saved many people from even further injuries. hold on, mike. joining me now by phone is boston.com sports producer steve silva. steve, footage is what we ve been watching. steve, what can you tell me that happened? you were there. you were filming while this was going on. yeah. i was filming near the right across the finish line. those are the charity runners running for the various charities around town coming in around the four hour mark. when just out of the blue, bam, a loud explosion off to the right of the sidewalk on boylston street just. i rushed over there and saw a horrific scene of blood, a lot of glass flew into people and
can tell you in my i haven t been reporting for many years, about four or five, and i can tell you it s the worst thing i have ever seen in my young life and i hope i never see anything that tragic again. jackie bruno, thank you for joining us on hardball. steve shot that video and he s joining us by phone. steve, tell me about this. what were you doing at the time when you put your camera on that site and just happened to catch both explosions and sequence there. i do a finish line scenes for the marathon. i m out there for about five hours because you have the professionals and charity runners coming in. there were over 9,000 runner ins still out there at 2:50 p.m. i was dead center on the finish line waiting for someone to do a cartwheel across the finish line and off to the right side, there was a large thud, a loud thud