i have also spoken to folks from latin american television. a reporter from colombia. obviously this has become a national/international event. and i also did get a chance earlier this evening to talk to folks who had the vantage point of being right there, right in front of the blast scene, right by the finish line. let s hear what they have to say. suddenly this big explosion took place in front of me. and then i saw this cloud, big cloud, with smoke. and my first instinct was to run across the street and start helping out the people. your sleeve there is that blood on your sleeve? my pants. my clothes. show me the flag. that was the flag i was holding the whole time. this is how the flag ended up, carrying the blood of all of these victims. you turn around and just see smoke rising, smoke and debris everywhere. across the finish line.
their version of what they remember, if anything. in talking to the doctors last night, they were saying with most of the patients, they were just doing business as usual trying to deal with the injuries and the situation at hand and not trying to glean too much information from the patients. i lived in boston for a long time. i covered a lot of these mayor thon marathons, there is a people people are just stunned. that s obvious perhaps but really this is such a brought city and so proud of this day, patriots day and the marathon here. it is just stunning that this would happen. beyond the blast scene, things are going back to normal. there are some warnings about being random searches on subways and what have you, but again just a stunning event. people today i still think are walking around trying to digest all this and of course praying for the victims in the hospitals. we all want answers to try to figure out why. ron allen at mass general, we ll
many witnesses are saying they smelled something like gun powder? yes, that is correct. that has been reported. a pipe smell but we re not prepared to go into specifics as to the blast scene. its fairly expansive large scene so we re being methodical in how we are processing it. we do know there has been some debris recovered from some of the rooftops nearby as well as some of the debris embedded in some of the buildings nearby. that gives you a scope of the power of the blast. you can see how it was so devastating. we re not prepared to get that specific yet. i want to ask a favor on behalf somebody i met this afternoon. lieutenant governor and i were over at tuft s medical center
used? many witnesses are saying they smelled something like gun powder. yes. that s correct. that has been reported. that type of smell. but we re not prepared yet to go into the specifics as to the blast scene. it s a fairly expansive large scene. that s why we re having to be so methodical in how we re processing it. we do know that there has been some debris recovered from some of the rooftops nearby as well as some of the debris has been embedded in some of the buildings nearby. so that gives you just kind of a scope of the power of the blast. and you can see how it was so devastating. white smoke suggests gun powder. we re not prepared to really get that specific yet. i want to ask a favor on behalf of somebody i met this afternoon. lieutenant governor and i were over at tuft s medical center and we visited a young woman, we
clearly time to coincide with completion of this marathon. literally thousands and thousands of runners participating in this annual event in boston, but you look at these aerial shots, coming in, you see some serious damage in the buildings nearby. you do. and when you have whether it be a pipe bomb, what kind of improvised explosive device that was used today, wolf, there is. there is a lot of damage. and now you ve got a very, very large post blast scene. we see first responders now, police, fire, ems, you know, in the area, you see them, they have precautionary lines, because they don t know exactly what they have. early on, something like this, you re always concerned we have seen a number of incidents here in the united states where there have been secondary, third third devices, that were used against first responders who were there coming to the aid of those who have been injured. is it possible it is