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<p>To the game plan, to the right, you know, to the right direction and did everything, right? Um I'm proud of these guys. I mean, we're fighting and um that's a good thing about it. And, you know, we, we talked about coming to this tournament and really not looking ahead like I just told him, I have no idea who's next. Uh But we wanted to concentrate on just our next opponent and I will say, you know, since we got here on Monday, uh these guys have been very professional, locked into everything we needed to do and uh we've got three really good wins right now. So once again, I know you guys love this. If you're a part of wack nation, we survive and advance. So questions open up the floor. I'm sorry, I'm open up the fluid. Any questions you from uh Mike Barber Richmond Times, dispatch for both players. Uh When Ben misses the, the stick, the dunk and then gets the technical on the stick back. What did you guys think? And what did you understand about kind of what was being called and what was happening there? Don't say what you really mean, don't, I'm gonna let him go and answer his face was mad like we had to have a conversation about it. No, I mean, I, I didn't know Tech was coming. Uh right after that. Um You know, I was already shocked but the tech by itself, you know, um it threw us all in all but um you know, all we could do is just focus on the next play. Um You know, it was good that we got the ball back and uh it gave us a good opportunity to execute and get a bucket. So, you know, we just had to move on and have a short memory. Ok, gentlemen, in the fifth row, Adam Gotkin with orange fizz. This is for both the players, you guys are the first double digit seed to make it to the semifinals since 2010. How does it feel to hear that? And has it really kicked in what you guys just did today? Um I mean, coming into this tournament, we came in with a mindset that we're just gonna be focused on the guys in our locker room. So, uh I think we've been showing that and to accomplish what we just did today is good. We're gonna celebrate it, but we know that it's gonna be a short turnaround for tomorrow and the job is not done. So we gotta do it again. Ok, Jim in the fourth row DJ into the back end there, you made the free throws. NC State was struggling at the line. Did you kind of want the ball in your hands there at, at the end of that game? Yup. A straight like that. Now, I just want the ball when it time I wanted him to have the ball too. Just so you know that. Ok. And back John Tittel from hoops HD for coach, um, you've played VC and Virginia a total of four times this year. You've not lost to the, any of them in regulation. Do you have extra confidence because of your track record or do you think you have a good idea of what they put out on the court, you know, how to respond to it? No, I mean, they, they listen, they both are good programs and well coached and, you know, obviously, you know, you can take a little bit from, you know, the, the games that we played against them, but everybody's a little bit different at this time, you know, Virginia, you know, when we played them early at our place, you know, they were just trying to figure it out. We got a great win but obviously went on the road and was, you know, we did a good job, but Boston College is good, you know, he's, he's, he's really got those guys playing and, you know, Quentin Post is really good. So both teams got good players, good coaches and, and we will, we will have to go back and, you know, it's gonna be a long night for my staff and we're gonna kind of figure out, you know how they're playing now and just try to prepare for tomorrow. Ok, Nua, uh Michael shot from the saber.com after losing seven of 94 in a row to end the regular season. It would have been easy to kind of fold like we've seen teams do it before. What's fueling this team kind of this could be for coach Keats and the players, what's keeping y'all going, what has fueled what I think we can now call a run. Yeah, I'll, I'll answer that first. I mean, you know, we had a tough backend schedule, like, you know, I, I said this before when I look at our schedule, you know, it's a lot of teams in that. We got 15 teams in there all ranked in conference schedule. We got the third, toughest conference schedule and, you know, we played all the ranked teams and everything else. So when we looked at our schedule, we knew that our back end was a really tough. Um, obviously we, you know, we, I don't know if we, I don't know if any program in the history of basketball has played Carolina Duke on a Saturday and, and trying to run a play on Monday. Thanks to the AC C I got no problem with that. Now, um that being said, you know, we just had to refocus and understand that the, everything that we had done before that we are a good basketball team. We just had some challenges going down the stretch and, you know, during that time, um, you know, a lot of things going on, you know, when we just, you know, we, we said when we got to the tournament, we can play and we can beat anybody in this league. The unfortunate thing about it is that everybody else could do the same thing. So I think we're locked in. Ok, gentlemen, third row Brett Friedlander, Saturday, road.com. This is for the players and Kevin, you can chime in too if you, if you like kind of piggybacking on the last question, the, the vibe outside the program fans and us when you were losing those four in a row to end the season was, oh, wow. Now it's the opposite. What was it like in the locker room? How different was the, the vibe during that last