l.a. new york city police also realize that it was a hoax. the threat claimed the attack would span several schools with bombs and nerve gas. it's believed the e-mails came from abroad. schools will go on a scheduled tomorrow. the warm weather trend continues for another day, but changes are ahead. let's check in with steve rudin to find out how cold it will be. nothing too severe? steve: nothing too cold, but colder than the last several days. no record breakers. outside the belfort furniture weather center, mainly clear skies. the wind beginning to diminish, milesre between 3 to 8 per hour, the higher wind gusoff to the west. middle to upper 40's. eventually fall into the 30's in the suburbs, 45 downtown d.c., the wind out of the northwest at 5. a cool weekend, and a warm-up in time for christmas day. jonathan: investigators have determined the cause of a fire that killed two people in emmitsburg. it was an extension cord for decorative lights that got stuck underneath a reclining chair that ignited the chair. two people were killed, a thir

l.a. police departments and believes the shootings influenced the school districts decision to close. >> i'm sure it probably had something to do with that. you have to stand by the decision. >> the new york city police commissioner has said l.a. unified overreacted. new york city schools received a similar threat and decided not to act. in san francisco, abc7 news. >> this morning hayward police arrested a 15-year-old student for making threats. the student reportedly admitted to posting a threat of violence yesterday on social media. >> happening now, it's debate night, the last debate of the year featuring the republican candidates is underway at the venetian. hillary clinton is outlining a new plan to protect the nation from home grown terrorism, empowering muslim americans to be front line allies is key to preventing attacks. this is in contrast to her republican rivals. >>> the democrats will debate in new hampshire saturday, world news tonight anchor david muir and also martha will moderate. >>> the martinez man that flew his drone into the path of a chp helicopter is apologizing to the pilot of the chopper. he says he didn't mean to fly near the helicopter a week and a half ago, causin

l.a. and new york city a hoax. you the two different cities with two very different reactions. >> based on past circumstances i could not take the chance. >> not a credible terrorist threat. >> two major city, two ominous e-mails, two very different reactions. >> i'm not taking the chance of bringing children any palace into a -- into any part of the building until i know it's safe. >> now that the fbi has deemed both situations a hoax, comes the analysis. >> it is very easy and hindsight to criticize the decision based on results that the decider could every in have known. >> things concluded into high gear tuesday when both l.a. and new york city school superintendent received nearly identical e-mails, detailing the desire to attack schools. >> explosive devices that the specific threat was attack with assault rifles, and machine pistols. e-mails differed in location and a how many supposed jihadists would be involved. there were also riddled with inconsistency and since been traced to a german i.p. address. >> f

l.a. police departments and believes the shootings influenced the school districts decision to close. >> i'm sure it probably had something to do with that. you have to stand by the decision. >> the new york cityice commissioner has said l.a. unified overreacted. new york city schools received a similar threat and decided not to act. in san francisco, abc7 news. >> this morning hayward police arrested a 15-year-old student for making threats. the student reportedly admitted to posting a threat of violence yesterday on social media. >> happening now, it's debate night, the last debate of the year featuring the republican candidates is underway at the venetian. hillary clinton is outlining a new plan to protect the nation from home grown terrorism, empowering muslim americans to be front line allies is key to preventing attacks. this is in contrast to her republican rivals. >>> the democrats will debate in new hampshire saturday, world news tonight anchor david muir and also martha will moderate. >>> the martinez man that flew his drone into the path of a chp helicopter is apologizing to the pilot of the chopper. he says he didn't mean to fly near the helicopter a week and a half ago, causing th

l.a. and new york city? miami, houston and dallas schools have also been threatened and clark county metro, that's in the las vegas area. authorities don't know who sent the menacing e-mails but they were routed through germany from a 21-year-old in maine. he claims he can locate the source of the e-mails, and after receiving subpoenas for clark county and the nypd, the young man has consulted with a lawyer, a lawyer who formally represented edward snowden. gunfire outside of the katlynn community center. three men ended up in the hospital, all with nonlife threatening injuries. the community center was closed but employees were inside getting ready for a holiday party. >>> we took a call from a woman identifying herself as the dc police officer who shot and wounded a dog, belonging to a woman who is pearing impaired last sunday near a dog park in greenville, and that bullet pass the through the pit bull nicknamed chleo. >> i think she should be charged with a felony, animal cruelty, because she didn't have

