gregg. whether or not they have having much in the way of success it s tough to tell because the history has been really sort of mixed unless they are with ground troops. they really just haven t had much in the way of real success there, gregg. all right, conor powel live in our middle east bureau conor, thanks. captured escapee david sweat is back inside a maximum security prison for the first time in nearly a month. the 35-year-old convicted killer was moved from albany medical center early this morning, taken to five points correctional facility in romulus, new york. he was receiving treatment after getting shot twice by a state trooper near the canadian border last sunday. his capture ending a weeks long manhunt after he escaped from the clinton correctional facility with murderer richard matt. matt of course was shot dead during the manhunt for the fugitives. it is a rematch four years in the making. the u.s. women s soccer team set
bottle on the kitchen table at his hunting cabin. he told authorities he had not left that there and he s been checking on this cabin every couple of days just to make sure that it s been secure. well willett began speaking to authorities and that s when all of them began hearing gunshots. he was told to get back inside as police moved closer to the sound of those gunshots. and again, that s one of the things that sort of tipped them off, triggered this entire sort of movement to that area of malone, new york, wolf. it s a really obviously a very very dangerous moment right now. i want to go to our just tins correspondent pamela brown, also working her sources. what else are you learning pamela? wolf we re learning a bit more about what led up to the shoot-out between authorities and richard matt. we ve learned that that driver of the camper heard gunshots called 911 earlier this afternoon. but at that point, apparently the driver didn t realize that his camper had been hit, got
officers are actually checking cars that are leaving the u.s. and heading toward canada. typically you would have canadian officers doing that work but the u.s. officers are adding a second level, a second barrier there, in order to search every car that goes through to ensure that david sweat does not manage to cross that border wolf. very very delicate moment dangerous moment right now as the hunt for david sweat is under way. it s been more than two hours now since authorities there shot and killed richard matt. i want to get more from our national correspondent deborah feyerick working her sources. wolf we re learning that authorities are working on the premise that in fact the men were trying to car jack that camper van. malone new york where this went down about 30 miles from the canadian border. we were told earlier that the two men were moving largely at nighttime, not during the day, which means they may have just tried to make a run for the border. now, we are told that a
left. it was opened on the table, of his hunting cabin. that also drew law enforcement to that area. we know the prisoners have been taking basic supplies from the hunting cabin. once the shots were fired, a lot of authorities began running. they shot and killed richard matt dead and then started chasing david sweat. if they can flush him out and take him down that right now is the objective. stand by deb. i want to get a quick reaction to the latest developments. tom fuentes says we watch what s going on. this is a critical moment. it is especially in the woods, it s probably already getting dark right now. i think that will change everything overnight. if they don t have him in custody, they ll want to hunker down and rely on the helicopters. i think they re probably in their planning stages deciding how their grid search is going to be conducted after dark with the infrared.
alive and they went like little puppies. other ones they ve decided to do the death stand and shoot it out. either one of these is possible with him. we don t know he would know whether matt died. he might know matt was shot and didn t stay with him as he was running through the woods. assume matt was wounded, assume maybe he s captured but wouldn t necessarily know matt s still alive. bottom line we don t know like tom said. we ve locked up a lot of people that said they would shoot it out with the police then we catch them, they re docile as could be. we don t know. we have to assume this guy killed a police officer, that s one of the things that got me very concerned that he doesn t have a problem shooting at law enforcement. when as ul said and done these guys didn t get very far from clinton correctional facility. 21 days they could have been out of the united states they could have been someplace, right? unfortunately, wolf, if they both get killed as a result of that man