follow in her footsteps. nightly news begins right now. announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. the likelihood that heads will roll in the wake of that new york prison breakout grew today as word came down that 12 prison employees including the september have been placed on leave. the clinton correctional facility is the subject of a top to bottom investigation of how two killers managed to bust out. some of the answers, however, are coming straight from the surviving escapee himself. david sweat is said to be spilling everything including the fact that this was not the first time they d made it outside the prison. national correspondent miguel almaguer is on the story for us tonight. reporter: tonight the prison top boss his deputy and 10 other employees are suspended from clinton correctional after the brazen escape here. superintendent steve racit was the man who led governor cuomo on a tour
young girls wanting to follow in her footsteps. nightly news begins right now. announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. the likelihood that heads will roll in the wake of that new york prison breakout grew today as word came down that 12 prison employees including the superintendent have been placed on leave. the clinton correctional facility is the subject of a top to bottom investigation of how two killers managed to bust out. some of the answers, however, are coming straight from the surviving escapee himself. david sweat is said to be spilling everything including the fact that this was not the first time they d made it outside the prison. national correspondent miguel almaguer is on the story for us tonight. reporter: tonight the prison top boss his deputy and ten other employees are suspended from clinton correctional after the brazen escape here. superintendent steve racette was the man
this section of the street here in colombia what street? looks like a river. it does look like a river. it s called the most dangerous street in that area, because it is susceptible to torrential rain. the man you re about to see was on his way to being number 31 who died. you see right there. you see the bobbing head. oh, my gosh. they say he was walking down the street, a platform collapsed, the water rushed at him, and there he is in the water. now all these people are screaming. somebody help him. but they can t. oh. holding on. he s holding a plastic jug but that jug is not a flotation device. it s not helping him. you can see him again here in another video. oh, my gosh. somebody throw a rope. anything. you can hear people screaming save him, save him. but nobody can really do that s why they just took one step into the water. they re going down as well. he s helpless. the people on the sides of the street are helpless by the end of his journ
right now. announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. the likelihood that heads will roll in the wake of that new york prison breakout grew today as word came down that 12 prison employees including the superintendent have been placed on leave. the clinton correctional facility is the subject of a top-to-bottom investigation of how two killers managed to bust out. some of the answers, however, are coming straight from the surviving escapee himself. david sweat is said to be spilling everything, including the fact that this was not the first time they d made it outside the prison. national correspondent miguel almaguer is on the story for us tonight. reporter: tonight the prison top boss, his deputy and ten other employees are suspended from clinton correctional after the brazen escape here. superintendent steve racette was the man who led governor cuomo on a tour of how the convicts broke free. h
charge of the country just like i consider myself to be responsible for things that happen in this country. so, certainly as the leader of a country you would have to hold him responsible. yes. what did you say to them? very strong on the fact that we cannot have meddling paid we cannot have any of that. melissa: we have catherine herridge life at the security conference with the view from the intelligence community. but we are going to start with allison barber at the white house. hi, melissa. the president has spent a lot of time trying to backtrack and clarify a number of remarks that president trump made during the press conference in helsinki. but even with the backtracking and the seemingly growing chorus of criticism, president trump said that the summit was a great success. on twitter he attacked the media and said that he is looking forward to a second meeting with russia. his interview with cbs, the president as you just heard said that he told putin behind