l.a. and new york city schools superintendents received nearly identical e-mails they tailing the desire to attack schools. >> the implied threat was explosive devices the specific threat was puzzled with us all rifles and machine pistols. >> reporter: e-mails point in the locations and how many so-called jihadists would be involved. they were riddled with inconsistencies. they have since been traced to a german ip address. >> allah was not spelled with a capital day. is incredible to think any jihadists would not spell it >> reporter: in l.a. with the senate in a massacre still fresh school was shut down, 640,000 students told to stay home. in new york, commissioner bratton said that was an overreaction. and believe this may be an example of an author trying to make hollywood. >> the instigator of the threat may be homeland, basically watching homeland episodes. it mirrors a lot of episodes of homeland. >> reporter: that meeting will occur at one police plaza, the shield team will take place at 10:00 a.m.. that is the latest from lower manhattan. >> reporter: thanks very much. pilots on th

l.a. went public, radio eight? was it possible that maybe new york wasn't going to say anything about it until l.a. went public? >> look, the new york cityice department gets three to five of these kinds of letters and threats to schools a week. that's 115 plus a year. and 75 to 80% are deemed not credible right off the bat, given what's in the letter, where it comes from, what their best assessment is. so they put the letter that was received today in that 75 to 85% of instant not credible based on what was in the letter and the extraordinary claims that were being made. then around 9:00 eastern, that's when the nypd and l.a. got together about the two letter, but certainly by 6:00 a.m. or so before the new york city schools open, the nypd and fbi were in the process of making the determination of we don't think there's much here. >> andrew, it was fascinating to watch the way things unfolded in l.a. today, having had a child in the l.a. public school system. she was able to actually walk to school from my house, so in many case, that would have been a relatively easy thing to deal with today. but for most parents in that system, this w

l.a. and new york city received similar if not identical e-mailed threats, warning of dramatic and detailed attacks on schools, in both cities. new york city officials were quick to call it a hoax. l.a. decided they weren't taking chances. they shut down the whole school district. the fbi determined the threat was not credible. and tonight l.a. officials say a total of 1531 school sites have been walked through an inspected. deemed safe to reopen tomorrow, back tomorrow in l.a. we'll bring you more as it develops. it can be especially serious- even fatal to infants. unfortunately, many people who spread it may not know they have it. it's called whooping cough. and the cdc recommends everyone, including those around babies, make sure their whooping cough vaccination is up to date. understand the danger your new grandchild faces. talk to your doctor or pharmacist about you and your family getting a whooping cough vaccination today. ♪ [ girl ] my mom, she makes underwater fans that are powered by the moon. ♪ [ birds squawking ] my mom makes airplane engines that can talk. [ birds squawking ] ♪

new york city. everybody went to school. l.a. handled it differently. seem to be taking it back and forth. how it should've been handled. greg: meanwhile, we have a homeless crisis in new york city. they just got rid of the top homeless official. he is resigning. rosanna: did you stay up and watch the republican debate? it was the fifth one. they faced off in vegas. it got a little messy. >> this is a tough business. we need to have a leader. you will never be part of the >> i am 42 and you are at three. rosanna: look at their faces. they are saying something different. we have a body language expert coming up. she will break it down for us. >> i think that you can read these guys pretty open late. >> okay. he kind of seems to be composed. >> look at them. you can tell. have we seen anything like this? i do not think so. >> it is cool outside again. we also have more sunshine out sunny skies. high temperatures yesterday that were in the record range. today, that is not the case. you do have some rain that will over the weekend, it looks like it will feel like december. when the cooler tempe

>>reporter: new york city please commissioner on the other hand said? l.a. unified overreacted. threat and decided not to act. in san franciscop', lee ann, abc 7 newsg. >>>!4 this morning hayward polie arrested 15-year-old high school student from making criminal threats. student reportedly admitted to posting a threat of violence on social media. now in beg trouble the questions net are they linked in some way. were they september by the seam person. team o'conner convenienceed authorities in new york that it was a hoax. here's brian ross. >> the first 10 off for new york police todayj0 was that the alleged threat involving secret jihad terror cell nerve gas agent, high powered weapons and mass casualty seep remarkably similar to the property leap of the tv program home lap. may be a homeland fan basically watching home lapped episodes that it mirror a lot of reeseen episode on homeland eric the message to new york read something big is going downment not only bomb but there are nerve gas agents set to inform off at specific time during lunch hour. new york officials said they