couple of weeks during the regular season compared to these last few days? Um I mean, I would say throughout the, um good times and bad throughout the season. I mean, we've, we've always been connected. Um and we always believed, um, and, you know, I think, you know, throughout our last few stretch of games, um, you know, we just had to, um, not beat ourselves as much. Um You know, I feel like we were kind of our own worst enemy in terms of, you know, second chance opportunities, just, you know, different opportunities that I think other teams took advantage of and we reduced that heading into the tournament. I think that's what held us to get momentum. Ok. Uh, gentlemen, second row here. Uh Charlie Gribble, Pac Pride, 247 sports. This is for coach. Um, how much of a concern now does it become, uh, to keep you guys fresh and healthy as you, as you embark on your fourth game in four days? We got, we played four games, four days. I didn't know that. Now, we're, we're just listen, it's, it's, it's, you know, you got to play every game and, you know, obviously, um, we're prepared for this. I would say this, you know, a lot of people, we talk about our conditioning and you know how it pays off for us and, you know, when you look at those three games that we play, honestly, we look like they're both more fresh team than anybody. Uh, we're still picking up, we're still getting after people and it's more of a mindset than a physical thing and our guys believe and understand and, you know, we, we've been able to rotate guys in and out and so, you know, we just, at this time of the year, everybody's gonna have some nicks and bruises and you gotta be able to fight through some of that. Ok, young man, the second row coach David Glenn from the North Carolina Sports Network. These guys always play a ton of minutes for you. Mohammed doesn't always play 37. Michael doesn't always play 35. How do those two guys make your chemistry kind of maximize what you have done? Well, you know, Michael is the only pure point guard that we have on our team. He's the smartest guy in our program. I mean, I'm talking about book smarts and just basketball wise. He knows what he's doing. A kid, graduate, not kid. The young man graduated from Stanford in three years. And so um he, he's very heady, knows who to get the ball to. Um you know, he, he's starting to get a voice, which I didn't have early in the year. Now he's starting to talk to everybody and telling everybody, you know, obviously where to be and, and get motivated and then Moe's just, um Moe's just gotten better. I mean, he is just uh he's our leading rebounder. He, he's uh you know, kind of one of those guys that can play inside out. He's doing a lot of good things for us. And so I think with the emergence of those guys, you know, add uh add it to these three guys. And Jane Taylor and DJ Burns is kind of given us really seven veteran guys who are really good and then the other guys are adding to what we have. OK, fourth row here, Josh Graham wsjs coach you've mentioned several times that you grew up watching this tournament. Everyone remembers games like this. What does it mean to you to at NC State? Have a win like this going on a run now to the first semifinal that you've been at it. Yeah, it's, uh, it means everything. I, you know, I grew up in Lynchburg, Virginia and I just, I knew AC C basketball, I mean, loved it, you know, I just my time and, um, you know, other than, you know, I, I will say this, this will be a good one. You can report this. I actually like Greensboro a lot. You know, I like it just a little bit just so I know that part of it. Um, I'm very familiar with it and it, it means a lot to, um, to me, my family, you know, my, my parents are back home and they're watching basketball, they're not really into sports, they're Kevin Keiths fans and, you know, they obviously getting a chance to see me on TV and have the opportunity to coach these guys. Um, man, it feels great. I mean, it's, it's, it's really good, great. I'm here. This one's for Casey. Um, you know, you talked about earlier in the week coming home, you said you were getting your Lito's pizza, getting to see your family. How special has it been to be here back in the DMV? And not only that, but to now be a part of this run here, you know, in your home area. Um Yeah, it's huge. I think it's a great story. Um You know, I think we, um you know, I love this team and I love this city and, uh you know, to be here and, you know, shine on the biggest stage here in DC. Um It's a great moment. I I value, OK, we have one more question. Uh, for both the players you heard coach talk about the energy and, and looking like the fresher team, obviously, you want to rest tonight. Will you guys watch this next game in your hotel rooms as a team by yourselves? What, what's the plan? Uh, we just gonna keep everything the same, probably go and watch a little bit of film, uh, personnel and all that, but, uh, really about getting rest right now, get ready for tomorrow. Yeah, they won't watch film tonight. We don't even know we're playing yet. So, no, we, we get, we're getting out there. They, they'll get back and, um, we'll get dinner and, um, they don't, they don't watch games. The coaching staff is gonna watch games. We'll, we'll put a game plan together. They're not gonna watch game Casey Casey. Um, I saw him last night and it, it's great that he's back home. Uh, was it last night or this morning? He was, he was sitting there hanging with his mom and dad. It was a great thing. So he'll be in the lobby, shaking hands and everything. I think everybody from the DMV has come by to see him and he may be, he may be the last player that's standing from this area. I don't know that. Uh but I know some, I know Judas and uh Jeremy Roach and some good players from this area that's playing in the AC C. So I agree. You agree. Who else? Why, why we, why are we bringing Marco up right now? Thank you.</p>

