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Crimson. welcome, sam. sam, are you there? >> can you hear me? >> i can hear you. can you hear me, sam? >> yes. >> tell me first how you found out about this bomb threat. >> so, there's a messaging system that the university uses that sends out messages and e-mails. so just after 9:00 they sent out an alert that reaches students telling people that there were unconfirmed reports of explosives in these four buildings that you mentioned. >> the science center, thayer, emerson, and sever, those buildings have been evacuated? >> that's right. >> where were you when you got the message? >> i was in...

People for no reason and, you're right, if you want exams to be canceled, this is an effective way to do it. >> and unfortunately i would say it's not the first time that someone has employed this tactic to disrupt the testing process. so everything is being explored at this point. they are attempting to ascertain any of the video or cameras in place to determine the ongoings. if in fact this was a phone call or the method and means of which it was communicated to them as well, they are going to address this as if this is the real deal until they are totally comfortable with the fact that this...

All right. we have breaking news to report. four buildings have been evacuated. we understand someone phoned in a bomb threat and that bomb threat has supposedly affected the science center, thayer, emerson, and sever. thayer is a dorm with the exception of administrative and offices and the science center has laboratories in it, obviously. students have been sent to a hall, a dining room for freshmen while police check out the buildings. now, no explosives have been found. police are just checking this out. no one has been hurt and we understand that final exams have been canceled because, as...

I'm carol costello. we start with breaking news at harvard university. evacuations now under way after an unconfirmed report that explosives may have been placed in four buildings on campus. the buildings have been evacuated while it's being investigated. very preliminary details coming into us right now. but the buildings evacuated are the science center, thayer, emerson, and sever. just to give you a sense of where those buildings are on campus, i want to bring in someone that went to harvard, john king. if you can help give us the lay of the land, that would be located. >> i didn't go to ha...