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Joining me on the phone is bobby samuels, president of the harvard crimson, the student newspaper. good morning. >> good morning, how are you. >> i'm 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. now, what's unusual about this time of year as probably has been reported is that it's finals peri...

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 you're 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 all just left the building for that. and the other building, they just were evacuated like right be...

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 it's a fairly wide swath. i was in cambridge three years so i know the area pretty well. you're going to lock down the buildings, no access and evacuate. and then you're going to have a next ring of protective areas just to keep people away in case they actually do find something. so the area you're describing ...

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How did you find out what was going on? >> so the way that i personally found out, and i'm sure many of the harvard students found out, is that harvard sent out a couple of notifications regarding what's 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 out of an abundance of caution, the buildings have been evacuated while the report is being invest...