NC State's Kevin Keatts shares his thoughts after the Wolfpack's big win against Duke

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<p>To, to all of you and we bring you greetings. I would like to also extend gratitude to other elected officials who are joining us today. If you'll please stand. Thank you. I want to also start by expressing how thrilled we are to have you here today. We are proud of our city here in Greenville. And I think that pride is evident in this room today and why wouldn't we be proud? Greenville is a thriving hub of, of eastern North Carolina. We have a growing population, a diverse based manufacturing manufacturers, top notch educational institutions, state of the art, medical facilities and vibrant art and entertainment scenes. The people in Greenville are as friendly and as talented as they come. We all work well together and that is a tremendous, tremendous key to progress. There are so many reasons to be proud of Greenville and today I'm thrilled that our city is getting even better with all of that being said, I would like to introduce to you a Greenville native and Chief Deputy Secretary of Commerce Jordan Richard. Well, thank you so much. Uh Mayor Pro Daniels. Uh it is a beautiful day and uh uh especially great day to be back home in Greenville, North Carolina. Uh So, on behalf of uh our North Carolina Secretary of Commerce Michelle Baker Sanders, uh Good afternoon. Uh Today really is not only the celebration of an incredible partnership uh with the city of Greenville, Pitt County, uh the Greenville Eastern North Carolina Alliance, the Department of Commerce, our, our partners across the state. Uh But it's also calls to celebrate uh some really exciting news and the first uh such announcement this year in Pitt County across the state in North Carolina, we are uh already ahead of our pace from last year. Uh Having a wonderful year in terms of economic development. Today is a wonderful announcement of that. Since January across the state, we've announced uh 39 projects and this will be our 40th, more than 3600 jobs across North Carolina and over $2.5 billion in economic development investment statewide. And today's news uh is also great as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of Greenville, North Carolina. Over those 250 years, we've seen Greenville change and evolve and the evolution of Greenville as a community is parallel to what we've seen across the state from an economy once dependent on agriculture and tobacco. Pitt County and Greenville is transformed into an economy that's supported by medicine uh and advanced manufacturing and clean energy jobs like we're here to talk about today. Uh having grown up here and watch that evolution and watch Downtown and Dickinson Avenue evolve and having gone to school across the street at CMXS Middle School, it's especially gratifying to be back and to be working on wonderful announcements like this. Uh And today, it's also an incredible honor to introduce uh someone who I've had the great pleasure of working for in Raleigh for the past 7.5 years. Uh He's been working to build a stronger North Carolina uh where everyone has as an opportunity to live in safe communities, get a quality education, uh have good access to great jobs and great health care. Uh And where everybody has a chance to live lives of purpose and abundance. And today he'll share with the Greenville community some outstanding news. Uh that'll help get us closer to North Carolina, North Carolina. That's more diverse, more inclusive works uh even more for all the people of this great state. Uh So it's my honor now to introduce to you the 75th governor of North Carolina Roy Cooper. Thank you so much, Greenville, aren't you proud of Jordan Witcher? Let me just say, Chief Deputy Secretary of the Department of Commerce. And uh you might notice that I have a lot of people in my administration who are from Eastern North Carolina. It's because I grew up here and I know the kind of people that they are. So I am so happy to be here. With you today, seeing so many friends and familiar faces uh and to celebrate what's gonna happen today. Uh Thank you Marquita for being here, Representative reader. Thank you for, for, for being here. Thank you representative for you. Uh Thank you, appreciate all of you guys candy. Thank you for coming. Very grateful for you coming and being part of this. Um II, I wanna thank Mayor Pro TEM Daniels and say thank you very much for your hard work here. But it's great to join with you today with an outstanding announcement for the city of Greenville, Pitt County, eastern North Carolina and I am our entire state. I am so proud to announce that Bovi at Solar, an international renewable energy company has selected North Carolina for its first North American solar panel manufacturing facility that will create 900 jobs and invest $294 million right here in Greenville, North Carolina. Our economists predict that this project will lift North Carolina's economy by more than $2.9 billion over the next 12 years. This economic development. When shows us how teamwork, teamwork and that's a fitting word here in front of Dowdy Ficklin Stadium, teamwork and our amazing workforce. Keep bringing advanced manufacturing jobs to our state here in Pitt County. You have a great legacy of manufacturing, making everything