of those allegations surrounding his wife. As the search continues for the escaped inmates a chill video from abc news shows richard matt in 1997 smiling and posing with a blow gun. It employee Joyce Mitchell who friended the convicted killers and allegedly agreed to be their getaway driver. I said, how can you do that . She said it just got out of hand. I was scared and didnt know what to do. Mitchells husband lyle speaking to nbc matt lauer denied reports
Polo sandoval is near the Canadian Border where sweat was captured. Jean casarez is at the courthouse where a guard from the prison that sweat and richard matt broke out of will face charges related to the escape and our own sara ganim is outside the hospital where officials are talking to david sweat. Sara what do we know about sweats condition and what is he telling authorities . Good afternoon wolf. So first his condition was updated just about an hour ago from critical which is where he came in last night, in Critical Condition, to serious. Hospital officials saying that his wounds did not require surgery but he will be staying here and will be monitored for a few more days. Now he is apparently talking to authorities, a source telling cnn that he is talking to police about what their plan was. He told authorities they were supposed to get into a car with prison seamstress joyce mitch who will they befriended who has been charged with helping them escape escape they were going to g
In georgia. More than 1 Million People urged to stay inside as lions, tigers and bears and even a hippo roam the streets after a zoo was flooded. Lets talk live in the cnn newsroom. And good morning. Im carol costello. Thank you so much for joining me. Reversal of fortunes. Two Prison Inmates are roaming free and the prison employee who befriended them is locked up. This is Joyce Mitchell in shackles and on her way into court on charges that she helped those convicted murderers escape. Right now there are at least 800 Law Enforcement officers searching for those men, scouring the woods around the new york prison and stopping vehicles on area roads. State police say theyve received 870 leads, and more stream in every hour. Yet despite all the resources and the publics help there have been no confirmed sightings of these men. Cnns sara ganim and Polo Sandoval are in plattsberg york. Sara tell us about the court delay. Why it happened . Reporter Joyce Mitchell arrived here an hour ago but
Virtually nonexistent. Well take you there. Traders sort of scratching their heads in this information vacuum wondering what the heck is going on. I dont know how much they are really panicking here as the dow plummeted on the back of what the New York Stock Exchange insists is quote, unquote, an internal technical issue. Adding to that mystery at the very same time the wall street journals home page went dark and earlier this morning, Airlines United airlines grounded thousands of flights worldwide because of what its calling a Network Connectivity issue. To be clear, not a cyber breach is what were hearing with all of the above, but still odd that this is all happening on very same day. Lets have a Big Conversation about this and see what we know about this two more hours of the trading day. Things typically getting busy. First we have alison kosik, cnn moneys Paul Lamonica and Rob Beckstrom and our correspondent rob marsh will join us here. Alison kosik, to you first and foremost th
Laboratories. That is confirmed belief for us. This is generated a massive Law Enforcement response as you can see. And were going to run this to ground. Investigators also checked out a series of possible sightings this weekend as far south as the pennsylvania border and the leads are empty. The investigation of prison workers expanded past Joyce Mitchell. She pled not guilty. Now a second person at the prison is on administrative leave. Gene palmer is not charged with an offense. Attorney says palmer did not know about the pairs plan to escape. Lets get to commander lenny depaul before retiring a chief inspector with the u. S. Marshal service. Lenny, thank you for coming back. When we had you on before when we were off air, you talked about the theory of the case and why they have been able to allude police for so long. Please tell the folks why you think that these two have been able to allude police for so long. Well, i think, theres a variety of thinking behind that. As fugitive h