new york or l.a. had they gotten the same threat those two cities got. they say in the future they will take each threat as it comes and the top priority will be keeping boston school children safe. live in boston, dan hausle, 7 news. >>> cooler temperatures tomorrow, but still mild according to december standards. lighter winds too. >>> we're following breaking news this evening in the case of a danvers teenager. the jury has found him guilty of murdering his math teacher. what you're looking at here is the podium at the district attorney's office. we're keeping a close watch on that. as soon as we see about this case, the reaction to the guilty verdict today, we'll bring it to you. >>> a whole lot of orange boxes on our calendar here indicating above average days for the month of december. only one blue box. we're running nine degrees above average at this point, and i do believe that we'll take that number up even more after today because these were our highs today. didn't get to enjoy it really because this happened in the wee hours of this morning.

new hampshire. parents were alerted through the phone alert system. >> i'm scared. sending my son to school and having this text is scary. >> classes will resume tomorrow. last week, l.a. and new york city received threats. >>> investigators are trying to determine why a woman swerved her car into dozens of beds along the a -- of pedestrians along the las vegas strip. >> las vegas police say the woman did this on purpose severe ving -- swerve her car two or three times and did this with a toddler in the back seat of her car. one person is dead. at least three dozen others badly injured. this happened sunday night at one of the busiest intersections on the las vegas strip near the paris and planet casinos. witnesses say the driver had -- in her 20s had both hands on the wheel looking straightforward when she drove into the crowd. several people were thrown in all different directions. >> there's a man on the ground next to the curb. a lady was helping. another person went over, had landed in the bushes, in the grass on the sidewalk. but what we were told some lady jumped the curb and went right through the people. >> police say there was a 3- year-old in the back seat but was not injured

new york city received a similar threat. both now being called hoaxes. and new york's police commissioner says l.a. overreacted. but with the attacks in san bernardino still fresh in their mind, imagine being the official who has to make that call. migel almaguer has >> reporter: shortly before 7:00 a.m., police were mobilized and the decision was made public. the nation's second largest school district saying it received a credible threat, abruptly shutting down all campuses just before the morning bell. >> they said that it wasn't no school due to a bomb threat. it's very scary. >> reporter: the unprecedented decision is what many woke up to. >> breaking news of the massive district-wide shutdown of lausd schools. >> reporter: the threat came by e-mail. a person claiming to be a high school senior ready with an army to attack schools with guns and bombs. los angeles is just 65 miles from san bernardino, where 14 were killed in a terror attack less than two weeks ago. >> i think the circumstances in the neighboring san bernardino, i think what has happened in the nation, i think superintendent am not going to

l.a. closed down the schools, the former police commissioner from los angeles who is now the commissioner of new york citysaying we received the same threat as l.a. and our schools are open. the threats are promoting fear and we will not allow it to raise fear and he was concerned with people overreacting to it. that is criticism coming from the police commissioner in our city. there is a bit of back and forth. regardless the school district is shut town. mark, fox news contributor, you worked in l.a. 20 years plus. what is your reaction as we know it? >> i think it is interesting the way new york handled the threat in the way. this is the decision of the school district. i hear people that will react the same way in the fut and you are the thing that alarms me and that i look at. it could be a probe to find out how the city reacts and what they do, and the command posts they form and where they form them and how they literally drain the city of law enforcement for a short period of time and when the threat is not there, or they concede the threat not to be a threat, then it goes back to normal. they can

l.a. and new york city received similar if not identical e-mailed threats, warning of pretty dramatic andetailed attacks on schools, in both cities. new york city officials were quick to dismiss the threat as a hoax. schools in new york stayed open today. but in southern california, which fair to say is still reeling from the san bernardino attacks basically in their backyard a couple weeks ago, l.a. decided they weren't taking any chances. they shut down the whole school district. officials there now say the fbi has determined that the threat today was not credible. and tonight l.a. officials say a total of 1531 school sites have been walked through and inspected. they've all now been deemed safe to reopen tomorrow. back to school tomorrow in l.a. we'll bring you more as it develops. >> behold, the 1912 cadillac model 30, 1912. so cool. so elegant, it almost hurts to look at it. the 1912 cadillac won awards for its technological breakthroughs that year. the model came with an electric starter. it came with headlights. general motors started making cars in central michigan 100 years ago,

