when the bombs went off. >> yes. >> bill: but they wouldn't know because they were, you know, a half mile away or so. you wouldn't know, i guess they would hear the sirens and everything, and then there were enough reporters but they finished the game. >> yeah. i spoke with a man earlier tonight from st. louis, missouri, he was a quarter mile from the finish line an the crowd on the side of the street. you know, boston loves this street. it's a holiday here in boston. ops patriot's day. some people on the side of the street toward the end of the finish line the crowd was so loud a quarter of the mile from the explosion he never heard it what he described to me is that the race just stopped in front of him. and they were told that literally stop and turn around and go back you won't complete the race. that was his experience at the end. >> >> bill: we have got to compliment the boston authorities here. according to emily rooney who was right there, they