people are meeting in a secure location in the white house to stay updated on what is going on really on the streets of boston, watertown, cambridge and other places in and around boston. our molly line was witness to one of the gun fights we believe that took place just a short time ago as police pursue the 19-year-old man that you see there to the right of your screen, dzhokhar tsarnaev. molly, bring us up to date on what you know and what you saw and heard there in watertown. reporter: yeah it s been fascinating. how quickly changes can change in an instant. this area had been quiet for a little while and suddenly teams of officers that are operating all over watertown just converged here in the area, quickly one car drives up blocks off a street. another car drives up blocks off another street and within moments we had armed officers putting on tactical gear, getting out with their guns and yelling at the residents lingering in the area.
the way to watertown there were explosives being thrown out, a gun fight with an mbta officer who is instrumenting lynn for his life in the hospital. struggling for his life in the hospital. the vehicle was recovered by police, and of course is part of the investigationment we saw it being towed out earlier investigation. we saw it being towed out earlier today. the back window was blown-out, the side we could see what appeared to be bullet holes down the side of the vehicle, it had been clearly beat up with the side window blown-out as well. he scene. they are collecting the evidence. they will be able to gather what they can from this vehicle that the explosives were being thrown from in the course of this very dangerous chase that has resulted in the injury of this officer. jenna: we want to give our viewers more context here as you continue to see the live picture of the helicopter hovering there. where are these helicopters going? apparently they are hand aing at a best buy pa
the staging area is in the national mall parking lot. [inaudible question] jon: that makes late more sense. we had been told that there would be a state police briefing coming from that bank of microphones in watertown. all of a sudden somebody was speaking and we thought the briefing was underway. it appears that is not the official briefing, that is yet to come. bill hemmer we interrupted your reporting a moment ago. let s go back to you. reporter: no, problem. i wanted viewers to understand that based on our location here in boston s back bay, i90 the massachusetts turnpike literally runs right underneath us here and boylston street is off to my right. you cannot go 30 seconds without hearing a siren, and this has been the pattern for the last hour. whether it leads to the capture of this man i do not know and cannot say at the moment. something i can moving on the story and let s hope they this
healing needed because they will have a black eye on them because of this situation. knowing a lot of people from watertown, they re resilient and they re hard-working and, in massachusetts, listen, being from massachusetts we re very resilient. this is where our freedom and democracy began. we are americans first and we ll band together especially with the love and prayers and help that the entire, the entire country and parts of the world have given us. what it also does it makes us keenly aware that we are targets. that people want to change the way we live and change the freedoms that we have and instill terror like you re seeing right here. that is the whole, that is the whole role of terrorism, make us fearful and the way we do business. the way you fight back and stand tall and continue driving on doing what you re doing and also keeping safety paramount in your mind. jon: senator, jon scott joining you right now. as you know they did change the way boston does
khapt sister and storchapter through the night. we do not know where suspect one is at the moment. we don t know if he s been accounted for, accounted for him sepl. whether or not the stew different shootouts we witnessed in the town of watertown massachusetts resulted in anything. we are waiting for police to brief us on. us we are the near the finish line on boylston street. watertown, massachusetts is ten miles west of here up the charles river, a town of about 30,000 that has woken up to a lockdown today. businesses have been told not to open, police have one telling residence there to stay home. and they ve been telling people driving their cars, simply stay off the street. that is an extraordinary development when you think about that, moving right to left on the graphic you see there, the marathon bombing site is where we are. across the river at mit is where the first tip came in around