russian supporters, or even more concerning, russian soldiers. meantime, they ve assembled hundreds of planes and tanks as well. chug hay began is warning the russians to stay out. and drought striken california is now dealing with its largest rain event in three years. some 1,000 homes in the foothills outside of los angeles have been cleared out to avoid a threat of mud slides. caught on camera overnight, a scary explosion. a manhole blowing up in the early morning hours. shot flames, black smoke into the air. even chunks of asphalt sent into the nearby buildings. and it was a serious break of protocol at the nation s highest court.
kind of crisis coverage. i m just wondering if you can kind of replay it in your head, those fractions of seconds where you went from what you thought you were doing, you actually thought you were covering a marathon and a wedding. when you went from that to realizing you are covering a major historic american disaster. yeah, we knew it immediately. the kind of carnage we saw, this wasn t something small. some people said early on maybe a manhole blew up. i couldn t imagine a manhole blowing up would cause such a horrific situation. i mean, what we saw, i knew pretty instantly that something was bad. because there were two explosions. i didn t realize there was another one down on boylston street. but i just knew that i heard two large explosions. i thought they were both in the same area considering the carnage that i saw. that s what i was thinking that moment. now processing this, going back,
i m just wondering if you can kind of replay it in your head, the fractions of seconds where you went from what you were doing, you thought you were covering a marathon and wedding. you went from that to realizing, you are covering a major historic american disaster. caller: yeah, we knew it immediately. the kind of carnage we saw, this wasn t something small. some people said early on maybe a manhole blew up. i couldn t imagine a manhole blowing up would cause such a horrific situation. i knew something was bad. because there were two explosions. i didn t realize there was another one down on boylston street. i heard two other explosions. i thought they were in the same area considering the carnage that i saw. that s what i was thinking that moment. now processing this, going back, i wasn t on that side of the