(CNN) – The numbers are staggering. Each year, between one-and-a-half and three million young kids run away from home.
A former New York police detective has made it his job to track them down and his investigations are now the subject of a new TV series called "The Runaway Squad."
Joe Mazzilli, the founder and team leader of "The Runaway Squad," joined us on Friday's American Morning, along with with Vinny Lopez, who was rescued by the runaway squad, and Vinny's father, Israel Lopez.