leading to his capture. footage shows guzman duck behind his shower and never reappear. we now know of course he slipped down a hole that led to a mile-long tunnel to freedom. that tunnel el chapo used to escape was complete with lighting ventilation and a modified motorcycle track. cnn s nick valencia was allowed to go inside. this is the closest we have been allowed to get to his tunnel the tunnel he used in his escape on saturday night. is it a magnificent feat of engineering. let s come on in and see exactly what el chapo here had in store. this is a small little exit. a couple feet wide and a couple feet long. maybe 10 or 15 foot ladder that leads down into that tunnel. the room here is nothing to brag about. it s empty. full of cinder blocks and you
prison cell on saturday by going through a tunnel under his shower. and footage from inside the cell shows guzman duck behind his shower and never reappear. we now of course know he slipped down a hole that led to a mile-long tunnel to freedom. and what is so stunning here is that the tunnel el chapo used had lighting ventilation and a modified motorcycle track. cnn s nick valencia went down and saw what was there. reporter: this is the closest we were allowed to get to el chapo s tunnel that he used in his brazen escape on saturday night. it is by all accounts a magnificent feat of engineering. let s come in and see exactly what el chapo here had in store. this is a small little exit. a couple feet wide and a couple feet long with a ladder a 10 15-foot ladder that leads down
with where the tunnels reached and consider that area about 1,600 meters, equivalent of a mile and unfolded here west of mexico city. in that area here. a closer look at these escape in the tunnel. bear with me swiping through. this is perspective of that tunnel. prison guards found this 20 x 20-inch hole under the shower cell and that hole led him to a ladder that took him down 32 feet into the tunnel. authorities say it was about 5129 feet high and 30 inches wide and this tunnel over a mile with lighting ventilation, stairs and a motorized rail car that brought him to that house. el chapo s safe houses with
officials. he controls what he wants to do and they go along with it. they look the other way to keep their families alive. reporter: guzman got out by an elaborate underground escape route with lighting ventilation. investigators swarmed a house at the other end, but guzman was nowhere in sight. the two-time escapee broke out of prison in a laundry court in 200 1. a break in that case came in 2013 when they discovered houses in mexico and a secret web of passageways. this morning, the concern is that guzman may have already slipped away. there s real concern here on the ground that he may have made it to his native home state, a
houses. once again underlinings the central role of intelligence in the arrest of one of the world s most wanted men. let s now bring in cnn law enforcement analyst and former fbi assistant director tom fuentes joining me by phone. this does harken back in the new york prison escape in terms of using an elaborate tunnel. this can t possibly happen without something at that jail be complicit right? first of all, let s compare the different tunnels. you have one that guys used hacksaws to try to carve through concrete walls. you have another one that a professional engineering firm came in and essentially built an underground highway with lighting ventilation and powered motor vehicle inside of it to get him out. and it went more than a mile underground. second of all, there s no need