james cavanaugh and kerry sanders has been watching this story for us. he has a report and we will get to that. i believe we will listen to a bit of sound from the uncle that happened a little bit earlier to say this. >> here put a shame, he put a shame on the family. he put a shame on the entire chechyan ethnicity. because everyone now names the play with the word chechyan. they put that shame on the entire ethnicity. that's what i would say. turn yourself in and whatever you do put yourself at the discretion of those who are here. that's what i would say. not yet. last time i spoke with them, that was about three months ago maybe. no, no. [inaudible] they came here from curd stan. >> where were they burn? >> in curd stan. i wouldn't say losers. i am saying those who were able to make this are only losers. that's what i say. there is no idea that they may follow. thank you. >> what do do you for a living? >> i work. i work. thank you very much. more thing, from now on, i dearly ask you to respect our property. again, with the families of -- those who su

nbc's kerry sanders is in cambridge for us. kerry, what can you tell us?> reporter: mara, there were reports of a disturbance here on the m.i.t. campus, and an m.i.t. police officer responded. apparently, that police officer was shot multiple times. the security team here says that he was transported to a hospital where he was reported dead. the authorities then converged on the area as they swarmed the area, there were some explosions that were heard a short distance away. and many of the officers then traveled over towards watertown where there are many officers now converging to find out if that is related to what happened here. mara? >> kerry, thanks so much. "last word" is coming up. >>> once again, these are the men the fbi is asking you to help find. the fbi says they are armed and dangerous, and says they are suspects in the boston bombing investigation. if you think you see anything here, any way that you can help, call the fbi tip line. 1-800-call-fbi. the latest is coming up next. [ male announcer ] the distances aren't getting shorter. ♪ the tr

and this is nbc news' kerry sanders on the phone. you're hearing kerry's live reporting on the scene in watertown, massachusetts, and what you are seeing is the live video coverage from our boston affiliate whdh, i want to take a moment to listen into their coverage. again, this is our affiliate in boston. let's take a listen to their ongoing coverage. >> i can't confirm that. i'm just observing and telling you what i'm seeing here. whether this is for what happened at m.i.t. or shell or mobile or all of the above, i don't know. but there's an active search from air clearly going on right now. as back here on the ground, the crime scene gets bigger and more and more officers are being brought in, special operations from different towns are being brought in. so clearly it is still unfolding before us. and we are in a safer location now, thankfully, but what a wild night out here for the people who live in these homes. as you can see behind these businesses, it is a residential area. chris lambert who lives not far from here heard bang,

we have kerry sanders still wired and listening and watching from their locations. two different street corneres i watertown. kerry, i could be convinced there is a little more activity down there. a few more people walking around. but really none of the vehicles at ti did see that second shift cars come in as you spoke. just given the physical evidence here we can't tell what's going on. >> exactly. we have to wait it out. i think it's clear that the law enforcement has put itself in position. they know where they are. they know what they have. they've got a clear picture of what they are looking at. their movements right now are, quite frankly, limited as they are waiting. bringing in a negotiator may simply be a last ditch evident to make -- perhaps to suggest that in the united states we don't just find a suspect and shoot to kill. but go through the extra step to offer a negotiated settlement to bring him out so he can be taken out peacefully. if nothing else to make the effort. but if he makes any sort of threat toward any officers, you know, in the movies some

and nbc's kerry sanders is in watertown. ry, i know you've had a very busy couple of hours with the police moving and moving you and others in and out, down the street as they made their searches. what is the situation now? >> right now completely calm. they're actually stopping for lunch. drinking, most of the officers have pulled back. i think there's a little bit of disappointment. because they thought they had the second suspect in an area just a short difficulty frns where i'm standing. it appears that if he was there, they did not get him. the residents, most of them were evacuated, some are still in their homes and so as we've heard, they've gone through about 70% of this area, they still have more to go. the scene though, is one of a little bit more calm and i got to tell you, the intensity here has been as high-wire act as you can have. at one point, telling us to hit the ground, there were snipers on a roof not far from here, and they were police running around in a, with just about every weapon possible out, drawn.

