[Fredricka Whitfield, Cnn Anchor:] All right, much more straight ahead in the NEWSROOM and it all starts right now. Hello again, everyone. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. Here are the top stories we're following in the CNN NEWSROOM this hour. Who is this little girl? Police in Greece want to know, she doesn't look anything like the couple claiming to be her parents and they're now under arrest. Florida prison officials call it a system failure, two murderers dupe the system, walking out the door and creating an intensive manhunt. In New York, a different search but no less frantic, in a city of 8 million, the hunt is on for one 14-year-old boy, he has autism and hasn't been seen in two weeks. Greek authorities are looking to help solve a mystery. This little girl was first spotted in a gypsy community outside Athens. Police were suspicious that a couple claiming to be the parents of a blonde haired, blue-eyed child didn't seem to match up. DNA testing revealed she is not related to either of them. So now police are trying to figure out who she really is. I spoke earlier with a spokesman for a Greek charity that is caring for the little girl who talked about the confusion surrounding the case.
[Panagiotis Pardalis, Spokesman, "the Smile Of The Child":] We are only making assumptions, police authorities only make assumptions right now, and there's an investigation going on. So even, I mean, we make assumptions about her age. We think that she's four. We don't have anything about her origin, so we don't really know everything. So everything needs to be clarified.
[Whitfield:] The couple claiming to be the girl's parents have been arrested and they're charged with abduction of a minor. Also this morning the parents and lawyer of a missing autistic teen are desperately asking for help to find him. Avonte Oquendo ran out of his school in New York on October 4th, and hasn't been seen since. Police and volunteers have pulled out all the stops to find him. Alexandra Field is live for us now in New York. You attended the press conference earlier. So Alexandra, what are the parents saying and where is the search focusing on right now?
[Alexandra Field, Cnn Correspondent:] Well, Fredricka, these parents are in a profound amount of pain, you see it in their eyes and they want this search to be happening everywhere. That's why they spoke at a press conference in Harlem this morning with Reverend Al Sharpton. They're trying to recruit more volunteers to join in the effort to find Avonte Oquendo. His mother spoke about what the last 15 days have been like without her missing 14-year-old son.
[Vanessa Fontaine, Avonte's Mother:] It is just terrible, like a nightmare. I can't wake up from, you know, every day waiting to see my son come home, praying that someone has found him. I don't wish this on anyone, any family, to experience this, and this should have never happened.
[Unidentified Male:] If someone sees him, what do you want them to do, how should they handle it?
[Fontaine:] I want them to call the authorities. I don't want them to call the next day, a couple hours later, saying I seen him, you see him, you know, just hold onto him, if you can, you know? Follow him if you can, but make that call, make that call.
[Field:] Avonte's father also spoke this morning, he asked every single New Yorker to join the search, in a very simple way, he wants people to step outside for 5 minutes, open their eyes, look around. This child's face is plastered everywhere. Avonte was last seen on October 4th when surveillance camera captured him walking down the hall of his school and running out the door. Since then, hundreds of police officers and volunteers have canvassed the city. They have searched on boats. They have searched by air. They have searched on foot. The family wants yet more volunteers to join them now in again canvassing the city to try to find Avonte Fredricka.
[Whitfield:] All right, Alexandra Field, thank you so much. Onto Florida now where two convicted killers simply walked away from a prison there, and they're still on the loose. Today, officials are offering a $10,000 reward each for their arrest. Charles Walker and Joseph Jenkins have been free awhile now, using forged documents, although authorities only learned of their escape this week. Nick Valencia has more.
[Sheriff Jerry Demings, Orange County, Florida:] There have been tips being received in terms of legitimate spotting.
[Nick Valencia, Cnn Correspondent:] Two convicted killers on the loose. Free after they used forged documents to get an early release from a Florida prison, but how did Joseph Jenkins and Charles Walker duped the system? That's a question no one seems to be able to answer and a mistake no one wants to own.
[Demings:] I'm not here to point fingers at anyone. There will be plenty of that to go around eventually I'm sure.
[Valencia:] In Between the fingers of Evangelina Kearse is a letter from the Florida Department of Corrections about her son's killer, Charles Walker. It says his release was beyond their control.
[Evangelina Kearse:] We are in shocked, frightened, and the system let us down for letting a murderer go free. I understand that the state attorney and the judge had nothing to do with it. But somebody, I don't know if it was an inside job, whoever did help him. I do believe that. They had to have help.
[Judge Belvin Perry, Orange County Circuit Court:] This is somewhat ingenious.
[Valencia:] It was the fake signature of Judge Belvin Perry that ordered the release of both Walker and Jenkins. The high profile judge says he's not entirely surprised.
[Perry:] People, particular people with criminal minds come up with ingenious ways to beat the system. They have nothing but time on their hands to think of things.
[Valencia:] The Department of Corrections, which allowed the release said they were only following procedures and was, quote, "not at fault." We don't have the statute or authority to question the court's decision, a spokeswoman said. This will be a lesson learned for all involved. The Florida Department of Corrections has since made changes to the process of early releases. They tell CNN they would require verifications from the sentencing judge before any other inmates are released early.
[Whitfield:] Nick Valencia joining me live outside the Franklin Correctional Institute. Nick, what more can you tell us about where they're focusing this search?
[Valencia:] Fred, we've learned this isn't the first time a Florida inmate has tried to use fraudulent documents to get out of prison early. In 2011, Jeffrey Forbes tried to use forged paperwork for an early release, he was caught. That leaves a lot of people wondering after two years, why Florida state officials weren't better prepared this time around. As far as this investigation is concerned, the manhunt is on-going, state officials here have reason to believe the two suspects are still in the state of Florida Fred.
[Whitfield:] Nick Valencia, thank you so much. The search for the two escapees in Florida is one of the stories Don Lemon will be looking at in a CNN special called "Making The Case" that's tonight at 8:00 Eastern Time. Don and a group of legal analysts will breakdown the top crime stories of the week. Later this hour, our legal guys take up the case of a Utah doctor accused of drugging and drowning his wife. And next, if you try to log onto Obamacare this weekend, you're going to hit a roadblock, the health care web site down.