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Years. about 6:45 this morning authorities put a name to his face and started to piece this all together. right now you have massive police presence in 4 one central area in watertown, massachusetts, literally lined from side to side with armored vehicles. the schools in boston, the tra thans transas we just said in boston all shut down in an effort to make sure that he cannot get out. they are hoping that they have him surrounded, and that one way or another they will find him. let s go to jenna. we ll bring if a guest who my have more insight into how the search goes on for this. jenna: so many questions still remain as we continue to piece together what is actually going on with this investigation. we still don t know a couple key things. for example, why? why did these two commit this crime that they allegedly did? charlie payne is a former chief at the department of homeland securitier for bombing prevention. charlie you ve be watching the news as we have trying to piece ....
You go down two more city blocks and you will be at the finish line. you cannot pass because boylston street has been barricaded here. what you re watching now is watertown massachusetts, ten miles straight west, straight out the charles river you hit the town of watertown. that is where the activity has been so far today. but to stand here, jon, you cannot go 30 seconds without hearing a siren pass a massachusetts turnpike underneath us. that is what is happening here, a than now we have at least someone at the microphone there. let s go back to you now in new york for that. jon: state police taking questions in watertown. let s listen in. not a suspect in this. i m not sure what really is our attention to the person, they are running anytime, his background. david percopio. we ll leave the rest of the briefing [. [inaudible question] ....
That was withdrawn. it was in the area of watertown, do we know how much money was withdrawn and what was the timeline on that, and the part two to that is we keep on hearing about the 711 robbery, but yet we haven t heard exactly what was taken from the 711. do we have any more information about that? why are they calling that a robbery? he. reporter: the context gets a little interesting. it really seems now that what happened is the 711 itself wasn t robbed, but the carjacking of the mercedes suv took place at that location. and there is one more point i should share with you beyond that. the owner of that mercedes suv also relayed to police something that was said by one or both of the suspects there, that again led them to believe they indeed were onto the suspects for the boston marathon bombing. so it may be a bit misleading to talk about the robbery at the 711 when it seems what really happened now is a carjacking at the 711, jenna. jenna: after that what is the ....
Bridge, 711, about 20 minutes later police found dead an mit police officer, a campus police officer shot in his patrol car. that gave rise to some kind of applies chase and we are to understand that it ended there in watertown where you are after these two suspects, the two brothers, dzhokhar who survives and tamerlan who is dead after they were hurling explosives and bombs even some of the pressure cooker bombs, the kind used at the boston marathon hurling them out the cars at the police and all of this ended in watertown where you are, isn t that right, molly? exactly. we moved about a mile from where that scene had been blocked off. we were there this morning, very, very early this morning around 3:00 on the perimeter of where that had occurred and the vehicle was still there, because they had carjacked this vehicle, held an individual in that vehicle for about a half an hour before releasing him incredibly he is unhurt, moving the rest of ....
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 ....