we want to get to nbc's kerry sanders. he's in the boston suburb of watertown where a lot of this has been taking place. good morning to you. please bring us up to date. >> good morning. we are in a neighborhood where we are about four to five blocks from where it is believed the suspect maybe holed up. there has been back and forth, ebb and flow of very high-energy activity and moments of complete lulls. i've seen, after the arrival of a tremendous number of members of the military, as well as those from the state police moving in, s.w.a.t. team, i have seen sort of a trickle out of some of those taking their place. i think what's going on is those that have the high energy of the actual tactical approach to ferret out one person who maybe holed up in there and everyone else is extract sod there is not cross friendly fire or anything like that. we saw the atf come in a few moments ago with yet another vehicle. that's because when i was in the neighborhood earlier. i was there overnight there were two devices found. they d

i want to go to kerry sanders who joins us on the phone. he's also in watertown. kerry, i hear you have new information for us. >> reporter: indeed. 30 blocks from where lester is and s.w.a.t. teams have been deployed. two s.w.a.t. teams over to a building not far from where i'm standing. motion detectors have gone off inside the pilding. and it's multiple motion detectors it triggered. causing them to believe the current suspect they are pursuing may be inside that building. at the same time, where i'm standing, i've been pushed back because sources have confirmed to me over here they have what they believe are two devices in the street. they didn't bring a bomb squad in yet. but they have brought in armored personnel carriers. they could be active bombs. >> and, kerry, if you could just reiterate that. i mean, if what you're hearing bears out, this probably one of the biggest developments of the night. just to be clear, you're hearing from law enforcement that it's possible that the suspect may still, in fact, be in the vicinity and they may have pinpointed his l

kerry sanders, nbc news, boston. >> how about that story to end our broadcast on for a wednesday nightr being here with us. i'm brian williams. of course we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. right back here tomorrow evening. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com with breaking news. >> we have been following breaking news in the south bay. one person is being treated with life threatening injuries and three other people in a san jose hospital after a car crashes into the living room of a home. >> i'm raj mathai. >> and i'm jessica aguirre. just before 4:00 on the corner of leigh way and ann way. what a lot of damage. >> reporter: really a somber mood out here. this is one of the cars involved in this accident here. you can't see the second car because it is inside the home behind me. one of the firefighters said he had never seen a car go this far into a home. right now firefighters can't go inside the home. they are trying to make sure that it is structurally safe to go in there. they have been working on putting support beams up. at about 4:00 this afternoo

kerry sanders is back up and live. >> now they are pushing us even further away. i'm not sure what is going on. it appeared there was -- we needed to get down and now we are getting back up off the ground and moving a considerable distance away from what is developing. we are going back even more. >> okay. please do. >> i wish i could give you a better explanation why, but it's tense when an officer tells you to get on the ground. >> we want to you do what they tell you and this is a tense situation. watertown, massachusetts. we don't know what we are dealing with. i see a picture and police victims. here you are, kerry. we see you. >> great. let me show you what you got. down here police cars and if you look over here -- [inaudible] if you go all the way down about a block and a half [inaudible] this is a live camera. thank you. down on the sidewalk here, this is well past many of the police officers and the officers were crouching behind cars and taking different positions where what appeared to be to me somebody laying on the ground in a turquoise shirt. the pe

we get the story tonight from nbc's kerry sanders. >> reporter: for two days all 15-year-old david yepez has heard and thought about are his injuries from the second explosion. >> this is ruthie. >> reporter: but today, david smiled. >> we have a dog at home. he's a small yorkie terrier. >> reporter: for just a moment luther and ruthie made the shrapnel that tore through his left leg and the painful second-degree burns almost an afterthought. >> it's relaxing. takes my mind away from everything going on. >> reporter: today lutheran church charities deployed the comfort brigade at tufts medical center. dogs that have been working with other recovering children in newtown, connecticut. >> come on, puppy. >> reporter: quiet peaceful visitors who leeann says set her nerves at ease hours before the surgery on her wounded leg. >> animals, you know, they just have a different sense, you know. they don't talk back to you. >> oh, my goodness! hi! >> reporter: the comfort dogs are like furry therapists and it is not just those who were injured that need relief. how nice is it for you to have just

