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Now to some new developments. talking about the hunt for two convicted killers. some really bad guys on the run right now. now they have been on the run for three days. richard matt and david sweat, take a look here, they pulled off a sophisticated plan, power tools and insider s knowledge of the prison building itself. now abc news learned investigators have interviewed that woman who worked there. abc s marci gonzalez has the latest from upstate new york. good morning, marci. reporter: good morning to you. investigators have developed over 300 leads and are looking into each including one from a couple possible witnesses. face to face with the escaped inmates. lucky to be alive, man. they could have done anything. reporter: neighbors who live a block from the maximum security prison in upstate new york telling abc news they may have been the first to see david sweat and richard matt after they made their prison break. spotting the convicted killers dressed in jeans walking in ....
To drill through a wall reinforced with steel to a catwalk running alongside utility pipes. they worked their way down four stories and then cut through a two-foot thick wall and through a steel pipe, only 24 inches in diameter, shimmied until they got to a tunnel. after another several hundred feet they came to a manhole they sawed open with their tools. escaping on a street a block from prison walls. a neighbor coming home at 12:30 a.m. saying he confronted the two men in his backyard. now speaking out for the first time with abc news. so they re just there in your backyard? yes, they were looking around a little bit. as soon as i came across, they ran out of my yard. that was them. that was them, yeah. reporter: schools in the area now guarded by police. children staying indoors. and so if those two men seen in the backyard were in fact the escapees it would mean they would have had a five-hour head start before anyone realized they were missing. ....
Sweat and matt using power tools to drill through a wall reinforced with steel to a catwalk running alongside utility pipes. they worked their way down four stories and then cut through a two-foot thick wall and through a steel pipe only 24 inches in diameter shimmied until they got to a tunnel. after another several hundred feet they came to a manhole they sawed open with their tools. escaping on a street a block from prison walls. a neighbor coming home at 12:30 a.m. saying he confronted the two men in his backyard. now speaking out for the first time with abc news. so they re just there in your backyard? yes, they were looking around a little bit. as soon as i came across, they ran out of my yard. that was them. that was them, yeah. reporter: schools in the area now guarded by police. children staying indoors. and so if those two men seen in the backyard were in fact the escapees it would mean they would have had a five-hour head start before anyone realized ....
He was like, sorry, i didn t know where i was. i m on the wrong street. reporter: they say the convicts ran off. now for their night, police and federal agents are trying to track the inmates down. sources saying as part of the probe, this prison employee, joyce mitchell pictured on facebook was questioned by investigators as they try to figure out if sweat and matt had help with the escape. they were in their neighboring cells at the clinton correctional facility 10:30 friday night. at 5:30 the next morning, prison guards realized they were gone. convicts using power tools to drill through a wall, they worked their way down four stories. cut through a 2-foot-thick brick wall into a narrow steel steam pipe shimmying through to a tunnel leading them to a locked manhole. sawing it open and escaping on to the street about a block from the prison. and soon after is when the man and woman say they spotted the suspects. by their timing the dangerous inmates had about a five-hour head start ....