So i told you theyre not cigarettes. Lets move on. Ooh. A little testy. Lets move on. I guess. So lets move on. Cigarettes or not. Nicorette. He grabs it every 15 minutes without failure. He is always chewing it. Who knows, mika. What do you think . Im with mike. Really interesting article on the front page of the New York Times about michelle obama. Whats that . The speeches hes been choosing to make where shes been choosing to make them in terms of speaking to young people and opening up about race and her success and also its an interesting piece. How she navigated all this and didnt enjoy all of it either but thats okay. Still tried to do so much. That high school was really a piece of herself talking. It was. It was her speaking to herself. Wow. To her years ago. A lot of news today. You say possibly some breaking news. I saw that piece. And also, of course, the big news the president sending more troops to iraq. So well start there. 4 auto 450 additional american troops prepare t
Other information shows sweat and matt may have headed for vermont. Weve deployed Vermont State Police Marine Assets on the lake. We have information to suggest they thought new york was going to be hot, vermont would be cooler in terms of law enforcement, and that a camp in vermont might be a better place to be than new york. Those developments come as a spotlight continues to shine on Joyce Mitchell a prison employee and so called person of interest in the investigation wednesday. Heres miguel with more. In a show of force and fire power, the search for david sweat and richard matt going door to door. This is Joyce Mitchell civilian employee who worked at the prison tailor shop. Police say theres no metal detectors here. Even duffle bags are allowed in and out unchecked. Inmates are at times left unattended. Law enforcement staff notified me they had access for a month to the inner workings of the prison. They used power tools to escape and navigated cat walks and pipes. Theres no wa
New court date. And alexandra field has the the latest on all of it including breaking news, yet one more factor that may have helped sweat and matt prepare their escape. Alexandra, what have you learned . Good evening, anderson. Cnn learned that investigators are now looking at whether Prison Guards on the honor block may have been sleeping during ally allowed richard matt and david sweat to prepare for they escape unsupervised. The Inspector Generals Office launched a full investigation. They have been onsite at the prison. Theyre trying to determine whether and what extent any prison protocols may have been breached. At the same time, gene palmer is speaking to constituent police giving them a look at what was really happening behind bars. Reporter an official closer to the investigation tells cnn gene palmer, a prison guard, gave at least one of the now escaped inmates, a screwdriver and needle nosed pliers supposedly to help fix electrical breakers behind their cells alug the two
Amazing happened. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight, lester holt. Good evening. A search that extends as far away as mexico for those escaped killers from new york is right now refocusing much closer to the scene of their prison breakout. After four days on the lam, a possible sighting and a fresh scent picked up by tracker dogs as an army of cops descending on the woods surrounding a tiny hamlet just 40 miles from the prison. With police on what could be a warm trail, theres that other mystery to be solved, who may have helped them stage their daring escape . In a moment an interview you wont see anywhere else with a man whose mom, a prison employee, has become a person of interest. But first the search. Nbcs Miguel Almaguer is in willsboro, new york. Reporter tonight the mass mobilization. A flood of highly trained, heavily armed officers closing in on new leads. Prison break suspects dav
United states and around the world. Youre watching cnn newsroom. And we begin with new developments in hour in the new york prison break. An official says investigators are looking into whether Prison Guards were sleeping when the two killers prepared their escape. If that happened that means david sweat and richard matt may have been unsupervised as they worked their way to freedom. The killer had been on the run now for three weeks. As the search continues to find the men, a second prison worker gene palmer is now charged in connection with the escape. Palmer claims he did not intentionally help the men break out of the prison. Palmer is expected to plead not guilty and is cooperating. Cnns brian todd has more details on this suspect whose been a prison guard for more than 27 years. Reporter gene palmer begins his legal fight. Palmer faces charges of promoting prison contraband misconduct and tampering with physical evidence relate together skres escape of killers richard matt and da