we arrive at this apartment complex. u.s. officials say synthetic drugs produced by these gang leaders were seize in miami. two suspects are placed in handcuffs. they ve been going through their belongings as police look for more evidence of crimes committed in colombia linked to the united states. in all, colombia police confiscated 650 viles of ketamine. how long have these guys been operating? around two years. they are doing too many things like smuggling, trafficking weapons and almost o brien is america s second highest diplomat here. i think colombians have seen the benefits of u.s. security cooperation. they ve seen the number of murders go down, they ve seen crime go down. reporter: the next day, we re on a u.s. black hawk headed to a base built by the u.s.
escape from a prison mexican newspaper snapped these photos of a tunnel leading to a prison in el chapo s home state of sinaloa. it was used in the escape of three inmates accused of trafficking weapons and drugs, at least one with ties to the sinaloa cartel. this 2014 jailbreak and this month s el chapo escape are similar. they started at construction sites and ended behind prison walls. this engine has worked on some of mexico s largest tunnelling projects and says digging such a precise path takes manpower and technology as well. the first thing was they must do is get the location and then start digging in that location with topographic equipment that
privileged people do. thank you guys both for your time and thoughts. thank you alex. just ahead, heavy fire power on the waters off yemen. u.s. and allied warships are converging on the region tracking an iranian convoy suspected of trafficking weapons for the huthi rebellion. more on that show of force coming up next.
believe that potentially they will alter their tactics to either if they are trafficking weapons to try and do that in a more secretive way or potentially stop that, at least for awhile. certainly, they seem to know that there is very little that they can do to stop the israelis from striking here in their country. and one of the things that, of course, is quite significant, is that when that strike was going on, the syrian air force did not launch any planes to try and prevent it, wolf. interesting. all right. stand by, both of you. excellent work, fred pleitgen in damascus, sarah sidner in haifa for us. my own suspicions were they were trying to send a message, not just to bashar al-assad, but probably more importantly to both iran and hezbollah in lebanon. the white house, of course, keeping an anxious eye on all of these developments. and the world is watching to see what president obama plans to do about all of this. let s go to the white house. our correspondent, dan lothian