Name: In the Water: Brooke Simpson
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Description: Brooke Simpson, a Haliwa-Saponi vocalist, songwriter, and finalist on NBC's hit talent-competition show "The Voice," takes part in Come Hear North Carolina's series "In the Water."

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Brooke Simpson, a Haliwa-Saponi vocalist, songwriter, and finalist on NBC's hit talent-competition show "The Voice," takes part in Come Hear North Carolina's series "In the Water."


I think there I don't know The reason why we picked the done center for this amazing opportunity is because actually my first show that I had here it was actually last year and it was wrong you know they were a group and they had 1/3 member Um that you know isn't in the marriage No swingers here but um another member who actually left the group and then after that they were like Okay well broke Come up and sing with us a couple times It's cute And then all the same my mom was like Where's that third part Harmony coming from And it turned out I had just been listening to Catherine the former member like so closely into the part she was singing that it just came naturally to me So when I was seven I started traveling full time as a member of the Mills family You know Not I mean I already was in the middle family but as the band the meals family you know So yeah I just grew up whether we were in the back of a van and I'm sitting on top of the equipment or were in the bus and I'm in my bunk and playing Nintendo and eat Mac and cheese Or if we were in the RV and I'm laying down with my brother and sister trying to wake him up and annoy them Um it was just always the best experience And even when I was tired or anything it was always something I wanted to do And I think even then without me knowing it subconsciously I knew that it's what I wanted to do for the rest of my life Which is why even when I was hired it was worth it It was happy Theo when she was old enough to talk We lived in a single wide mobile home and to her bed Web Room wasn't too far from ours and she would wake up in the middle of the night and just stand up in her crib and just talk I'll come in and I'll say a name and she would repeat me perfectly And so we decided to go in the studio when she was about two years old and we put her in that little box and the engineer was amazed that she didn't sound like your typical little kid that totally all over the place but was still cute She was actually on key And so we knew then she was born to do something greater than I could even imagine I'm not going watching time Go by watching the clogs around watching the days held down I'm not going there here dreaming further day thinking of all the ways reasons why I should stay because I've been law Who Huh Honus yesterday when it's not perfect places you know when But dont ISS day Don't you just sit there watching the tithe wishing that things will turn around watching dreams into the ground that every waas hold me But no one is really a row wear all searching for something sick of returning with three Perfect yesterday I learned all these people places to say no when But it isn I'm not running not runnin from tomorrow from tomorrow tomorrow Now run in now Run in from tomorrow towards symbolic towards puts Oh who needs yesterday the same way Uh don't being on the voice was one of the greatest experiences of my life Um you know I actually auditioned for the boys four years prior to when I got the call to come and try again Made it through the cattle call After that for the second call back I didn't get a call back so I was like Yeah it's okay whatever wasn't meant to be And then four years later I'm in Florida and you know me and my husband were just kind of praying for an opportunity or some kind of door to open because we knew that we wanted more than just where we were at the time But we felt stuck in every sense of the word and randomly One day I got a call Hey this is they even used my made a name  They said Hey we're looking for Bruck Mills Ah we saw that you tried out four years ago in Atlanta Do you want to just try again I mean no promises but do you want to try so like sure So I did And then it ended up leading me toe making it to the top three on the entire show So I mean it was an incredible experience I learned so much about myself as an artist as a human as a woman and I made some of the greatest friends I'll ever have in my life 10 months up I know you said over what you did was So who's is girl What's her name But she like Is she cooled Wound up tight where she lived Be surprised if some just a little bit crazy just a little bit Just a little Just a little bit crazy Just a little bit Just dependent down Just a little bit crazy baby Just just just just a little bit crazy Hit show to her place It's because I saw your there on an instant story in the gauges on and messy hair on the fake Accounted Made just to stare at ship picks on 3 a.m. in case of mystic double some just a little bit crazy Just a little bit Just a little bit Grady Just just depends just a little bit crazy How Just a little just just imagine it I'm just a little bit crazy I'm not Don't tell me Oh don't tell me Oh not even don't help me My mom breaks down to right on time because I have completely lost my you just a little bit just a little I always felt I don't want it to sound any type of way But I always felt special being Native American you know what I mean Like I felt like it was something like if my voice went away or if my personality sucks or if I grew up and I won't Cute That's something that's so cool You know what I mean to say I'm freakin full blooded Native American like Who can say that I mean everyone says you know like Oh yeah my great great grandmother's Cherokee But like No I'm Holly wasa pony bra like That's a big deal That's crazy So I've always taken so much pride in my culture  But when I was younger I didn't dive into it  Like now that I'm older and look back I wish I did like my little sister When she was old enough in eligible she ran for Princess of our tribe which was so cool and looking back I'm like man I should have done that I should have ran for Princess or I should have taken more beating classes or been more consistent in going to the culture classes where they teach you how to do the dances or teach you how to sing in the