pelley: tonight, officials in los angeles are defending their decision to abruptly close the entire school system in response to a terror threat that turned out to be a hoax. the threat came less than two weeks after the attack in san bernardino less than 60 miles away. critics of l.a. include the city s former police chief, who now heads the new york city police department and had a very different response to a similar threat today. here s jeff pegues. reporter: the e-mail to members of the los angeles school board was long and rambling. it was sent last night and threatened an attack with assault rifles on every school with bombs hidden in backpacks in lockers. the writer claimed he was part of a cell of 32 comrades willing to die, and there is nothing you can do to stop it. new york city received a similar e-mail threat, but unlike los angeles, kept its schools open. police commissioner bill bratton said the threat was a hoax. the language in the e-mail this is not
in los angeles are defending the entire school system in response to a terror threat that turned out to be a hoax. the threat came less than two weeks after the attack in san bernardino less than 60 miles away. critics of l.a. include the city s former police chief, who now heads the new york city police department and had a very different response to a similar threat today. here s jeff pegues. reporter: the e-mail to members of the los angeles rambling. it was sent last night and threatened an attack with assault rifles on every school with bombs hidden in backpacks in lockers. the writer claimed he was part of a cell of 32 comrades willing to die, and there is nothing you can do to stop it. new york city received a similar e-mail threat, but unlike los angeles, kept its schools open. police commissioner bill bratton said the threat was a hoax. the language in the e-mail this is not a jihadist initiative, for example, that allah was not spelled with a capital a. that
critics of l.a. include the city s former police chief, who now heads the new york city police department and had a very different response to a similar threat today. here s jeff pegues. reporter: the e-mail to members of the los angeles school board was long and rambling. it was sent last night and threatened an attack with assault rifles on every school with bombs hidden in backpacks in lockers. the writer claimed he was part of a cell of 32 comrades willing to die, and there is nothing you can do to stop it. new york city received a similar e-mail threat, but unlike los angeles, kept its schools open. police commissioner bill bratton said the threat was a hoax. the language in the e-mail would lead us to believe that this is not a jihadist initiative, for example, that allah was not spelled with a capital a. that would be incredible to a. it is not something that we are concerned with. what we would be concerned with is over-reacting to it. reporter: los angele
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with scott pelley. pelley: tonight, officials in los angeles are defending their decision to abruptly close the entire school system in response to a terror threat that turned out to be a hoax. the threat came less than two weeks after the attack in san bernardino less than 60 miles away. critics of l.a. include the city s former police chief, who now heads the new york city police department and had a very different response to a similar threat today. here s jeff pegues. reporter: the e-mail to members of the los angeles school board was long and rambling. it was sent last night and threatened an attack with assault rifles on every school with bombs hidden in backpacks in lockers. the writer claimed he was part of a cell of 32 comrades willing to die, and there is nothing you can do to stop it. new york city received a similar e-mail threat, but unlike los angeles, kept its schools open. police commissioner bill bratton said the threat was a hoax. would lead us to beli