New Orleans city officials say the search for 10 men who broke out of a local jail earlier this month has cost the city approximately $250,000 per week and delayed work on other investigations. “Money is so not an issue to me,

It's been nearly two weeks since 10 inmates at the Orleans Parish jail escaped the facility, breaching a toilet and climbing through a hole in the wall, scaling a fence and running across an interstate in the most brazen jailbreak Louisiana has seen in recent history.

Authorities are still searching for two escapees from the group of 10 inmates that broke out of a New Orleans jail 11 days ago in a manhunt that has stretched as far as Texas and swept up several more suspects accused of aiding the escapees.