feet but we didn't see any runners taken away by ambulance because of the blasts. >> pelley: jonathan elias on boylston street for us tonight. jonathan, thank you very much. about 120 people are still in the hospital being treated for various wounds. they went to emergency rooms all over the city. don daylor is at massachusetts general. don? >> reporter: scott, the 129 victims were take on the seven area hospitals including mass general here. they admitted 22, six of whom are listed in critical condition. among the more than a dozen around the boston area that are still clinging to life. and that's because of the nature of these injuries, these terrible, horrific injuries that doctors are describing as something you would see from a battlefield in afghanistan or iraq that we've -- soldiers have suffered for the past ten years or more. they are -- limbs blown off, traumatic head injuries. the youngest victim is a two-year-old boy. we can report that he is being prepped for surgery right now at boston's children's hospital. now, many of the victims didn't make it to the hospitals right away,

in terrell brown's report you heard jonathan elias, a reporter for our station in boston, wbz. he was right there on boylston street as the bombs went off. can you tell us what you saw? >> reporter: scott, we were not more than 30 feet away from when this blast went off. let me set the scene as what was happening. we were four hours into the third and final wave so the crowd as far as spectators began to slowly thin. i guess that would be the only silver lining in any of this because they were ten deep and all of a sudden coming across the finish line we were watching and videotaping folks, high fiving and cheering them on and all of a sudden a blast went off. it shook us and we were looking right at where it went off so i saw the plume of smoke come up off the sidewalk. we froze not realizing what it was. we thought maybe -- you know, we have old infrastructure in boston, perhaps it was underground gas, something. the next second another bomb up the street further went off. we knew exactly what was going on then. we reacted by running towards the scene and there was a photogra

they were-- >> pelley: jonathan elias, we've apparently lost that communication with him. we'll try to get him back. he was there at the moment that both bombs exploded. by our count, at the emergency rooms around boston, there are more than 53 people being treated. many of them are in critical condition. they were rushed to various gencgency rooms under an nmergency plan that had been set up long in advance. kate merrill from wbz is at one of those emergency rooms at brigham and women's hospital. >> reporter: scott, 26 of the patients were brought here to brigham and weal hospital. the head of emergency telling me they range in age from as young ol three years old to 62. half of them men, half of them women, and at least two are in critical condition tonight. 8-10 suffered serious injuries. and they're all seeing a wide , nge of injuries all blast related. severe head, limb, torso injuries, fractures and onrnlings and eardrum projection the things consistent with a blast. wn hhospital is now on a lock-down here at brigham and women's. the f.b.i., the a.t.f., state and loc

jonathan elias, thank you from wbz. jonathan was mentioning the people who were wounded. they are now being treated in some of the nation's best hospitals and don daylor is at one of them, massachusetts general hospital. don, what do you know? >> reporter: the doctors are saying had there not been so many first responders at the scene of the tragedy there to care for the runners there probably would have been many more fatalities. as it is, though, the people who were brought to places like massachusetts general in the boston area suffered terrible injuries. the two bombs left scores of injured, the scene reminiscent of a war zone. medical tents set up for the race were quickly transformed into emergency rooms where nurses treated lacerations, broken bones, and severe injuries to legs and feet. >> what really surprised me was the number of people and just the -- really the amount of blood, the amount of injuries. >> one woman had lost her leg, lots of bleeding. some children were involved as well and we took care of the ones that we could and got them into the ambulance a

. >> pelley: we have jonathan elias who is a correspondent for our station wbz in boston. jonathan, i understand you were there when it happened. can you tell us what you saw? >> scott, we were 30 feet away from when this blast went off. we were standing at the finish line. it was a photographer, producer and myself. everybody was in a great mood, great race, the weather was perfect and i pulled out my camera on my phone and told our photographer "smile" and took a picture and as soon as he turned back around to face the finish line this explosion went off 30 feet -- when i say 30 feet it was like right across the street. that kind of direction. big plume of smoke. clearly whatever went off was sitting on the sidewalk because the smoke went straight up. it didn't come out from the buildings. glass was shattered in four or five buildings right next to each other. we ran toward the direction because we weren't sure at first what happened and then a second explosion two blocks up went off and that's when we started running towards where the first bombing happened. every at tha

. >> pelley: we have jonathan elias who is a correspondent for our station wbz in boston. jonathan, i understand you were there when it happened. can you tell us what you saw? >> scott, we were 30 feet away from when this blast went off. we were standing at the finish line. it was a photographer, producer and myself. everybody was in a great mood, great race, the weather was perfect and i pulled out my camera on my phone and told our photographer "smile" and took a picture and as soon as he turned back around to face the finish line this explosion went off 30 feet -- when i say 30 feet it was like right across the street. that kind of direction. big plume of smoke. clearly whatever went off was sitting on the sidewalk because the smoke went straight up. it didn't come out from the buildings. glass was shattered in four or five buildings right next to each other. we ran toward the direction because we weren't sure at first what happened and then a second explosion two blocks up went off and that's when we started running towards where the first bombing happened. every at tha

we begin our coverage of the tragedy in boston with jonathan elias. he is an anchor with the cbs affiliate wbz in boston. >> the first blast goes off and it was right in front of us. literally right across and the street and the percussive nature of this bomb shook all o us. you flinch and duck and then you look up and see this huge cloud of white smoke coming off the sidewalk and we froze. everyone around us froze. and then the second bomb within a matter of seconds goes off and you knew. then you knew exactly what was happening so we started making our way toward that initial blast and, you know, i've got to be honest, i was in a complete state of shock and in my head i wasn't processing things. it was almost as though time was slowing down. >> rose: we continue with ray kelly, police commissioner of new york city. >> the more complex the plot, the more likely it is you're ing to have intelligence information, the more moving parts there are to a scheme that you have a greater chance of getting intelligence. but an individual or small group does it

