With promoting dangerous contraband destroying evidence official misconduct in terms of destroying evidence that could be reference to some of the paintings that richard matt has made. You heard about those in the past. Apparently he gave may have given some paintings and or drawings to gene palmer as well. And then shortly after gene palmer found out about what happened with the escape he allegedly destroyed some of the paintings and or drawings. That could be part of the reason why you see that destroying evidence charge. I also as i said, i spock to his ahis i spoke to his attorney. He said his client is very upset. His client had no knowledge at all of what was inside that frozen chunk of hamburger meat that Joyce Mitchell you already know about her, that she convinced gene palmer to pass that on to richard matt. We have two prison employees, Joyce Mitchell you already know was charged in her connection with the escape. Now you have gene palmer who has also been charged. Once again
Would give her attention, it went too far. He tried to kiss her a couple of times and she said no. Thats when he started to threaten her on things. She said ive got Something Else to tell you. I said whats that . She said their plan was they want to kill you. I said what . They wanted her to come pick them up. So she admitted to you at that moment that once these two escaped from clinton and made their way to that manhole. Yeah. That she was supposed to be the one to pick them up and drive them away . She told me that matt wanted her to pick them up. She said i never leave nowhere without lyle. Never. He said ill give you some pills to give him to knock him out and youll come pick us up. She said i am not doing that. I love my husband. I am not hurting him. And then she said i knew i was over my head. Cnns sara ganim is live in owls head new york. Whats the notion of one of these two being barefoot . How do investigators know that . A Law Enforcement source was briefed on the investiga
Their families the green light to pay money for their freedom. Will if save lives . Or put more people in danger . We want to welcome viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Lets get to the breaking news, the emanuel ame in charleston is opening its doors this hour for bible study exactly a week after a shooting bloodbath during a similar class. Also breaking we have just learned that more than a dozen new york state officials have descended on the Clinton Correctional Facility to investigate security breaches. As the manhunt continues for two escaped killers. Police believe theyre likely armed right now, possibly with weapons stolen from a remote scab been cabin hideout. The two convicts may be more desperate and dangerous than ever on the 19th day on the run. Were covering all the breaking stories with our correspondents analyst and news makers including the mississippi congressman, Bennie T
The Mountain View area. This is a wolf pond road. Now the search area here is in a pretty rural area. Its in upstate new york in the adirondacks adirondacks. Theres a lot of vacation homes and trails like hiking trails. The kinds of things police have been focussing their search on for more than the two week stretch. While the search continues here and in other places the Investigation Continues as well. Were learning over the weekend that a 57yearold corrections officer who worked on the block was a guard on the block where the two inmates were housed he has been placed on paid administrative leave after he received a painting that one of the inmates made behind others. We know other paintings were made. One given to the prison seamstress who has been charged with helping the two inmates escape. This mans attorney tells me 100 he did not know about the plan to escape and is cooperating with police. They searched his home over the weekend. He hasnt yet been charged. Lets hope the searc
Right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. In a state still reeling from the massacre of nine black worshippers, the effort to remove from the South Carolina State Capitol grounds a racially charged symbol wrapped in a painful history gained a powerful voice today. The states governor, nikki haley, a republican, joining a growing chorus of those now calling for the removal of the confederate battle flag, the same flag embraced by the young white man accused in the Charleston Church shooting. Ron allen leads off our coverage. Reporter few symbols in American Culture evoke such intense passion. Emblem of southern pride and states rights or the scourge of slavery and racism. Today governor nikki haley weighed, in flanked by a Bipartisan Group of state leaders. Today we are here in a moment of unity in our state without ill will to say its time to move the flag from the capitol grounds. Reporter South Carolina