Department. Melissa zak. Greg testa. He is the chief of the Boulder Police department. And ceal barry she is the senior associate director. She is representing the athletic director. So first im going to turn it over to chancellor for a few words. Thank you, ryan. Today we experienced a threatening situation folsom field Champion Center. At approximately 9 15 a. M. A 911 call was received regarding an individual threatening people with a machete outside the facility. Officers from the cu boulder and city of Boulder Police departments responded quickly and within minutes and brought the situation under control. Specific details of the incident will become available as the investigation takes its like this fuel confusion and misinformation. Police had a number of calls related to incidents that subsequently turned out to be false. We determined there was no active threat to campus. There is no continuing Public Safety threat. We are thankful that our students, faculty, staff, and visitor
Building. Officers with boulder and Campus Police arrived on scene. They repeateddedly demanded that the man put down the weapon. He did not. Two officers, one from each responding agency fired shots. That man was killed. Nobody else on campus was injured. We dont know the identity of that suspect. Now to what police are calling an active harmer situation that happened around 1 00 this afternoon. Campus police evacuated the umc building on campus officials deemed that to be a hoax. 20 minutes later cu tweeted there were uncommuted folks. Hundreds of students and staff and visitors were evacuate maryland were evacuated. We looked up and these three huge guys ran in. Police officers. Yeah. And they had these huge guns and started screaming everyone and they screamed everyone get out of the building. I was headed to the umc and i saw a lot, practically every kids coming from every building running in Different Directions away from campus all at once. Reporter police spoke with us a half h
Machete. Multiple officers from Campus Police and the Boulder Police department responded. One officer from each of those agencies fired at the man when he allegedly would not obey the command, to drop the weapon. At this time the suspect is not known to the police. We are still working on properly identifying him. Reporter this afternoon 911 was called again for a man with a gun in front of a starbuck that was the coffee shop on University Hill or one inside the University Memorial center which is on campus. So that building was put on another active shooter situation. And many people fled in the chaos. In the end, no threats were found. A Boulder County joint Investigation Team is now looking into this officer involved shooting. We do not know the identity of the man who was allegedly carrying that weapon. Were going to have much more coming up on the cbs4 news at Phil Distefano did not Cancel School today. Live in boulder, jeff todd, cbs4 news. Thank you. The latest on that wildfire
In south carolina. For us this evening. With the latest on the evacuations and what several states are doing right now to get people out of the harms highways packed with people evacuating hurricane matthew. This is serious. In florida. Store shelves empty. As people stock up with supplies. The deadly storm is slowly churning in warm water. With the United States in its the entire state of florida is urpbdz a state of emergency. Parts of georgia and carolinas also urpbdz state of emergency. As officials keep watchful eyes on the storm. Take caution. And try else is doing. South carolina governor really hammering home the idea that if you can, you should get out of town. Another wave of evacuations taking place tomorrow morning. In the northern coastal areas of joining us now with the latest on the path. Not much has changed much we have been monitoring it all evening long. The wind speeds have come down. From 120 to 115. That was expected. Look at the w euftd of storm. Wider than the s
Officials are warning people to hurricane could destroy homes and cut power to millions, possibly for days. First responders may not be there to help. We wont be able to save you. There is a point in time where we have to Cease Services because they will be putting the First Responders lives in danger just to get them. If they havent left already, people up and down the coast are preparing for what is to come, leaving bare shelves at Grocery Stores and long lines at gas stations. Just preparing the few i need for at least a week. Coastal counties in georgia are evacuated today in South Carolina governor Nikki Haley Says a quarter Million People have gone inland so far in another 2,000 could leave today. Airports in Fort Lauderdale and miami have closed. Flights have been canceled ahead of the monster storm and National Guard troops are standing by, bracing for the worse, but so hoping it wont come. In daytona, c2. Dave fraser is in the Weather Center and you told us last night the stor