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Topic: Los Angeles: Schools Closed, Bomb Threat
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Tue 12/15/15 07:42 AM

- CBS News

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/los-angeles-schools-closed-over-possible-bomb-threat/

Total of 655,000 students

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Tue 12/15/15 07:55 AM
huh grumble noway
not again!

Loons are having not just a Field-day,they are having a Field-Year!slaphead

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Tue 12/15/15 08:07 AM

huh grumble noway
not again!

Loons are having not just a Field-day,they are having a Field-Year!slaphead


Cringing & praying
Los Angeles is on the list. frown

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Tue 12/15/15 08:57 AM
18 minutes ago & updated

All Los Angeles Unified schools closed by 'credible threat' of violence

- LA Times http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-all-lausd-schools-closed-threat-20151215-story.html/

BREAKING NEWSL.A. NOW
All LAUSD schools closed by 'credible threat' of violence

L.A. Now
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LOCAL L.A. Now
All Los Angeles Unified schools closed by 'credible threat' of violence

'Credible threat' to Los Angeles school district prompts closures
Veronica Rocha and Hailey Branson-PottsContact Reporters
Officials closed all Los Angeles Unified School District campuses Tuesday morning after receiving a "credible threat" of violence involving backpacks and packages left at campuses.

Authorities said they plan a search operation of all of the LAUSD's more than 900 schools. The nation's second-largest school district has more than 700,000 students. 

“I think it’s important to take this precaution based on what has happened recently and what has happened in the past,” LAUSD Superintendent Ramon Cortines said.

The move comes less than two weeks after two shooters killed 14 people in San Bernardino in what was the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001. 

We get threats all the time. This was a rare threat.
- LAUSD Supt. Ramon Cortines
Fearing the safety of schools and students, Cortines said he couldn’t take a chance, so he asked police to search all campuses, adult school and early-education centers before reopening Wednesday.

Officials said the threat came in electronic form and was made to numerous but unspecified campuses. As a result, they made the decision to close all campuses for the day.

The Los Angeles Police Department and FBI were assisting with the threat investigation, Los Angeles School Police Chief Steve Zipperman said.

“The threat is still being analyzed,” he said. “We have chosen to close our schools today until we can be sure our campuses are safe.”

Students who already arrived at school will be supervised until parents can pick them up, officials said.

“Parents/Guardians please bring proper ID when picking up your child at school. They will be required,” the LAUSD said in a statement.

Zayda Hernandez pulled up to Mayberry Elementary in Echo Park shortly after 7:30 a.m. with her 6-year-old son, Matthew Alvarez, bundled up in the back seat in a coat and SpongeBob stocking cap.

He hadn't been feeling well, so she has been urging him to just make it through the last few days of school before winter break.

She pulled up to see paper signs with purple writing attached to the closed chain-link fence outside the school: “No school today.” “Hoy no hay escuela.”

“No school!” she said, rolling down her window, shaking her head.

She was driving from her home near Chinatown on Tuesday morning when she heard on Spanish radio 107.5 that schools would be closed. But it was so late and there was a private school she knew of that was open, so she wanted to check just to be sure.

“I pulled up and thought, 'There's no traffic so maybe it's true.' ”

She showed an alert she got on her smartphone at 7:22 a.m. from Mayberry administrators saying that at 7:10 a.m., the superintendent decided to close schools. “Do not send your child to school. Please watch the news for further updates,” it read.

Hernandez was not happy about the closure because she has to go to work. But her son, a kindergartener, grinned.

“I thought there was school today!” he said.

Cortines said a statement will be issued later Tuesday, providing an update on the investigation.

The “rare” threat message was made to students at many schools, he said.

“What we are doing today is no different than what we normally do, except that we are doing it in a mass way,” Cortines said.

LAPD Assistant Chief Jorge Villegas said police are taking the threat, like all threats, seriously.

“Nothing is [more] important to us than the safety of our kids, especially those that are coming to and from school that haven’t been notified yet,” he said.

LAUSD Board President Steve Zimmer urged families not to send their children to schools and employees to stay home.

“We are taking this action in an abundance of caution to make sure that every child in L.A. Unified School District and every employee is absolutely safe,” Villegas said

If students already were dropped off Tuesday morning at LAUSD campuses, parents must pick up their children at the schools’ reunion gates.

“I want to be very clear: We need cooperation of the whole of Los Angeles today,leading for employers to show patience for parents looking to find care for their children.


12 minutes ago

The Latest: Parents Received Robocalls About Schools Threat -

ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/latest-los-angeles-unified-schools-closed-due-threat-35775282/

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Tue 12/15/15 09:17 AM
Authorities said they plan a search operation of
all of the LAUSD's more than 900 schools.
Someone's getting some serious overtime pay just in time for Christmas....

Hearing the threat was in the form of an email sent from an IP address in Germany....no link, from tv news...grain of salt n all

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Tue 12/15/15 09:26 AM
Do they still get their free lunch?

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Tue 12/15/15 09:29 AM
Hearing the threat was in the form of an email sent from an IP address in Germany....no link, from tv news...grain of salt n all

Was the IP address in Germany just for NEW YORK school threats. ?

