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WEBVTT WHAT CAN YOU TELL US?BIANCA: HERE AT NORTH MONTEREYCOUNTY HIGH SCHOOL THE GATES ARELOCKED, NO ONE IS BEING LET INOR OUT, EXCEPT FOR SOME STAFF.THEY ARE ONE OF FOUR SCHOOLSTHAT RECEIVED CALLS THIS MORNINGAROUND NINE ABOUT A BOMB THREAT.THOSE SCHOOLS ARE, VIRGINIA ROCA BARTON SCHOOL INSALINAS, NORTH MONTEREY COUNTYMIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL.AND GAVILAN VIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL.GAVILAN SCHOOL WAS EVACUATED ANDTHE SHERIFF'S BOMB SEARCHING DOGWAS ON CAMPUS SEARCHING FOR ANYTHREATS.THE BOMB TEAM IS MAKING THEIRWAY TO ALL 4 SCHOOLS THISMORNING.IN THE MEANTIME THE NORTHMONTEREY COUNTY DISTRICT SCHOOLSARE SHELTERING IN PLACE.ALL MORNING PARENTS HAVE BEENSHOWING UP HERE AT THE HIGHSCHOOL WORRIED ABOUT THEIRCHILDREN.>> IT IS SCARY.MY DAUGHTER CALLED ME, TOLD METHE ISSUE.I STOPPED I'M DOING AND CAMERIGHT AWAY.I HAVE MY GRANDDAUGHTER AT THESCHOOL.I DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO -->> I TOOK HIM TO THE DENTIST, IWAS CLOSE TO DROPPING THEM OFF,SO WE'LL JUST HAVE TO TAKE HIMBACK HOME.BIANCA: STUDENTS ARE BEINGGATHERED AT THE GYM, NO WORD YETON WHETHER THEY WILL RESUMECLASSES OR GO HOME.ACCORDING TO THE SHERIFF'SOFFICE, THE CALLS WERE VAGUE,SAYING SIMPLY THAT A BOMB WOULDGO OFF TODAY AND THEN THE CALLERHUNG UP.RIGHT NOW THERE IS NO EVIDENCEOF A CREDIBLE THREAT BUT

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Four Monterey County schools received anonymous phoned-in bomb threats Tuesday morning, and investigators determined that the threats were bogus. The caller said, "a bomb is going to go off today," and hung up. The four phone calls were made just minutes apart, and the caller's voice was described as young. Sheriff's deputies used a bomb-sniffing dog on all four campuses to ensure there were no real dangers."Our bomb dog found nothing," Sheriff's Cmdr. John Thornburg said. Gavilan View Middle School in Salinas received a bomb threat at 8:15 a.m. The school, located at 18250 Van Buren Ave., was immediately evacuated."(Deputies) conducted a search of the entire campus. Nothing was found," a press release from the Santa Rita Union School District stated. -- Download the KSBW news app for breaking newsStudents were placed on lockdown at Virginia Rocca Barton Elementary School on Las Casitas Drive in Salinas after their school received a threat at 8:21 a.m. North Monterey County High School and North Monterey County Middle School sheltered in place because of two more bomb threats, made at 8:50 a.m. and 9:10 a.m.The North Monterey County Unified School District posted the following message on its website: "There has been a person that has called several schools in Monterey County with a similar message related to a possible bomb threat. We are working closely with the sheriff's department, who are on the school campuses, and we are taking every precautionary measure to keep your children safe. "WATCH: KSBW Reporter Bianca Beltran's Facebook Live at North Monterey County High School this morningThornburg said no suspects have yet been identified.Thornburg said the threats were likely made by the same person. North Monterey County High School has been targeted by fake bomb threats several times in recent years. In February of 2015, a 17-year-old boy called the school claiming to be a girl who had joined the ISIS terrorism network. The teen said students would be killed if the school did not leave $15,000 on the school's front gate.READ MORE: Boy accused of making ISIS threatsThe ISIS case was investigated for three months by the U.S. Secret Service, FBI, and Monterey County Sheriff's Office, and clues led investigators to the boys' house in Surprise, Arizona. Investigators said the boy targeted the school near Castroville because he had met a 17-year-old girl online and wrongly believed she attended school there. He was arrested.In September 2016, a 17-year-old Greenfield boy made "scary clown" shooting and bomb threats on Facebook against every school in Monterey County. Salinas police tracked the Facebook account's home address to a house in Greenfield, and the boy was arrested. READ MORE: Scary clown threats made against Monterey County schools