The Latest: Intense search continues in woods for surviving New York prison escapee

A corrections officer holds a gun at a roadblock on Saturday, June 27, 2015, in Malone, N.Y. The shooting death of Richard Matt, one escaped killer brought new energy to the three-week hunt for David Sweat, a second escaped murderer in the United States as helicopters, search dogs and hundreds of law enforcement officers converged on a wooded area 30 miles from Clinton Correctional Facility. (AP Photo/Mike Groll) (The Associated Press)

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A helicopter flies over the search area for convicted murderer David Sweat, Saturday, June 27, 2015, in Malone, N.Y. Convicted murderer Richard Matt was shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent in a wooded area about 30 miles from the Clinton Correctional Facility on Friday. Sweat is on the run, authorities said. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) (The Associated Press)

Map locates several locations in N.Y. related where two escaped prisoners; 2c x 3 inches; 96.3 mm x 76 mm; (The Associated Press)

MALONE, N.Y. – The latest on the manhunt following the escape of two convicted murderers from a maximum-security prison (all times local):

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8:45 a.m.

Searchers who tracked and killed one murderer who broke out of a northern New York prison three weeks ago are combing the same heavily wooded area for the surviving escapee.

Officers continued to focus Saturday on rugged terrain 30 miles west of Clinton Correctional Facility as they looked for David Sweat, who escaped from the maximum-security prison June 6 with Richard Matt. Police manned roadblocks in the neighboring towns of Malone and Duane as a helicopter buzzed over the woods.

Matt was shot to death Friday by a border patrol team responding to a civilian complaint about a gunshot fired at a camping trailer. Authorities say Matt was armed and failed to respond to an order to raise his hands.

Police said Friday night that they had no confirmed sightings of Sweat.