new york city schools. the police commissioner, the former l.a. chief of police, says his department is investigating the e-mail as a hoax. a different reaction from his cross-country counterpart. >> we would be concerned with overreacting. >> it is easy to criticize the concern over the outcome of that decision. >> southern california has been through a lot in the recent weeks. should we risk putting our children through the same? >> los angeles officials defended today's schoolcl caution. the e-mail threat mentioned assault rifles, explosive devices. more to come in a press conference. jim: at 5:00, the pentagon is warning the terror group isis is growing afghanistan. another front to fight this battle. violence by isis terrorists on the rise in afghanistan. the u.s. has 9800 troops in afghanistan. on landing in nashville. the jet slammed into a ditch. three people were hurt. we can tell you the injuries are all minor. no idea yet why that plane crashed into the ditch. jim: here in town, some traffic trouble. >> we are trying to figure out exact

threats, especially if there is a correlation between what happened in new york city and the same type of information that was sent to l.awhy triggers were pulled in los angeles that weren't pulled in new york city. and how to be better at that so that we don't go into what we're doing right now, this panic mode. >> exactly. >> of making people afraid. >> right. >> of giving in to this kind of b.s. for lack of a better term and giving the person that wrote these e-mails exactly what they want. this type of fear. >> but, but, what's happened is talking to people in l.a. right now, they're not panicked. they think what happened was appropriate and now they'll see what to do in the future. but if this is the first time that this has happened in to -- in the l.a. school district, and you are an experienced superintendent and you've done whatever vetting you have done, maybe the next time there's a different reaction because maybe a different protocol but you have to give that person who has that kind of experience his due and you got to support the decision. >> you're saying the first time that this has happened since san be

l.a. and to new york. >>> a manassas city police detective and hockey coach killed himself today moments before police could arrest him with having inappropriate contact with two boys. prince william county police tried to get david abbot to surrender today at his home in gainesville, virginia. instead he pulled out a handgun and shot himself. abbot served on the northern virginia washington, d.c. task force for internet crimes against children. investigators say the 39-year- old met both of his alleged victims through a hockey league. >> the news frons, it is just a big police presence with a crime unit out here. and probably about 10 to 11 police cars. >> the manassas police department says that this is a tragic and sad day for the abbot family, the vejunile victims and their families, the manassas police department, and the community. >>> starting tomorrow, you'll see more streetcars running up and down northeast washington as they plan to walk all day long for the next three weeks, but no passengers. it's a test run required for the safety certification as it is nine years overdue, spending

l.a. officials say hoax or not, the threat was hard to ignore. rroxana saberi reports. >> every threat magnified. both los angeles and new york city schools received what has been described as osimilar e-mailed bomb threat but the two districts made very different decisions. l.a. shut down. 2700 miles away new york city did not. >> as leaders, it is our job to protect public order. and to keep things moving forward in this city. and to certainly not aid an abet those who want to so panic. >> security experts say after an incident such as paris there is an increase of chatter worldwide and increase during holiday period. >> in apart because of malicious pranks terse and others in favor of the terrorist group add their own noise to the volume. >> reporter: as for bomb threats in schools they are not uncommon. the department of homeland security even has a cheat sheet. if the threat is called in, ask the caller what kind of bomb there is, is the caller angry or calm, are there background noise he? running down threats involve time and manpower. >> sometimes it's more difficult than that. if the threat comes from abroad, it tends to b

new york city schools are safe and would have been a huge disservice to close them. new york police commissioner bill bratton believes the e-mail threat was a hoax and the l.a. school district went too far giving the person or group who sent the e-mail too much power. >> to disrupt the daily schedules of half a million schoolchildren, their parents, daycare, buses, based on an anonymous e-mail without consultation, if, in fact, consultation did not occur with law enforcement authorities, i think it was a significant overreaction. >> well, bratton says the person who wrote the e-mail made so many errors it was clear the person was a prankster at least in the new york case, shep. >> the police commissioner in new york says that the e-mails' writer sounded to him like a than of the tv show "homeland." >> yeah, he said there were a lot of similarities between the threat and some of the last few shows starring actress claire dans. listen. >> in reviewing it, i think the initiator, the instigator of the threat may be a "homeland" fan basically watching "homeland" episodes. it mirrors a lot of recent episodes on "homeland." >> also nypd intelligence sources scrutin

