be safe rather than sorry. it s not too bad. what is the risk? you re right, the storm is going to last a long time we re looking at 30 plus hours of 50 miles an hour or more, starting after midnight, actual hurricane hours, probably 9 hours of hurricane strength rain, and storms. that s devastating, plus with all the rain, 30 plus inches of rain, that s going to compromise as you mentioned earlier, the soil, trees are going to fall, they re going to knock power lines down, they may hit houses. we re going going to be able to respond. our response protocols say at 35, we re very limited on where we go. at 50 we shut it off. we will evaluate the calls, if there s a critical call coming in after 50 miles an hour, but that will be a case by case
right now, we have a former nypd official. sal, thanks for taking the time. what you ve been able to piece together from what we ve reported, i m told this is as close to a lock down that you can have inside and outside a hospital area. vehicles are stopped there. they re not going anywhere. that would continue until they want to confirm for sure there s not an additional shooter or that accomplice on site, right? another thing that they re concerned for, secondary devices that may have been planted. we sought that out in l.a. we have an active shooter come in and put the devices down so when law enforcement responds, harm comes to them. so you need to establish that perimeter. you need to be able to look for this was all part of the response protocols in place in new york now where we would go in and start looking for
is a false alarm and a big distinction from not being a hoax. they feel the caller was relevant. of course everybody knows the mantra if you see something, say something. that s what this employee did. she thought she heard a gunshot. acted appropriately to call in law enforcement. thankfully it was a false alarm. i guess you can say it s a good test of the system. the response protocols and so forth but tensions are high obviously as you said with the fourth of july ramadan, you have a confluence of factors hitting at the same time. they re tense. explain how much more so it s magnified because of that? the holy days of ramadan and our holiday july fourth. we always saw an up tick of threat reporting during ramadan. there s always a call to arms but now with isis so effective in their social media campaign they can put that call out. they can generate all of this buzz and interest. we have seen fbi directors open
university, we ve add great ongoing relationship with the university in terms of providing a response protocols and assisting them in setting up their potential response it a situation like this and they ve been very good partners. we tried to work outweighs that they could prevent and support a response effort in the event that this should happen. and today s events appear to us that those policies and procedures that they work so hard on were not only implemented but helped reduce the possibility of this tragic event today. and so for that, we re very, very appreciative. again i say that investigation is ongoing and i fully expect that some of the information here today to change slightly but at there point in time, that s our best picture. and those things that we know that we can give you, that we believe are a solid piece of information as possible. as the detectives continue with their investigation, we fully expect them to get more information. and at such time, if we get
safe. they were safer inside their locked school room classes than they would have been had we allowed them to exit. and that was part of our strategy and protocol. we are now slowly but methodically allowing students to leave the school in groups. we are bringing them to a location that s directly east of where we re standing. they will be boarded on school buses and transported from there to a church just south of here, called shepard of the hills. that shepard of the hills is where we will reunite families with their students. we have now directed all families to go to the shepard of the hills church so that they can be reunited with their families or with their students within the next half hour to 45 minutes. i will also tell you that the response protocols around active shooters were put into place immediately. the first deputy sheriffs and police officers that were on-scene immediately entered the school to engage the shooter if