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WEBVTT SOLICITATION FOR MURDER IS NOT BEEN RULED OUT. COVINGTON CATHOLIC RETURNED BUT IT WAS FAR FROM A RETURN TO NORMAL. OFFICERS WERE POSITIONED AT THE FRONT DOORS, INSIDE THE HIGH SCHOOL. TIGHTENED SECURITY. STUDENTS WERE BACK. A POLICE PROVER -- CRUISER WAS PATROLLING DUE TO DEATH THREATS AGAINST CHILDREN. >> I AM AWARE OF SOME DEATH THREATS FROM THE STATE OF KENTUCKY. WHETHER THEY ARE LOCAL, I CANNOT TELL YET. JOHN: THE EARLIEST ONES SURFACED ON LATTER-DAY. MOST NOW ARE RETWEETS AND DUPLICATES. COVINGTON CATHOLIC SAYS ONLY STUDENT, FACULTY AND STAFF CAN COME AND GO. TRY TO PROSECUTE THOSE MAKING THESE NECESSARY WILL TAKE A LOT OF TIME. >> A LOT OF THIS IS DONE WITH GRAND JURY SUBPOENAS. THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT WILL BE OVER IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. JOHN: ROB SANDERS ACKNOWLEDGES THE DEGREE OF DIFFICULTY. PROVING WHO HIS HANDS WERE ON THE KEYBOARD AT THE TIME THREATS WERE MADE. CALLING THE POWER OF SOCIAL MEDIA STAGGERING AND SCARY. >> EVEN PEOPLE WHO HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS ARE GETTING DEATH THREATS BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE MISS IDENTIFYING THIS -- MISIDENTIFYING FACES IN THE VIDEO. JOHN: THEY WILL SORT THROUGH 20,000 EMAILS THAT EMPLOYEES HAVE RECEIVED TO FIND THE ONES THAT CONSTITUTE A THREAT. THIS SCENE IS A SUSPICIOUS PACKAGE INVESTIGATION AT THE COVINGTON DIOCESES. TRAFFIC IS STILL MOVING BUT MEDICINE ROAD IS BLOCKED. THE CINCINNATI BOMB SQUAD IS ON THE SCENE.

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As classes resumed Wednesday at Covington Catholic High School for the first time since a nationwide firestorm of controversy erupted, the investigation into alleged death threats against students and the school started in earnest.Detectives from Erlanger began the work of securing subpoenas and warrants for online records Wednesday afternoon.They started by pulling some of the many alleged threats from the internet.There is no precise count yet, but Kenton County Commonwealth Attorney Rob Sanders estimated this week there could be hundreds of such threats.He is adamant about the seriousness of the situation, stressing that anyone who has made a threat is subject to prosecution if they are identified and found.Wednesday's return to school grounds by the students was far from a return to normalcy.Police officers were positioned in the parking lot, at the front doors and inside the high school.The heightened security is open-ended for now.Principal Bob Rowe sent word to parents that the school has done its due diligence to ensure student safety but added, "If you as a parent do not feel comfortable sending your son to CCH tomorrow or for subsequent days, please know that we understand this viewpoint during this difficult time period."His characterization seemed apt. Students were back amid allegations of anonymous threats of putting them through wood chippers, shooting up their school or locking them inside and burning the building down.Our cameras recorded a police cruiser moving past American flags in the front lot Wednesday morning, patrolling due to alleged death threats toward the students."The vast majority of the threats I've seen have come from long distances away," observed Sanders. "However, I am aware of some that are from the state of Kentucky. So, whether or not they're local, I just don't know yet. I just know that there are some that have come from within the state."The earliest allegations surfaced Saturday after the initial video clip went viral, appearing to show students of the school interacting negatively with a Native American protester in Washington, D.C.The alleged threats increased in number and intensity through Monday as initial impressions of alleged offensive mocking by students took root.We are told most of the threats are now are retweets and duplicates."I suspect that a lot of these people are folks that do this on the internet on a regular basis, and they've gone to great lengths to hide their identity," said Sanders. "And that obviously makes it more difficult. There are some people that are using what I believe are their real names and their real locations."Officials with Cov Cath, as the school is known in shorthand terminology, notified its school community that unless otherwise scheduled, only students, faculty and staff can come and go on campus.Trying to identify, find and prosecute the people behind the alleged threats will likely take a lot of time, according to Sanders.Sanders explained that much of the investigative work is done with grand jury subpoenas. It can take weeks or months to get companies to turn over information, records and the proof required to go forward with charges."So, this isn't something that's going to be over in the next couple of days," cautioned Sanders.The degree of difficulty involves not only proving who an account belongs to, but proving whose hands were on the keyboard at the time the alleged threats were made.Calling the power of social media "staggering and scary," he spoke of how a sense of security can be destroyed in a matter of minutes."Even people that had nothing to do with this incident that are now getting death threats because somebody misidentified the face that they saw on the video," Sanders said.The power of social media has conducted its own crash course the past few days.As recently as Tuesday night, there were postings about Cov Cath students making offensive comments on the internet.It turned out one of the youths in question was not a Covington Catholic student and was not from Northern Kentucky."And yet you've got people on the internet now spreading more fake news and lies and rumors about Cov Cath, making the situation worse," Sanders said.