new york city determined the threat that was not credible for new york. >> l.a. is a huge school system, 600 square miles school system and to disrupt daily schedules of half a million schoolchildren, their parents, day care, buses based on anonymous email without consultation, if in fact consultation did not occur with law epforcement authorities i think it was, a significant overreaction, yes. deirdre: with me now is a former deputy assistant director of the fbi, danny coulson. you created and commanded the fbi hostage rescue team. you commanded four field divisions. when people say new york underreacted and l.a. overreacted, these are pretty tough calls to make, right? >> they're very tough calls. and as opposed to criticizing the decision i think we should use this as a learning experience. it's really good to have protocols in place with regard to bomb threats. i have a lot of clients that are in the school business and commercial clients and everyone of those situations we have protocols that we know at the end of the day whether or not there is any uninten

new york and l.a. schools earlier this week but former new york city mayor rudy giuliani doesn't believe it was a total. take a listen. >> i have a suspicion this was a probe. i don't think this is a total hoax. i think, i think this was a kind of a probe to figure out how we're going to react, not an absolute hoax. david: joining me now, peter brookes, heritage foundation senior fellow and former deputy assistant secretary of defense and bo dietl former nypd detective. peter, are these probes or hoaxes? >> we don't know, david, that's the problem. we have to keep our vigilance up. we can't be complacent about the threat even though it disrupts our daily lives considering what we've seen in the last few months and the threat that emanates from isis. very important obviously for investigations to move forward as quickly and quality way as possible because we need to know whether these are a hoax or probes. very important for us to understand or not. david: bo, if it's a probe, there is a question how much we give away when we react to it the way the l.a. school system did the other day. they went whole

l.a. schools today. i appears now it was all a hoax. this according to the california congressman adam shift. authorities searched 90 o schools and 200 charter schools and found nothing. new york city schools received a similar threat. they decided it wasn't credible and it was business as usual in new york. the superintendent in l.a. said it was better to be safe. now to vote 2016. what is sure to be a big night las vegas for the republican party. the last g.o.p. debate of the year. once again in the center of the stage, front-runner donald trump. senior political reporter scott thuman in vegas tonight. everything the guy has done and said vaulted him higher in the polls. scott: you are right. the numbers are proof. right, >> -- right, jonathan. we are live where the debate will take place. if there is a unified message from the debate, this is the party they say that is toughest on terrorism. i just got done speaking one-on-one the chairman of the republican party. reince priebus. he said that it is not a title they earned but one that would help them earn votes. while it seems counterer to why the city exists, don't expect frivolity. it's a serious debate subject. >> niceness wo

l.a. there is no decision on whether they will reopen tomorrow. in new york city the threat has here is how the two public school systems compare with 640,000 students and 1100 schools, l.a. is the second largest in the country. new york city is the largest with more than 1 million students. >> the response to the threats drastically different. los angeles closed all public schools. new york schools remained open. now, we will head to los angeles in a minute but eyewitness news reporter n.j. burkett begins our team coverage larch for us in for the -- live for us in fort greene, brooklyn. >> reporter: one threat, two different responses. nypd commissioner bill bratton said authorities in los angeles panicked in what he described today, quote, as a significant overreaction. parents in brooklyn aren't so sure about that. most parents and children we met had no idea about the threat. although they were pleased to hear it was dismissed as a hoax, many were surprised at

l.a. and what the people think of it in new york city. interesting to note that the superintendent of schools in l.a. who was a superintendent here in san francisco and in san jose was also a superintendent of schools in new york city. reporting from san francisco, mark matthews, nbc bay area news. >> thank you, mark. that hoax could cost los angeles unified $29 million in lost revenue from the state in daily attendance money. no kids in the seats means no cash for the school. just a short time ago, state superintendent tom tore lick son announced that they can petition his office to recover that loss. he also said that he is confident the state will cover the staggering costs. >>> a tragic story that spans several california counties. the bodies of two young children have been found in a storage locker up in redding. tammy hunts man, 39 years old and her 17-year-old boyfriend have been arrested and charged with felony child abuse, torture and mayhem. in addition, a severely abused 9-year-old girl was found at a home in redding and is unde

