blasts occurred. you can imagine that, it is tuesday, april 16th, and we re live in boston this morning, just about five blocks from the site of double bombing, those explosions yesterday near the finish line of the boston marathon. joining us now we have with us for the whole show today, mike barnicle. and in new york, willie geist. you ve been covering this since the story broke. we ve been listening to your words, your reporting, your words of calm. a day later, how is this sinking in? well, i think obviously the city, the environment around the city is still in a state of shock. the city will not be business as usual today. many of the streets around us you can see have been closed off, back bay, the entire area of the finish line is closed off and shut down. but like any city like new york, after september 11th, like any city in this country, people are resilient, we ll go on. yesterday was a special day
in the morning. it ripped out part of a wall at the clinic. it destroyed the clinic but did not injury anyone. an hour later, the second bomb went off in a trash can just outside the building. this double bombing was designed to give responders enough time to arrive on the scene and figure out what the first bomb was about and the second bomb exploded then to try to kill the emergency responders. six people were hurt by the second blast including a federal atf at. eyewitnesss said it was a miracle that the second blast did not kill anyone. that was the bombing of the women s clinic in sandy springs, georgia, in 1997. this year another women s clinic in the same place just about a mile from the bombing was hit by burglaries. that could just be a random break in. a couple of months before that another women s clinic suburban alabama had also been burglarized, it was a place about 15 miles away from the
an abortion clinic in birmingham, alabama. when he bombed that abortion clinic in sandy springs, georgia, the first bomb went off at 9:30 in the morning. it ripped out part of a wall at the clinic. it destroyed the clinic. an hour later, the second bomb went off in a trash can just outside the building. this double bombing was designed to give responders enough time to arrive on the scene and figure out what the first bomb was about and the second bomb exploded then to try to kill the emergency responders. six people were hurt by the second blast including a federal atf agent the they said it was a miracle that the second blast did not kill anyone. that was the women s clinic in sandy strings, georgia in 1997. this year another women s clinic in the same place just about a