dr. peter fagenholz from mass general. as you and i know, if anything does happen to you in boston, you are lucky if you are close to massachusetts general hospital as 29 of those patients were today that are now in that hospital. mike, what is the feeling there? i've been having trouble imagining what it's like up there in my hometown tonight. >> reporter: well, lawrence, you know the town well. it's a very small town, the area we are talking about where the bombings occurred is a very small street. boylston street in downtown boston, perhaps the bombings occurred in no more than 100 yards distance. the mood in the city is one of obvious somberness, people are upset about what happened. the day, as you know, patriots' day in boston is a celebration, it's a community celebration. there is no school. it's a holiday for the entire state. children are out of school. this is the start of school vacation week. for years, every patriots' day begins with a red sox game that starts at 11:00 in the morning as it did today and the m

dr. fagenholz has operated on six of them. he said no one at the hospital, admitted to mass general is under the age of 18. the oldest patient he knows to have been admitted to mass general is 71 years old. dr. fagenholz has been working all day on surgery and was working all day on surgeries and operations before this event occurred and has been now continuing with that. joining us now is kassidy quinn bretlor in newton, massachusetts. she witnessed today's attacks. cassidy, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> thank you for having me. i wish it was under better circumstances, obviously, but thank you. >> were you there as a spectator of the marathon? >> i was. i worked downtown and a co-worker was running in the marathon. i went down to the finish line to try to see him. i actually realized a couple minutes before the explosions happened that he had already finished the race a few minutes before. so i went about 30 feet back behind the finish line to get a perfect picture of the finish line as any photographer want