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What Would YOU Do If A Tornado Dropped Out Of The Sky?
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Rochester, MN (KROC AM News) - Are you ready for a tornado? How about a drill that could help prepare you for a tornado?
Minnesotans are being encouraged to consider taking part in Thursday’s statewide tornado drills that are part of Severe Weather Awareness Week.
As has been the practice in past years, there will be two mock tornado warnings.
The first will occur at 1:45 pm and is intended for schools, businesses, and other institutions to practice their response to an actual weather emergency. Outdoor warning sirens statewide will be activated and simulated warnings will be broadcast by radio and TV stations.
happened. so, you know, back in the dark ages when i was young, we would have fire drills, right? and, you know, other things like tornado drills in the south. and now do kids have active shooter drills just randomly? just randomly throughout the day the fire bell would go off and we would have a drill. does the same thing happen now? it does. every school across the country right on down almost to preschool. i ve actually done security assessments down to the preschool level where there you do a barricade and lockdown because you can t herd the little ones out. it happens in every school and sometimes churches in america. unbelievable. josh, law enforcement will continue to work throughout the night on this investigation. what s going on now? what are they doing? well, right now as i mentioned the suspect is listed in grave condition so we don t believe they were able to interview him. that leaves a lot of unanswered questions. we know that authorities have executed a search w
schools. this is pervasive throughout our culture. senator, thank you. chris jansing takes it over right now. chris, just on focusing on schools, i said this at the top of the hour. i ll say it again now. 95% of schools have done active shooter drills in 2015 and 2016. 95% of schools. it s not just fire drills. it s not just earthquake drills or hurricane drills or tornado drills. active shooter drills. and it s worth reminding folks that the first big school shooting, which was at columbine, was more than 20 years ago. it happened in 1999. i was there. i spent weeks talking to parents there. they said their sole purpose was to make sure this didn t happen again elsewhere. if you talk to barack obama, ask him the great regret of his presidency. it s that something didn t get done significant on guns after newtown. here we are again with another shooting and as cory booker said, it s going to take really some real movement in the senate. it s remarkable that it has not happened befo
she tried to pivot it to things like acquit it to fire drills and tornado drills and that s not that s not what people are concerned about today. so thankfully the crowd reacted. and then she immediately went to on to talk about mental health being a key issue in most school shootings, which my friends that are psychologists tell me is just not accurate. that a very small percentage of the shooters have mental health concerns. and that, in fact, people that have mental health concerns are more apt to be victims of violence rather than perpetrate it. when you look at this in your classroom, do you see this over time affecting students differently today? do you see this as something that affects their sense of safety and their ability to focus?