LA defends schools shutdown after terror threat 'over-reaction'

Los Angeles has defended its controversial decision to shut more than 1,000 schools after a threat by email.

Los Angeles has defended its controversial decision to shut more than 1,000 schools after America’s two biggest education authorities received threats of a large-scale jihadi attack with guns and bombs.

The threat was also made to New York City – which dismissed the warning as an amateurish hoax.