people like lester holt, kerry sanders that gunfire had taken place. this will whip up the crowd. the fire engine hitting the siren on the way out. this will begin the slow parade of fire and police out of the scene. apparently the suspect was holed up under a tarp in a trailered boat in the backyard of a private house. two or three-story frame house. and all this time we have been waiting for this to resolve. s.w.a.t. teams were assembled. and he's being transported to the same hospital where an mta cop is recovering from gunshots sustained last night. as this slow parade of vehicles now exits, kerry sanders, what a wild -- what, 20 hours, 18 hours it's been in that town. >> i've got to say i'm lost. it's been -- i guess i started working thursday at 5:00 a.m. and have been working straight through. it's hard to keep clear everything that's been going on. wayne metrano is a resident here. there are members of the community we hear cheering, high fiving, big smiles. how do you feel now knowing that this is over, that he's in custody and he's alive? >> it's been a busy 18

the sense of just not feeling safe when they're out among a large group of people, thomas. >> kerry sanders reporting in boston for us. kerry, thank you. >>> you know, some of the first medical professionals to respond to the chaos monday also happened to be jogging in the marathon. one of them is joining us now. he is dr. shawl, an orthopedic surgeon in roxbury crossing, mass. it's good to have you with us. will you explain first off, set the scene. what was it like as you were approaching the race before the explosions? >> this is my fifth boston marathon, so i was excited to be finishing and i was feeling good, and i heard the first explosion and we, myself and other runners thought it was something that was part of the marathon until we heard the second explosion. and when all the runners and spectators started to run toward us, we knew something was wrong. >> dr. shah, that's when obviously you probably kicked into a different degree of your training, medical training. you started to run toward the injured. what did you see? >> i ran toward the injured partly because it's just in my dn

eyes open after a long night if you still can, kerry sanders, thanks. another break is headed our way. our coverage continues of at the bottom of the hour. >>> it is 11:27. good morning. i'm marla tellez. we'll get you back to the special report on the boston marathon bombings. investigators in hayward are looking into a deadly crash involving an alameda county control car. just before 5:00 this morning, the man was killed and the woman was taken to the hospital. her condition is not known. the deputy and nine-year veteran was not hurt in that crash. >>> in san jose, a big rig carrying seafood crashed on the side of highway 101. this happened around 5:30 on the northbound side of bailey avenue. the driver was trapped in for a bit but he's okay. the crash tied up traffic as the tow truck removed the big rig from that scene. >>> in the east bay a former livermore high school teacher is likely headed to prison for having a sexual relationship with a student. marie johnson pleaded no contest yesterday denying felony charges. sentencing is scheduled for next

kerry sanders, thank you. it is now top of the hour, 5:00 eastern time. some six hours since this story began to unfold with a shooting on the campus of m.i.t. i want to bring in now nbc news justice correspondent pete williams, who's been in touch with his law enforcement sources on this story all night. pete, what can you tell us? >> well, i guess there's several things we're trying to nail down. i guess the big question here now is who are they? we've heard from a couple of officials that they don't have a positive identification on them, but they've been tentatively identified. they believe, at least it's the initial assessment of the two law enforcement people i've talked to, that they came to the u.s. about a year ago. we don't know precisely from where. they may have some -- a bit of military experience overseas, which could possibly explain their facility with explosives. and that is our operating assumption right now. it appears that this all started when they tried to rob a 7-eleven tonight. a policeman responded. they killed the policeman. that

