there last night, bill, as you saw some of the pictures. i was out on arsenal street in watertown shortly after they captured the suspect and the moment i ll remember the most is there was a boston police department armored swat vehicle that came through with the doors open and some officers on the back and the officer driving was on the intercom chanting, usa, bpd. there were people hugging and crying and it s definitely some might think it s sappy, but it got to me. this is my city. lived here my whole life. this is so much fear in the city right now, to have them finally get that guy, the whole think was overcome with emotion. i m watching this young lady carry an american flag behind us. the pedicab has two american flags on the back of his three wheeler. you know, again, it s not unlike 9-11. it s a time for us to be happy to be americans and again, there
with the help of the f.b.i. hostage negotiation team, those tense hours finally ended. but at one point, there was a lot of very understandable concern that he might have had bombs strapped to his body. but they were able to negotiate with him. then the bloodd and wounded suspect was wheeled into the ambulance and a city and a nation began the process of exhaling for the first time in a week. and celebrating after an exhausting 102 hours of searching for that 19-year-old. the celebration on the boston commons, chants of usa, usa. watch. usa! usa! usa! usa! martha: what a moment that was. molly line reported and kept us up to speed on every development as it unfolded. she joins me now live this morning from watertown. good morning, molly
urban police department it s almost unheard of. so these officers acted heroically, courageously. they protected the community and they protected each other when they responded to this scene. i m so proud of the actions of the watertown police, the state police, the boston police, it s been an incredible team. martha: the people are proud of them, too. people in watertown, massachusetts, poured out of their homes to wave, to cheer, to clap, the enthusiasm, the relief, you could sense it. it was palpable. they lined the streets and cheered those police vehicles as they pulled away from the scene having done their job magnificently. so the suspected boston marathon bombers allegedly claiming the lives of four people. let s take a look at these young faces. this is 26-year-old sean collier. he was an mit police officer, killed in the line of duty, shot in a late night confrontation with the suspects days after the
the younger brother in police custody at a hospital down the street from our location here after this tense and harrowing stand-off. he is listed in serious condition expected to recover. the suspect discovered in the backyard of a home in watertown after the homeowner noticed blood on his boat and part of a tarp removed. the stepson of the boat owner talked to greta late last night shortly after the arrest was made. the tarp on the boat, as you ve described, had kind of lifted, which he found strange. he went over to the boat for a closer look. he found a strap that had been cut. not torn or worn through. it had been deliberately cut. he then was kind of stranged out by the whole thing. noticed a small amount of like blood in this area and then he took his little stepladder that he uses to enter and exit the boat. he went under the tarp, saw a
wanted and presumed extremely dangerous. now we have a more specific warning from the boston police department. for anybody who works at any of the businesses in the area of 480, 480 arsenal street in watertown, they say to remain home. do not come to work today. if you live or work in the area of the business of 480 arsenal street in watertown, remain home. juliette, you want to yes, that area is a big shopping mall. it s an area where there are sort of industrial warehouses and there s a lot of offices and other people who work there. it s a huge shopping mall, the arsenal area. so i think what we are going to see is their confidence level he s in a certain area. you may start to see over the course of the next hour actions that would sort of warn bostonians, people in cambridge and watertown to just stay put today. and so let s wait out for that. i don t want to jump the gun, but as we hear each of these,