from life saving pharmaceuticals to packaging personal care products and now comes important components for clean renewable energy. North Carolina is becoming an epicenter for clean energy that's putting money in the pockets of North Carolina families and small businesses. And as we've learned in North Carolina the last few years, a clean energy economy is a strong economy, providing American security. North Carolina is a leader in that 19 billion in capital investments and nearly 16,000 good paying manufacturing jobs created here since 2021 with the fourth largest producer of solar energy in the country. And with our bipartisan clean power plan that will get us producing zero emission clean energy by 2050. That means a lot more solar panels need to be made right here in North Carolina. This announcement means that they're going to be made right here. And North Carolina's emergence as a clean energy leader has fueled our growth and helped set us apart as the number one state to do business in the country for two years in a row, we all get to celebrate that recognition and much of the credit goes to our well trained, dedicated and diverse workforce, the people of North Carolina, they make up the best workforce in the country. And Bovi at solar is gonna find out about that. And our university Chancellor Rogers, thank you for hosting this today. Our university and community college systems including East Carolina Pitt community College and our research institutions and workforce partnerships help North Carolina stay first in talent coupled with our central east location, East coast location and includes easy access to transportation infrastructure by land, plain sea. And of course our excellent quality of life. North Carolina continues to be a top choice and we don't take opportunities and announcement like these for granted because we know that companies like Bovi at solar can choose to locate anywhere in the world, but they chose us. And that's why we must continue to increase our investments in education, workforce training in our public schools and in early childhood education, that is absolutely critical. This announcement is the result of strong collaboration by company executives, elected officials across both aisles and economic development professionals. In addition to Secretary Sanders and the Department of Commerce, I'd like to thank our Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina that works so well led by Chris Chung works so well with our Department of Commerce, our North Carolina General Assembly. Those members are here today, our Golden Leaf Foundation, our Greenville Eastern North Carolina Alliance, Pitt County Electric Cities, Greenville Utilities Commission and the city of Greenville. At this time, I would like to, to welcome to the podium, the CEO of Bovi at Solar, Jimmy Shea. And I'd like to present him with a gift on behalf of the people of North Carolina, Jimmy. If you could come forward, Jimmy, this is a piece of pottery made one of our, by one of our famous artists uh Ben Owen. And on it has the great seal of the state of North Carolina and it has a part of it. Our, our motto, Si Quam Beri, which means to be rather than to seem, we want you to know in North Carolina we are who we say we are. And we look forward to this partnership for years and decades to come. Congratulations. Thank you for being here. Uh This is uh cup of the Chinese tea. Oh, outstanding. Thank you very much. Well, on behalf of the people of North Carolina, we accept this gift and hopefully we can sit and drink some tea and talk about the great success of this company. Thank you, Jimmy very much. Thank you. Mm Let uh let me begin to say uh by saying, thank you to the press, our partners and everyone who took the time to join us at today's event. Uh We are around to be receiving this investment grade and uh we are excited uh for how it uh will enable us to get our first us solar panel manufacturer facility up to and running and uh created, created uh economic uh uh our opportunities for the pul air. Yeah, for those who uh who aren't familiar. Let me introduce the about the poet founded in 2013 poet, solar head office in Unite, unite us Germany and our group uh headquarters in Vietnam. We have a proven track record of successful working with many of the industrial leading players. And our PV module are known for their power performance. And quality. This is evident because Bo has uh maintained its uh pos uh position at a Bloomberg new energy financing T one solar module manufacturers. Since 2017, we have been written at the top performance on people's PV module reliability uh score card since 2019 BB. Successfully completed. And in the independent e estimate of bo uh uh water solar manufacturers facility in 2022 the US uh solar industrial had been in K for water solar since we first uh entered the uh in 20 17 as of 2020 f uh three world solar PV sales and the PV models manufacturing capacity is more than three gigawatts and it's a shar a total of more than 6.6 gigawatt since uh in fabric, manually operating in us. Marketing. We are dedicated uh to helping to build uh American solar manufacturers uh with our new facility and uh filing, you know, cutting power in uh petit county, North Carolina and the, the natural. Uh let me tell you more about our plan for the manufacture plant. First one of the project, we use the building to manufacture our solar modules per to will including contracting uh start uh start off the art 500,000 to 60 thou uh 100,000 square foot factory on 34 acres to manufacture of PV cells which are used to build the solar panels. The location is