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i'm bernie sanders, >> ryan: emmerson college pumping the brakes on a hot trend on campus. the school is banning hover boards. >> kim: this is after a federal safety investigation after a number of hover boards caught fire. byron barnett is live at emmerson with more this evening. >> reporter: the emerson college has e-mailed all students telling them to leave their hover boards at home. they say the popular scooters are too dangerous for the busy street on this downtown boston campus. >> wow. there it goes. >> reporter: hover boards exploding catching fire. >> wow. look. >> reporter: mike tyson an one of them takes a tumble. emmerson college is banning the newly popular hover boards over concern about potential accidents. >> they get in the way. they zip in and out. >> whenever someone is barreling down the street you do get hit. i've been run over. >> reporter: by hover boards? >> my foot is scrammed. so i agree with the ban. >> reporter: officials in west bridgewater have also banned hover boards from school property. >> our concern was they could be in a locker and catc
i'm bernie sanders, >> ryan: emmerson college pumping the brakes on a hot trend on campus. the school is banning hover boards. >> kim: this is after a federal safety investigation after a number of hover boards caught fire. byron barnett is live at emmerson with more this evening. >> reporter: the emerson college has e-mailed all students telling them to leave their hover boards at home. they say the popular scooters are too dangerous for the busy street on this downtown...
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i've been -- >> >> reporter: but hover boards. >> my foot is cramped. >> reporter: emmerson college is banning the self-propelled two wheelers out of concern about crashes campus. officials in west bridgewater have banned hover boards from school property. >> our concern they would be in a locker in the school and catch fire and nobody would see it. which we didn't want that to happen. >> in conversations with students, i've heard some students have gotten them >> i think it's pretty reasonable. it's dangerous having people riding hover boards. >> reporter: have you ridden one or do you open one? >> no, but i've seen a lot of videos and dad is wiping out that. is pretty much it. >> reporter: do you have a desire to get one? >> not really. can't say i do. >> reporter: officials here say fortunately they haven't had to deal with any incidents and by putting in the ban they hope to keep it this way. byron barnett, 7 news. >> jadiann: ahead first at one doug got the attention dog in dangers. >> ryan: it was a race to the rescue for firefighters in saugus after they got trapped inside a bur
i've been -- >> >> reporter: but hover boards. >> my foot is cramped. >> reporter: emmerson college is banning the self-propelled two wheelers out of concern about crashes campus. officials in west bridgewater have banned hover boards from school property. >> our concern they would be in a locker in the school and catch fire and nobody would see it. which we didn't want that to happen. >> in conversations with students, i've heard some students have gotten...
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emmerson county pumping the breaks on hot trend on campus. banning hover boards. comes in light of federal safety investigation after several of the hover boards caught fire. here's 7's byron barnett from students there. >> reporter: hover boards exploding and catching fire. >> wow. >> mike tyson on one of the two wheelers takes a tumble. now emmerson college is banning the newly popular hover board out of concern about potential accidents on its densely populated campus. >> they get in the way. and they zip in and out and try to walk around them. >>> whenever someone is barrelling hit. times >>> my foot is cramped and things like that. i kind of agree with the ban. >> officials in west bridgewater >>> our concern they are in locker and catch fire and nobody would see it. which we didn't want that to happen. i've heard some students got it from christmas and have been using them. i think definitely important they ban hover boards because they are very unsafe. >>> have you ridden one or do you own one >> i've seen videos. >> do you have a desire to get one? >> not,
emmerson county pumping the breaks on hot trend on campus. banning hover boards. comes in light of federal safety investigation after several of the hover boards caught fire. here's 7's byron barnett from students there. >> reporter: hover boards exploding and catching fire. >> wow. >> mike tyson on one of the two wheelers takes a tumble. now emmerson college is banning the newly popular hover board out of concern about potential accidents on its densely populated campus....
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emmerson college growing the -- joining the growing list of schools banning hover boards. not only prohibiting them on sidewalks but also in residence halls and airlines have banned them over concerns they could catch fire. >>> kai wrotey in precare out -- coyote is in a precarious situation. it has a plastic jar on its head. officers are looking for it and hope to help the animal out so if you happen to see it let them know. poor guy. >>> the power ball drawing is tonight and the jackpot if you didn't hear is now up to 450 million dollars. >> and the odds may not be in your favor to wint whole thing lotto officials say pooling your money with coworkers raising the odds slightly and they recommend you put down rules in writing for splitting the prize before the drawing. and, of course, we will have numbers on the wbz news at 11. >> let's get the office poolgoing. >>> time for a closer look on what's coming up on cbs this morning. >> good morning to you. ahead on cbs this morning seth done is tracking the latest on north korea's claims it conducted a hydrogen bomb test and
emmerson college growing the -- joining the growing list of schools banning hover boards. not only prohibiting them on sidewalks but also in residence halls and airlines have banned them over concerns they could catch fire. >>> kai wrotey in precare out -- coyote is in a precarious situation. it has a plastic jar on its head. officers are looking for it and hope to help the animal out so if you happen to see it let them know. poor guy. >>> the power ball drawing is tonight and...