significant police presence throughout the city. please give us some space around the copley area as we process this scene. if there are any pieces of information, photos from the incident, getting those to the two tip lines, the fbi tip line primarily. they are now in charge of the investigation because of the nature of this investigation as well as the boston police line at 1-800-494-tips. i would like to invite the district attorney dan carney. thank you very much, commissioner. earlier this afternoon, like some bostonians, i was on boylston street near the finish line had left about 30 minutes before this incident occurred. colonel albin and special agent and top staff went down to the scene it was a large and disturbing scene. like each of you, i am praying for the victims and their loved ones.
delorai. the boston police department has been on the scene since this has happened. there has been horrendous loss of life. at least three people have died in this event. the number of injuries and the people injured is an unfolding issue right now. we will not have hard figures on that until tomorrow morning. there were all sorts of questions that are being asked. i want to stress one thing. there is no suspect at brigham women s hospital. there are people that we are talking two. there is no suspect at brigham and women s hospital that has been wisely reported in the press. widely reported in the press. i would like to fix that right now. there will be questions that you have and we ll do our best to answer them, but this is still very early in the investigation. as the governor said will not be business as usual in boston. the boston police department is on emergency deployment. we are working 12-hour shifts and there will be a
and now this crazy madness final question, when you talk to the fbi. you say you are going to get briefed tomorrow. who is going to do that briefing, congressman? who is going to tell you and will they tell you it s an active investigation, they don t like to put a lot of stuff out in the media they want to chase down a whole bunch of people. they catch one. they want to know who their friends are will you get a pretty good idea tomorrow of what happened? bill, i think we have to. if we don t get it up front, we have to push for it. i think we will. and in view of, this i mean, in view of the fact that it s right here in the homeland. bill: what time is your briefing tomorrow? i think it s late morning. bill: will you come on tomorrow night here on this program? sure. absolutely. bill: all right. i m going to book the congressman now for tomorrow. he will tell us about the briefing. because, look, we really need to act quickly here and get as much information to the peopl
media and others around the commonwealth or around the country of the world. i can tell you from the president to the members of our congressional delegates to many, many fellow governors who have called to check in to all of the leaders from law enforcement hered in the state at the local level and at the federal level, we are all coming together to do everything we can to get to the bottom of this. let me turn the podium over now to special agent in charge rick delorai. thank you very much governor patrick. the most important fact that i wanted to convey to everybody this evening has already been mentioned by governor patrick. the fbi has taken the lead in this investigation it is asserting federal jurisdiction it will do so through the boston task force. members of which are comprised by the members of the law enforcement agencies represented here by the podium. this will be a combined federal state and local effort it will be an ongoing investigation. it is is a criminal
whether it s domestic or foreign. now, mr. obama basically is a guy who wants to be cool in all circumstances. do i have him correctly there? very conscious of being cool. doesn t show anger. very rarely seen him show anger. but, at a time like this, that is what is is necessary. can i show anger because i don t have anything directly to do with the investigation. but he has to keep a cool head. he does like to keep a cool head. one of the rare times i saw him in covering him where you were to say if he lost his cool a little bit during the oil spill investigation he was taking heat. did interview with matt lauer and said kicking people s butts and whatnot. he realized he was losing the public in terms of not showing that he cared, not showing he really wanted to get to the bottom of it in this case, frankly, they compare it to the bush administration days. they think that padilla in some of his public pronouncements got a little