related. bob said there has been 8 to 10 explosions that he has heard. and this all happening in the backyard at 67 franklin street where we believe suspect 2 is hold up in this boat that you see on the right picture here in the arrow with the tarp on it that he hid in there. swat team surrounded him. had him surrounded. bash take a look around because they are very concerned about the fact that there could be explosives there as well. once that robotic device went in, we understand that potentially that is when we started to hear some of the explosions. that s right. bob ward said he heard some 8 to 10 explosions in that area possibly coming from the backyard where that suspect is hold up in a boat that you see right there. it is night fall right now. and it s amazing how this story has changed in a matter of seconds, mark. it certainly is. this was all day presence. the police in watertown ought night. they have been there from the time that the car chase
tell you and they did to the world today. we just didn t have enough manpower to lockdown this neighborhood. or they didn t think they did. because they went door-to-door, they tell us every house in water town for a 20 square block radius searched the attic. every front porch has an area underneath it and there is a plenty of places who hide the way construction is done in water town but they searched it all and couldn t find anything. they searched this boat in the back of this home at 57 franklin street as well. and found that there was nothing there. but, the woman who lives in that house according to the most recent reports called up the police and goes, hey, you searched here but it looks different now. there is a door to the shed open. she went out and looked, there were bloody clothes inside the shed she reported to police. and there was blood on the floor. so police came back. and it s our standing that they searched the area. there is some reports now that they may have act
ban. they came out to hear the gunshots fired. some 20 to 30 gunshots. the sounds reminiscent when we heard earlier this morning gun battle with 200 gunshots fired and the death of suspect number 1. right now we know suspect number 2 is alive. he is surrounded. he is still moving. we know he was possibly hiding in a boat at 67 franklin street and we know there is a big police presence. everyone has moved from their other scenes to this scene and what a scene for the neighbors of frank lib street here in watertown. certain solid a major scene as the developments developing rapidly here right now as we have law enforcement from all over descending on this neighborhood in water town. we talked with with mary sullivan an eyewitness who said she was getting out because the lockdown had been lifted and she went out and was going to take thing to for a walk as they often do and suddenly heard the gunfire and knew things
probably a mile or less. this is in a populated area. lots of homes and we just saw moments ago families running out in terror after they heard 20 to 30 shots fired in their neighborhood. okay. i want to go to the phone now. we have mary sullivan, resident of watertown and mary, it s mark along with sarah underwood. i understand you witnessed what went down on franklin street earlier. tell us about it. yes. we were the governor had just said there was a lift. and so we kind of hooked up our dog and my 20-year-old children and my son s girlfriend was with us and we were coming down russell ave and we were ready to get to the end of russell ave talking to a student and all of a sudden you heard this series of gunshots. and as he we ran across russell to the corner of russell all these cars
going to he was shooting a bunch of cops out there. and authorities set off flash bangs inside the building to try and rescue the hostage, shows flash bangs ended up setting the house on fire, remember? it s possible that that s the same thing that s going on now. it s possible that this is isn t an escalation but part of the ongoing process. we have nothing to indicate any further have been injured there at least at this moment. so we don t get ahead of ourselves in the reporting, what we do know that is that the suspect is now surrounded in the backyard of a street in franklin street in watertown. authorities have come from boston and did immediately, from our position in downtown boston we watched them heading in that direction. we believe there are somewhere around hundreds of officers on scene and that the second suspect is surrounded. what these new explosions are, we don t yet know. they were working to make contact with a neighbor and we will let you know when we do. now back