searching hundreds of public schools after officials say they received an e-mail threat this morning. the school superintendent in los angeles shut down the entire district at the height of the morning rush. l.a., keep in mind, is the country s second largest school district. more than 600,000 students were forced to stay home. at the same time the nation s largest school system, new york city, also working its own e-mail threat today but officials in the city there say that was a hoax. los angeles police chief charlie beck said that when authorities began investigating, they discovered a number of issues that prompted the shutdown. here he was. the e-mail was very specific to l.a. you know nied school district campuses and it included all of them. it was also very specific about the threat, the implied threat.
get to and at this hour we will begin with a fox news alert because breaking right now the hunt for an escaped killer, david sweat underway at this early hour as it continues. clayton police think that they are closing in after killing his accomplice, richard matt. the remarkable peter doocy is live in malone, new york, where authorities have been searching hundreds of them. peter, what s the latest? the latest is this is the outer most part of a perimeter that police thinks david swed escaped prisoner alive and at large surrounded. this is as close as we can get today after very productive friday when, just hours after officials announced that the pair of connected killers could be trekking toward canada, just about 15 miles away from where we are standing right now. one of them, richard matt, was shot dead by a border patrol agent alerted to tips of a camper driver being shot at nearby and a cabin owner seeing an out-of-place liquor bottle. they verbally challenged
continues with our world lead, the hunt for flight 370 is now focused three miles beneath the waves of the indian ocean but that does not mean that search planes have given up. cnn s own miguel marquez is joining us. day in and day out, is there any sense of fatigue among the aerial search crews? reporter: there is fatigue but they are certainly not giving up. this is a p-3 from the new zealand royal air force that we have flown. the captain has flown some 30 flights. they are searching hundreds of miles from where the bluefin is diving. they have enough fuel for about an hour and and a half of searching and then it s a five-hour flight home. here s what the captain has said about the frustration. there must be a level of
everything the chinese have. they re going to be exhausting all possibilities. yes, this does give them the sense you get the impression they re going in several different directions at once. we are searching hundreds of miles off the planned flight path of flight 370. so it s obvious why we re getting that impression. that is what is out there. jim clancy, the release of these photos, it really just adds confusion over where the plane might have last been spotted. yesterday, we were hearing reports from some sources, the malaysian government that the plane made a 180, made a complete turn around. is there any sense of why things are so inconsistent? reporter: no, there isn t. nothing absolute. but let me pose something here. if this is so significant, these satellite photos, and you can bet they re going to be checked
or today. they are going to be looking at everything the chinese have, exhausting all possibilities. and yes, this does give them the sense you get impression maybe going in several different directions at once. after all, we are searching hundreds of miles to the west of the crash site. hundreds of miles off the planned flight path of flight 370. so it s obvious why we re getting that impression. that is what is out there. and jim clancy, the release of these photos really just adds confusion over where the plane might have last been spotted in terms of the information coming from the malaysian government. yesterday we were hearing reports from some sources in the malaysian government that the plane having made a basically a 180, made a complete turn around. is there any sense of why things are so inconsistent? reporter: no, there isn t. nothing absolute. but let me pose something here. if this is so significant, these satellite photos, and you can bet they re going to be checke