Foreseeable future, the epicenter is trying to identify the perpetrator before he or they act. in this instance, there were no leads, there was no communicati communication. nothing substantive to act upon. and make no mistake about it, i m quite sure there were security measures put in place. i m quite sure that over the 26 plus miles, there were cameras and there were police, they were marked in unmarked cars. did everything you possibly can. as we remind ourself every single day, multiple events, cultural, social, political, attracting hundreds of thousands if not hundreds of thousands, we have been will always be a target rich environment. i don t like to use that expression. people convene in large crowds, and this historic day in boston was marred from the cheers to the chaos in the tragedy that evolved. isn t it safe to say it
Situation. that was my feeling. as i got closer to the sidewalk, it was just a pile of bodies and blood on the scene. it was just a horrible scene like it was a spielberg horror movie but it was real. so it all hit home pretty quickly. the day itself, the stories, i can recall when dan shaughnessy and i were talking about it earlier, it is one of the few events you cover where stories bump into you rather you bump into stories. that s part of the poignancy today. the-year-old child, the coroner of fairfield reaching out for his dad, from dorchester, a neighborhood in boston that are killed. it is quite a day. last year i remember being out in the line. i m trying to get random people coming across. you never know when they ll come through. i remember catching a man who just lost his son in iraq.
Hydrogen peroxide? that will give a load about the type of organizations behind this. the fact there were ball bearings in this is it clearly tells you that whoever did this was intending to maim and kill. this wasn t an attempt to just, you know, do some damage and scare some people. this was someone or a group trying to kill people. you know, beyond that, i think it s really dangerous to say ball bearings suggest domestic or international. the fact is whether it s al qaeda or domestic terrorist groups or hezbollah, all of these groups have used different sorts of motus operenda. it will be a different lead for investigators in boston and washington, but beyond that, it s hard to go much farther. i thought the white house s response yesterday was interesting. not what the president said, but
Of those unique days that we have that no one else has. patriots day. your friends call from out of town, you re not working. the there s no school. the reenactment, the goofy ball game. it s the only major league baseball game of a country that starts in the morning every year. it s a boston thing. fans generally go down to the finish line to see what s going on. you ve got 26 miles, along the route, a lot of us live along the route. people line up everywhere. go through where the college girls come out and scream at everybody. there s heartbreak hill at newton, the turn at the fire station. come in, down through coolidge corner, and at fenway, the runners coming into kenmore. it s always been this great day, 117 years. people lining up four or five deep, all over the route, great atmosphere, families, all of that. and to have this shattered in
Really committed to killing people, killing innocent people in a totally senseless way, it is going to be impossible for us to stop all of the carnage. what we also saw in boston, i think the result of 10, 12 years of counterterrorism and homeland security protection is a spectacular response. the police, the fire, the hospitals being ready for this sort of mass casualty event. that doesn t save everyone, but it undoubtedly does reduce the number of casualties that we see. hey, michael, could you speak to the degree of difficulty about an event like this? this is not an event, the marathon, that occurs in a stadium, at a ballpark or a convention hall where you ha have you have assigned egress and exits and entrances, this is an open society we live in. this is 26 miles, one specific area of boylston street with