drum groups or how to play the drums and stuff like that And how sick would it have been if I was like one of the Onley lady drummers Because there's not a lot of ladies who played drums in the drum groups is normally like a dude's thing Um and when I look back I'm like Man I wish I did ABC indeed But instead of letting that be something that hinders me or makes me feel like I can be proud of my culture now I decide we'll know instead of that I'm gonna pick up the mantle now and run with it You know what I mean In ways that I didn't think to when I was young Faith Song I wrote that song years ago I remember when I got the call that faith it passed away and I was in college I was staying up late with my roommate and we were sitting on my bed in my room talking and then all the sudden I get a text message from a mom and saying Hey Faith Hedgepeth passed away You know I know you're probably sleep Give me a call in the morning So I called her and then she told me you know the little bit of information that we had been And I mean I just couldn't stop crying And the thing is me and faith we were never like best friends or like you know attached at the hip But she was someone that made such a huge impact on our community I mean everyone knew faith Everyone loved faith Whether you were best buds and you hung out every day or you just saw her at the power or saw her down adjourn against convenience store I mean you love her She's a beautiful girl Had a beautiful light a beautiful spirit about her Um and so warm So her that happening It literally was a huge a blow to the heart  To our community You know what I mean Um I mean she had a huge impact and you felt it when that news came out So it was a couple of weeks that it passed by before I started to write that song but I just I knew um that I needed to get out in some way like all of the things the mixed feelings and terrible emotions that I was feeling So I wrote this song um to you know just ah a piano melody that I had and I sent it to my mom and I was like I don't know when but I want to perform this someday So you know fast for two later when the boys happens I was asked to sing in our Pau the whole lost money Pau and I knew that even though it wasn't a song that people knew it wasn't something that they could purchase or anything And I wasn't gonna go to the studio anytime soon  I just knew that I wanted to do that to for my community and dedicated to them and dedicated to her in her memory So I performed it then and this is actually the second time I'm ever performing it So it's super special And um it was just supposed to be um obviously in the maybe like a Band Aid to help the wound you know because it may not fix everything but it'll help So just something to bring us back together Way way way the city weighs 4000 crying Wait way be City 4000 wait So city Oh Theo singing with my daughter and all of my Children at different stages of their age When Brooke was a little girl thin all the Children ran up to the front of the church couldn't wait to see Brooke Then she was a teenager Then we would have youth conferences and Brooke what saying those type of songs and and then other two Children as well so as a mom just seeing God take the gifts that he entrusted me and her dad with and multiply them That's our prayer I mean because the domino effect could go either way because alcoholism runs in both sides of my family my family and her dad's family So really bad could happen or really good can happen  So to see her to pick up a microphone two years old and to sing and um and then to watch her unfold her gifts unfold and I've always been on alto But to listen to her take her range like to optimise hired and what I can do and and I really sit sometime And she didn't even know this But I'll re watch the videos and I'll just sit and I'll just say Lord look at your awesomeness how you can just take what we've had and what we instilled and just increase it so much And to know that this is just I'm honored that I was chosen to be her mom and I'm honored to be just a small fraction of what she's taken and taken it to a whole new level Now I'm anxious toe learn from her always asking questions  How did warm up my vocals And I want to learn from her how to write She is such a phenomenal writer and she can write something in a few minutes and I'm like Where did that come from And I'm so it's incredible honored and I'm just so thankful that God allowed me in this time in my life to experience it Yeah I would say like it's it's so cool to kind of like see the contrast of then and now you know because like now when we get together like when we were going over the song that we're going to do today together Um I was thinking back to like back in the day when because the high park came easy to me  But then it was like she was trying to teach me the low part And I remember we were in the car like driving somewhere in Rocky Mount and big Girls don't cry by Fergie was on and I was like I hope you know like I was trying to learn the low part and I kept getting frustrated and her trying to help me Even though she doesn't know the lyrics to this song I remember being in the van and she's just trying to show me the low part you know And then now um like of course like every day her and my dad there are always gonna be teaching me different musical things because they've been doing it their entire life But now it's like I'll hear harmony things that maybe they don't and then like it's you know what I mean That I mean and then also like I mean she she talks about me being a great writer They her and my dad both have written songs before in their great writers But like so from then me learning from then from them toe like now Me trying to show them some of things I do When I write and stuff like that it's just really cool even Right So from from me No way But the eyes they only looked to lose weight me from No Where does it used to be Oh you take uh free Took each value taking a deejay

In the Water: Brooke Simpson

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Boviet Solar plans to spend $294 million by the end of 2027 as part of the deal, state economic development officials said Friday. Commerce officials approved an incentives package worth up to $16.4 million.

<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.

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