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