Name: Biden's inaugural speech: This is democracy's day
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Description: Joe Biden was sworn in on Jan. 20, 2021, as the 46th president of the United States.

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Joe Biden was sworn in on Jan. 20, 2021, as the 46th president of the United States.

Vice President Harris, Speaker Pelosi, Leader. Schumer. Mitch McConnell, vice president. Pence My distinguished guests, My fellow Americans. This is America's Day. This is democracies day, a day of history and hope every new and resolve Through a crucible for the ages, America has been tested a new and America has risen to the challenge. Today we celebrate the triumph not of a candidate, but because because of democracy, the people, the will of the people has been heard on. The will of the people has been heated. We've learned again that democracy is precious. Democracy is fragile. At this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed. So now, on this hallowed ground, we're just a few days ago, violence sought to shake the capital's very foundation. We come together as one nation under God, indivisible, to carry out the peaceful transfer of power, as we have for more than two centuries, a Z look ahead and are uniquely American, way restless, bold, optimistic and set our sights on the nation we know we can be and we must be. I thank my predecessors of both parties for their presence here today. I thank them from the bottom, my heart and I know I know the resilience of our Constitution and the strength, the strength of our nation, as does President Carter. I spoke with last night who cannot be with us today but whom we salute for his lifetime and service. I've just taken the sacred oath. Each of those Patriots have taken the oath first sworn by George Washington. But the American story depends. Not in any one of us, not on some of us, but on all of us. On we, the people who seek a more perfect union. This is a great nation. Were good people on over the centuries, through storm and strife, in peace and in war. We've come so far, but we still have far to go. Well, press forward with speed and urgency, for we have much to do in this winter of peril and significant possibilities, much to repair, much to restore, much to heal, much to build and much to gain. A few people, our nation's history, have been mawr challenged, are found a time or challenging or difficulty thin. The time we're now once in a century virus that silently stalks the country is taken as many lives in one year as America lost in all of World War two, millions of jobs have been lost. Hundreds of thousands of businesses closed a cry for racial justice some 400 years in the making moves US dream of justice for all will be deferred. No longer. A cry for survival comes from planet itself, a cry that can't be any more desperate or any more clear. And now, a rise of political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat. To overcome these challenges to restore the soul and secure the future of America requires so much more than words requires the most elusive of all things in a democracy. Unity, unity. In another January, on New Year's Day in 18 63 Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. When he put pen to paper, the president said, And I quote, If my name ever goes down into history, it will be for this act on. My whole soul is in it. My whole soul is in it today. On this January day, my whole soul is in this bringing America together, uniting our people united in our nation. On I ask every American to join me in this cause, Uniting to fight the foes. We face anger, resentment and hatred, extremism, lawlessness, violence, disease, joblessness and hopelessness. With unity, we can do great things. Important things we can right wrongs. We can put people to work in good jobs. We can teach our Children in safe schools. We can overcome the deadly virus. We could reward, reward work and rebuild the middle class and make health care secure for all. We can deliver racial justice and we can make America once again leading force for good in the world. I know, speaking of unity, confound to some like a foolish fantasy these days I know the forces that divide us are deep and they are riel. But I also know they are not new. Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal that we're all are created equal and the harsh, ugly reality that racism, nativism, fear, demonization have long tourney us apart. Battle is perennial and victory is never assured Through civil war, the Great Depression, World War 9 11 Through struggle, sacrificing setbacks. Our better angels have always prevailed in each of these moments. Enough of us. Enough of us have come together to carry all of us forward and we can do that now. History, faith and reason show the way the way of unity. Waken see each other not as adversaries but his neighbors. We can treat each other with dignity and respect. We can join forces, stopped shouting and lower the temperature. For without unity there is no peace. Onley, bitterness and fury No progress on Lee. Exhausting outrage. No nation on Lee. A state of chaos This'll is our historic moment of crisis and challenge and unity. Is the path forward on? We must meet this moment as the United States of America. If we do that, I guarantee you we will not fail. We have never, ever, ever, ever failed in America. We've acted together on DSO today at this time in this place. Let's start a fresh all of us. Let's begin to listen to one another again. Here one another, see one another, show respect to one another. Politics doesn't have to be a raging fire, destroying everything in his path. Every disagreement doesn't have to be a cause for total war on and we must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured. Thank you, my fellow Americans. We have to be different than this. America has to be better than this on. I believe America is so much better than this. Just look around. Here we stand in the shadow of the Capitol Dome. A Z was mentioned earlier, completed amid the civil war when the union itself was literally hanging in the balance. Yet we endured way prevailed. Here we stand, looking out in the Great mall where Dr King spoke of his dream. Here we stand were 108 years ago at another inaugural, thousands of protesters tried to block brave women marching for the right to vote on. Today we mark the swearing into the first woman in American history elected to National office Vice President Kamala Harris. Don't tell me things can't change here we stand across the Potomac from Arlington Cemetery, where heroes who gave the last full measure of devotion rest in eternal peace. And here we stand just days after a riotous mob thought they could use violence to silence the will of the people to stop the work of our democracy. To drive us from this sacred ground. It did not happen. It will never happen. Not today, not tomorrow. Not ever. Not ever. Yeah. Okay. All those who supported our campaign. I'm humbled by the faith you