Man barricades himself inside Southern California bank with hostages, police say

A man barricaded himself inside a bank building in Bakersfield, California, with an unknown number of people on Tuesday, police said.

Officers responded to a report of a bomb threat at around 1 p.m. at a Chase Bank in downtown Bakersfield, where they found that a man had locked himself inside the building with “several community members,” according to the Bakersfield Police Department.