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long and in that respect we know this wasn t an accidental explosion. at that point you re left with a criminal act or a terrorism and the only differentiator is whether or not it was politically motivated. we don t know it was politically motivated or not but i think it is more than a fair guess to say that if you are planting bombs around lots of people at the end of the boston marathon, this is not just a criminal act. this is someone who wants to kill people and i think that if there were not the likelihood that people would attack the president from both parties, all sides, if he gets an initial statement wrong, they would be saying terrorism now. chuck, i guess we all made the assumption that the government, the fbi will be able to catch the bad guys, or bad guy.
here. there are number of bars that should be packed right now but they are completely empty. everything is shut down because people are trying to figure out what happened. right behind me two blocks away is the finish line. that area is completely frozen as they continue their investigation. there s about a 15-block radius where they are stopping any cars from entering this area. the commissioner the police commissioner has asked everybody to go home, to stay inside, to stay safe, partially because they are not sure if there are any more threats. everything dropped along the race route is being considered a suspicious package. as you can imagine, it s a marathon. people are dropping things left and right and when everything started to happen, people were dropping more stuff as they were trying to get away from the scene. initially people thought it could have been an accident but 15 seconds later once that other explosion happened, people started to realize this probably was not an
it may have, in fact, pushed the explosion up rather than out. it s one of the things they are going to have to determine where were the two devices? were they in something such as a trash can or were they just on the ground? they just don t know at this stage of the game. it s going to take a while to determine that and they will let the general public know what they know. what kind of a drag net? earlier with the reverend rented al sharpton, when you look for somebody people obviously it seems to me a person could drive or whatever. they could take the bus. the airports, what do you think about the airports? can you begin to check on that and catch somebody before they leave town? they would be looking at the airports because that s the one area that they have records of who is coming and going. you don t necessarily have that on buses or trains and certainly not in automobiles. they will be looking to retrieve
this, is this going to be in the globe? will they be able to isolate that moment of explosion? we had a couple of photographers on the scene. immediately on the scene as well and i think david abel. we had a couple folks out there. i was just shooting video so our video is at boston.com but i m sure we ll have dramatic photos in tomorrow s paper for sure. we appreciate you giving us this photo. you took a great picture there. it gives us a tremendous sense of what happened. let s go to michael leiter. i m well beyond my ability in talking about this but tell me where i m right or wrong. he said it was clearly outside but he think it is came from the trash cans. it s possible. it s really hard to tell, chris. we ve seen over and over today, this started about 2:50. i would say about half of what