to a saudi citizen who was injured in the explosion. he s apparently in the united states on a student visa, but again, no arrests. it s also unclear how many bombs were planted at the scene according to the new york times. two other devices in addition to the bombs that went off were found and disabled by police before they were detonated. how frightening. mike talked about the tradition of this event and how many bost i bostonians and americans it brings together. also about 100 countries from around the world which will lead to a debate about where this came from until they figure it out. what? you don t know if it s domestic or international. but for sure, whatever happened to whoever did this gets an international platform of terrorism like it or not. because people, obviously, this is not just a boston event. it s an international event, the most famous marathon in the world. and willie geist, up in new york, mika brings up a great point. yesterday, almost immediately
whatever and moments later he s dead, he s 8 years old. almost inconceivable. and yet sadly, sadly, in this day in age of ours, we ve been lucky this has not occurred before, since september 11th on a massive scale like this. we ve been fortunate. yeah. we have. all right. still ahead, we re going to talk to former homeland security secretary tom ridge. also, nbc news justice correspondent pete williams with the latest on the investigation. coming up next, former boston police commissioner. [ pacino ] the inches we need
reporter: certainly the whole city is on alert. 100 people injured at least. you have two people dead. we ve learned in the last hour that one of those dead people is an 8-year-old boy. one law enforcement official or source has told us that which was just a huge tragedy. you have people walking around these streets here in a state of shock and displbelief and looki for some answers. there s so few answers so far. the homeland security chairman is officially calling this terrorism t terrorism. the white house may not be causing it terrorism but he is. he says it was not an accident. it was intended to harm and scare. it s done just that. dozens injured and two people dead. it was timed at the height of the race around the four-hour mark when most of the racers would be finishing that race. we re at the back bay of boston. you know it s a very busy area a. very popular area, especially after the marathon. everybody is celebrating around
wrong. so let me tell you what the schematic that we use when we train folks, you have psych c j psychologically dangerous, someone with cognitive impairment. third, personal benefit or revenge. here are a couple interesting things i d like to put together. first of all, there are cameras all over the place. so they will piece together stuff as it comes in. the other thing i want to say is, there s a lot of stuff that the local and federal law enforcement know that they are not going to put out because it s going to hamper the investigation. they are not going to do it. don t think that they don t know what is going on or that they don t have a bigger picture than they have. a couple of things. we know it s patriots day up in bass ton. it boston. it s a holiday.
boston. it s so much a comeback region for the last 50 or 60 years, i don t think it s going to hurt it. this is a terrible tragedy. this is a time to think about the victims, figure out who did it and catch them. but i m with you, i lived and worked in boston for four years, i was just up there last week. this city like new york did, like pennsylvania did, like washington, d.c. did, will recover and do great, and my prediction the boston marathon will be bigger, stronger and more emotional than ever. i happen to have run the marine corp. marathon in 2001 just a couple months after 9/11, and this city and this country, regardless of who did this, comes back from these things very, very strong, and boston will too. i think it s good for america that we have this spirit of comeback. but we to want find out who did this. i have no idea. i ve seen the building down in oklahoma city tied to, yes, it s