Name: Panthers Playbook: GM Scott Fitterer fired
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Description: Dennis Cox & Chris Lea react to the breaking news of the Carolina Panthers firing GM Scott Fitterer. Dennis & Chris discuss all of the draft picks traded away by Fitterer that didn't work, what's next for possible GM hiring and head coach, and the next move needed by owner David Tepper.

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Dennis Cox & Chris Lea react to the breaking news of the Carolina Panthers firing GM Scott Fitterer. Dennis & Chris discuss all of the draft picks traded away by Fitterer that didn't work, what's next for possible GM hiring and head coach, and the next move needed by owner David Tepper.

Well, Chris, this is how we start off the morning, an emergency episode of Panthers playbook, Scott Fenner out as the general manager of the Carolina Panthers, he's out, he's up, which we didn't see. We can't, we can't lie. We, we saw this coming, right. He said, we're surprised we thank you for your service, but we are moving on. Yes, we are moving on and I know normally this is a point where I'd say let's get this sucker started. But I, I know a lot of people probably don't want to hear the feared Carolina Panthers again in the intro, uh, because we always hear comments about it, which is totally fine. I, we just, we just stuck with it, uh, for the course of the season, but this is how we start the morning. And again, we're not surprised 100% at all by it, especially with all the draft picks that have been traded away, Chris over the last three years just to fill your number one quarterback position that in and of itself is fireable in my opinion. And part of me kind of feels like, uh, Scott was in a, in a bad position coming to the Panthers anyway, because David Tepper and ultimately, if David Tepper is going to, um, kind of act the same way he's been acting since 2020 maybe since 2019. Um, that it doesn't matter who's gonna fill Scott Federer's shoes, that that person might be fired in three years or less themselves anyway. Uh, however, uh, you're right, ultimately, a lot of those decisions kind of came down to the general manager and, uh, he's absolutely just kind of, I don't want to say ruin the, the future of the franchise, but like, you've traded away so much to get back so little like, and, and to talk about how you've been in on every deal and it feels like you've gotten hosed in every deal. Like Christian mccaffrey was an MVP candidate this season. Now, that doesn't mean he would have been that with the Carolina Panthers. But if you would have gotten the right people around him, which is your job, Scott Fitterer, you're the one who puts together the roster, maybe Christian mccaffrey could have had that if you all would have had patience. Now, Scott Fitterer didn't have anything to do with the Teddy Bridgewater thing. So that, that happened before, that was before. However, uh, from there, you continued to trade away picks and you were a part of a team that traded away 11 picks to get Bryce Young and DJ Moore and DJ and DJ Moore, like I'm sorry, like what, what have the Carolina Panthers gotten in return? Think about all of those picks DJ Moore, think about trading up to get DJ Johnson. And if you got other guys who play on the defensive line, who've been a lot more productive this year for other teams that you could have gotten instead that you didn't have to trade up for DJ Johnson for. And that's just one example of, of plenty of examples from the draft, from trading away picks from trading away top end players like the Carolina Panthers really could have and probably should have been at least middle of the road to potentially uh a fringe uh playoff team. And you just came in here and you cleaned all that out while telling us we're winning now. They're, they're two and 15 for a reason. And I know a lot of people probably say, well, you're probably being too negative. Well, guess what? There's not really a whole lot to be positive about right now when it comes to the Carolina Panthers outside of Derek Brown's awesome season. Not really a whole lot to be excited about. There are a few other, uh you know, moments and stuff, but we talk about it again. The draft picks traded away a 2nd, 1/4 and 1/6 round picks for Sam Arnold. He was only a starter really for a season because you traded 1/5 round pick to get Baker Mayfield. Oh, in the same year, you traded 1/5 round pick to get Baker Mayfield. You use a future third round pick and a current year fourth round pick in 2022 to draft Matt Corral who played zero snaps for you also, that same year, you traded up to get Matt Corral in the third round in 2022. You use a couple of fifth round picks to move up to get Brandon Roberts in the fourth round of that draft who didn't even last more than one season with the team? You got cut in training camp just last season. So you use two picks to trade up for a linebacker who didn't even make your roster after one season. You, you traded a future third round pick and 1/4 round pick to take Mac Morrell who played zero snaps for you. I understand that he got injured but he ended up getting rid of him after one season anyway. So that's the thing like that's four draft picks used on two guys who really didn't even play for you who didn't even play for you. And these are, you know, 3rd, 4th round picks which are guys that you hope might be a starter, but at least a rotational piece for you and they didn't even play for you. That's in recent seasons, the 2022 draft alone, like we were talking about, you had three guys on your current roster of this season. From the 2022 draft, Icky Kwu, which is still a question mark. You had Cade Mays who's at best, a backup guard and Amari Barno, who I really, really like, by the way, is a special team or as a six round pick, I really like Amari Barno in that role and in what he does, I think he's awesome at it. So really, because the question mark is still around I Kwando, there's one pick that you hit on, you could say that actually did what they're doing in terms of where they're drafted. That's Amare Barno, that's it. And then again, we talked about all the hall given up just to draft Bryce Young. Two first round picks, two second