house, my apartments. these pink balloons. but we thought there must be something serious. i didn t see anyone injured but i saw people running towards my house. away from the arena. going down south of manchester. there must be something serious if you re running away. reporter: steve, thanks for talking to us. thank you for your time. steve crosby there, whose house is an apartment that backs onto the arena. i will show you the scene here. down to the main square, past the tram platform. we can see a police. a police van. beyond that, some ambulances.
within about 3-4 minutes. but it was devastating. reporter: did you see anyone yourself who had been injured or were you too far away from that foyer area you were describing? we didn t see anybody. just traumatized people. we didn t see it but you could smell it. we only heard one explosion. shepard: one of the early witnesses talking to sky news the last hour and a half or so. on the phone with us is aaron mcdougle. thank you for joining us. what did you see and hear? we only heard one explosion as well. we were on the far side. shepard: erin mcdougle. caller: over from where the explosion happened. it was just a big rush. feels like a big blur now. we just heard one big shaking explosion. from the left side of the hall. and then just everybody running
you get a screening before you can take your bags in. what the authorities have told us no matter where you put the screening, you can always have the bad guy in that location tonight might be one of those examples. he or she could have waited until everybody was leaving. that was the time frame tonight. no matter how hard you try, it can be moved. it can t be stopped. that s right, where do you and the security? in a free society, we can protect every inch of the city. this individual may have been on a terrorism watch list. that s something we have to look at. shepard: indeed. life witness information coming in from sky news in the u.k. this is life. let s listen. is on the news. reporter: when you look out of the windows, described to
former senator george mcgovern, also a democratic presidential nominee, talks about what it means to be a democrat. i don t agree with those who criticize the federal government as our enemy. i think it s the best government in the world. and look at all the things that has done. so i cringe when i hear some of my republican friends talking about the terrible federal government. rose: barney frank and george mcgovern when we continue. captioning sponsored by captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. rose: barney frank is here. since 1980 he has represented massachusetts in the house of representatives of the united states. from 2007 until 2011 he chaired the house financial services committee where he remains a ranking democrat. among his accomplishments is the 2010 dodd-frank wall street reform and consumer protection act which overhauled the nation s financial regulatory system. in november, he announced he wo
rose: also this evening, former senator george mcgovern, also a democratic presidential nominee, talks about what it means to be a democrat. i don t agree with those who criticize the federal government as our enemy. i think it s the best government in the world. and look at all the things that has done. so i cringe when i hear some of my republican friends talking about the terrible federal government. rose: barney frank and george mcgovern when we continue. captioning sponsored by captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. rose: barney frank is here. since 1980 he has represented massachusetts in the house of representatives of the united states. from 2007 until 2011 he chaired the house financial services committee where he remains a ranking democrat. among his accomplishments is the 2010 dodd-frank wall street reform and consumer protection act which overhauled the nation s financial regulatory system. in n