Down to just a few words. Chief Investigative Reporter here. How could someone claiming to be a senior in high school and that he was bullied in los angeles and new york at the same time . So the decision to close schools or not . Officials had just a few hours overnight to make that call. Nypd and fbi officials had doubts early on. The Police Commissioner said as much during his News Conference today. Significant overreaction, yes. Reporter in l. A. , police there not secondguessing. It is very easy, in hindsight, to criticize the decision based on results that the decider could never have known. It is also very easy to criticize a decision when you have no responsibility for the outcome of that decision. Reporter but signs of a possible hoax clear. In addition to the two letters, the writer claimed he had 138 in l. A. , he claimed he had 32 comrades that would help set off arms and explosives. Officials say that is not very realistic. L. A. School officials might have made the call q
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Looking at 60 in poughkeepsie. Temperatures will drop a few degrees. Back to the mid and upper 50s. Forecasting high, 62. Well get back to the sun but we will have a gusty wind. Lets find out from emily west how the wet roads are doing. There is construction. Thats what you have to worry about aus travel. Be cautious. The bronx river parkway, a couple of lanes blocked. A few stretches of construction. 144th to 155th. 106th to 116th. Right now police are looking for a murderer in brooklyn. An elderly woman appears to have died of Natural Causes in her home. Now weeks later investigators today Lori Bordonaro has the story. Reporter Myrtle Mckenny has been found lying on the kitchen floor. They said she died initially of Natural Causes. Now more than a month later the medical examiner is saying she has been stabbed in the head and also she had Blunt Force Trauma to her head and neck. Now they are calling it a homicide. At this point, michael and door lean, no arrests or any possible word
Martinez, cbs 2 news. It was a very different reaction to the same threat here in new york. It was business as usual today at nations largest Public School district. Cbs 2s dick brennan is here to explain. Reporter not always easy to explain, but we can tell you, how could two cities respond so differently to a similar close to identical email threat . Mayor de blasio called the email outlandish. Commissioner bratton said l. A. Overreacted. Sources say the email came from someone who claimed he was bullied as a student in schools on both coasts. The email says, 138 comrades would attack new york schools with Pressure Cooker bombs, nerve gas agents, machine pistols and machine guns. The email said, quote, the students at every school in the new York City School district will be massacred, mercilessly, and there is nothing you can do to stop it. We do have an investigation under way but its an investigation into a hoax. Reporter Police Commissioner bratton says the and l. A. Same but bra
They ultimately confessed to a crime, dna evidence later prove they did not commit. We learned a lot since the central park case not to jump to conclusions. Reporter since then interrogation techniques have changed and are recorded. Detectives can still lie but not about everything. The public is also now more skeptical and not assuming an arrest equals guilt but the police insist the victims version of events in this case have merit. Both the victim and the father, the witness say the last gun used. Were still searching for that gun. Theres a lot more to dhoin case. Reporter among whats left to do is get dna evidence. Police tell us it will be another week before the rape kit comes in. They are looking to find out whats on the suspects cell phones. Reporting live from brooklyn, ida siegal, news 4, new york. A Home Invasion in middlesex least new jersey neighborhood on edge and launched an Intense Police investigation. Brian thompson is joining us live from that neighborhood in middles