PRISON BREAK (NEW YORK)

According to reports getting to us from CNN news, over the weekend, two convicted killers escaped from a prison facility in New York. 

An employee at the Clinton Correctional Facility in New York is being questioned as a possible accomplice in the escape of two convicted killers over the weekend, a law enforcement source briefed on the investigation confirmed to CNN.

The source refused to address the media on the extent of the woman's involvement or the kind of help she may have provided.

The New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the inmates -- Richard Matt and David Sweat -- recived help in carrying out the intricate plot. The duo, who were in side-by-side cells, used power tools to cut through the cells' steel walls and clambered through a maze of underground pipes, according to authorities.

"They wouldn't have had the equipment on their own, that's for sure," Cuomo told CNN of the convicted killers, who escaped sometime after they were last seen at bed check Friday night.

In their place, the pair left decoys to trick guards into thinking they were asleep in their bunks -- and a . It read, "Have a Nice Day!"

Tricking the guards

People call the Clinton Correctional Facility "Little Siberia."

That's in part because of its remote location -- in the sparsely populated northeast corner of New York, about 25 miles from the Canadian border.

And also because it's in a region where wintry weather can persist more than half the year.

The facility has 2,689 inmates, and two of its most notorious inhabitants were Matt, 49, and Sweat, 35.

these questions need answers
Along with the taunting sticky note, the pair also left a host of unanswered, and uncomfortable, questions for law enforcement.

How did they get the power tools? How could they have known the layout of the bowels of the old prison? Did they have help from the inside?

Former inmate: New York prison break an inside job 03:42

Cuomo, who toured the escape route and announced the $100,000 reward Sunday, said it was possible the tools came from contractors working on the 170-year-old prison. Authorities are also looking at civilian prison employees, he said. But he seemed to rule out the involvement of the prison's certified employees.

"I'd be shocked if a guard was involved, and that's putting it mildly," he said.