Manhunt For New York Prison Escapees; Pool Party Cop Resigns; Senate Hearing, White House Evacuations; Stock Futures Higher; Stock Futures Higher.
CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR: Happening now, narrowing an intense search for two killers who made a shocking prison break. A new tip in the case and the help they may have had in their escape ahead. Out of control pool party now costing a police officer his job, he resigns after drawing his gun on unarmed teenagers. The new developments ahead. And more U.S. troops, more troops could soon be heading to Iraq to fight ISIS. We are live with the possible new plan from the White House ahead. Welcome back to EARLY START. I'm Christine Romans. It's 30 minutes past the hour. John Berman has the morning off. Happening now, authorities are pursuing a couple of important new breaks in that manhunt for two convicted killers escaped from a maximum security prison in upstate New York. The first break, investigators now think a woman who worked with Richard Matt and David Sweat, reportedly teaching them how to tailor MTA uniforms in the prison tailor shop. She planned to pick them up after their escape Friday. A source tells CNN at the last minute Joyce Mitchell changed her mind and wound up in the hospital suffering panic attacks. Mitchell's son, Tobey, rejecting any suggestion she voluntarily helped these inmates and telling NBC there is simply no way she was simply having an affair with one of the men.</s>TOBEY MITCHELL, SON OF PRISON WORKER: She is not the kind of person that is going to risk her life or other people's lives to let these guys escape from prison. She definitely wouldn't have an affair against my father and it definitely wouldn't be with an inmate. There is no truth to that.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There is a report out there that your mom went to the emergency room with a panic attack. Did that happen?</s>MITCHELL: Yes. She was, in fact, in the hospital that evening. I don't know the exact details. I just know that she was having severe chest pains and she was concerned about that. My mom, she worries a lot about everything. I mean, especially with me. People might say, well, no matter what, I wouldn't do that. Well, when you're put in a situation where family members are threatened or other family members might be threatened or at risk, you do a lot of things that you wouldn't think that would affect your family. In my family, family always comes first.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Were there threats, Tobey?</s>MITCHELL: I have no idea.</s>ROMANS: Now there is a second break in the case. A witness report of two suspicious men spotted walking down a road in rural Willsborough, some 40 miles south of the prison. That is where CNN's Jason Carroll picks up the story.</s>JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: For several hours, a number of law enforcement were out here on the ground searching by foot and by air. This after, on Monday night, they got a tip that two men were spotted walking around during the middle of a storm in the middle of a street. When a car approached them, apparently those two men took off. That set off a lot of red flags. That's also what set off this massive search out here. Where we are located, it's just about 40 miles south of where the prison is located. So you can imagine why this search effort was under way here. Again, searching by ground, searching by air, in terms of the ground search and the property where we are, it's bordered by train tracks on one side, by a river on the other side. At one point, officers walking shoulder-to-shoulder as they conducted their search throughout the woods. It wasn't just a search of the woods, but they also checked security cameras, resident security cameras and security cameras from businesses as well. So far, we are told that has turned up nothing. It's going to be another restless day for many residents in this rural area -- Christine.</s>ROMANS: All right, Jason Carroll, thanks, Jason. For days now, authorities have been warning how dangerous Richard Matt and David Sweat are. Few people understand the threat like Matt's accomplice in a 1997 crime. A man named Lee Bates. Bates served 15 years for his role in the kidnapping and murder of businessman, William Rickerson. Bates told Anderson Cooper he watched Richard Matt brutally beat Rickerson over a 27-hour period in an unsuccessful effort to get money from the man.</s>LEE BATES, MATT'S ACCOMPLICE IN 1997 MURDER (via telephone): Torture is probably an understatement because once -- at different points during the commission of what was the crime there, he used duct tape to tie Mr. Rickerson up. He beat him with anything and everything that he possibly can, a knife sharpener, a security device, the club from my automobile. He physically grabbed Mr. Rickerson's hands and pulled his fingers back until they snapped, punching him, beating him. Starting from in the house throughout the car ride and then eventually when he opened up the trunk and Mr. Rickerson told him, "I'll take you to the money, let me out." And Richard Matt there then said, "I don't believe you, I don't believe you. You've been playing games with me, I don't believe you." and in a fit of rage, he reached into the car, grabbed Mr. Rickerson by his head and snapped his neck in front of me.