New York Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters that he was “absolutely convinced” there was no danger to schoolchildren in his city.
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However, in a follow-up interview with Al-Jazeera, Sly recanted the allegation, saying it was “absolutely false and incorrect”. The report said Matthews received painkillers and Harrison, Peppers and Neal received performance-enhancing drugs.
“It was so outlandish”, he said.
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NASA said that mangers have suspended the launch because of an air leak in one of two prime instruments on Tuesday. If InSight makes it to Mars as planned, the lander will drill into the surface to monitor seismic activity.
All students already at school Tuesday morning were sent home, Los Angeles School Police said.
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Criminal defense attorney and former Central Intelligence Agency officer Jack Rice commented that the sheer size of the Los Angeles unified school district – comprising some 900 schools and more than 640,000 children – and the difficulty officials would have in inspecting all those facilities.
“You see, my last 4 years here at one of the district high schools has been absolute hell”, the email read. In the Los Angeles email, the sender claims to have “32 comrades”, whereas in the NY email, the number grew to 138.
Bratton called the closure a “significant overreaction”.
“As we were kids growing up – I’m 51 – we always had the notion that it was a childish prank”, said Hwang, a Republican.
He also added that there were some suspicious aspects about the message, including the use of the word “Allah”, which was written with a small ‘a’.
In the wake of a move that looks overly cautious in retrospect, defenders of Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Ramon Cortines’ decision to close the schools on Tuesday argue he had no choice.
U.S. Representative Karen Bass, who represents parts of Los Angeles, in an interview with MSNBC television praised local officials for acting quickly. “Los Angeles doesn’t have that same kind of experience” with antiterrorism work as New York City, Victor Asal, the chair of public administration at the State University of New York at Albany, told the Associated Press.
The Los Angeles closure comes less than two weeks after a mass shooting in nearby San Bernardino, Calif., killed 14 people.
Some parents also got separate calls from the schools themselves.
“I don’t want him to be frightened to go back to school tomorrow”, she said. District personnel said they are checking records to determine whether all schools have ever been closed for an entire scheduled school day due to a threat.
As we reported, an emailed threat caused Los Angeles County Unified School District to cancel classes on Tuesday. “They said schools are closed for investigation”. “It was many schools, not specifically identified….” But there were many schools. “I, as the superintendent, am not going to take the chance with the life of a student”.
“The preliminary assessment is that it was a hoax or something created to disrupt school districts in large cities”, Schiff said in a statement. LAPD will patrol the district more than usual on Wednesday, Police Chief Charlie Beck said at a news conference.
“He shared with me that some of the details talked about backpacks, talked about other packages”, Cortines said.
Ronna Bronstein, who has two sons in the fifth and eighth grades, said she was trying to find out more about the threat while shielding her younger child from the news.
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TRUMP: It’s very tempting in today’s world of social media and the anxiety that’s created through rapid communications, misinformation and rumors, for school officials to feel pressured to make some quick, sometimes knee-jerk reactions.
