itself. what we saw last year, that unfortunate situation that happened here where these alleged suspects were seen on camera walking into the boil boyleston street area and dropping book bags probably next to impossible to do that today because right now you ve got to go through a checkpoint and those have been sealed off. what a great day. you couldn t ask for better weather. we re expecting to get into the mid-60s today, perfect day for a race. i m looking at the live feed of the race itself, we re starting to getting hoards and crowds making their way across the finish line after running 26.2 miles and there are all sorts of stories and survivors out there running today. it s a very special day for boston and tonight they are going to be parties all over town. so far so good. i spoke with the police commissioner earlier and taking this somewhat personally to ensure this goes off without a hitch. so far it seems like a rea emotional moment. a beautiful day and seems like
government, state, investigative cameras, but we have all the participants, all the people watching. investigators will be trying to get ahold of their cameras, iphones, film, to try to see who was in that location, who could have left a device there. as you suggest, that was part of the investigative technique when they were trying to find the bomber at the martin luther king parade in washington state. that s something they ll be doing now. and clint, i ve got this in, boston herald reporter chris cassidy who was running in the marathon describes seeing what looked like something in a trash c can. she was there. she says, i saw two explosions. the first one was beyond the finish line. i heard a loud bang and i saw smoke rising. clint, i m not sure if you know, but is it possible to time it exactly when these winners are running along the finish line, would a person have to be in that area for some kind of coordinated explosion of that
presumably there are a lot of cameras that were trained on this area. if there were, indeed, suspicious packages which were the source of these explosions, then we re going to want to see who put them down there. who, you know and this is the kind of investigation, i mean, it s the kind of in 1996, the bombing of the park down in atlanta. i think that s most likely the direction they re going in. identifying the type of explosives that was used. evan, let me interrupt you and ask you a question. you bring up the atlanta bombing. the world has changed as far as cameras being readily available, getting many vantage points especially in densely populated or areas that are frequented by tourists, by business folks. i think of immediately times square, for example. and the number of cameras that are just in that area, alone. all of this since 9/11. is it likely at this point already you have investigators looking for if there s a bank camera, if there s a building with high security w
family members and possible witnesses. we immediately activated a system of response that the commonwealth of massachusetts and federal government has in place for these types of incidents. my first two calls were to the special agent in charge to the fbi and to the state police, both rick delorier and tim alvins immediately sent resources. we have at this point in time determined that there has been a third incident that has occurred. there was an explosion that occurred at the jfk library. so this is very much an ongoing event at this point in time. we are not certain that these incidents are related, but we are treating them as if they are. we re recommending to people that they stay home. that if they re in hotels in the area that they return to their rooms and that they don t go any place and congregate in large crowds. we want to make sure we
okay. we just got information, boston pd will be holding a news conference in about 15 minutes from now. dean, back to this area that was open more to the public. many people are familiar with parade routes and some of them have checkpoints, as i ve stated before, where they glance into, for example, backpacks if they allow them in or even a woman s handbag to kind of look around. are there any checkpoints along that area, particularly near the finish line? on our side of the street, i can speak to, which is, yes, you did have to be. on opposite side of the street, i don t know, because that is not a side of the street that we were traveling upon. and the timing of the first explosion, the winners of the marathon had already passed. about two hours in. we were looking at the group i guess of what were described mostly as the amateurs who were starting to finish at that point. is that correct, dean? that is correct. we think the explosion first