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Climate he made that decision was a completely different climate than new york city and it would be as if someone said to the mayor of paris, theres a threat and someone said it to the mayor of moscow. the mayor of paris might react differently. >> you make a great point there. >> you have to take that in. >> second largest school district in the nation and reference december 3rd, the massacre in san bernardino, that shooting. jim, im going to bring in shanna bogarat and correct me if i said you...

Briefing. police and city officials defending the decision to close the schools but it seems as if and if i heard it correctly the l.a. police chief and also the mayor said while they support this decision, it wasnt theirs. it was truly the superintendents. >> reporter: it was interesting, thomas. i think you hit the nail on the head. listening to you and brian describing the ambivalence, thats the feeling inside this room waiting for the next press conference to begin. in the last press confere...

When the superintendent made this announcement this morning, they put out a twitter that basically said all qualified personnel would be conducting these searches at schools throughout the area. as we heard from the school district just a little bit ago, we havent really heard what you would say is the all-clear yet at this point. we believe the searches and investigation going on before a final decision about when school is going to resume. we should note finals were supposed to start today in ...

That affects close to three quarters of a million students, a number far greater than that when you add in all the employees, the bus drivers, the members of the community affected by this. in the hours after the superintendent there made the decision to shut down l.a. unified, second largest school district in the country, the top two officials here in the city of new york, the mayor and the police commissioner, bill bratton, former l.a. commissioner, by the way, bill bratton, came out and said...

Times talking to the leader of the business or the school over the threat and their question always was what should i do? should i evacuate the place? and i remember one time one of the big three automakers, we were in a plant, a union strike. a lot of threats. and he was asking me should he shut the plant. and it would cost him a million dollars to shut the plant. and i said, i cant advise you to shut the plant and tell you what the threat said and what we can do, how can we can search and you ...

Conference thats happening in southern california. you heard the superintendent say we are going to meet the board president and some of the others that were involved in this decision today. >> our parents and guardians need to be parents and guardians. so as we move forward throughout the day, we will work with and continue to work with the superintendent, his team and our law enforcement partners and we will make sure that we will do everything that we can to help you do your job and we thank ...

Right up until the time you have to make the decision. but i dont have a time line in front of me. when was this e-mail sent to the board member? when did he notice it or did she notice it an get it to law enforcement or the school district police? so, i -- i dont know how many minutes they had to make a decision and let parents know what the situation was so if youre gong to spend, you know, wait until 10:00 a.m. pacific time to gather your information and to consult, by then you have got almos...

School heers in new york city. we have 1,800 schools in new york city. 900 in l.a. we have got 1.1 million students in l.a. not playing a numbers game of more or less who should make did decision or shouldnt but the numbers are huge but that doesnt say that they would take the threat any less seriously if they thought it was credible. thats according to new york city authorities. >> big questions remain about whether or not they feel this was credible and that they need to sweep the 900 schools ...

>> but, but, whats happened is talking to people in l.a. right now, theyre not panicked. they think what happened was appropriate and now theyll see what to do in the future. but if this is the first time that this has happened in to -- in the l.a. school district, and you are an experienced superintendent and youve done whatever vetting you have done, maybe the next time theres a different reaction because maybe a different protocol but you have to give that person who has that kind of experien...

Threat and said he was informed of the decision made by los angeles and when we did, indeed, press him for information about was he given an assessment of what federal officials thought of the level of threat, again, he was not going to get into the middle 0 of a decision that was made by local officials. however, the fbi has been and continues to be in touch with local officials there. and look. everybody at the white house has a very clear understanding of where we are right now in this countr...