affected but didn t necessarily mention where to go. so outside of those buildings, life on campus is normal? well, so it s kind of an unusual day because final exams were scheduled for this morning. so the buildings that you mentioned, three of them are academic buildings and a number of exams scheduled to take place there. they are actually ongoing at the time of this alert. students were removed from those exams taken to the freshman dining hall where they were told that exams would be canceled. so that certainly is not a normal kind of life around here. other than that, students elsewhere on campus are more or less going about their days. it s a huge campus i m sure people know, but it s a huge, huge campus. but still, when you get a message like that from a
can you hear me? tamar? caller: hi. yes. thank you so much for agreeing to talk with me. i really appreciate it. tell me what is happening on campus, from your perspective. caller: so we received messages from harvard saying that unconfirmed reports of explosives were reported and one of them is in the science center and it s front of the harvard law school. that s where i am. you were at the science center at the time that you got this no. i m in the harvard law school dorm, which is very close to the science center. and then the message says that all people in those buildings should evacuate. i m not in the building, so i m still here. so what s the mood there now? caller: sorry? what s the mood there now? we have a group of students and they have been posing questions which they should do and some of the people i think
platform had it not been for martin luther king jr. and his movement and his crusade for civil rights. so we are grateful to him for us being here. i m also proud that i came from the same part of the south as he did. he never lost contact with the folks back home. and was helping tennessee garbage workers, as you know, when he gave his life to a racist bullet. i remember how it was back in those days. i left georgia in 1943 for college and the navy. and when i came home from a submarine duty, i was put on the board of education. i suggested to the other members that we visit all the schools in the county. they had never done this before. and they were reluctant to go with me. but we finally did it. and we found that white children had three nice brick buildings.
platform had it not been for martin luther king jr. and his movement and his crusade for civil rights. so we are grateful to him for us being here. i m also proud that i came from the same part of the south as he did. he never lost contact with the folks back home. he was helping tennessee garbage workers when he gave his life to a racist bullet. i remember i was back in the those days. i left georgia for college and the navy. when i came home from submarine duty, i was put on the board of education. i suggested to the other members that we visit all the schools in the county. they had never done this before, and they were reluctant to go with me. but we finally did it. and we found that white children had three nice brick buildings,
populated suburb, is it not, of oklahoma city, moore? yes. yes. it is. very highly, very lots of residential area. lot of commuters that work in oklahoma city. it s, yeah, very highly populated. and we re hearing reports that even well-constructed properties are being leveled. this isn t just mobile homes. these are substantial brick buildings that are just being ripped to pieces. absolutely. this is such a strong tornado. it really reminds me of may 3rd, 1999, when a large similar tornado went through a lot of the same areas in moore. yeah. very sturdily built homes are surely heavily damaged. as you look out, what exactly are you seeing at this moment? well, we are repositioning to try to get north into moore. there s oklahoma highway patrol has a lot of the roads blocked off where it just passed through just for safety. we re going to get in and try to