1. Eric Garcetti, Mayor of Los Angeles: “And we can now announce the FBI has determined this is not a credible threat, something we couldn’t announce earlier in the day, and I want to be very careful because that does not mean that it’s conclusively one thing or another yet. Some have used words that I think are probably inappropriate like hoax and other things. Whether it’s criminal mischief, whether it’s somebody testing vulnerabilities of multiple cities we still do not know enough to say definitively. But we do know is that it will be safe for our children to return to school tomorrow. The city has been very active all day long to help deal with both the needs of the school district, again this was not my decision to make but my decision to support and to help and to assist them. So we have a rec (recreation) and parks facilities open until 6.30pm for our parents. You can still, students will be able to ride on metro free until 7pm, both buses and rail and we will have our libraries open tonight until 8 o’clock as safe places for our children to be. But it is critically important that we all recognise that in these moments we are here to help, as I mentioned whether it’s San Bernadino asking for our help from Los Angeles Police Department or the school district here today.” 1. SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Zimmer, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) school board president: “There will always be temptation after a day like today to increase the blame and the anger and the vitriol and the suspicion. But what we saw today across Los Angeles was a community turning towards each other not against each other, and that is the spirit with which we invite all of our families, all our of kids, all of our teachers back in to the LAUSD public schools tomorrow.” ++BLACK FRAMES++ 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Charlie Beck, Chief of Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD): “In the abundance of caution, all LAPD officers will be in uniform tomorrow and we will have significant extra patrols at our schools in order to ease the transition back into normalcy. You know the safety of our children is the priority of this city. It is all of our priorities and I think when parents make their determination about the decisions that were made today I would ask them to look at it this way - if you knew what the superintendent and the school board knew at 5.30 this morning when the decision had to be made would you have sent your child to school? And every parent I’ve asked has said ‘no of course not’, and I think that that should be the test that all of us ask our school to pass: do you treat my kids like they’re your own.”