Fox News alerts half past the 2:00 hour.
It's half an hour past the deadline Columbia set
for students to leave that encampment.
This is inside of Columbia University.
Our camera is inside, where the number of protesters has
been growing.
The number of tents going up has been growing.
The protesters are defying quite clearly that university order to
leave Alexis McAdams is live on the ground inside Columbia
for us.
She's watching all of this.
What can you tell us,
Alexis?
Hey, Sandra. Well, what? We're
233, right? And counting here.
And the protesters are still set up on Milwaukee with
you this way here in New York City at Columbia
University.
This is that Gaza solidarity encampment,
right? We've been seeing it for days,
University said. The students get out of here or get
suspended while they're still here,
and they don't look like they're going anywhere.
The tents are still set up.
The university did give them this warning here.
The NYPD is on high alert.
We saw more officers kind of lining up outside of
the main gates here.
I did reach out to some NYPD sources who tell
me they still did not get a call yet from
Columbia's president,
Manoush Shafiq, right, who told these students that she was
no longer going to negotiate with them.
Negotiations had stopped and they needed to leave.
You can see the tents,
the Palestinian flags, and then these signs that say you
cannot cover up genocide.
They were calling on the NYPD to back down a
short time ago,
these protesters and telling the school that they wanted these
kids to not get in trouble who were out here
even though they weren't supposed to be.
I will have Victoria, my photographer,
walk this way with me just for a second,
just to kind of show you here,
Sandra. It does look like some of the tents used
to be a little bit busier here the other day
when I was here.
There's not as many tents right there.
You can see more grass.
So some of them might have moved because the university
said quite simply,
we know who's in this crowd and you going to
get suspended and then graduation,
as we know right, is coming up.
So they wouldn't be able to graduate
over here as well. You can see some of the
protesters marching around the campus.
So this is kind of been the activity of most
of the people left,
the Gaza Solidarity encampment, and they're just kind of walking
around here in the quad
at the university. But as the time counts,
I think people want to know here,
right? Especially Jewish students and their parents.
They want to know who's in charge here at Columbia
University.
Is it the President Manoushafiq,
who's been getting growing calls to step down?
Or is it these students,
right, who won't go anywhere even though they've been told
that they're supposed to be out of the area?
Sandra. Yeah. So we're showing inside and outside the campus
there.
We are also being told that outside the campus,
the crowds getting much larger,
they are chanting the usual chance
anti Israel chance. Columbia is now announcing Alexis that they're
going to have a virtual
update. A briefing is going to happen at 6:00 PM.
The rest of the details remain to be determined.
That's a long time from now.
That's you're talking 3 1/2 hours from right now and
a good four hours past the deadline when they said
these students have to be gone
or they would be suspended.
Alexis.
Yeah, I think that's why.
Why would they leave, right?
Because they're not being really escorted off campus by anybody
from the university.
So more people are kind of joining in because I
think they feel like they kind of have the power
on this campus when you're told,
right, like you got to get out of here and
nobody comes to move.
Yeah, they're going to, they're going to stay.
The weather is warm. There's more people kind of coming
outside of those gates,
too. And the NYPD gets put in this position where
they have to wait because it's a private property,
right, on this campus. So Sandra,
as you know, they get the call,
move in, they come into those zip ties and they
try to take those students out as quickly as they
can.
So we'll see what happens in the next 30 minutes
or so.
Alexis, we appreciate your, you and your team's reporting from
inside Columbia there.
We will get back to you soon as we do
await that White House briefing.
We'll see what the White House is there bounce is
to these growing protests.