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Breaking news this morning -- all of the los angeles unified school district campuses closed this morning. they will continue to be closed throughout today after what school officials identified as an unusual threat received pertaining to the school district and mentioning more than one school. the 640,000-plus students, k through 12, and some adult education, all impacted. it's very important that if you are in the los angeles area or coming up now almost on ten minutes to 8:00 a.m., you know that if you're listening to us on the radio there, if you've dropped off your child to school, turn a...

I think that some people, nobody wants to live in fear. there are a few reasons for that. one, it is no way to live at all. two, we're americans for crying out loud. and three, on top of it, if we live in fear we give isis and other organizations, terrorist groups exactly what they want. they want us to be afraid and live in fear and take away lives as we know it, as americans, as whenners, as free people and being fearful is not very freeing. that is not freedom. bill: that's a fact. leslie, your kids are okay? still in school. their classes -- >> i believe so as of now, yes. bill: let you ta...

District. >> i want to bring in peter bergen. i don't want to make too much of this because we really don't know what's happening right now so i want to be careful in what we say. there's an unspecified threat. we don't know what it is. the superintendent said it involves many, many schools. out of an abundance of caution he was going to close down the entire los angeles school district, including 640,000 students who will stay home for the day. peter, as you step back, as a terror analyst, put this in perspective for us. >> we don't know. tom makes a very good point. let's assume for a minute...

Happened in san bernardino is a common topic of conversation. i can tell you that it's been on the minds of people around here in the same way i see it's on the minds of people around the country. >> absolutely. tornlgs before i have to go, please put this in perspective for us from a police perspective. >> from a police perspective, they hope there aren't hundreds of copycats across the country, see the coverage and say, wow, i can do something that will get nonstop coverage and relish in the glory of doing that, as do kids that pull fire alarms do it just for the fun of it, to watch the spec...

They're asking that students that are already at the schools be -- congregate in a specific gate where the parents can pick them up. you aren't seeing any movement in where you are at least, right? >> no, i'm not. i'm going to walk right now as i talk with you down the corner to see if there are any parents starting to come in. again, normally at this time of day this street would be starting to fill up with parents and -- students of parents and their kids coming to school. obviously the message has gotten out. we'll see in a little bit, the crossing guard is no longer at his post where he wa...