but i want to also speak to the watertown community. you ve done great. we ve done everything we ve asked. but we need some more time. you have to stay in your homes, stay in place. we have as the colonel said we still have some work to do even after we clear the area there s a major crime scene down there that s going to take some time. but i ve been assured to all the gentlemen behind me that they re not going to leave until the town is safe. so it may go today, tomorrow and over the weekend before we have the whole crime scene under control. the watertown community has always stood strong and i ve asked them to do that this morning and they ve done terrific. i want to thank them. thank you. thank you, folks. thank you. all right. so we just heard from the governor of massachusetts, the mayor of boston, the massachusetts state police, watertown police. one interesting note that i want to point out, chris, is that
community of watertown. it s a little different what we re going to do here. you re going to see saturated patrols. state police will be out, local communities are going to support us, nemlec will be here. we ve done a thorough search of the 20-block interior. unfortunately, as you know, we didn t have any results. but we re going to continue to move forward, as a community. i can t thank the watertown community enough for what you ve done, your strength. but we needed to continue. as you heard, the crime scene is not done yet. that is not going to be collapsed for another couple of hours at least. please go about your business. i know there s a lot of events in watertown tomorrow. and we re going to have them. but you re going to see a big police presence as we do that. thank you. and please say a prayer for those police officers. thank you. one more thing. one more point.
carjacking and we are trying to nail that down. pause for a moment and listen to this gunfire. those gunshots ring out in the middle of the night and they go on and on and on. some of our best pieces of information and some of the best pieces of factual information is being reported and on behalf of police that we heard from the watertown police department and the boston pd a short moment ago. i want to play you again that press conference now. have a listen. calling on the watertown community to be calm during this time. we are talking about the east watertown, dexter, laurel street, school street area to remain in your homes. as the colonel said we will be going and doing a search. please stay in your homes. do not come out. if you get a knock on your
were arrested in watertown, massachusetts. raises questions and we don t have anything to go on. tell us what the watertown community is like, who lives in there area what do we need to know about watertown? watertown is a bedroom community for boston. it is an historic people. a lot of great people there. multicultural. it changed in terms of ethnicity of the city over the years. you know it is 10 miles west of boston. and, i know that they re just shaking their heads as well. a lot of people are deeply concerned. what i found interesting also seems when they were able to drop the bombs, obviously during the boston marathon there was no contact with individuals but the one-time they had contact with somebody is when they obviously did the carjacking. they had an actual contact with somebody and they let him go. i found that very curious. i think that interpersonal relationship, obviously
door make sure we will have uniformed officers there to assist with the screening and the safety of these neighborhoods. the watertown community has been good and we are asking for your cooperation to assist us. there is no planned controlled blast of any sort at this time. there are eod or explosive ordinance teams that have been up there in the process of recovering that was discharged from the vehicles. we are making those safe at this point. we are not prepared to talk about identifications. that was one of the reasons that those videos were released earlier yesterday. where was he shot? i with i will not get into specifics about that. jay is he alive? we don t have the names at this pot. this is an on going investigation. we can t get into details on the descriptions of the