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For students and households across southern california already. >> reporter: yes, certainly many of the students we spoke to early this morning pointed that out very quickly. this was finals week, especially for the high schools here in the l.a. area so they were preparing for finals as this threat was made. students were on their way to school, on school buses when some of those buses were turned around and rerouted away from the school district. other parents we have heard from were actually, had already dropped off their students at school for some of the early sessions that happen on campu...

Logistics of it. mind-boggling at best. you have 720 scare miles, 900 schools and 640,000 students in the l.a. unified school system. the resource, law enforcement, resources both, state, federal and local, stretched to point of breaking and probably beyond. those 900 schools have all to be searched based on the threat. we don't know credibility of the threat or reliability of source although it's known, that we can surmise fair amount of accuracy that is was very credible threat that the school superintendent of the system to close the entire system down for 640,000 children. let's assume for...

Decided that it was prudent to close down all the schools. brooke, it has been a very hectic day for all those parents. nearly 700,000 students that suddenly have no place to go. they have to go home. all their working parents sun y suddenly have to figure out what to do. but right now you heard the police chief playing the defensive saying that this was the prudent choice. brooke. >> yeah, i know, i've been watching the kumcoverage all morning. this is a huge, huge deal that 640,000 students aren't going to class. it's also interesting this tale of two cities. juliette, you've worked in homel...

Of course, other school shootings, other mass shootings as well. go all the way back to columbine changed things. you can sort of understand why they are doing this but i would hope that by the end of the day they'll have put this to rest and maybe schools will re-open tomorrow but that's to be determined. >> pete, thank you very much. stay with me, jim cavanaugh is a former atf special agent in charge. jim, thank you very much for being with me. pete is talking about that that there has been a number of things that have changed our way of dealing with what are threats. but san bernardino cert...

We're looking although pictures of the schools, presumably these searches now with 900 schools for some sort of threatening device. >> that's exactly right. if you want to put this into context, you talk about the 640,000 students, john, that's just a little bit less than your native boston. so, what they have done is principals and others are now greeting the students at the schools. they said they were able to get to 95% of the students before they went ahead and made their arrangements to get to schools. elementary schools, quite often the -- only 5% showed up and they were turned away. thi...