along parade routes and at different sites that he s going to where we know he s going to go into the crowd so that having that advance knowledge, then we make those areas secure. planned spontaneity, in other words. absolutely. no selfie sticks was pointed out. i m big on the selfie stick. there s a terrible precedent of the attempted assassination of john paul ii. obviously, those in the security business, the police in new york as well as the secret service, are terribly aware of the of certain people. you can see the barriers and precautions taking place in central park. thanks so much. appreciate it. reminder to all of you, tonight cnn is taking an inside look at pope francis. the cnn special report, the people s pope, airs tonight at 9:00 eastern. jeb bush, carly fiorina, mitt romney, all rejecting what ben carson had to say about muslims and if they should or should not be in the white house. moments ago, ben carson just
that we ll have here again is the new york city police department is one of the most sophisticated and experienced in the nation. you say the same thing for washington, d.c. as well. you re worried about philly. hopefully philly will put all their resources there, but i don t think they have the experience of dealing with these types of numbers. not that i know of. here in new york we had the ability to work seamlessly with the secret service, fbi, nypd. and you saw this great coordination where they looked at threats and looked at the parade routes and what were people going to be able to get next to him. but look at him in this crowd. this was just of two years ago when he was in rio in the middle of the throngs of people who all just want to reach out and touch him. it has to be impossible to know who is in the crowds, who wants to jump in, how do you safeguard him? it s all layers of protection. you re trying to do a 360-arc of
million. the army corps of engineers monitors the ice regularly and will sometimes use explosives to break apart the ice. from overflowing ice to a deluge of rain, downpours in louisiana not dampening spirits in the big easy. for mardi gras, parade routes are lined with mud rather than beer and beads. and in water-starved california, much-needed rain is causing major headaches on the roadways. a one-two punch as a series of systems will drop up to 8 inches of rain, bringing drought relief but also bringing fears of flooding and mudslides. residents are hoping sandbags will protect vulnerable areas burned out by last month s unusual wildfire. it burned all the way right down to the garage right here. and you can see where the ends of all these trees got hit. hopefully the storm is not as bad as they say it s supposed to be. gary, for the people who live along the river where you are, how much concern are you hearing from them about potential
okay. we just got information, boston pd will be holding a news conference in about 15 minutes from now. dean, back to this area that was open more to the public. many people are familiar with parade routes and some of them have checkpoints, as i ve stated before, where they glance into, for example, backpacks if they allow them in or even a woman s handbag to kind of look around. are there any checkpoints along that area, particularly near the finish line? on our side of the street, i can speak to, which is, yes, you did have to be. on opposite side of the street, i don t know, because that is not a side of the street that we were traveling upon. and the timing of the first explosion, the winners of the marathon had already passed. about two hours in. we were looking at the group i guess of what were described mostly as the amateurs who were starting to finish at that point. is that correct, dean? that is correct. we think the explosion first
a cancer survivor, and a tempur-pedic owner. . geraldo: this is a fox news alert. despite the snow green was the color of the day and hundreds of thousands lined fifth avenue and parade routes in other cities to celebrate st. patrick s day. at times the peaceful parade did have a few controversies. leading democrat in the mayor s