l.a. include the city's former police chief, who now heads the new york city police department and had a very different response to a similar threat today. here's jeff pegues. >> reporter: the e-mail to members of the los angeles school board was long and rambling. it was sent last night and threatened an attack with assault rifles on every school with bombs hidden in backpacks in lockers. the writer claimed he was part of a cell of 32 comrades willing to die, and "there is nothing you can do to stop it." new york city received a similar e-mail threat, but unlike los angeles, kept its schools open. police commissioner bill bratton said the threat was a hoax. would lead us to believe that this is not a jihadist initiative, for example, that allah was not spelled with a capital "a." that would be incredible to think that any jihadist would not spell allah with a capital "a." it is not something that we are concerned with. what we would be concerned with is over-reacting to it. >> reporter: los angeles police chief charlie beck defended l.a.'s decision to close the schools. >> i think it's irres

l.a. at a news conference at the top of the hour at 1:00. all 640,000 students told to not come to school. that loves more than 900 schools in los angeles alone. >>> and the new york citye commission said a similar threat tuesday to new york schools, was not credit, he called the decision to close the l.a. schools, quote, a significant overreaction. >>> the underpanel of ex -- experts accuses iran of breaching the nuclear deal. >>> i'm david foster, you are watching al jazeera, live from london. also in this program, los angeles closes all of its public schools over what is described as a credible threat. >>> saudi arabia announces a new anti-terror alliance to fight isil and other armed groups from mali to pakistan. >>> and a shaky ceasefire starts in yemen as the warring parties begin a

l.a. will be here to weigh in on that. meanwhile new york cityools dismissed the threats as a hoax and did nothing. the nypd commissioner saying l.a. overreacted. we will speak with former l.a. mayor richard riordan and tom ruskin, formerly of the nypd. melissa: terrorism expected to be the main topic of tonight's gop debate. who will come out on top? panel weighs in. david: dow had been up 260 points at session highs. [closing bell rings] as the bells sound on wall street. only thing in the red, gold down about three dollars ahead of the fed decision. melissa. melissa: we'll have more ahead of the huge fed rate decision announcement in a bit. we want to go back to the stop stories, bomb threat shutting down schools in los angeles. officials defending the decision to close down all public schools despite all growing evidence to suggest it was a hoax. fox business's ashley webster in the newsroom with the latest. reporter: more and more details coming out, melissa. schools remain closed. no word when they may reopen only the l.a. unified school di

if you're in a global city where people are willing to move, and i think l.a. and new york counts.tin i think is on the edge. it has some livability that makes it attractive to people. it doesn't have the same ecosystem for what people do next. that is something people care about. that is the key question. if you can't attract people who are willing to move to your city, you have to consider moving your headquarters to a place where those people already are. network --ou have a i would argue l.a. might have the most talented people in the media business out of anywhere in the world. dynamics ofand the that market better than anywhere. if you are starting a digital media company in san francisco, you will be creating -- you would be recruiting executives from l.a. it depends on the network you bring. any great entrepreneur has to be a pied piper and be able to recruit people anywhere, whether you are in reykjavik or in chicago. we have seen great companies in both of those places. that is a huge part of it, to pick a vision and tell a story that attracts people anywhere. >> what abo

new york and l.a. officials in los angeles say school will reopen tomorrow. declared that threat not credible. it's something city leaders here in new york have been saying all day but parents in the five boroughs still have questions about how that decision was made. tim fleischer with new information from the chancellor. >> reporter: sade, two very similar threats in new york and los angeles but two very different reactions and outcomes. certainly though tonight here in new york city education officials are giving us more of an insight into how they made the decision to hold school. >> safety is my first priority on all circumstances but we felt very confident that this was the right thing to do. >> reporter: the rate thing. leave schools open in the face of a threat of a large-scale jihadi attack. >> nypd contacted the fbi who said it was not a credible threat. commissioner bratton made a decision to keep schools open. >> reporter: another threat, however, would lead to los angeles shutting down schools. >> we believe our schools are safe, and we can reopen schools in los angeles unified school district tomorr

