It's been a week since former President Donald Trump and his running mate,

JD Vance, through an ugly spotlight on the small city of Springfield, Ohio

by spreading unverified claims about Haitian immigrants killing and eating people's pets.

Since then the city has seen multiple bomb threats, school closures,

and growing fear within the city's immigrant community.

William Bringham, who was in Springfield earlier, just checked back in with residents and city officials. He joins us now. So William, these city officials are now dealing with a white hot national, with threats coming in.

What do they tell you about how they're handling all this right now?

They're having a hard time with it.

I mean, they have had over 33 different kinds of threats.

This is to City Hall, local public schools, universities, community centers.

Either threats coming in via phone or email saying there will be an attack or a bomb will go off in your facility.

Those are under investigation locally and the FBI is now helping out with those.

None of them have turned out to be real.

We should say no bombs have been found, no attacks have happened.

Ohio's governor, Mike DeWine, who I know you're talking with later,

said some of these threats are coming in from overseas,

from some foreign nation.

He didn't specify which nation it was. but his Springfield City Manager Brian Heck told us they have to treat every single one of these threats as real.

He says, look, we do have problems with all of this a large population that has come into

our community but them eating pets is not a problem but these bomb threats really

are. I'm not going to lie it's it been difficult. It's been a challenge for us. You know, we were already

facing the challenges and we are facing them head on as it related to the pace at which we've seen our

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