other events would continue. maybe ramped up security, more inconvenience, we don t want to fundamentally change how we enjoy this country, how we live in this country. no doubt about it. no question there. former homeland security secretary tom ridge, always good to have you on. thank you, tom. coming up, the latest on the investigation and the administration s response. pete williams and chuck todd join us next. you re watching morning joe live from boston.
john timinney. give us a sense, we love this town. we love boston, what are we to expect in the days to come as the investigation ensues, but also the city takes on this new meaning and this new way of life. well, that s the difficult part. it really is going to change the boston marathon, which is an american icon. i ve run it a few times myself. i don t think it ll ever be the same. however, it will continue. the police at davis, they ve got their work cut out for them. i m sure there s going to be forensic evidence from both scenes. i guarantee you ll have tv cameras and video cameras coming into play over the next few days. there may be witnesses who surface, people who may have ran from the scene out of sheer panic that may have seen somebody acting suspicious. you have two locations. is it one individual dropping off two bombs or two individuals
do you plan oncoming back? i ll be back next year. i thought it was my first and only boston. i think we all have to run boston. i mean, we have to support that organization. all right. it s 38 past the hour, and we re on boylston street in boston, five blocks from where the bombing occurred. here with us now from newton, massachusetts, sports columnist for the boston globe, dan shaughnessy. dan, neither one of us want to admit how long we ve been around. so with that said, let me ask you to set the scene for this day that we ve both covered for decades. set the scene in terms of the route, what the route means to people who run it, people who watch it, and what the day means to people who live in and around this region. mike, as you know, it s one
site as you know, they would use bomb detecting dogs. the area where this event occurred where the bombs went off. if i understand it correctly based on past experience as well as yesterday, it would have been a v.i.p. area in which there would have been credentials necessary to get into that area. the level of security is so different, it s no longer just crowd control. it is to try and prevent exactly what happened yesterday. the awful tragedy that happened there in boston. and given commissioner that this was and is part of the towns that you covered heading up police departments around the country, just your personal thoughts on the events here at the iconic boston marathon, which i m sure is something that is a wonderful day for you in this town as it is for everybody. mika, this event that i grew up in boston, first policed it
in sources i talked to yesterday, they were emphasizing, we don t have any hidden information, we re not sitting on anything, nobody s sitting on anything, you re not going to sit on an anything in an investigation like this. they don t know. pete, any idea what you re expecting throughout the day? have you heard any words from fbi, law enforcement authorities on future briefings? well, there s going to be one in about two hours up in boston i think is the current plan. it wasn t clear if it was going to be 8:30 or 9:30 eastern. but now they re settling on 9:30. i guess you can watch what they say, but you can also watch what they do. the fact this happened in boston, that there was, you know, no obvious federal crime. but the fbi is leading the investigation says it all. because the fbi automatically has the lead in any attack that is considered to be terrorism. so that s that really tells you everything you need to know. all right.