. >> jonathan elias was reporting on april 15th. >> it's sort of like the fourth of july for massachusettsle celebrate where we are, who we are z there's nothing else like it. >> boston globe reporter steve silva was at the starting line of the day's biggest event, the boston marathon. >> since 1897. >> it was a chilly morning, 30 degrees, people starting to warmup, unlike last year where it was 80 degrees. the weather's not going to be a story this year. what's going to be the story. >> pediatric resident, it would be the story of giving back. >> it was a very special day for me. i had decided to raise money for boston medical center pediatrics. >> doctors told chris that this was a day her daughter might not ever live to see. >> they said her prognosis was, you know, maybe she'll be 10 if we were lucky. >> the mid dal con dree y'all disease that weakened her cells made her terribly ill. >> those first few years were hard, she theeded to have medical procedures, time in the hospital, lots of pneumonias. >> are to the kay girls, kayla's health challenges, benign tumors, the laws of kayla's

jonathan elias of our cbs boston station wbz was there on boylston street when the bombs went off. jonathan? >> scott, i was 30 feet away from that initial blast and we were filming people coming across the finish line for what should have been an end of a jubilant race. i mean, they were ecstatic. people were raising their arms up in the air, my producer, my photographer, myself, we are high-fiving these guys and just cheering them on and then a second later the bomb went off. when that first bomb went off we held our ground not knowing what had just happened and then seconds later the second bomb went off and that's when we knew exactly what was going on. we ran toward the scene of the initial blast as everyone else was running away trying to get out and off of boylston street. police officers down the street were holding up their hands and stopping some 9,000 runners still on the track telling them the race was over, they can't come down boylston and the carnage that was left on the sidewalk is forever burned in my mind and the mind of everybody i was working with today. there we

. >> jonathan elias was reporting for wcbv tv on april 15th. >> it's sort of like the fourth of july for massachusetts. people celebrate where we are, who we are and nothing like it. >> there's nothing else like it. >> "boston globe" reporter steve silva was at the starting line of the day's biggest event, the boston marathon. >> part of the american sports scene since 1897. >> it was a chilly morning, 30 degrees, people starting to warm up, unlike last year when it was 80 degrees. the weather's not going to be a story this year. what's going to be the story? >> for pediatric resident natalie stavas, it would be a story of giving back. >> it was a very special day for me. i had decided to raise money for boston medical center pediatrics. >> doctors told chris that this was a day her daughter might not ever live to see. >> they said her prognosis was, you know, maybe she'll be 10 if we were lucky. >> the mitochondrial disease that weakened her cells made her terribly ill. >> those first few years were hard. she needed to have lots of medical procedures, time in the hospital, lots of p

. >> reporter: jonathan elias from boston station wbz was nearby. >> body parts. people were blown apart. >> multiple people down here. i don't know what the cause is. standby. >> reporter: police rushed to assist victims tangled in debris and broken glass some missing limbs. bloody spectators were carried into the medical tent that had been set up to care for fatigued runners. >> there was some bad-looking people. i'm praying for all of them. we are all trying to put pressure on all the wounds for everybody. turn i cuts and whatever we could do. it was chaos. >> reporter: the runners were directed away from the chaos and people were ordered to stay clear of trash cans. >> we're going to need more ambulances down in this location, okay? >> yes, sir. they've been notified. they're on the way. we have every unit possible going, sir. >> reporter: edward davis is the boston police commissioner. >> people should be calm. but they should understand that this is an ongoing event. they should understand that we need all the inf7ation that we can get available to us. >> ch

jonathan elias, who, why, how?here is the investigation now weapon with respect to who might have done this? >> a home was searched overnight. that home belongs to someone in the hospital suffering from burns. very near the bomb when it went off. stopped by three boston detectives and questioned. found him suspicious and had police stay with him. sources tell me he's been cooperative. and fully cooperative throughout the investigation. they say he burns on his hands, treated for those. he said he was near the blast when it went off and started moving away at the time. the bomb dog brought in to sniff him and his clothing and alerted on that but that wouldn't be unusual to someone who was by a bomb when it went off. >> what about the search of the house? >> took some items, but didn't find a bomb factory, nothing that jumped off the page. they are being very careful to examine that lead, not get tunnel vision. a lot of other leads to focus on. and that's just one of them. >> where do those leads come from? >> they w

. >> we're back now with jonathan elias and also steve silva, "boston globe" sports reporter.orning? >> i'm doing okay. it's starting to sink in more today sure. >> what was it like for you there on the finish line? >> you know, going through typical boston marathon that i follow. uneventful. temperatures were normal. runners were coming across at the four-hour mark. dealing with charity runners usually running for someone that they lost or maybe they have an impairment. i'm just shooting scenes of raw emotion at the finish line at 2:50 p.m. boom went the explosion and for a split second i thought is this a canyon celebrating someone famous coming across for a split second but then as we started approaching 12 seconds later was the second explosion and everything flipped. we're in something terrible here. >> everyone thought it was maybe a gas explosion or manhole cover. it was on the sidewalk. you saw the white cloud of smoke. everyone froze for a second and then the second bomb and that's when a lot of people started running down boylston to get away. 9,000 runners still on