explosion, having heard same explosion two of them on the boston marathon, what did you think was going on? well, i did, was watching the news and i still had that, you know, those guys suspects, down at m.i.t. there. it is just undo the street. so i know mount auburn street takes us one place to the other. i traveled that route often. i knew they were headed my way. and you know, shortly, after i guess about an hour, cruisers died down a little bit that s when i heard the gunshots. that is probably less than half a mile from where i am. you didn t know what to do. we were thinking fleeing. then you hearing that there is a guy running around with a bomb strapped to him with an assault rifle, what are you going to do? i never been in that position before. hopefully right now, hopefully they re staying outside that house and this can all end, the city of
going up on auburn. we were told we couldn t come up. so we just went a back way on russell ave. we go down franklin street wk the dog. as we were approaching auburn street, all we heard was gunfire. i don t know if they kind of slipped in there, but we didn t see a lot of presence and then within i can t tell you, within two minutes the place was sur sroded just completely surrounded. how far away is your home from the current scene that we are looking at on franklin street. i live on mount auburn street. my home is three blocks away. so you are allowed to go back home? i m sorry? you are allowed to go back home? we re not going back home. right now there they are literally there are jus hundred threads and hundreds and hundreds of ighbors and police are here and unmarked trucks an ambulances and it s you know, everyone is kind of at a it stand still.
entire length of the street is being lined on both sides by various state police. we re seeing a lot of a.t.f. agents. it s all hands on did he all has on deck. we will passed an enormous squad in tactical gear. military uniforms. it is pretty clear. essentially we tried to stop for a moment maybe to get pictures or ask what was happening. but they asked us to move from the perimeter. the perimeter is very, very large. it is almost like it grew up around us from where we were previously located, a massive circle in all directions. this perimeter has really grown. every street corner is lined with these state police officers all the way down mount auburn street. we ve just come to the end of it. at this point we re at least a mile away from where that tactical gear was gearing up and where the dozens upon dozens of people, probably a good 50 or 60 people were gearing
tremendous state police presence here in particular as far as the street corners and the blocks are concerned. then these tactical units with the black atv s around the corner here, in green military garb and heavily armed people are walking the streets this morning. brian: wow. we re continuing to follow this as we try to follow number two, suspect number two, and if you re just joining us, we found out a short time ago that these guys were both brothers and they ve been in the area for at least a year. and let s just go over exactly what got us up early, got you up early and glued to all this coverage this morning. gretchen, it really began at 10:20 last night. gretchen: it did. that s when there was some altercation at a 7-11. an m.i.t. police officer, unfortunately, shot and killed by these two terrorists. they then carjacked a person who he was with them for 30
where we are in boylston. i want to give our viewers a better sense of the geography of where we are. behind this truck and down the street that would be boylston street. you go down two city blocks on the left-hand side is where both explosions occurred at 2:50 monday afternoon. the runners would have been going down boylston in that direction. at this point in the race they are running from west to east, if you recall some of video we were showing you from the end of that race. but we were told by the f.b.i. that after the explosion bags were dropped, that both of these individuals were moving westbound on boylston street. brian: bill, if i could just interrupt you for one bill, if i could interrupt you for one second. then we ll go back to that description. we understand molly has new information. when we saw her they were moving her from her location. molly, what do you have? we came all the way down on auburn street, the