atm sitting at this location here and the university of miami, which has put warnings on its website right across the street, 150 yards away. chris? the university of miami is not in lockdown a but a couple schools in that area are. pripsp principal of the riviera day school, thanks for joining us. where are you in relation to that bank. we are on the other side of riviera park which is between us and the bank pretty much. what is the age of students in your school? we start with 3 year olds and we go through eighth grade at the moment and actually expanding to high school next year. so you have a big range of kids in there? yes. how did you find out what was going on and tell us about the decision to lock down or i assume you were told to lock down. the police notified us initially to lock down at around
9:00. but if they get in at 8:00, that would really give the robbers, unfortunately, inside the bank before customers would start to come. as you know, chris, banks also have television, tv sets and, of course, msnbc is aware of that and i think will be very guarded in anything we say other than if they are watching on the inside and the police or fbi hostage negotiator calls in, they should pick up the phone because that s their key to getting out of there. as you mentioned, you ve done this before, you ve done it for a long time. you ve been involved in hostage situations and kidnapping situations and tell us what the standard operating procedure is. they called in all these police officers and a hostage negotiation team and they set up just a short distance away, sort of a staging area. that s what s going on right now. the police, the fbi will set up an inner and outer perimeter. the purpose of the inner perimeter is to have it for the safety of everybody inside the b