for their son. it has been more than two weeks and there are no signs of avonte oquendo. the 14-year-old was last seen october 4th on this surveillance video running away from his school in queens. it was really the last anyone's seen of him. he doesn't communicate well or verbally and has trouble feeding himself. alexandria field is following the story for us. you spoke with the parents today. how are they holding up? i spoke with them on thursday evening and it was tough but they were holding up. as each day goes, what -- >> you can see it in their eyes, don, they are in a profound amount of pain as all of us might imagine, you can see the pain reflected in the eyes of everyone surrounding them right now, but they are holding up and they are trying to put the message forward that they need help finding their son. the gut wrenching part of the story is we are talking about a boy who cannot ask for help himself, and so his parents are speaking out today asking for help finding him. >> it's terrible. it's just like a nightmare i