blast scene, they are knowing and they re trying to unknowing and trying to determine what caused it. brian: thanks so much. mike white, giving us instant analysis on the explosive fertilizer and the dangers for those in the community. thanks so much, mike. you re welcome. brian: the question a lot of you have is wait a second. was this a danger? was it out of control? was this a chronic violator of epa policies? we ve only found one case as of now where it did actually suffer a $2,300 penalty that was august 14, 2006. steve: that was. we asked earlier, somebody who lives in the neighborhood whether or not they were worried about a fertilizer plant next door. she said absolutely not. never occurred to her. meanwhile, our live coverage from texas and new york continues, you re watching fox & friends .
that it was anything but bombs. we were hoping that they were celebratory cannons so we were trying to get close to the scene and take charge. really what is going on here in terms of the investigation, how do you think the news media got so out of control on this today? i don t know exactly the answer to that, lawrence. people are hungry for information. i understand that. and not just in the media to scope the story but in the general public. it s the kind of investigation that requires going through those several blocks around the blast scene, square inch by square inch, and that is slow and deliberate and methodical and it should be. i think that what i ve been saying to people is it isn t so until the fbi says it is so and they have many federal and local agencies working with them. you ve gone to the hospital
blast scene at the finish line, the agents pick up and put back together painstakingly put back together the remnants. i guarantee they can put back that backpack to what it looks like. they are going, hey, this looks just like that backpack. and so that s how they are putting this together and they believe these guys are acting in concert. they probably have them on somebody s iphone or digital speaking somewhere on the sidewalk. so that s probably we don t know for sure but that s likely how they did it. what preparations do they make before they go public with the photos to move these guys into their hands? there s going to be false positives. there s going to be people saying this is my old brother-in-law and he s no good. there s going to be a lot of false starts on it.
and fears that it is not quite resolved. we still tonight know when is behind it and then you had the letters to a u.s. senator and the president of the united states that raised fears that something were growing more worrisome. who would know better than on all of the above than our catherine herridge who has been piecing together experts piecing together what caused everything that happened on marathon day. what do you got? thank you. a short time ago the f.b.i. taking the unusual step of releasing a statement that there are no arrests and warning of unintentional consequences for the investigation. a short time ago the former secretary of homeland security, explained. first of all, actually alerting a person who is under suspicion that they were to flee or do something to impede the investigation. and you also mislead the public in terms of expectations. fox news is told bomb components from the blast scene are at the f.b.i. crime lab
many say there was evidence of gun powder. that is correct. that type of smell has been reported but we aren t prepared to go into the specifics as to the blast scene. it s a fairly expansive, large scene and we re having to be so methodical in our processing it. we do know there has been some debris nearby on the roof tops and embedded in some of the buildings nearby. that gives you kind of a scope of the power of the blast and you can see how it was so devastating. white smoke or just gun powder? we re not prepared to get that specific yet. i want to ask a favor on behalf of somebody i met this afternoon. the lieutenant governor and i were over at tufts medical center and visited a number of