behind, back packs and such, so that is going to slow erchz down here. i m to once again bring in michael leiter, former director of the national counterterrorism center. michael, again, we ve been watching these tweets from the harvard crimson, one of them that two suspicious packages actually this is from whdh. two suspicious packages were found by the bomb squad. one is cleared, the other is being examined right now. i would think two might be a small number. they re really going through everything really closely, right? they are. and they will also now get a flood of reports, which many of which are going to turn out to be false. again, we see this after every event. we especially saw it after the boston marathon bombing where people dropped off their bags when they ran after the explosion. every one of those has to be cleared by police or bomb technicians. that will slow things down. it can also lead to a sense of really a broader event than this might be, so we have to ta
he may be on his cell phone which could be jack, this is mark can you hear us now? hello, jack. all right. we re going to get connected to him because he ll have a very interesting perspective. again, he was inside the school and was able to get out of the school, now safely across the street. a lot of kids have been able to get out. melissa watched two different groups as she described at least 100 students coming out in an orderly fashion because our guess is that police and fire that were inside helped get them out safely. they have not grabbed back packs and not bringing anything with them but getting outside the school and parents out there, you can imagine, for the parents that have been able to come to the school, they are kind of being kept away at the perimeter and just watching the kids come out, scanning the crowd hoping
after this became news in the dallas area, you got so many volunteers to give you new back packs, you actually wound up with more back packs than you had, then the ones that this particular guy made off with. in a weird way, you got that guy to thank for that. yes, sir. we really do. what he meant for bad, it turned out for good. so we re very thankful. most of all, we re thankful for those that came from far and near that even gave the donation. our heart goes out and we very thank them from the cavalry philadelphia church. and even that community, thanks to all of them. we can not thank them enough for what they have done. steve: i understand. we have a few other things that we still have to get done or get our van running and going, but we trust in god that he ll make a way possible for us and get that van up and going
good morning to you. good morning. steve: i understand that when you heard that this guy broke down the door and stole all those backpacks that your volunteers had put together, you were furious? yes, sir, i was. very distraught. steve: because somebody would do that with these back packs that were intended for children who are, you know, underprivileged and don t have anything. and that was going to help them go back to school. yes, sir. it was. they look forward every year for us to do this. this is a new thing that we decided to take on. this is a way that we kind of give back to the community. but not only that, teaching the children how to work for what they want. unfortunately, this was a distraught to all of us, a big let down to the children because we worked forward to try to get all of this done and get our
july 4, security is at an all-time year. there s probably nine other layers of security here. you re definitely aware of the heightened security given everything that happened in april with the bombings and what not. if you re coming out to the esplanade, you won t be allowed to bring back packs, glass containers or any containers that aren t see-through. a record number of cameras will be monitored from inside this command center and there will be more police officers at the event than before. i think it is fair to say we doubled the amount of state troopers that are here. in addition to that, we have a number of federal law enforcement officers. being the biggest public gathering since the marathon bombings, police are not taking chances. there is no threat to this particular venue or this celebration, but that is not lessening our concern or our preparedness here. the added security measures mean longer lines getting into the esplanade,