Update: More bomb threats were made and more District of Columbia high schools were evacuated Wednesday, a day after Doug Emhoff's visit to a school was cut short. Another seven more public high schools and charter schools across the city were threatened, the Washington Post reports. Students and staff left while the buildings were searched, and in all seven cases, police gave the all-clear. Most of the calls were received between noon and 1pm, officials said. Our original story from Tuesday follows:
Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, was whisked out of an event Tuesday at a Washington high school by Secret Service agents following an apparent bomb threat. Emhoff was at Dunbar High School for an event in commemoration of Black History Month. He was in the school's museum for about five minutes before a member of his security detail approached him saying, "we have to go." Emhoff was removed from the building into his waiting motorcade. Students and educators at the school were instructed to leave the school, with an overhead announcement saying, "evacuate the building," the AP reports.
District of Columbia Public Schools spokesman Enrique Gutierrez said there was a bomb threat. It was not known if it was related to Emhoff's visit or the Black History Month event. Emhoff spokesperson Katie Peters said the school alerted the Secret Service about what she termed a "security incident or a report of a potential security incident." Students at the school were dismissed for the day, since it was expected to take several hours for security officials to sweep the building, principal Nadine Smith said.
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