chapo guzman to not have to walk out of prison he got to ride out of prison. this video released by the mexican government shows el chapo guzman on a security camera in his cell on saturday the night he escaped just before 9:00 p.m. he can be seen pacing going in and out of the shower stall where the tunnel entrance is. finally, he bends down goes out of the camera s view and disappears. tuesday mexican authorities recorded video of the tunnel entrance and then went into the tunnel itself where an old motorcycle with a cart can be seen on a set of tracks. mexican officials tell nbc news el chapo laid on that cart and was pulled through the tunnel carrying the billionaire drug lord to this partially constructed house about a mile away. reporter: what s most impressive is how well this tunnel it built. there are steel beams, a well electricity. this is a generator to run all the lights we re told. this is an electrical panel. if you look over here this is the equipment that s used
chapo guzman used to escape connects to a house about a mile in that direction a house in a farming district. that s where we got to go inside the tunnel drap last. we dropped done into the opening and we can see very clearly it was very well constructed. they had a lot of time to do it and we were most impressed by that. and this is a situation set up that allowed chapo guzman not to have to walk out of prison. he got to walk out of prison. this video released by the mexican government shows chapo guzman in the cell saturday. just before 9:00 p.m. he can be seen pacing, going in and out of the shower stall where the tunnel entrance is. finally, he bends down. goes out of the camera s view and disappears. tuesday mess kahne authorities recorded video and then went into the tunnel itself where an old motorcycle with a cart can be seen on a set of tracks. mexican officials tell nbc news
work would have had to go something like that? some very detailed work and very fast work if experts are correct. i mean it s a very elaborate tunnel. and there s a lot of speculation that they began digging the tunnel almost as soon as he went into prison 16 months ago. does it mean the government had to have something to do? someone in the government had to have something to do with this? i think that s a sure bet. they ve already arrested the warden and two more senior officials. but does it stop there? how high up does it go? if you look at the video they released last night, the cell is very sparse very connected to the main corridors of the prison wing. to break through the floor of his bathroom of his shower stall, you would have to make some noise. so how did that go unnoticed? he also had a tracking device on
and it afforded guzman the opportunity to not have to walk out of prison. he got to ride out of jail. this video released by the mexican government shows chapo guzman on a security camera in his cell on saturday the night he escaped, just before 9:00 p.m. he can be seen pacing going in and out of the shower stall where the tunnel entrance is. finally he bends down goes out of the camera s view and disappears. tuesday mexican authorities recorded video of the tunnel entrance and then went into the tunnel itself where an old motorcycle with a cart can be seen on a set of tracks. mexican officials tell nbc news chapo laid on that cart and was pulled through the tunnel carrying the billionaire drug lord to this partially constructed house about a mile away. what s most impressive is how well this tunnel is built. there are steel beams, there s wood, electricity. this is a generator to run all the lights we re told. this is an electrical panel. if you look over here this is
disappears from his prison cell. cnn s brian todd is here. what are you learning? reporter: a short time ago i got new information from u.s. mexican officials on this manhunt. tonight we have stunning surveillance video showing how easy it was for joaquin el chapo guzman to get out of the prison. he faces around his cell goes into the shower stall, comes back to his bed and changes his shoes. then goes back into the shower stall fully clothed and disappears. surveillance video shows how stunningly fast the world s most notorious drug lord el chapo was able to escape from mexico s alto plato prison. he goes behind the wall. poof he is gone. reporter: out of the view of the cam rain his cell behind the partition of the shower stall, a hole in the floor to this elaborate underground tunnel with electricity, lights ventilation and tracks laid