round picks and DJ Moore and the, the first round pick the future one in 2024 that you gave up is the number one overall pick, man. Like these are just some of the moves that you made that clearly didn't work out and guess what that gets you fired. So from going forward, there's a lot of folks, you know, you look at Panthers Twitter, you have, see people talking, they're like, hey, give Dan Morgan a chance and listen, I'm a Panthers fan through and through. Uh Dan Morgan is an important part of the organization, not only just uh his history as a player, he kind of set the groundwork for Thomas Davis and Luke Kuechly and all of that. Like you know, him and, and John Beason were great, right? Um But he's a part of this general manager's office that made these moves. I don't know how involved he was with it, but Scott Federer got hired because he was involved with the the office over in Seattle who created the legion of boom, right? So if we're gonna say, OK, Scott Federer, you're in a room when the legion of boom was uh formed, then we gotta look at Dan Morgan like no, you were in the room when all of this was happening, when all of these picks were traded away when these uh players were signed, that haven't done anything for the Carolina Panthers uh in a free agency when um all these bad decisions and this roster that is currently constructed for this season was put together, you were in the room and I'm sorry, I just don't know if I want that guy to be the general manager. I, I think I want somebody who has, I don't know, maybe if you can find somebody with a proven track record, but somebody with a better track record at least to be in a, in a better room when, when better things were happening. And, and, and you know, II I would love to keep that one in house, but you can't keep everything in house. We probably should have kept stuff in house with Steve Wilkes. You can't keep that one in house like I, I think that you, you have to gut that part out. Unfortunately, unfortunately, unfortunately, you just have to gut that out. It just sucks. I mean, unless the whomever they hire as a general manager maybe wants to keep him on also, just maybe for some continuity or whatever it might be. Dan Morgan was like, hey, I was against these moves, but Scott made that decision anyway, who knows? Who knows? But nonetheless, uh, the big question mark going forward, there's, there's two major question marks but in terms of order of, of decision for the owner, David Tepper, you're gonna hire GM first, then bring in a, a head coach or you're gonna hire a head coach and then find the GM that fits with them. And that, that's the, that's the big question moving forward. I personally like going GM then head coach. That's my personal opinion, but we'll see what David Tepper does. So according to, um, the article written by Darren G on, uh, panthers.com, uh, it says at the last, uh, paragraph says the Panthers will begin this search for his replacement immediately and will be able to interview coaching candidates in person beginning January 22nd. So we're basically from when we're recording this, uh, two weeks out from when they can, uh, talk to coaching candidates, I would assume that David Tapper would probably want to really expedite this process. Try to get in a GM probably within the next 10 days, I would assume, uh, get that person, get that person in town, talk about the future and the plans of, of, um, of the franchise and have that person a part of the coaching search. So, um, you know, you can say, hey, I want Ben Johnson all you want. But if you are going to let this GM actually cook, the GM has to be able to make some decisions on his own. Uh, and you have to live with that. And if he says, you know what Ben Johnson is a great candidate, however, there's this guy who's here and he's gonna be good because blah, blah, blah, blah. Well, David Tepper, you need to figure out how to let that person do their job and let them cook if they suck, ok, get rid of them. But you don't need to be a part of this at all because you're losing favor with the Carolina Panthers fan base. You can, you can keep favor with the Carolina Panthers fan base by staying out of the bad decisions and when they're, when the bad decisions come up, well, you do your job and say, all right, you took, taken our franchise to the wrong, uh, le level. I don't, uh, have faith in the job that you can do. You're out of here. I'm gonna find the next person, but you have to give them time before you do that. You just can't let people go like that. You gotta let this next iteration of the Carolina Panthers cook for a little bit to see what can happen. Arthur Smith helped build a pretty good Atlanta Falcons roster, whoever takes over for the Atlanta Falcons is getting a hell of a team. They are basically what the Carolina Panthers thought they were a quarterback away. Honestly, they're a quarterback away. The person who comes here is gonna have to do a heavy, some heavy lifting. You go to Atlanta Falcons. That might be a 350 dead lift. Yeah, the Carolina Panthers. That's a, that's a 5 £5600 dead lift, ok? Like that's tough. That might strain your back a little bit. You gotta find the right person who can do it. Yeah, it's gonna take, it's gonna take some time. This rebuild is going to take some time. Uh Make sure you get, you subscribe here on 99 9, the fans youtube page because when this kind of stuff happens, Chris and I are gonna be here for you all here for you, all the people. So again, leave your thoughts in the comments section below on the, the firing of Federer who you want to possibly be the next general manager. Just let us know in the comments section down below. Uh We're gonna have another episode for you at some time in the near future. Where were you when you found out uh in my bed? I was just, you know, chilling, hanging out with John dropping the kids off at the Super Bowl and just, you know, like, oh this is happening. I guess everybody is all cleared out today. Keep taking the probiotics. We'll see you guys next time.

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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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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 