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Kind of crisis coverage. i m just wondering if you can kind of replay it in your head, those fractions of seconds where you went from what you thought you were doing, you actually thought you were covering a marathon and a wedding. when you went from that to realizing you are covering a major historic american disaster. yeah, we knew it immediately. the kind of carnage we saw, this wasn t something small. some people said early on maybe a manhole blew up. i couldn t imagine a manhole blowing up would cause such a horrific situation. i mean, what we saw, i knew pretty instantly that something was bad. because there were two explosions. i didn t realize there was another one down on boylston street. but i just knew that i heard two large explosions. i thought they were both in the same area considering the carnage that i saw. that s what i was thinking that moment. now processing this, going back, ....
Off. the group that i was with, all of us thought we heard a cannon fire, so we turned our attention. that s what it sounded like. we turned our attention to the finish line. that s when we saw the cloud of smoke. even then, we were sitting there saying what is going on. then within ten seconds of, you know, turning around, we actually saw the second one happen and that s when we kind of started putting things together. what did you do after you realized what was happening? caller: well, i was with my dad, my brother and my future brother-in-law. my dad actually kind of had us back away from the street a little bit. we were kind of next to a building that had stone pillars that protected us a little bit. a lot of the people in my area just kind of were a little confused and stunned about what was going on. ....
Of started putting things together. what did you do after you realized what was happening? well, i was with my dad, my brother, and my future brother-in-law. my dad actually kind of had us back away from the street a little bit. we were kind of next to a building that had stone pillars that protected us a little bit. a lot of the people in my area just kind of were a little confused and stunned about what was going on. we kind of just stayed in the area trying to figure out what was happening. then as more and more people were coming our way, coming away from the explosion, we started kind of putting two and two together and then we started heading back toward mass avenue and away from the explosions. taylor, what we seem to be hearing tonight is there were not a lot of injured or bloody people walking around because most of the injuries were below the waist. ....
Changed. you described it well, i m from boston, too. i remember as a kid, i used to think i got the day off from school because of the boston marathon. exactly. in fact, it s patriots day, this holiday that we celebrate there. it s very festive. it s just not the place where your mind is ready or poised to shift into any kind of negative or kind of crisis coverage. and so i m just wondering if you can kind of replay it in your head those fractions of seconds where you went from what you thought you were doing, you actually thought you were covering a marathon and a wedding. when you went from that to realizing, you are covering a major historic american disaster. yeah, we knew it immediately. the kind of carnage we saw, this wasn t something small. some people had said early on, oh, maybe a man hole blew up. i couldn t imagine that a man hole blew up could cause this horrific situation. what we saw, i knew instantly ....
I m just wondering if you can kind of replay it in your head, the fractions of seconds where you went from what you were doing, you thought you were covering a marathon and wedding. you went from that to realizing, you are covering a major historic american disaster. caller: yeah, we knew it immediately. the kind of carnage we saw, this wasn t something small. some people said early on maybe a manhole blew up. i couldn t imagine a manhole blowing up would cause such a horrific situation. i knew something was bad. because there were two explosions. i didn t realize there was another one down on boylston street. i heard two other explosions. i thought they were in the same area considering the carnage that i saw. that s what i was thinking that moment. now processing this, going back, i wasn t on that side of the ....