WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:02:05.8620000" NOTE recognizability:0.861 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.8400386 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.000 The body scanner initiative in NOTE Confidence: 0.8400386 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:04.620 CMS schools is set to expand. NOTE Confidence: 0.8400386 00:00:04.620 --> 00:00:06.525 Tonight we're learning thousands more NOTE Confidence: 0.8400386 00:00:06.525 --> 00:00:09.167 high schoolers in the district will start NOTE Confidence: 0.8400386 00:00:09.167 --> 00:00:11.183 their school days with these devices. NOTE Confidence: 0.8400386 00:00:11.190 --> 00:00:13.190 CMS Superintendent Ernest Winston says NOTE Confidence: 0.8400386 00:00:13.190 --> 00:00:15.835 that the district wants to add the NOTE Confidence: 0.8400386 00:00:15.835 --> 00:00:17.858 scanners in 14 more high schools to NOTE Confidence: 0.8400386 00:00:17.858 --> 00:00:20.310 try to curb weapons entering campuses. NOTE Confidence: 0.8400386 00:00:20.310 --> 00:00:21.770 WCNC Charlotte Shamara Morrison NOTE Confidence: 0.8400386 00:00:21.770 --> 00:00:23.230 shares this latest plan. NOTE Confidence: 0.8837111 00:00:24.060 --> 00:00:26.349 It's been a little under a week NOTE Confidence: 0.8837111 00:00:26.349 --> 00:00:28.939 since 7 CMS high schools started NOTE Confidence: 0.8837111 00:00:28.940 --> 00:00:30.065 using body scanners. NOTE Confidence: 0.8837111 00:00:30.065 --> 00:00:31.940 Happy to report that phase. NOTE Confidence: 0.8837111 00:00:31.940 --> 00:00:34.418 One of the evolved scanner installation NOTE Confidence: 0.8837111 00:00:34.418 --> 00:00:36.493 has been completed and training NOTE Confidence: 0.8837111 00:00:36.493 --> 00:00:38.964 is on schedule at the first seven NOTE Confidence: 0.8837111 00:00:38.964 --> 00:00:40.940 schools as part of phase one, NOTE Confidence: 0.8837111 00:00:40.940 --> 00:00:42.059 the student advisor NOTE Confidence: 0.8837111 00:00:42.060 --> 00:00:44.692 for the CMS school board says he met NOTE Confidence: 0.8837111 00:00:44.692 --> 00:00:46.938 with students about their experience. NOTE Confidence: 0.9209841 00:00:48.400 --> 00:00:52.304 I feel like that is a good idea. NOTE Confidence: 0.9209841 00:00:52.310 --> 00:00:54.000 These students who supported our, NOTE Confidence: 0.9209841 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:56.513 especially those who don't want to clear NOTE Confidence: 0.9209841 00:00:56.513 --> 00:00:59.162 backpacks and have it and have also NOTE Confidence: 0.9209841 00:00:59.162 --> 00:01:00.670 experienced something an experience NOTE Confidence: 0.9209841 00:01:00.670 --> 00:01:03.057 with guns so they feel like that may NOTE Confidence: 0.9209841 00:01:03.057 --> 00:01:05.450 be a solution to the problem in which NOTE Confidence: 0.8367058 00:01:05.450 --> 00:01:07.460 it's not. CMS Superintendent says staff NOTE Confidence: 0.8367058 00:01:07.460 --> 00:01:09.829 is still being trained on these scanners. NOTE Confidence: 0.836705800000001 00:01:09.830 --> 00:01:11.678 Our team is very confident that NOTE Confidence: 0.836705800000001 00:01:11.678 --> 00:01:14.009 the lessons that we learn as part NOTE Confidence: 0.836705800000001 00:01:14.009 --> 00:01:15.729 of phase one implementation will NOTE Confidence: 0.836705800000001 00:01:15.729 --> 00:01:17.878 help guide us with the future NOTE Confidence: 0.836705800000001 00:01:17.878 --> 00:01:19.270 rollout of this initiative. NOTE Confidence: 0.836705800000001 00:01:19.270 --> 00:01:20.618 The district is now NOTE Confidence: 0.8367058 00:01:20.620 --> 00:01:22.440 on the next rollout of. NOTE Confidence: 0.8367058 00:01:22.440 --> 00:01:24.480 Winners the schools in phase two NOTE Confidence: 0.8367058 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:26.600 include Southwest and East Mecklenburg. NOTE Confidence: 0.8367058 00:01:26.600 --> 00:01:28.490 In addition to Myers Park, NOTE Confidence: 0.8367058 00:01:28.490 --> 00:01:31.506 David W Butler and Rocky River High School, NOTE Confidence: 0.8367058 00:01:31.510 --> 00:01:34.903 the seven more schools are in the next phase. NOTE Confidence: 0.8367058 00:01:34.910 --> 00:01:36.800 The Superintendent says he also NOTE Confidence: 0.8511142 00:01:36.800 --> 00:01:38.690 plans to redistribute clear backpacks. NOTE Confidence: 0.8511142 00:01:38.690 --> 00:01:41.315 We are talking to the vendor and NOTE Confidence: 0.8511142 00:01:41.315 --> 00:01:43.572 the manufacturer to make sure that NOTE Confidence: 0.8511142 00:01:43.572 --> 00:01:45.690 we erase all doubts with regard NOTE Confidence: 0.8511142 00:01:45.690 --> 00:01:48.140 to the safety of the backpacks. NOTE Confidence: 0.8511142 00:01:48.140 --> 00:01:50.030 The district stop giving the NOTE Confidence: 0.8511142 00:01:50.030 --> 00:01:52.436 bags out due to a warning. NOTE Confidence: 0.8511142 00:01:52.440 --> 00:01:54.245 Back issue related to a NOTE Confidence: 0.8511142 00:01:54.245 --> 00:01:55.328 possible harmful material. NOTE Confidence: 0.8511142 00:01:55.330 --> 00:01:57.508 Once the district works out any NOTE Confidence: 0.8511142 00:01:57.508 --> 00:01:58.960 logistical problems with the NOTE Confidence: 0.8511142 00:01:59.023 --> 00:02:00.778 current phases of body scanners NOTE Confidence: 0.8511142 00:02:00.778 --> 00:02:02.533 or high schools will start NOTE Confidence: 0.8511142 00:02:02.594 --> 00:02:04.349 seeing body scanners as well. NOTE Confidence: 0.8511142 00:02:04.350 --> 00:02:05.862 Shmarya Morrison, WCNC, Charlotte.