expected to output the two gigawatts of solar and the two gigawatt uh PV cells since the future, uh uh will help bring our top performance PV modules to our variable clients to foster stronger connections with the independent uh power products. EP CS product uh developers, solar in, in installs and the contractors. We will have product uh they need uh in increase the deve deployment of uh uh U utilities, commercial industrial and uh dangerous solar project. We will require a strong workforce to product pro produce these solar panels so we will hearing about uh 900 employees uh over the next five years, job are expect expected to increase engineers, product workers. And so on, on behalf of uh B solar, I would like to thank everyone in involved in making this uh weight of product uh possible. The first is the governor uh Rio Cooper and uh and the secu uh secondary security Sanders and the North Korea development of the commerce tr uh territory uh D feature and the e economy uh economic uh developer partners of the North Korea Carolina, North Carolina General and Een North Korea uh communi Community College System, Go Goen Le found uh Foundation, Yanda down uh and the team at the Greenville East, North Carolina Islands, Kelly Andrew and the Peter County developer office, as well as the Pitter county government, Kathy Howard and the leadership team at the Greenville Utilities Commission City of the Greenville Electricity of the North Carolina and our advances today, our dream are coming true. We are upon the to begin pro product in our pe models in the US, bring our manufacturers exciting excellence to our most important uh solar market, creating jobs and the ma uh making up in impact. Solar energy in the United States is a bombing driving by its many benefits. Solar is an economic engine, a source of clean cheap um produce energy set and make a electricity affordable for customers and improve the air quality for health uh communities. We are surrendered to help uh future wills rep reputation for the green. I I can economic and uh manufacturing. We look forward to working with all of our partners, our path towards a cleaning future in the United. Thank you. I wanted to make sure I recognized Senator Candy Smith and Representative Glory Steam Brown and Representative reader, the legislature helped us a lot with this too. So, thank you very much for. Ok. Mhm. Good afternoon. My name is Anne Lord Huggins and I serve on the Pitt County Board of Commissioners. In conclusion of this momentous announcement, we must emphasize how truly honored we are that Pitt County was chosen over the many communities that were under consideration for this project. We are not only announcing the selection of Pitt County for a new industry that will bring strong economic growth to our community, but we are celebrating the collaboration that have developed and will continue to develop among Pitt County. Our partners and this esteem company. This announcement is the culmination of shared vision. This company's vision for its first us manufacturing facility in a business friendly asset, rich and welcoming community and Pitt County's vision for growth through strong industry partners that create highly skilled high paying jobs for our citizens. This vision will come to life in the, in the gr in the green corporate park and we look forward to our continued partnership to make this project successful. Beyond expectation. On behalf of Pitt County and the Board of commissioners, we extend our appreciation to each and every individual who has contributed their time, expertise and passion to make today possible. Most importantly, we extend heartfelt thanks to Bovier Sola for choosing us to communicate, to commemorate. Excuse me, this day, we would like to present a sculpture crafted by local artist Jordan Pera titled Connecting the Links May this day be a continuation of connections that will ensure your continued success. We are honored to be your partners and your chosen community. Welcome to your new home, Pitt County. OK. And I accept this on behalf of pick him and now and welcome to the podium, Thomas Taft Junior Board of Directors of Greenville, NENC Alliance for a toast. That's good. Not a force of guys. II, I had a prepared speech, but I'm gonna take this in a slightly different direction because II I, everyone has, has talked so much about the relationships and everything else. That got us to this point. But all I can say on behalf of Pitt County and on behalf of the Greenville NC Alliance is we won. We have won, we have beat out other communities, phobia technologies to come here. It's everything that we've all been working for, for years and years and years. I look at so many of you out here that uh were participants in that. And again, all I want to say is we won. Pitt County won North Carolina won. Thank you, Governor Cooper. Cheers, everyone. Cheers. Thank you. I don't mind. That's fine. No, no, no, no. Well, I would just add that this is the single largest jobs announcement in Pitt County's history. Uh, I don't believe we've had a governor here in, uh, about 15 years to announce anything, uh, economic development, a new, a new, uh, I'm sorry. But, uh, but either way we're proud to have you here. We're proud to have you guys here. Cheers again to a victory for Pitt County here here. Thank you. Thank you very much. Ok. Thank you so much. I'm ready to provide. Yeah. Yeah. Ok. They see. All right. Right. Yes. That's first. He said going across the way, come back in time.</p>

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A lockdown has ended at Enloe High School in Raleigh, police said Friday.

