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ruthless acts of terror can t define this iconic tradition. john berman and brooke baldwin are live along the starting lineup. good morning. good morning. we re in hopkinton. 36,000 participants of the boston marathon. right behind us is the wheelchair division which starts in about ten minutes. less than ten minutes. this is my first trip to hopkinton. to think of 36,000 people, you don t see a lot behind us because they ll go in waves. 36,000 people in this beautiful quaint new england town. we have to talk about security. i ve been watching the state police helicopter. even to get here, to get oven a bus, to get to the starting line, wanted. zero bag policy along the race route. even if you re coming to spectate, a million people, they re saying leave your hand bags at home.
kenyans took first place in mon men s and women s division. last year s race cancelled due to hurricane sandy. remember that? they set everything up then had to tear it all back down. history was made at today s marathon by an incredible young woman. her name is tatyana mcfadden. she completed her marathon grand slam by coming in first in the wheelchair division and three other marathons this year. as i found out, her success didn t come easy. at 24, tatyana mcfadden is no longer a stranger to adversity, taking on challenges most of her young adult life. born with spina bifida that paralyzed her from the waist down, unwanted by her mother, she was put into an orphanage that couldn t afford a wheel claire. i walked on my hands in the orphanage. no wheelchair. i just had a lot of hope. and this is not only an
23 seconds and they each win $100,000 for that. they ran awrung tmongs others wd to cross the finish line. it took two and a half hours to get the runners over the starting line. many are still out there grinding out those 22.2 miles. tell us was the paraolymic medali medalist. we won the race in today s wheelchair division. and she won the race in london, boston and chicago. she also won all four major
wheelchair division and a week later, she went to london, did exactly the same thing. she joins me now. welcome to you. thank you. first of all, congratulations on this extraordinary double success and we ll come to that a little later. you finished the boston marathon, you won it, you were feeling presumably jubilant about that, and then you hear that these bombs have happened. were you still on the location? did you hear them live or were you watching somewhere? i just missed the bombs. i happened to leave fairmont hotel which is right at the finish line at 2:30, so i just missed the bombs. i got out of the shower and i saw my parents and my teammates just staring at the tv and telling me two bombs went off and i said what, like is this is this really happening. and so luckily, i was back at the hotel room at sheraton which is only four blocks away from the finish.
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