new york police commissioner saying i knew it was a hoax. i probably wouldn't have closed down schools. what they did in l.a. who's right? >> i know that there is a division in new york city police department that really studies this carefully and knows how to go through it and determine right off the bat whether or not it's a hoax or real. i spoke with john miller who runs the new york terrorism unit and they received this same thing at 7:00 a.m. this morning. they did an analysis on this and realized that in fact, it was a hoax. so, for nypd at least, going through the police department and the terrorism unit, they decided we're going to leave the schools open and they were going to go ahead and investigate this and see who was responsible for it. >> so, it begs the question, bob, do we have any sort of comingling of information between the two largest cities in the united states of america. if they knew that, do they have any sort of alerts they send out, hey f you receive this kind of an e-mail with a lower case a, it's a hoke. >> well, i think remember, bratton and miller set up the terrorism unit in los angeles. years ago. when they left new york and went out to los

new york city? >> los angeles. >> all right. going with l.a. let's see, 43, los angeles, 48 new york. you're correct. >> oh, wow. >> l.a. is colder. how about boston versus las vegas. who do you think? >> las vegas. >> oh, you're catching on. >> 38 in boston, only 5 in vegas. >> 35 in vegas. >> yes. you didn't see that coming, did you? >> and how about difference between phoenix and d.c.? who is colder? >> phoenix is colder. >> oh, you didn't go for the bait. look at that. 33 in phoenix for a low. >> you should do this for a living. >> 43 in washington, d.c. >> that's right. >> good morning. for the day, a mix of clouds and sunshine. not as much wind out there today. and seasonal, cooler than yesterday. but 42-46. worcester, 43, miramack valley in the mid 40s. cloudy skies tonight and more clouds tomorrow with isolated showers tomorrow, near 50. showers to the and left over raindrops on friday. the weekend dry and cold. >> and that is your late weather. >> thank you very much, al. up next, got rave reviews as they eased on done the road with the nbc "wiz and all the decorations are ju

cities l.a. shuts down an entire school system after receiving an anonymous threat that new york city was business as usual. commissioner pat bratton said his schools received a similar threat that determines a hoax. dari: why did los angeles officials take it so seriously? dan bowens talked about an expert about analyzing threats and he's a minister in. reporter: officials in los after the shooting in san bernardino a few weeks ago. faced with the threat this morning at the clock ticking and the potential threat they made a decision to close the schools and don't take chances. here new york the same threat >> based on the past the chance. report of the nation's second-largest school system shutdown, more than 640,000 students from santa monica to el segundo told to stay home. >> i'm not taking the chance of bringing children anyplace into any park -- part of the building until a not safe. report of the threat coming in an e-mail the author claiming to be a muslim extremist and a team of jihad is france ready to strike. >> the specific threat was attacked with assault rifles and machine pistols. r

new york city, l.a., new orleans is next. >>> julie: preparing around the clock. lowering the same new year's eve ball around a million people will gather in time's square to watch it drop live. officials say thousands of officers will be fashioned around the city to make sure everyone is safe. now, 9:46 and here is look at roads right now. overall volume has been nice and light. few icons which are accidents on side streets, but route 193 south moving along fine. pike wide open framingham through the weston tolls and not a lot of cars out there in brighton. here are live drive times. 23 minutes on the pike from 495 to mass ave, 13 minutes from the weston tolls to the ted williams tunnel, nine minutes on the expressway from the braintree split to the exit for the pike. fox25 storm tracker weather meteorologist shiri spear joining us now and tell us what to wear tonight. >> shiri: wear whatever outside. midnight it will be back around freezing, friends. we have the system pulling away from us, dragging the clouds, here and seeing substantial brightening and last hour and boston looking

meantime, officials in new york city say they received the same threat as schools in l.a. new york officials determined it was a hoax. >> sarah: the first full day of deliberations coming up in the philip chism murder trial. the jury must decide if the teenager was insane when they allegedly murdered his math teacher. victoria warren live outside superior court with the latest. >> reporter: yeah. the jury has been deliberating for a little more than six hours. we just heard from them for very first time since deliberations started. they had a question. they are apparently having technical difficulties viewing some of the surveillance vild owe. the judge proposing that they train one juror on how to use the computer. then they can move forward from that. the jury has a lot of information that they are they are deciding if 16-year-old philip chism is guilty, not guilty, or not guilty by lack of criminal responsibility in the death of his danvers high school math teacher. when chism was 14 years old. the lack of criminal responsibility will be based on the defense's insanity c

