ready to risk their lives to save the rest of us. i was the senior democrat on the house intelligence committee,s and then i chaired an intelligence subcommittee of the house homeland security committee. i was here in washington on 9/11, and the scene was again, the various scenes were right there, and there was no evacuation plan in congress. i was headed to the dome of the capitol, which was then the location of the intelligence committee rooms. that was the, we all think, the intended sitest attack of the fourth plane that went down in pennsylvania because of the heroism of the passengers. so most of us of a certain age have sadly lived through an era of terror. this may not be terror, but it may be. the possibility of a homegrown attack, even though these are lo low-grade explosives, could be still connected to some larger organization or to material on the internet that s prepared by a larger organization.
and another woman, they were carrying out, like, you know, running like critical, critical, get out of our way. yeah, it was quite scary, yeah. and did you get out of the scene as quickly as you could, what did you do? well, what we did, i mean, we heard the first bomb, okay, what, what, and the smell, oh, my god, it s a bomb. then all of a sudden the next one s going off and we re in between the two, and the man that was with us, three women, they were right away, girls, under us, get down. they were like, go, go, walking like hovering over us and i was like you didn t know where to go because you re thinking, okay, where s the next one going off, you know what i mean? it was quite scary. i just went numb kind of and you just do what you re told. everybody s screaming around you. and it just kind of hits you
the scene at the time of the explosions. once again, he s joining us. the latest numbers we have, matt, two dead and at least a hundred injured in these two explosions, two bombings. they are now officially being determined as bombings. do we have more information coming in from the scene? you re there. i ve been talking to my family, just trying to figure out what they saw in those first couple moments. and my mother said she did see children around the area around the second explosion, the explosion about 20 yards away from us, right across the street, after the explosion she turned around and saw a man with his shorts burned and his legs bloodied. i think that my brother who we ve been trying to find may finally be arriving at this moment. so my parents are walking to him right now to give him a big hug. it s been about two hours plus, and his cell phone has been shoddy and the texting hasn t really worked. but he s okay.
at all types of possibilities? anything that is unattended right now, any package that is unattended is being treated as a potential problem and we re methodically going through the area to check each particular parcel and item that s out there. we re going to conference for now, we ll be back with more information when we have it. thank you all for coming. and you ve been listening now to there he is, the police commissioner in boston. the governor of massachusetts, the mayor of boston, updating us on what we know right now, and information is just coming in. we re also standing by to hear from the president of the united from the president of the united states. captions by vitac www.vitac.com if you re just joining us, here s a recap of what we know right now, a horrific scene, one
director of the fbi and cnn contributor is here with us. you hear the police chief in boston, tom, say and the governor suggest people should just go home, stay home, don t go on the street. that s pretty scary, even when you hear that kind of talk, although i totally understand why they re saying it. oh, i think for now they want to reduce the number of people that could be suspicious just walking around. other people are going to see people walking around, they re still it carrying their backpacks they ve had with them all day. they re liable to be calling in so many extra phone calls to the police that they just don t have the resources to deal with. so the best thing for them is the same as if you were having a blizzard in town, get off the street, go home, you just get in the way of the police and emergency responders and investigators that need to move resources around. so i think that would be the main issue, just getting out of the way so they can do their job. i assume t