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But also he s a very desperate guy and doesn t have a lot of options. if he and get to somebody there is still potential for injury or disaster to a citizen. a very dire situation david sweat is feeling right now. the anxiety, not thinking straight. the pressure mounts, he doesn t have anyone to lean on. i does that make him in the eyes of the law enforcement more desperate? give us a sense how law enforcement is viewing the search right now. what changes? it does change for law enforcement. it is better for them to be after just one. two is worse. one can be the lookout. one can, you know, sleep. one can rest. they can encourage and help each other. they can egg each other on. they could jump somebody by one you know talking to somebody and the other jumping them in the back. so they lose a lot of advantage. when it is one guy you are dealing with one mind. and it is the collective wisdom of all the men and women of law ....
Head, new york. reporter: actually i m in malone at the state police barracks. we are anticipating a briefing. they are really flooding this zone where they encountered richard matt. all sorts of activity. all sorts of state police. their customs and border patrol car i saw go by me. new york state forestry officers also involved in this. the assumption is that david sweat is not far behind. they have said all along they had no evidence these two men had split up. that they were working on the assumption that they were together. so that now that they have gotten richard matt. they believe david sweat is in this area. they are really closing down on this area. this is the closest they have come. whoever s got richard matt in their cross-hairs is the first guy to make a confirmed sighting of richard matt since he was last seen in his last check in ....
As every day when there was a tip or a lead they would just swarm the area. so i m i can imagine they have done this times ten now that they have got matt. and so the search for sweat continues. and you can bet they are just swarming that area. adam tell us again. your information is that he was richard matt was shot near elephant head which is south of the titus mountain area? it is south of lake titus. which is also itself south of malone if you look at the map. the area is called elephant s head. just like all of this other area of the adirondack mountains. wood wooded, difficult to get through. some of the pictures in front of you, those officers are standing on someone s home grounds. but once you go back into those woods, you have brush and all kinds of debris that s added up over the years. ....
Held by the citizens of the united states and its walls. and just getting over the walls is not good enough because the citizens and its i laws are going to track you down. jim cavanagh stay with us. continuing coverage. breaking news richard matt one of the two escaped convicts shot and killed in upstate new york. for more now on the telephone is mark clakston. 2,000 leads, 21 day, one man down and david sweat still on the loose. sum up the intensity of the search at this hour. reporter: i can tell you the intensity has really picked up significantly. and as previously stated especially on the part of law enforcement now. there are some advantages now that addressing or dealing with one person as opposed to two as jim laid out perfectly. but there is also a tremendous ....
Fugitive hunt when you are looking for two killers. but now when there is solid information they may have a gun in their hand i think every officer in that area was ready to deal with a threat if he or she saw it. and apparently at least in one and perhaps perhaps in a second case that may have happened within the last hour. and if i may get an analysis from you, clint van zandt, on what sweat is going through right now. is it harder for him to elude? how does his situation change right now now that one of them has been killed and he s now on his own? if he was anywhere close to the second fugitive to matt at the time matt was shot and killed, he would have heard that gunfire. he would be running through these wodsods trying to put as much distance as he could from that location and himself as he ....