3 Atlanta elementary schools evacuated

We begin with three Atlanta elementary schools being evacuated due to threats. Good afternoon and thanks for joining us for Fox 5 News at Noon. I'm Caitlin Pratt in for Alex Whitler. According to APS, these threats happened at Morningside, E. Rivers, and Springdale Park Elementary Schools. Police are now investigating. And Fox 5's Kevin Stewart joining us this noon live outside Morningside. What can you tell us, Kevin? Yeah the threat is clear right now. Each of those schools is on the east side of town. I'm told Springdale Park was the last school cleared right now. I'm at Morningside Elementary School. We understand that each school got a phone-in threat this morning and then APS went into the process of evacuating the schools. I can tell you that the kids over here at Morningside Elementary School We're taking to a nearby church, and just before 11:30, we saw the kids walk back into the classroom as parents were lined up on the sidewalk to try to come and pick them up. And right now, as we speak, we're seeing parents walk away with their kids. I had a chance to talk to one parent who raised her concerns, and she's glad. This could have been a whole lot worse. Take a listen. It's so disruptive and it wastes so many like taxpayer dollars and stuff. It's just it's ridiculous. But I mean, what if it's actually true? So you just have to take each one seriously, I guess. All right. Now, we understand the nature of the threat. We do not know. I've been told by an APS spokesperson who was right out here that they are not going to release that information because they do believe that could compromise the investigation. We understand that this is now not an APS police issue, but an APD and Homeland Security issue. We'll continue to follow this story. But for now, we're live in Morningside, Lenox Park, Northeast Atlanta, Kevin Stewart, Fox 5 News. Disrupted.