</s>ROMANS: Bates says he was afraid of Richard Matt then and is still afraid of him now. A dramatic new development this morning in McKinney, Texas, where the police officer at the center of that pool party melee, he is stepping down. Protesters had been calling for Corporal Eric Casebolt's badge and calling for his prosecution after he drew his gun on unarmed teenagers. The host of the pool party telling CNN she is happy Casebolt has resigned.</s>TATYANA RHODES, HOST OF POOL PARTY: I feel he could have done way better and performed better and done better toward teens in this situation. Just like in the video, his peers were working way better, more appropriately than he was.</s>ROMANS: For the very latest, let's turn to CNN's Nick Valencia in McKinney.</s>NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Christine, the huge news on Tuesday night was the announcement of the resignation of Officer Eric Casebolt. The officer in question of that viral video posted over the weekend showing him wrestling a young teenage girl to the ground. The police chief of the McKinney Police Department came out and said his actions were indefensible. He said of the 12 officers that responded to the incident on Friday, 11 of them acted appropriately but Officer Casebolt was not one of them.</s>CHIEF GREG CONLEY, MCKINNEY POLICE DEPARTMENT: Eric Casebolt has resigned from the McKinney Police Department. As the chief of police, I want to say to our community that the actions of Casebolt as seen on the video of the disturbance at the community pool are indefensible.</s>VALENCIA: This much is clear. We are told that the incident began with physical altercation between an adult and young teenager. We were told by one of the witnesses, who wasn't within earshot of this, but said others heard it. That it began when an adult started hurling racial slurs at the young black teenagers. Neighbors in the community say that wasn't the case. One African-American resident in that subdivision where this incident took place on Friday said that it was the teenagers that were causing the commotion and the chaos didn't start until they started hopping the fence. This has created some division within the community and the case is far from over. Some are asking for charges to be brought against Officer Casebolt -- Christine.</s>ROMANS: All right, Nick, thank you for that. McKinney police have dropped the charges against the one person arrested following that chaos, an 18-year-old named Adrian Martin. This morning, the Secret Service and capital police investigating two separate bomb threats that forced evacuations of a Senate hearing and White House briefing room. Reporters were moved to a separate building, while the Secret Service kept the president and his family in place in the White House. Officials say they covered up TV cameras to protect the methods used to investigate bomb threats. Secret Service officials declined to discuss any possible connection between the two threats. Another embarrassing development for the Secret Service, it turns out dozens of newly hired officers have been assigned to the White House and other sensitive post and they don't have the proper national security clearance, some of them even having access to classified material. A rush to hire new personnel in the wake of a host of security lapses is to blame here. Now the Secret Service director is promising to quickly fix the problem. You can add a laboratory in the U.K. to the growing list of locations that have been sent live anthrax samples from the Pentagon. A privately owned lab received that delivery in 2007. Officials say the samples were quickly destroyed with no worker illnesses. The lab was only recently informed the pathogen was potentially live. Time for an EARLY START on your money this Wednesday, Asian stocks mostly lower. European and U.S. stock futures looking more upbeat. Stocks very close to record highs here, but uncertainty about a fed rate hike weighing on investor sentiment. Apple Music announced this week, but it's already under scrutiny. According to "The New York Times," the attorneys general of New York and Connecticut are investigating potential antitrust violations. They want to know if Apple pressured music labels and if an agreement with Apple will make music labels withdraw from other ad supported services like Spotify. Universal Music Group is the first to respond saying the agreement with Apple won't affect the availability of its music elsewhere. All right, it's 39 minutes past the hour. The White House with a possible new plan, weighing new plans to take back territory seized by ISIS, on the table, more U.S. troops being sent to Iraq. We are live next.