developing situation and for more news and information at this time we are joined by nbc news's kerry sanders live on the phone from boston. kerry, can you tell me what you're hearing and seeing on the ground there. >> reporter: sorry. sort of breaking up. can you hear me? this is kerry sanders. >> you're live on the air. go ahead. >> okay. great. as you can hear, there are lots of sirens coming through. these are more emergency vehicles coming in. not police vehicles. i've just come from somehow i wound up on the other side of the police line and i was right up against where the officers have gathered. and there are countless number of officers who have moved -- >> seems we may have lost nbc's kerry sanders live on the scene there in boston. we will continue covering this developing situation. please stay with msnbc for the latest on this developing story. an officer shot and killed at m.i.t. in boston. now back to the "rachel maddow show." >>> what seems to represent at least a somewhat dramatic shift in law enforcement's overall understanding of the case. >> within the last day or so, thro

all right, kerry sanders, thank you so much. elsewhere in watertown, let's go to nbc investigative correspondent michael issakof. in your experience doing investigative reporting, would it at all be likely that the man that kerry saw could be, indeed, the second bombing suspect, and that the word would not be put out? or would you think they'd get out word immediately had he been apprehended and/or killed? >> well, look, i don't think they're going to put the word out till they can account for him. either take him into custody or tell us he's died in this holdout. he is a threat to public safety. and i think they're taking this extremely cautiously. and they're being extremely reticent about divulging any public details since this morning when we first heard the rather chilling account of what took place last night. i've been waiting here. right behind me is the staging area where a small army congregated early this morning. we had convoys of military humvees, bus loads of police and state police, motorcycles. we had blackhawk he

as she was laying there, they were eventually -- >> that was kerry sanders live in boston.e're just getting in some developing news right now. an official of wisconsin's carroll university tells nbc news there is an ongoing lockdown situation at the school. there is a report of a man with a firearm in the university is keeping students indoors. police do not have any information available at this time. we will of course continue to monitor it and give you the updates when we get them. coming up, beyond the how manien toll, the attack in boston, we'll have an emotional impact on the people of the city and the country. we'll discuss tragedy's lasting events on american sipsyche, ne. with the spark cash card from capital one... boris earns unlimited rewards for his small business. can i get the smith contract, please? thank you. that's three new paper shredders. [ boris ] put 'em on my spark card. [ garth ] boris' small business earns 2% cash back on every purchase every day. great businesses deserve unlimited rewards. read back the chicken's testimony, please. "buk, buk, bukk

kerry sanders, nbc news, sanford, florida. >>> now zimmerman has sued our parent company for defamationvil court. the company has strongly denied his allegations. >>> right now at 6:00, tonight there is a final decision on whether the fourth of july fireworks will go on as planned. >>> a jewelry store robbery, a police chase and officer's cruiser smashed up. >>> plus, the security changes at the preakness, following the boston marathon attack. >>> and good evening, i'm wendy reger sitting in for doreen. >>> good evening, president obama marked a 100 days in his second term today by answering questions on a number of issues. among them, the conflict in syria. the president said he does not know how or when chemical weapons were used in syria, or who used them. he also talked about the investigation into the boston marathon bombings. the suspects, and what might have been done to prevent those attack. the president also talked about his battle with congress over guns, immigration and sequestration. >> the notion was we exaggerated

let's start with nbc's kerry sanders, who was right in the thick of things when the manhunt ended. y, good evening. >> reporter: good evening. a day later and details of the hunt and capture of the most wanted man in america are now clear. today in this sports crazy town at the red sox game, tributes to the victims and cheers for the first responders. ♪ hallelujah >> reporter: the blanket of fear on this community was lifted when it was confirmed that 19-year-old dzhokhar tsarnaev was no longer a threat. 4:30, friday morning, authorities notified much of watertown a fugitive is on the loose. >> there's an ongoing manhunt for a person wanted in connection with monday's bombing. >> reporter: a good portion of watertown was already awake because it sounded like a war zone. one suspect, 26-year-old tamerlan tsarnaev, was dead, and another, his younger brother, had escaped a police dragnet. 7:59 a.m., daylight.