I have not seen that said for LOS ANGELES

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Tue 12/15/15 09:37 AM

Hearing the threat was in the form of an email sent from an IP address in Germany....no link, from tv news...grain of salt n all

Was the IP address in Germany just for NEW YORK school threats. ?

I have not seen that said for LOS ANGELES


"" A Los Angeles school official says the threat
that shut down the nation's second-largest
school district was emailed to a school board
member and is believed to have come from
an IP address in Frankfurt, Germany.""
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/latest-los-angeles-unified-schools-closed-due-threat-35775281

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Tue 12/15/15 09:42 AM


Hearing the threat was in the form of an email sent from an IP address in Germany....no link, from tv news...grain of salt n all

Was the IP address in Germany just for NEW YORK school threats. ?

I have not seen that said for LOS ANGELES


"" A Los Angeles school official says the threat
that shut down the nation's second-largest
school district was emailed to a school board
member and is believed to have come from
an IP address in Frankfurt, Germany.""
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/latest-los-angeles-unified-schools-closed-due-threat-35775281

IP-Addresses can be spoofed!
Wonder if this one was?
Guess we'll never know!

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Tue 12/15/15 09:48 AM


Hearing the threat was in the form of an email sent from an IP address in Germany....no link, from tv news...grain of salt n all

Was the IP address in Germany just for NEW YORK school threats. ?

I have not seen that said for LOS ANGELES


"" A Los Angeles school official says the threat
that shut down the nation's second-largest
school district was emailed to a school board
member and is believed to have come from
an IP address in Frankfurt, Germany.""
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/latest-los-angeles-unified-schools-closed-due-threat-35775281


Geez, according to that article they were searching OVER 900 schools & 187 charter schools.

IMO- I don't think the LOS ANGELES superintendent jumped to conclusions. He did notify the police. And better safe then sorry.

And I wouldn't rule out the IP address in Germany ? What are they thinking. ? ' It is a long distance email, so it can not be true '?

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Tue 12/15/15 09:51 AM

Do they still get their free lunch?
Nope....and I hear it was Hamburger day too....dey mad! laugh

Oh hell...who am I kidding....its L.A., its a tofu burger probably, no big loss lol

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Tue 12/15/15 09:53 AM
Oh look a squirrel!

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Tue 12/15/15 09:56 AM

Oh look a squirrel!
Oh if they were having squirrel for lunch, I'd be PISSED! rofl

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Tue 12/15/15 09:56 AM

Oh look a squirrel!


bigsmile speaking of squirrel


Are in ' downplay mode ' yet?
Any word from Obama ? spock

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Tue 12/15/15 10:03 AM
Any word from Obama ?
Yes...via his WH press secretary...."The president is resolute in protecting the American people and everything is being done to do so"....


Dont shoot the messenger! laugh

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Tue 12/15/15 10:24 AM
If a terrorist gave a warning to the schools so all the children would get a day off, it would probably be because the terrorist was planning to hit the malls while the cops were checking out the schools.

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Tue 12/15/15 10:24 AM
If a terrorist gave a warning to the schools so all the children would get a day off, it would probably be because the terrorist was planning to hit the malls while the cops were checking out the schools.

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Tue 12/15/15 10:53 AM

If a terrorist gave a warning to the schools so all the children would get a day off, it would probably be because the terrorist was planning to hit the malls while the cops were checking out the schools.
Well they definitely now know that a bomb threat, fake or not, will cause panic and confusion on a fairly large scale....and they dont even have to fire 1 shot.

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Tue 12/15/15 10:58 AM
Los Angeles schools closed over 'credible terrorist threat' | Daily Mail Online

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3361041/All-Los-Angeles-schools-closed-640-000-children-ordered-stay-home-credible-terrorist-threat.html /


LA shuts 1,000 schools and sends 640,000 students home over 'credible' terror alert while New York remains open and dismisses it as a 'Homeland-style hoax' after receiving the SAME bomb threat 
LA superintendent said this threat is unique, he 'couldn't take a chance'
He ordered all 900 schools to be closed, affecting 640,000 children 
New York received the same threat, officials dismissed it as 'outlandish' 
NYPD's Bill Bratton said the language mirrors recent Homeland episodes
He said the author made basic errors, spelled 'Allah' with lowercase 'a' 
Email sent to school districts 'described plans to bomb students'
Initial investigation suggests the email came from IP address in Germany   
DEVELOPING STORY: MORE DETAILS TO COME 

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Notice, the wording 'home-land style hoax'

Have to kiss a@@ & get that 'home land' in there. Wouldn't want to offend the wrong people.

And not capitalizing a proper noun doesn't mean sh@t. Nor does misspelling a word. It could be written by someone anywhere on the planet, from any culture or religion.

slaphead

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Tue 12/15/15 11:03 AM
LA shuts 1,000 schools and sends 640,000
students home over 'credible' terror alert while
New York remains open and dismisses it as a
'Homeland-style hoax' after receiving the
SAME bomb threat

So....

NY>L.A.?
East Coast>West Coast?
Biggie>Tupac?

....yep, I blame the whole thing on hip hop beefs laugh

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