and farber in the uk and farber, inc., in the united states. let's welcome phillip and chloe >> hi there, phillip. >> hi, chloe >> so, this play, it's been quite a journey. we're talking 3 1/2 years, maybe nearly 50 different drafts and 5 workshops? . >> five workshops, yes. >> so, looking back at the journey, how has it been for you and has it come out as you expected it would? . >> what's interesting is if you work on a play this long, normally there are times that it becomes redundant and you get a little bored with the piece. it's only natural. it's pushing 4 years now. this one was interesting in that it never got boring or ever felt redundant and each thing that we did over these almost 4 years, whether it was going off to sundance or to writer's retreat they have in sheritan, wyoming -- is that where you went? . >> that was in utah and la as well, down there at the institute. >> they have another writer's retreat in sheritan, wyoming, so i spent time out there and we workshoped this in san francisco, we have done readings at the asia soc

michael eric dyson and we have paul farber. all of them here with us for a special kind of conversation which is how we billed this. i will tell you a little bit each individual quickly because time is of the essence. and i would like to tell you that brigitte freed was formerly brigitte kl u.k. and she met leonard freed in role in 1956. they married a year later in amsterdam where they lived, deciding to leave for life in the united states in 1963, just a few months before what would eventually occur as the march on washington and i don't think they knew that it was about to happen when they came to the states at that time. bridgette developed and printed leonard's photographs for over 20 years including those in his classic photo books, black and white america and made in germany. and the internationally aclaimed exhibition concerned photographer. in addition she has hadn't careers as both a clothing designer and a real estate broker. she now lives in garrison, new york, in the hudson valley and works full time on leonard's p

thousands, tens of thousands of people who run for various charities, for the liver foundation, for dana farberver to see some friends who were running. so bill and denise and the kids were all intently watching the crowd as the runners came across just to see if they could see some of their friends. that's why they were there. and they heard the first explosion. which was further up the street. and there was a scramble. no one really knew which way to go. there was a sense that getting into the street was the safest thing to do. but the barrier that was there was preventing the crowd from doing that. and that's when they had gone to the barrier and were trying to get into the street. that's when the second bomb detonated. look, i just want to say this is a wonderful, wonderful family. the richard family and the o'brien family, denise's maiden name is o'brien. just good people. good citizens. active in the community, active in baseball. the boys played baseball. their daughter, very active. just a good family. hard working people. denise is a librarian at one of our local charter schools. an ab

it is across from the dana farber cancer institute. we have seen additional police presence. they are not letting any cars go down the path. they have done so since we got out there an hour ago. obviously we have been hearing so much about the violent activity that has taken place in cambridge and in watertown and with the boston globe reporting one suspect is in police custody and that one suspect has been shot. we don't know if that suspect was brought here. obviously as you can see there is a heightened sense of security around this entire building right now. this is clearly an area that is is getting more traffic as the work morning will start to begin here for people that are coming in. obviously right now it is quiet, but completely blocked off with the local law enforcement presence that is here right now. again we have seen additional police cruisers drive by on the road. no confirmation from local law enforcement or hospital officials right now for the reasoning, but clearly as you can tell there is a strong presence out here and we are working to get a little more a

this is in the afternoon when all the charity runners are coming, the people running for dana farber, the river foundation, because they've lost a family member, people that don't run marathons and used to coming across the line with emotion. about 9,000 were stranded out on the course when this happened. >> the images are dramatic. i appreciate you joining us this morning. >>> much more coming up including security impacts in cities across the country. for now natalie has a check of all of the top stories. >>> out of iran a powerful magnitude 7.8 earthquake has struck iran this morning near the border with pakistan. tremors are the rahling residents and building across the gulf region all the way to new delhi and india. >>> a hard landing for a marine ch-53e super stallion helicopter near seoul. the chopper was participating in joint military exercises with south korea. all 21 people on board survived the incident, six of them remain in the hospital in stable condition. >>> the senate is set to take up the gun control debate today as republicans and democrats face off over the issue

>> only in the sense that mark farber is smart.you know, cataclysmic type things, in the past weird global developments sometimes coincide with a market that's already some people think, levitating. and if there were -- i would have no -- i never really thought we would ever use a nuclear device again. i thought it was over after the cold war. and i still don't know what to think. we just had some guy who knows so much more than we do on. if one went off and where there are people instead of an underground coverage i don't know what that might do. the fabbers of the world, something like that could make a top. >> you can't predict that. >> and it's already vulnerable. >> it's vulnerable, yes, if i'm right. but if i'm wrong -- i'm not right all the time, joe, you would be the first to point that out. >> we have plenty of time. but not enough. >> the market is not accessible. >> do you have an s&p number for this year? we had a guy scott black, he said the street is at 111. i'm at 104 for s&p. he said that puts it 15.5. usually we ge

i had a staff member who was running for dana farber.nd seeing our friends finish. more runners that are raising money in that race than running to win it. and just a terrible, terrible, terrible tragedy. and the human part of this -- for the neighborhood. for the neighborhood. boston's really a small city of neighborhoods and so when the names come out and some of them have come out, we all know those families. er that part of our community here as well. we're feeling it right now and we can already feel that outpouring of love from our neighbors here in the city of boston, across the state and across the country for those victims and their families, what they're going through right now. i was with some of the victims' families last night at the hospital and that's what sustains them right now. they're so thankful, so thankful for the first responders, for the boston police, for the boston fire, for the ems, the way they responded. i talked to one of the dads who tragically lost his son yesterday and he said that if it hadn't been for t

this is -- in the afternoon when all the charity runners are coming, the people running for dana farber, the river foundation, because they've lost a family member, people that don't run marathons and used to coming across the line with raw emotion. about 9,000 were stranded out on the course when this happened. >> that was interview with steve and tom earlier today. they'll go to the ends of the earth to find those responsible for this despicable crime, he also said that there had been two sweeps of explosive devices before the race began. >>> we're following more breaking news this morning, an earthquake in iran. natalie is back in new york with details on that. >>> a powerful earthquake has hit iran, rattling buildings. we have the latest. >> it hit the southeast region of iran. biggest earthquake to hit the country in 50 years. the tremors were so big they were felt to the east in new delhi and to the west in dubai. we're getting conflicts reports about the numbers of injured. iran's crisis management center said that there are no deaths. one of the major cities near the epiessentia