DANNEMORA, N.Y. (AP) 3:15 p.m. -New York state is offering a $100,000 reward for information that leads to the capture of two convicted murderers who broke out a maximum-security prison.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo says Sunday the unusual step is "appropriate" for the situation.
In a conference call with reporters, Cuomo detailed the lengths Richard Matt and David Sweat went to in their escape from the Clinton Correctional Facility near the Canadian border.
He says the men cut through a steel plate, broke through a brick wall, had to shimmy through a steam pipe and cut through a steel lock and chain to open up a manhole cover.
Cuomo says it would have taken days to do what they did.
Authorities say the men could be anywhere in the state, or left it altogether.
DANNEMORA, N.Y. (AP) -- New York's governor says two convicted murderers "had to be heard" as they cut through steel and escaped from a maximum-security prison.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo told ABC's "Good Morning America" that Richard Matt and David Sweat broke out of the Clinton Correctional Facility in "a really elaborate, sophisticated operation" that involved shimmying through a steam pipe.
The men were reported missing from their beds at about 5:30 a.m. Saturday.
Roadblocks were set up in the area of the prison, about 20 miles from the Canadian border. Bloodhounds and helicopters were being used to track down the men.
Cuomo said officials were reaching out to the families of the men's victims.
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DANNEMORA, N.Y. (AP) -- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says two convicted murderers used power tools to cut through steel walls and escape from a maximum-security prison near the Canadian border.
Cuomo says 48-year-old Richard Matt and 34-year-old David Sweat are "dangerous individuals" who escaped through an elaborate plot. Officials are trying to determine where they got the power tools.
Cuomo spoke Saturday at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora after joining law enforcement authorities to trace the men's escape route.
Authorities say Matt and Sweat were discovered missing from the prison Saturday morning.
Sweat is serving a sentence of life without parole in the slaying of a Broome County sheriff's deputy in 2002. Matt is serving 25 years to life for the beating death of a man in 1997.
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DANNEMORA, N.Y. (AP) -- Two convicted murderers have escaped from a maximum-security prison near the Canadian border in upstate New York.
Authorities say 48-year-old Richard Matt and 34-year-old David Sweat escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora.
Sweat is serving a sentence of life without parole. He was convicted of first-degree murder for killing a Broome County sheriff's deputy in 2002.
Matt is serving a sentence of 25 years to life. He was convicted of murder, kidnapping and robbery after he kidnapped a man and beat him to death in 1997.
A New York State Police commander says the two men were missing Saturday morning. The prison is about 20 miles from the Canadian border.
WIRY-AM reports roadblocks were set up in the area.
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