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Spotted with this gun, outside the dining hall and people on campus were asked to stay inside and secure your doors and police now are going through the area near dittrich hall to figure out what is up. 9:59, 12 minutes later, one of our affiliates, wflf in blacksburg confirmed, the alarm system had been activated. and joe matthews, former supervisor, homicide division in miami, florida, good morning to you. good morning. bill: frankly, we do not know what is happening on the campus as we get the news here we ll try and reach out to people who may be eye witnesses and also, could be working with the campus police. but, it is true virginia tech set the stage for the alert systems now widespread across universities in america. how does that system work when a threat like that happens. ....