>> nbc's kerry sanders. thank you very much. appreciate you being out there in the cold for us. it is row markable. one thing that has changed over the past decade is the word from law enforcement when incidents like this happen. it used to be about leaving the police to do their job. more and more you essentially hear police, fbi, law enforcement of every kind saying give us everything you've got. tell us everything you know. don't self censor. we have more faith in our data mining acts than we used to. we're an intelligence based apparatus in this country and we want it if you've got it. seeing that change over time gives us some sense of how we've evolved. both at the international level but in terms of responding and being resilient once it happens. i want to bring in peter kraus. based on what we know thus far, what are you most curious about? what are you watching for the most in terms of figuring out whether this might be adescribable to terrorist groups that beano of? >> well, i think the fact that you have a number of different bombings going off, definitely a signature

nbc's kerry sanders has the latest tonight from augusta. kerry? >> reporter: lester, tierg woods did not win the masters but he is all anyone can talk about because of what went unnoticed by course officials. the world's number one ranked golfer trying to win his first masters tournament in eight years, fighting from he behind after a controversial ruling that has the golf world sharply divide. >> he's played golf long enough to know the rules. i believe that he should be disqualified. >> he should have got an two-stroke penalty, which he did. it was deserved for the mistake he made. >> friday on the 15 hth hole, his approach shot hit the flag and rolled in to the water. he was forced to take a ball drop. it was a tv viewer who called the rules committee to say it was in the wrong spot. tiger then tried to explain his actions in an interview with espn. >> i looked over the drop area. it wasn't very good. it was in to the grain. tough shot. i went back to where i was and took two yards farther back and tried to hit my shot two yards off of what i f

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i want to bring in nbc's kerry sanders, who is live in watertown. he's been on this story all night, starting in cambridge, massachusetts, with that shooting. kerry, good morning. >> reporter: yes, i'm now removed from a spot i had been earlier. the officers asked us to back off because their concern was we were in an area where we could be in danger. they've moved us back considerably from where we had been. we were right at the location where that gunfire that we were just listening to had taken place. the officers were very suspicious of two, what they called, devices they found in the street. they actually brought in an armored personnel carrier to, i believe, put there sort of as a blast wall just in case those devices were to be bombs that exploded. at the same time, officers were moving behind houses in line looking for the possibility the suspect is somehow crouching in the darkness behind one of the houses. so they're moving behind houses, and they're telling all residents to remain indoors. as you can imagine, there's a lot of residents wh

knew this was starting to happen when kerry sanders goes we just heard gunshots.e just heard gunshots, folks moving a few blocks up. quite remarkable that he was able to evade capture, wounded, with no formal military training. that's certainly a question a lot of people are going to have moving forward. >> okay. luke russert outside of beth israel medical center. thank you so much. joining me on the phone right now, former fbi profiler and nbc analyst clint van zandt. clint, talk about those questions that luke was raising. how this guy was able to evade capture. i mean, when law enforcement puts in a perimeter, what's the criteria in judging how far to go? >> well, alex, you normally have two different perimeters. you have an outer perimeter that is -- you believe is the furthest distance out that either the subject could go or that his weapons would be functional. and then you have an inner perimeter, if you know exactly where he's at. and again, watching and listening last night, it sounds like that this 20 block perimeter that they threw around was, you know,

. >> let's get to nbc's kerry sanders on the other side of watertown. what are you hearing? >> okay, so let me sort of back up because earlier today we've been telling you about a moment where the officers came down arsenal street, the main street here, and to me it appeared they were drawing down on an individual that was laying on the sidewalk. and i got myself behind a car. i was looking, ingot a glimpse of what appeared to be a person. i can now confirm it was a person laying there. the authorities thought that person was the suspect. the number two suspect that they've been after. and so when they drew down on him and got him down and the officers went running down the street, this guy was basically sited by more than 100 weapons from the police. the authorities pushed us back and has taken some time to really get an answer as to what it was. i got to say, glimpsed it awfully quickly. i can tell you from sources in the police ranks here that that was a person. it all ended when they eventually determined, which took a long time, he was not somebody they were after. and