now we are in new york city public schools. did l.a. overreact?going to complain and say you are being too cautious with my kids. and a 17-year-old was killed in a crosswalk leaving his school today in highland park. but i do want to know what the bar is. there is such a thing as an overabundance of caution. but keep in mind -- supreme to consume this in new york, l.a. and everywhere in between. there is still a dynamic between bill bratton and los angeles. he dislikes l.a. for not falling in love with his rough east coast rough cop way and that entire persona. there was not one tear when he left lapd. so he will always take every opportunity to rub it in. he had a choice today to say nothing or throw lapd and ls under the bus. he said we got the same threat and we didn't do anything about it. diehard 3 was a movie. jeremy irons was not holding the new york school district hostage. but i'm curious, what would his bar be? do you have a detachment that can make that call the night before in can a school board member forward and email and one of your

l.a. district had the day off, authorities in new york city, say they received the the same threat but quickly concluded it was a hoax. >>> cbs news will have more on the school threat tonight on the evening news with scott pelley right here after "eyewitness news" at 6:00. >>> no justice, no peace. >> demonstrators in center city marked within year anniversary of the death of brandon brown. they chanted no justice in peace as they took to the street tonight. tait brown who was 26 was killed by philadelphia police one year ago today. officers involved were cleared of wrongdoing and will not face charges. >>> now a check of the first forecast, it is cooling down but don't worry, it is still mild. meteorologist kate bilo is live on the skies deck to tell but that. >> i looked at temperature departures and from this time last night we have dropped ten to 15 degrees, pretty remarkable in the mid 50's with those departures. we were so farrah above average lets take a series of cool town to bring any kind of seasonal weather back toward the delaware valley. once it does turn more seasonable it will

. >> yet some towns like chicago, new york city, l.a., make it nearly impossible for people to legallys is 50 pages. who understands this? >> it took hours and hours to fill out the forms. we had to call the police department six times to clarify what questions meant. finally, it was done. >> get this notarized? >> go ahead and sign here and i will fill in the rest. >> then you have to good in person to police headquarters. here they fingerprinted me, asked me to list reasons why i should be allowed to have a gun, and then they charge me a $430 application fee. they said they'd get back to me. at least they were polite. others tell a different story. >> they're rude from the get-go. >> robert martinez served in iraq and afghanistan. >> i have ten years of military experience. >> i think a military vet could keep a handgun in his home for protection. but -- >> it's not so easy. >> why do you want a gun permit. >> to protect my family. >> martinez lives in new york city housing project. >> a couple months ago a man was beaten to death in front of my building. >> hear shots go off and it'

you could never do this in new york city or l.a. i actually went to the owner of, like, a giant building, and said, "hey, man. can i get on top of your building and pretend to commit suicide?" and the guy was like, "yeah." ( laughter ) so we went on top of this building, and i threw a c.p.r. dummy of myself off this building, and then ran all the way downstairs while a friend of ourselves pretended to be the grim reaper, and we bribed him, and i came back to life, and we ran into the theater and continued our sketch comedy show. so it was one of those shows. we've all seen that show, yeah, yeah. >> stephen: exactly. well, you know, back then when i remember about improvise in chicago is never having any money because i would not get paid to do anything. >> yes. >> stephen: and i was very thin at the time because i couldn't afford food. >> yes. >> stephen: what did you do for food? how did you feed yourself back then? because you've got a big train to pull. >> exactly. >> stephen: you're a big guy. >> i'm a big guy. by the way. >> st

new york got a similar e-mail from the same i.p. address. our city decided the threat was not credible. commissioner bratton says l.a. overreacted. about the e-mail to new york. >> what we would be concerned with is overreacting to it. we'll stay aware. we will stay involved. but at all cost, we cannot start overreacting. >> i think it's pretty clear that the information we have is quite different than theirs. >> l.a. says it consulted with the fbi but wasn't given advice one way or the other. federal officials say they told l.a. to keep schools open. >>> 4:40 now. the republican presidential candidates slugging it out last night in las vegas. plenty of personal jabs during the primetime debate. >> donald, you know, is great at the one-liners, but he's a chaos candidate. and he'd be a chaos president. >> he's failed in this campaign. it's been a total disaster. nobody cares. >> with marco's foreign policy, he's far too often supported hillary clinton and barack obama. >> it sounds like what he's outlining is not to lead at all. he referred to jordan's leader as king hussein, kept except he died 16 years ago. donald tr