appalling, we assumed the death toll would rise quite significantly. reporter: yeah, and i think those miracles come in the form of some good planning and a little bit of serendipity. remember at the end of the race, any marathon, they have a lot of medical capabilities on stand by. ambulances, medical triage tents, to be fair, what they re expecting to see is people who are dehydrated, an occasional person with difficulties with their heart, nothing like this. but these are medically trained professionals. several things happened, first of all, doctors and nurses and first responders were immediately able to come out to where these people were injured. and i ll remind you, you ve talked about this, they came out after an explosion with no knowledge whether or not another one might occur. it was quite brave on their part. but they were able to get treatment to these people who were injured very quickly. and then the ambulances were able to get the patients to hospitals that needed th
of evidence how the bomb was made but they don t have a lot of evidence about who did this or why. the actual evidence that would lead to the person or persons involved. this suggests a slightly higher level of them what was first thought yesterday and if so, does that narrow down the net of potential suspects? it does. the black powder, the acetone, peroxide, you don t want to let it get went. absolutely right. you want to protect the explosives, the detonator. when this bomb went off, talked to a couple of people and their first reaction was what is happening to people coming back from afghanistan? they are terrified that american soldiers with four or five to worse will come back and be
boston feel today? well, piers, i think when i wrote that, i probably was a little more despondent than i should have been. i was sad yesterday, i was sing today. i got that sense from the city talking to people. we will never be the same, new york will never be the same after 9/11. but that doesn t mean whoever did this has won, has cowed us. because this is a very tough town. you know, we take only three things seriously here, and that s sports, politics, and revenge. and i think it s going to take a lot more than what was done yesterday to knock a town like boston out. and i really sense that around across the city today. people were angry, and that people were absolutely determined, you know, i was in oma in northern ireland in 1998
and it was that night early in the morning, actually, in july of 1996, the media hotel was right next to the olympic park. and a band was playing, and i had just come back from the swimming venue, getting notes together, i heard the explosion, looked out the window, first thought maybe it was part of the act of the band, the sound wbtd noise. and i kept looking. and within a few seconds i started see the police cars and the column of emergency vehicles coming to the olympic park. there are obviously a lot of changes made to american sporting events after what happened in atlanta, and you could argue we have been very, very fortunate there s not been anymore terrorist outrage at a sporting event since then in the united states. there s been one now, do you think they ll have to be even more stringent security going forward? in most of these sporting fixtures now? i do think that. although when you think about most stadiums you go into in the
peers, that i think is going to become more common. they tall call this the heroic period, you have a lot of people rallying around each other, you are doing a show on what s happening here, a lot of news coverage. but over time, some of that is going to dispate, and these thoughts will set in more and more, so we have got to continue to remind ourselves of that. definitely, hideous injuries, astounding bravery. thank you very much. thank you. it brings back memories of the olympic bombing in atlanta. christine was in her hotel room overlooking the park when it went off. it must have brought back awful memories of atlanta for you. it did. when i first watched the video that we ve seen over and over of the blast 12 seconds apart, the sound hit me. the sound from my tv set watching the video yesterday, and i said boy, i ve heard that sound before.