This, we ll find out why they did this. any responsible individuals, any responsible groups will feel the full weight of justice. boston is a tough and resilient town so are its people. there was just families all around us with kids yelling and screaming and we just wanted to try to get away as quick as possible. and we reaffirmed that on days like this, there are no republicans or democrats, we are americans united in concern for our fellow citizens. and welcome back to morning joe. we re live here in boston just blocks from that scene where the double bombing happened yesterday at the finish line of the boston marathon. mike barnicle is still with us and willie geist is with us from new york. joe will be joining us in a moment with former homeland
Circuit tv. do you know what the situation is in boston? yeah, my sense is most american cities, new york is going that route. there s nothing like london and belfast. those two cities have complete integrated system and it s almost nothing without it being captured on cctv cameras. as a matter of fact, back in 2005 in london, they were able to follow those guys from outside of london all the way into london to the subways and to the bus. so there the cctv cameras were absolutely invaluable in the investigation. my sense is boston they will have some cctv cameras. filming the very end of the finish line and then you have individual people that will be taking pictures throughout the marathon. but especially at the finish line. there ll be hundreds if not thousands of pictures taken of people running and crossing the finish line in the minutes and hours leading up to the bombing.
In 1971 as a boston police officer, and as a sergeant, as a lieutenant, as a chief of the transit police. as the boston police commissioner. it is an extraordinary day and one that i have great memories of. and those memories will be forever tainted by what happened yesterday. i noticed just prior to our interview when you re reading an extraordinary column by kevin cullen, and like mike barnicle, how all of you seasoned commentators, your eyes teared up just thinking how he described that event. i read that column online earlier this morning and literally i had tears coming out of my eyes. the poignancy of it, the tragedy of it. there s an e-mail i received from somebody that michael knows, a former deputy superintendent, my colleague, that he sent to me. i talked to the special ops at the scene of the blast. he said the injuries were
Blasts occurred. you can imagine that, it is tuesday, april 16th, and we re live in boston this morning, just about five blocks from the site of double bombing, those explosions yesterday near the finish line of the boston marathon. joining us now we have with us for the whole show today, mike barnicle. and in new york, willie geist. you ve been covering this since the story broke. we ve been listening to your words, your reporting, your words of calm. a day later, how is this sinking in? well, i think obviously the city, the environment around the city is still in a state of shock. the city will not be business as usual today. many of the streets around us you can see have been closed off, back bay, the entire area of the finish line is closed off and shut down. but like any city like new york, after september 11th, like any city in this country, people are resilient, we ll go on. yesterday was a special day
Destroyed several of these packages. and there s been confusion about whether there were two unexploded bombs. but this morning, senior law enforcement official says it now appears, no, there were no unexploded devices, just the two that went off. we ll see whether later in the day that changes again. but that s our best information for now. and it s too bad in a sense because if there were unexploded devices, that would be obviously an investigative gold mine in terms of the components how they were made and so forth. now, as for the second part of this, the second moving piece that we saw last night, there was a search in the boston suburb of revere. that is the moment of a 20-year-old saudi man who is here on a student visa. he was questioned at length last night in a hospital. he has fairly serious burns. he was seen running away after the explosion and witnesses said he appeared to be acting suspiciously just before the bombs went off.