located in a very populist area in cambridge. this is just over the river from boston. as you know world-renown university. finals week. the science center. they re taking, extreme precautions. as you stated, you have cambridge. you have to transit. you have harvard police. you have state police. you have got the fire marshal s office. they are all scrambling to get there and they re shutting down harvard yard. bill: if you think about the bombing that happened last spring during the marathon, do you know or say how the security posture has changeed in cambridge, massachusetts since then, whether local police, citywide police or state police? it is everywhere from the city out to the suburbs. people are taking everything unbelievably seriously. it changed the tenor of life up here in the greater boston area. it is true, when we hear
any talk about bombing. just the first thing that comes to mine here in boston. police departments mi-t police, one of the brave officers was killed with a shootout with the tsarnaev brothers, they are good at their job. they take it very seriously. we ll have to see whether this is horribly-timed prank. pranks like this in idaho or texas would be a prank. just a year or so after the boston marathon bombing bill: very tender. don t mean to interrupt you. our fox boston station talking to students on campus. this is the grand level shot, guys. can we bring it up? fox boston. there are 210-acres in cambridge. because of the boston bombing recently we re talking precautions and i think very important that we are. people tend to react when outside the science center.
has responded to harvard to assist the cambridge police department. the fbi field office has sent bomb technicians to assist. right now unconfirmed, if anything, has been found. back to fox boston. a lot of insight on social media. we can learn some things about that. elizabeth has been monitoring stuff coming from the campus this morning. the difference this morning than on the average morning we re seeing on twitter through the banjo app is timeline exactly what was happening on the harvard university campus. imagine, eight or 9:00 a.m., getting ready to go to finals. you slap on your backpack and shuffle off to one of the exam halls, emmer mon, sever, science center and thayer. there are places where nine finals were scheduled. you get to campus, then we see, we head to andrew s twitter feed, you notice that he says, about an hour ago bill: they, just like we are pulling in every resource possible now to try to determine
to investigate even after intelligence folks came forward with information about the tsarnaevs. when you say boston we hear in cambridge think to a degree. and it is at front of mind. bill: there is no connection right now to the tsarnaev brothers or boston marathon bombing or anything on campus of harvard university. how familiar with are you with the cambridge police department, campus police, state police who were told, are responding now with k-9 units and perhaps some sort of detection devices to figure out whether or not this is the real deal or whether or not it is a prank? we saw how serious they are because once again geographically speaking we don t know there are bombs. this is college finals week bomb threat, so there are no bombs. in the climate in boston what we went through the boston bombing you can t disconnect cambridge and the central role that it played for the tsarnaevs from
sever, please evacuate the buildings now. kind of scary. what are you doing now that you missed your final? i m going to study for my next final. i still have other classes to study for. don t think i m going home today. it is one of my friend s birthdays and hoped wouldn t have too take the finals. kind of a birthday surprise. what is your name. anita. how do you spell it. ahimdah. bill: fox boston there on campus. when they get more we ll give it to you. martha has another one on the line. martha: joining us on the phone, bobby samuels is the president of the harvard crimson the nation s longest operating newspaper. bobby good morning to you. thank you for having me. martha: what can you tell us what is going on in campus? there is not that much we ve been able to confirm that is on our website and twitter page, there are unc reports of