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Los Angeles High School Under Lock Down

Aired September 20, 2002 - 15:29   ET

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MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: We begin on the West Coast. Whittier, California, just outside Los Angeles: live pictures courtesy of our affiliate KABC above the Whittier High School, which is under a lockdown -- which means nobody is getting in; nobody is getting out -- while police look for a suspect who apparently was brandishing a weapon -- there you see the officers going through the campus-like grounds of Whittier High School -- an adult who was armed with a weapon and who apparently had threatened a student earlier in the day.
This led to the lockdown that we're telling you about right now. Meanwhile, the hunt for that suspect continues. We don't know much more about what caused this incident, motives. But we do know this. We are told by authorities there that all the students at Whittier High School are safe and sound and accounted for.

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Aired September 20, 2002 - 15:29   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: We begin on the West Coast. Whittier, California, just outside Los Angeles: live pictures courtesy of our affiliate KABC above the Whittier High School, which is under a lockdown -- which means nobody is getting in; nobody is getting out -- while police look for a suspect who apparently was brandishing a weapon -- there you see the officers going through the campus-like grounds of Whittier High School -- an adult who was armed with a weapon and who apparently had threatened a student earlier in the day.
This led to the lockdown that we're telling you about right now. Meanwhile, the hunt for that suspect continues. We don't know much more about what caused this incident, motives. But we do know this. We are told by authorities there that all the students at Whittier High School are safe and sound and accounted for.

TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com