garbage can create energy. light can talk. countries can run on jet engine technology. when you look at problems in ways different you new solutions find. breaking coverage here on the ed show. and we are joined by msnbc reporter adam reiss. we need to report again that one of the two convicts has been shot and killed by law enforcement. adam, i understand you have more details on that shooting. what unfolded? what can you tell us?
and if they had gotten a ride out of there we d have matt on the border of the mexico. but we ve had them running around in the bushes for a very long time and that can t be very much fun. matt s dead. and sweat has got to be pretty much at this point at the end of his rope. he knows he s not going to get out of this. he just knows that. and the how much energy does he have to fight? okay fine and he s going to put up his hands or like clint just said is he going to have one last try at the last moment in the sun and, you know it s hard to predict that. but i can say again with clint the police aren t going to take any chances because quite frankly he s worth shooting down. if he makes a move they are going to do is that. pat, your thoughts on the
they deal with all the time. and even though we don t have people necessarily running across from canada into the u.s. we know we ve had fugitives come back and forth across and terrorists come back and forth across that border. and i guarantee you because they are so close right now, they are only about 10 miles away from the canadian border. we have long sensed this 4:30 4:10 shooting that took place this afternoon. canadian authorities have flooded that area on their side of the border too. they are standing there waiting to see if this guy had got any way whatsoever to try to work his way across. so the state police put out information yesterday suggesting their belief that the two fugitives were likely trying to flee north up into canada. if in fact sweat continues this path, if the information was correct and they were going that
officials tell nbc news that richard matt, the man on your screen right there, was one of the two men who escaped from upstate new york correctional facility, has been shot and killed by law enforcement officials. details of the shooting have not been released by law enforcement as of yet. the escape took place on june 6th. this is day 21 in a very heavily wooded area. and the shooting apparently took place in the titus mountain area, which is about 15 miles south of the canadian border. let s go to nbc s john yang who joins us from all s new yorkowls head, new york. reporter: we now know richard matt has been killed. and this is the first confirmed sighting since he left prison almost three weeks ago now tomorrow. this all happened very very
of us believe likely would not allow themselvesing to be taken alive. clint van zandt, stay with us. i want to bring the audience up to date. in case you just joined us the two fugitives on the run, one has been shot and killed in upstate new york. matt had been shot and killed. david sweat is still on the loose and there is a very intense search taking place at this moment in upstate new york. searching obviously for david sweat. they don t have any information as to whether these two had split up. and details of the shooting have not been released by law enforcement as of yet. we re expecting that i would imagine pretty soon. but clint, it is very interesting that there had to be a definite strategy by these two fugitives. because they didn t steal a car. and they didn t take anyone hostage. what do you make of that?