Keeping campus safe

tonight we got a closer look at how they warn students… if the need ever arises. nats – two more college shootings have students like mary amoroso worried. sot: it happens pretty frequently. sot: it’s heartbreaking to think you go to school, you might not come home at the end of the day. she’s from colorado, so she’s no ???? ???? st?? stranger to ?? news of school shootings. sot: there’s columbine, the theater shooting, arapahoe high school, it’s hard to realize people can do something like that to people who don’t really deserve it. at uccs, her cell phone should go off if there’s ever an emergency. sot: once we confirm a threat, that’s when we look at sending an emergency notification those notifications sent… are controlled from here. typically we try and send an internal alert live in a short test group. 80-percent of students at faculty have a phone number subscribed to the alerts. ?c?s standup: but northern arizona university admits, they, too, had an emrgency alert system in place. but it only went out to 700 people in the initial minutes, because of human error. so how do you prevent that from happening when it matters most. a lot of it is discipline and training. uccs chief of police brian mcpike admits, he thinks about these shootings more often, it truly is something that’s on our mind every day, there’s not a day that i wake up taht i don’t think about something could happen, or something scary. students here are just grateful for the peace – sot: i’m not worried here, personally. they still have at school. chief mcpike also credits his force – made up of