MANHUNT FOR ESCAPED MURDERER.

DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) In the meantime, we turn tonight to the urgent manhunt at this hour after a convicted killer escaped from guards in a hospital parking lot near Durham, North Carolina, running into the woods still handcuffed and restrained at the waist. He was serving a life sentence for the murder of a child. Here's ABC's Faith Abubey. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]