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and we begin this hour in new york state with new details about just how far a prison seamstress allegedly went to help two convicted killers escape. joyce mitchell routinely sought out favors for the inmates, now confirm shed provided them with tools they needed to break out. jason carroll has more on the manhunt. reporter: a law enforcement official tells cnn that richard matt and david sweat may have left behind personal items including a pair of boots and provisions they may have planned to take with them as they rushed out in a hurry. the manhunt now intensifying in the wooded area just 20 miles west of the prison. a source with knowledge of the investigation tells cnn that mitchell passed tools used in the escape in a chunk of frozen hamburger meat. mitchell asked a guard to carry the meat into the prison and passed to richard matt this as mitchell s husband is speak out for the first time telling today show that they planned on killing him. matt wanted he ....
this man suspected of killing six people. later for you, bill cosby s wife comes to his defense, why her statement has some people raising their eyebrows. but first this hour i want to update you on breaking news coming to us moments ago out of pakistan. at least four students are dead and more than a dozen wounded after gunmen stormed a school in pakistan. this is tack took place in the northwestern city of peshmerga. police sources say at least six terrorists entered the school after scaling its walls. now, we understand that paramilitary forces entered the area and they right now are conducting a security sweep of the most troubling aspect of this, though, more than 700 children are said to be still inside that school which we should note is run by pakistan s military. what you re looking at now is some of the first video we re receiving into cnn from the region obviously showing a very heavy military presence there. we re going to continue to watch this story and ....
reporter: john and christine, there were no policy issues, this was more about reassuring the american people that president obama has the correct strategy for dealing with isis. the president describiresident attack as a terrorist attack. we cannot turn against one another by letting this fight be defined as a war between america and islam. that, too, is what isil want. isil does not speak for islam. they are thugs and killers. part of a cult of death. they account for a tiny fraction of a more than a billion muslims around the world. including millions of patriot muslim-americans who reject their ideology. the terrorist victims around the world are muslim. if we are to succeed if defeating terrorism, we must enlist muslim communities as some of our strongest allies rather than push them away. reporter: president obama said the violence in california says the terrorists draw their inspiration from isis. he is asking for social media companies and police to work t ....
in the address he wrote himself, he is trying to calm the jitters after the wake of the terror attack in san bernardino. let s get the latest from senior correspondent jim acosta. reporter: john and christine, no major policy proposals in ate addre address. the president described the attack in california as a terrorist attack. here is more of what the president had to say. we cannot turn against one another by letting this fight be defined by america and islam. that, too, is what groups like isil wants. isil does not speak for islam. they are thugs and killers. part of a cult of death. they account for a tiny fraction of a more than a billion muslims around the world. including millions of muslim-americans who reject their hateful ideology. the terrorist victims around the world are muslim. we must enlist muslim community as our allies rather than push them way through suspension. reporter: the president said the violence in california underlines a threat from te ....
victims are women and children and the taliban says that the timing of the blast was no coincidence, it was meant to happen on easter sunday. cnn international producer sophia saifi is on the phone with us from islamabad. what more do you know about this taliban group and why they did this? fredricka, what we do know is that this group is a faction of the pakistani taliban. they said that the reason behind their attack is to combat the pakistani state and show them they are still very much in power, they still have a lot of control and that they will continue this fight against the pakistani state. they ve actually been responsible for the attack that happened just this month in the northwestern city. like you said, most of the people who died in this attack, who have been killed in this attack, are women and children. the attack took place around 6:00 in the evening on easter sunday. it was very close to the amusement park section of the park, where they have rides a ....