 (CNN) An employee at the prison where two convicted killers escaped over the weekend is being questioned as a possible accomplice, a law enforcement source briefed on the investigation told CNN. He gets girlfriends any place he goes.” 
 
 Authorities said Matt and David Sweat, 34, escaped late Friday or early Saturday, by using power tools from one of several construction sites at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, 20 miles from the Canadian border. The woman knows the two escapees "very well," the source said, though she has not been charged or arrested. In a parting shot to prison officials, Matt and Sweat left behind a note with a smiley face that read, “Have a nice day.’’ 
 
 “A little bit of a comedian in them [the escaped cons] but I plan on giving them back that note, ” Cuomo told “Today” on Monday. Photos: New York prison escape Photos: New York prison escape Richard Matt, left, and David Sweat were discovered missing on Saturday, June 6, at the 5:30 a.m. "standing count" of inmates at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York. To make their escape, the first in the prison's 150-year history, the men cut through the steel walls at the back of their adjoining cells and escaped through a steam pipe. Cuomo, who inspected the escape route, said officials are doing everything possible to prevent another escape but said the first priority is to apprehend the fugitives. "It was elaborate; it was sophisticated," he said. Cuomo examines a pipe the inmates cut through. Authorities don't know how the prisoners got the power tools. New York is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to the apprehension of the men it describes as dangerous and have notified law enforcement in Canada and Mexico about the fugitives. We will not rest until we have these two individuals back in custody.” 
 
 The state is offering $100,000 for info leading to the capture of the inmates, or $50,000 for tips leading to each one. The heightened police presence on one hand helped the community feel safer, but on the other was a constant reminder that peace had been shattered in the town of 4,898 people, where the prison for generations has been the largest employer, residents said. On the first day of school since the prison break was discovered on Saturday, state police manned every school building in the district and planned to continue the ramped-up security through the week, said a spokeswoman for Superintendent Jonathan Parks. Another source added that the pair “had help on the inside, and they could just have easily had help on the outside.” 
 
 “To do all that, it would have to take weeks, if not months. "We're looking at the civilian employees now and the private contractors to see if possibly if a civil employee or contractor was assisting the escape because they wouldn’t have equipment on their own, that's for sure," Cuomo told CNN. "I'd be shocked if a guard was involved, and that's putting it mildly," he said. “I chatted with a couple of the inmates myself and said, ‘You must be a very heavy sleeper.’ They heard, they had to be heard,” he said on “Good Morning America.’’ 
 
 Sweat, 34, was serving life without parole for the 2002 killing of Kevin Tarsia, a Broome County sheriff’s deputy. Police said Matt was serving a sentence of 25 years to life following his conviction in the kidnapping and beating death of his boss near Buffalo, New York, on Dec. 3, 1997. He is a cunning individual, no question about it, and a vicious individual." He is 5 feet 11 inches (1.8 meters) tall, 165 lbs (75 kg), with tattoos including "Rebel" on his left arm, police said. He has black hair, hazel eyes and several tattoos: "Mexico Forever" on his back, a heart on his chest and left shoulder, and a Marine Corps insignia on his right shoulder. Cuomo said, adding that it could not be opened from the outside. "I'm just afraid they're gonna do some damage while they're on the run," said Richard Green, owner of Auggy's Pizza Shop. Marshals Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and New York State Forest Rangers, said Beau Duffy, a state police spokesman. A woman who worked in the maximum security prison, where construction was under way, was being questioned by police as a possible accomplice, New York State Police said, confirming a report in the New York Post which cited unidentified sources.
– Authorities are investigating whether a female accomplice was involved in the escape of two prisoners from a New York penitentiary on Friday or Saturday, police tell Reuters. Officials are talking to a woman who worked at the maximum-security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemor, NY; she was an employee, not a guard, and has since been fired, the New York Post reports. Sources tell the Post that one of the convicts, 48-year-old Richard Matt, "has a way with the ladies" and "gets girlfriends any place he goes." Earlier today, Gov. Andrew Cuomo told CNN that police were talking to "civilian employees" and "private contractors" to see if anyone aided in the escape, which involved power tools: "They wouldn’t have equipment on their own, that's for sure," he says. Authorities are still searching for Matt and his fellow escapee, 34-year-old David Sweat.