place in us To all those who did not support us. Let me say this. Hear me out. As we move forward, take a measure of May and my heart. If you still disagree, so be it. That's democracy. That's America. The right to dissent peaceably, when the guard rails of our republic is perhaps this nation's greatest strength yet. Hear me clearly. Disagreement must not lead to this union. And I pledge this to you. I will be a president for all Americans. All Americans on, I promise you, I will. Fight is hard for those who did not support me. As for those who did many centuries ago, ST Augustine a saying in my church wrote to the people, was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love defined by the common objects of their love. What are the common objects we as Americans love that define us as Americans? I think we know Opportunity, security, liberty, dignity, respect, honor. And yes, the truth. Yeah, In recent weeks and months, E taught us a painful lesson. There is truth and there are lives lies told for power and for profit. And each of us has a duty and responsibility as citizens, as Americans, especially as leaders, leaders who have pledged toe honor our Constitution and protect our nation to defend the truth and defeat the lies. Look, I understand that many of my fellow Americans view the future was fear and trepidation. I understand they worry about their jobs, Understand? Like my dad, they lay in bed, staring at the night, staring at the ceiling, wondering kind of keep my health care kind of pay my mortgage, thinking about their families about what comes next. I promise you, I get it. But the answer is not to turn inward, to retreat into competing factions, distrusting those who don't look like look like you or worship the way you do or don't get their news from the same sources. You dio way must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue. Rural versus Ireland are rural versus urban conservative versus liberal. We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts. If we show a little tolerance and humility and if we're willing to stand in the other person's shoes, is my mom would say, just for a moment, stand in their shoes Because here's the thing about life. There's no accounting for what fate will deal you. Some days when you need a hand there. Other days when we're called to lend a hand, that's how it has to be. That's what we do for one another. And if we are this way, our country will be stronger, more prosperous. Mawr ready for the future. And we could still disagree. My fellow Americans and the work ahead of us. We're gonna need each other. We need all our strength to preserve. To persevere through this dark winter, we're entering what may be the toughest and deadliest period of the virus. Way must set aside politics and finally faced this pandemic as one nation, one nation. And I promise you this, as the Bible says we be may endure for a night. But joy cometh in the morning. We will get through this together together. Look, folks, all my colleagues I served with in the House and the Senate up here way. All understand the world is watching watching all of us today. So here's my message of those beyond our borders. America has been tested and we've come out stronger for it. Way will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again not to meet yesterday's challenges. But today's and tomorrow's challenges yeah, and will lead not merely by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. Will be a strong and trusted partner for peace, progress and security. Look, you all know we've been through so much in this nation on my first act as president. Like to ask you to join me in a moment of silent prayer. Remember all those who we lost in this past year to the pandemic? Those 400,000 fellow Americans, moms, dads, husbands, wives, sons, daughters, friends, neighbors and coworkers will honor them, but becoming the people and the nation we know we can and should be. So I ask you, let's say a silent prayer for those who lost their lives and those left behind and for our country. Amen, folks, Thistle, Time of testing way. We face an attack under democracy and untruth. A raging virus, growing inequity, sting of systemic racism, climate in crisis, America's role in the world. Any one of these we have enough to challenge us and profound ways. But the fact is, we face them all at once, presenting this nation with one of the gravest responsibilities we've had. Now we're gonna be tested. Are we going to step up all of us? It's time for boldness, for there is so much to do. And this is certain, I promise you, we will be judged you and I by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era. We will rise to the occasion is the question. Will we master this rare and difficult our what? We meet our obligations and pass along a new and better world? Our Children? I believe we must. I'm sure you do as well. I believe we will. And when we do, we'll write the next great chapter in the history of the United States of America. The American story, A story that might sound something like a song that means a lot to May is called American Anthem. There's one verse that stands out at least for May, and it goes like this Work and prayers of century have brought us to this day What shall be our legacy? What will our Children say? Let me know in my heart when my days air through America, America, I gave my best to you. Let's add lets us add our own work and prayers to the unfolding story of our great nation. If we do this, then when our days air through our Children and our Children's Children will save us. They gave their best. They did their duty. They heal the broken land. My fellow Americans, I closed the day where I began with the sacred oath before God and all of you. I give you my word. I will always level with you. I will defend the Constitution. I'll defend our democracy. I will defend America on will give all all of you keep everything I do in your service thinking not of power but the possibilities. Not a personal interest, but the public Good. And together we shall write an American story of hope, not fear of unity. Not division of light, not darkness. A story of decency and dignity, love and healing, greatness and goodness. May this be the story that guides us the story that inspires us. And the story that tells age is yet to come that we answered the call of history. We met the moment democracy and hope. Truth and justice did not die in our watch, but thrive that America's secured liberty at home and stood once again as a beacon to the world. That is what we owe our forebearers one another and generation to follow. So with purpose and resolve, we turn to those task of our time sustained by faith, driven by conviction devoted to one another in the country we love with all our hearts. May God bless America and may God protect our troops. Thank you, America.

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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.

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