street over. and every single store on newbury street when we had made it back to the area, probably around 4:00, every single store was closed. it was a ghosttown. and you know how it is on this day. this is never a ghost town on boston marathon day. in fact, it s a zoo. there s people everywhere. the only people we found were people who weren t from this area who couldn t get into their hotel rooms. we saw a few boston marathoners with still the garbage reflective material around them to keep them warm and they were freezing because they had nowhere to go. so that was the sad part. when i was talking to people. i was asking them, can i give you whatever water i have, or can i give you something. you just ran 26.2 miles and now you have nowhere to go. just to set the stage for people who might have another frame of reference. i would say, jackie, that boylston street sour fifth avenue in boston. and the next one over, newbury street is like madison avenue,
he saw people losing limbs, he saw people, strangers tieing turn kits on people s legs. he saw a man jump on two children to cover them from further blasts that, thankfully, did not occur. but the ultimate scene, lawrence, as you know as we ve described here all day long is normally one of joy and celebration and a communion of spirit. that scene, boylston street, the finish line is unfortunately tonight, a murder scene. yeah, mike, you and i both have watched that scene so many times over the years, people coming down boylston street. even the ones coming in six hours after the finisher. it s the biggest moment of their lives. thank you very much for joining us tonight. reporter: you re welcome. joining me now by phone from boston, new england, jackie bruno who was at the scene of the explosions. jackie, you were covering this
people at the beginning. this is the kind of day we had. this is also a day where you needed passes to get on the grandstands or on the route. well, you didn t need passes to get on the sidewalk. this is a free open area on the sidewalk where people just go back and forth. so it s very easy it s hard to, whether you re in new york or another city, it s hard to navigate a sidewalk and know whether or not somebody has a bomb or not. all you snead a backpack. all you need is just a person. and they could blow up a sidewalk. that s all what happened here. people are wondering about security hour, do you secure a sidewalk? that s what happened here? knowing that area, jackie, i don t know how they could secure any of that. and it s as we know, it s a very upscale commercial neighborhood with some of the higher-priced stores. and it s a very high-end residential neighborhood, just a couple of blocks away there. oh, one more thing, lawrence. mentioning the kind of neighborhood it is t
you can see the joy on their faces. the runners i saw coming in were horrified by the scene. you could tell they were trying to process. they were running in with joy and immediately that changed. they were looking to the left and they saw body parts and people without limbs and a horrific scene that seemed to be something out of a movie or one of those horrific shows i keep on thinking of the walking dead like this is stuff we don t see every day in a situation unless you re in a war. you know, that s the kind of injuries we were seeing. it was really traumatic. jackie, i want to go through how your mind set changed. i think you described it well. i m from boston, too. i remember as a kid, i thought i got the day off school because of the boston marathon. in fact, it was patriots day, this holiday that we celebrate there. it s very festive. it s not the place where your mind is ready or poised to shift into any kind of negative or
missing. i saw blood everywhere. i saw a young boy being carried away from a police officer. he had blood all over his face. he wasn t moving. we found out there was an 8-year-old. i don t know if that was the case. but i did see a young boy with blood all over his face being carried away. i was only there for a few minutes before we realized we have to move the car because we weren t sure if there was another explosion that was going to follow it. so we went to move the car, and also from other people out of that parking garage because we were blocking the way. we were able to get out of the scene. what i had seen in the first few minute was horrific to say the least. we took a picture and a video. to see it right away, i think i had a view, fortunately and unfortunate, a lot of reporters didn t see. something i ll never forget. and i think i still haven t completely processed. jackie, i m wondering when