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Particularly struck by what happened earlier this year in the boston marathon bombing. we have no indication that there is an association but that has raised the level of alertness and responsiveness to these issues in the region around boston. >> well, and again, we dont even know if this is a real threat in the sense this is completely unconfirmed. nothing to this point that has been reported has been found. but as you rightly point out, you have not just buildings that have a lot of chemicals...

Of hours. of course it does depend on the size of the building. and usually something like a science center, where there would likely be chemicals stored anywhere, that will take a little bit longer. and with four buildings, that will also lengthen the amount of time it will take to clear these buildings because there are somewhat limited resources to actually find explosives and using the resources the police have. so theyre going to look at all the packages, anything which is unattended. they ...

Lengthens the amount of time they have. would you say, michael, theres sort of a two-pronged investigation going on? one obviously is lets confirm whether or not these unconfirmed reports are true or false, but on the other hand, and we dont know whether this was a phone call or how these reports came in, but also trying to figure out where they came from simultaneously? >> exactly, chris. the first thing is public safety. lock the buildings down, evacuate people as they have to. search those si...

Set four different explosive devices and get out, when you see that many threats of that many devices from a profiling standpoint, you have to start thinking more on the side of a hoax as opposed to a real type of threat. and, chris, when you look at the four targets that have been named, two admin buildings, a dorm and a classroom building where final exams are going on, again, you have to think the primary target is likely that classroom building. the other three may very well be red herrings ...

Joining me on the phone is bobby samuels, president of the harvard crimson, the student newspaper. good morning. >> good morning, how are you. >> im great. tell us what you first -- when you first heard what was going on and what can you tell us is the latest? >> so what we know is that shortly after 9:00 a.m. this morning students were evacuated from four buildings on campus. the science center, thayer hall, emerson hall and sever hall after unconfirmed reports of explosives in those buildings....

They been in those buildings that were evacuated? >> right. they came from the harvard yard, which is the location of the four buildings that are reported to have threats on them. so i have seen maybe 10, 15 students come back in from that area. so they definitely evacuated everything. >> and what are they telling you? what are the stories youre hearing, david? >> they pretty much just said they were in their classrooms and the science center, one of the buildings, a fire alarm went off so they ...

Small map that i was given that seems to be, you know, a few blocks away from a couple of these areas right on -- almost on harvard yard. how wide an area would you generally lock down or evacuate? >> it really depends on the situation. i think in something like this, chris, as you said its a fairly wide swath. i was in cambridge three years so i know the area pretty well. youre going to lock down the buildings, no access and evacuate. and then youre going to have a next ring of protective areas...

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How did you find out what was going on? >> so the way that i personally found out, and im sure many of the harvard students found out, is that harvard sent out a couple of notifications regarding whats going on. there was one as recently as 9:58, i believe, or if not that, shortly thereafter, from the school basically detailing exactly what was going on. and keeping the university informed. so 23 minutes ago at 10:02 we got an e-mail basically saying that there were unconfirmed reports and that ...