we re following breaking news. sources say the escaped murderer richard matt has been shot and killed in a shoot-out with police in upstate new york. officers now are in hot pursuit of the other fugitive david sweat. also breaking president obama delivers an emotional eulogy and a passionate appeal for the nation to right above racism hatred, and gun violence. he even led mourners in singing amazing grace during a funeral for the pastor killed in the charleston church shooting. hours earlier the president was declaring a victory for america amid joyful celebrations at the u.s. supreme court. the justices making history today by ruling that same-sex marriage is legal in all 50 states. we have correspondents analysts and newsmakers standing by on this very very busy day of breaking news. let s go to the search area in upstate new york first. cnn s alexandra field is on the scene for us. update our viewers on what s going on, alexandra. hey, there, wolf.
right now we are learning new details about how police managed to close in on escapee richard matt shooting him dead. his co-fugitive, co-escapee david sweat still on the run at this hour. we are learning a malone resident called police this afternoon, picked up the phone, dialed 911, when he noticed a liquor bottle left inside his cabin. he knew he hadn t put it there. when officers arrived, shortly after that they heard shots fired. the 911 caller stayed in his cabin. we know ultimately richard matt was shot dead. wolf it took a lot of different leads to get police to that point. let me take you through the sequence of events here. it starts around 1:30 this afternoon when there are reports of shots fired newer route 30. about a half hour later another report of shots fired. at that time a man driving a camper notices that his camper had a bullet hole in it. he didn t even realize that the vehicle had been shot. authorities converged on that area. they did a sweep. and then sources t