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Going out, automated phone calls, as close as they could get after this decision was made to stop kids from going out the door. of course, this is a huge crisis as everyone knows for working parents, parents in an area of the country where traffic is just an olympic event every day, go out early in the morning to try to get a jump on their commute, perhaps leave the kids behind to get on the bus and go or walk to school, and the robocalls were trying to gather up as many households as possible and warn them not to go to school because of this backpack threat. with us now on the telephone, l.a. daily news reporter who is actually at one of these schools, dakota smith is outside logan elementary school in the echo park section of l.a. unified. dakota, what can you tell us?
DecisionCourseKidsDoorPhone-callsCrisisStudentsCountryEveryoneBusAreaEventBlasio and the police commissioner, bill bratton. brian williams is standing by to continue the breaking coverage. this is a striking moment here. you have our pete williams reporting that the same e-mail threat was sent to new york as well as the los angeles school district. bratton there dismissing it as not credible, noting some of the language and comparing it to a television show that they found in a way this e-mail to be ludicrous. now you have at the same time 650,000 students in the second largest district in this country being told not to show up for school, if this is the same e-mail, this is extraordinary in that both have said were said to have conferred with the fbi here. it sure is. i have been listening to l.a. local news radio, and as we have been covering, as you have been discussing on the air, it is impossible to overstate what this has done to the nation s second largest school system in a state of 44 million people, southern california, has been on
New-york-cityE-mailThreatReportingLausdCommissioner-brattonPete-williamsPolice-commissionerCoverageBrian-williamsStudentsWayJoe fryar, we know that also the college campus san bernardino valley college was closed today as well, canceled due to some type of bomb threat. so a lot of moving parts here but the i keep saying extraordinary because you think about it, if you re a parent, you re already at work. many of these children perhaps on a bus, on the way to school or already dropped off, being notified to come and now get their child or not send their child to school, this is incredible. yeah. this is going to be a pretty big ripple effect throughout the los angeles area today. you have to assume that many parents were on their way to work or getting ready to head to work, that kids were either at school, heading to school or about to leave for school. basically all the buses had been stopped and told not to move forward with picking up kids. those kids who did actually make it to school, staff is with them. parents are being told to come and pick them up. each school has what s called a reunion gate,
LotParentItTypeBomb-threatWellCollege-campusMoving-partsJoe-fryarSan-bernardino-valley-collegeHarbor-city-elementary-schoolWayThis? we have about over 600 students. and i teach special education and i have 40 students who come to me every day, then they go back to their class. christine, do you believe word got out before many of the staff and students made it to school? i don t know what time your school day starts or when kids start to arrive there? i know that it s called connect ed. there s two different phone services that go out. i think the parents were notified before the teachers. so the parents got the word in before the teachers. yes. yes. we heard from the superintendent that there was this threat, as you well know, they don t know a lot of details here, but can you speak to how difficult it would be just at your school alone perhaps to get the word to parents and to the staff there this early in the morning when many have maybe even started their long l.a.
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