Good afternoon. My name is Lieutenant Jason with the Public Information Office of the Raleigh Police Department. Deputy Chief Boyce is going to provide an update on the incident that happened at a high school today. Uh Good morning, uh Deputy Chief Rico Boyce of the Raleigh Police Department. I want to provide an update of the incident that occurred here at in low high school this morning. I'm joined here with Major Harrison of the Field Operations Division as well as major latour of the field operations division. I want to begin by saying that everything and everyone is safe at Inlow High School. There's no students, no staff that has been injured as a result of this. Obviously with uh with the allegation of a firearm on campus, it really has an effect on the students and staff, but I want to alert the public that everything is ok. Uh Wake County schools have been very helpful in investigating this matter with the Raleigh Police Department. So what happened just after 10 a.m. this morning, a student approached the principal and made the principal aware that there is a subject on campus with a firearm. The principal immediately placed a school on code red lockdown and with the assistance of the school resource officer, additional officers were called to the scene. Once officers arrived on scene, they began to do a systematic search of the entire school interior and exterior of the school to determine that there was no one on campus with the firearm. Obviously, when you talk about a firearm on campus, it has a very large impact in our community and that's why we had a very large presence of law enforcement. But I will say Raleigh PD working with the Wake County public schools, we have determined that there is no threat on campus. We took this matter very seriously. We're going to continue to investigate and see how this all originated. But at this time, I just want to let the community know that this threat is unfounded, right? There's no threat, there's no firearm, there's no one injured at in high school. So we're going to continue to make sure that the message get out and Wake County public schools will put out an update of how the rest of the school day is going to go as far as any potential early release. I cannot say that right now, what I can say is a student made the principal aware that there is a potential of someone on campus with a firearm. The principal took that information very seriously and placed the school on a code grade lockdown and we began to investigate from there. So at this time, I can't determine if it was a hoax or not. Are you looking for anyone else? I mean, there have been a report that there was a student who said her boyfriend was with a gun. Are you looking for that person? Since no one was found in the school with a gun? We're investigating right now, like say this originated from a student and the information was shared with the principal. So we're still trying to determine what exactly was shared with the principal to lead to the core lockdown. So right now that is like say under investigation, did you guys do a systematic room by room search? Yes, we did. Like I say with this being a school and the threat of a firearm on campus, the Raleigh Police Department's selective enforcement unit, state capital PD County Sheriff's office, they all responded to help us do a systematic search of the entire campus, not only inside the school but it outside school in the surrounding neighborhoods is the lockdown lifted currently. No, it's still code red lockdown right now. We're just finishing up like say some last minute details with Wake County public schools and they will update us when they're going to lift that code red. One more question. I just want to make sure I'm clarifying this correctly. A call from the principle that a student had reported this. Are you still on the lookout for someone who might have been on campus and then left or are you investigating this in a different way? We're investigating this in a different way that this was a alleged threat of someone with a gun on campus. So right now, there's nobody on campus, but we're trying to get the exact details. Like what else was involved in this communication with the student and the principal. Can you really quickly just talk about the response? I mean, this is a massive response to something like this and the impact that has on officers, parents, students out there actually has a huge toll, a huge effect on our officers responding to any school with the potential of a firearm b on a campus. That's why you saw the response to get today. Uh We work very well with our law enforcement partners and we're very thankful for them helping us to clear the school. Uh And obviously with parents, of course, this is going to have a huge impact on parents as well as student and staff. Anytime you see a large police presence on a, on a school campus, but it's all to make sure that everyone is safe. Uh And then we're quickly, we'll try to get the school back to normal operators uh operating as soon as possible. So yes, we came with a lot of resources if there was a threat or would someone would have gone, we wanted to quickly mitigate that. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all. Thank you.

No threat at Enloe High School, releasing students early

Sky 5 flies over code red lockdown at Enloe High School 