>> kerry sanders, thanks. >>> and while the crisis is over, the investigation of what motivated the suspects is just beginning. nbc's national investigative correspondent, michaelis isakoff, has spent the day looking into the matter. >> investigators are intensely focused on the background of the tsarnaev brothers and what drove them to terrorism. meanwhile, federal prosecutors are prepared to file criminal terrorism charges that could carry the death penalty against the surviving 19-year-old suspect. the younger suspect, dzhokhar tsarnaev, captured live last night, is under guard at a boston hospital. federal agents are waiting to question him. as soon as his medical condition allows, about whether he had any accomplices or overseas connections. authorities believe his older brother, tamerlan, killed in a gun battle early friday morning while wearing explosives strapped to his chest, may have instigated the plot and persuaded dzhokhar to join him, but why? the brothers originally from chechnya, were raised in the u.s., living in the same house, and seemed to fit in. both were athletic. dzho

kerry sanders juan on tv when the police told them to take cover. >> the officer said get down. >> reporterthe uncle pleaded with the brother. >> if you're alive, turnier self in and ask for forgiveness from the victims, from the injured. >> reporter: just as dusk was falling tonight, another break in the manhunt and for the second night in a row, a suburban boston neighborhood was on pins and needles, jarred by something that sure sounded like gunfi gunfire. after 24 hours of firing, police seemed to have the main us is sick cornered. a resident in watertown called to report blood in a backyard leading to a boat where police believed the suspect was hiding. as an ambulance left the area around 9:00 p.m. tonight eastern time. >> the suspect is in custody. >> the crowd cheered. in the end, it all came down to ordinary citizens rallying to help the authorities. back to you. >> on the up side, while there were rumors and fits and starts, this was a kind of rollout experiment for a crowd sourced manhunt spread via media and more importantly social media. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. the min

nbc kerry sanders, thank you very much. if you have law enforcement drawing their weapons on kerry sanders, that sums it up. they are on such high alert and probably emotionally frayed after having lost a fellow officer in the same spirit of what they do and when that happens it takes things to a whole another level. let alone the fact the guys are extreme dangerous and what they found out about them since honing in from the boston marathon boston. number one what they did at the boston marathon. number two the scores of explosives that lined the street that they threw out of a car. the ied strapped to one of their bodies. this is a full-fledged terrorism situation, willie. >> pete williams tells us he has new information so let's get to po pete. >> we are trying to get more information who they are. we still don't have their names but we are told now that they are legal permanent residents, that they have been in the country for at least a year. and we have heard now from several sources that they are possibly from turkey

. >> nbc kerry sanders spoke with a firefighter who helped save lives on monday. here's what he had to say. >> she was in pain. she was scared. i'm not sure how old she was but she looked very young to me. she said, i'm scared. >> as i look at this picture, i see a burley hero, you, not just helping somebody but comforting somebody. what do you see? >> somebody hurt. people say, who do you get to, who do you help? it's one patient at a time. >> i see somebody hurt. that's what we are really trying to show america. these people -- these first responders are just trying to respond and do the job that they were committed to do and i think that is hero we can. kevin? >> he will wiwell, i asked thes what did they think? they didn't know if there were going to be secondary explosions. marines were convinced it was going to be biological weapons. they called it -- it's the pucker test. i said, what's the pucker test? that's when a certain part of your body tuckers up and they said they had to fight through that and basically accepted that they might die there but they ju

nbc's kerry sanders has that part of the story for us. s that are dogs here. they know how to get out and reach and give unconditional love to those in the city who need it now, a city that is beginning to celebrate the goodness in people. ♪ >> reporter: boston is united and thankful for their heroes, like the firefighter who says what you see in this photo is a first responder just doing his job. >> she was in pain. she was scared. i'm not sure how old she was but she looked very young to me. she said "i'm scared. ". >> reporter: as i look at this picture i see a burly hero, you, not just rescuing somebody, but comforting somebody. what do you see? >> i see somebody hurt. people say what'd you do first? who do you get to? who do you had en? it's one patient at a time. >> reporter: for bostonians one kind act at a time. >> one guy was shivering so bad. i looked at him, do you want coffee? he was like oh, yes so i brought him some coffee. >> reporter: he also brought orange juice to strangers on the street and a bostonian who opened her hom

. >> let's go to kerry sanders on the ground. kerry, what can you tell us?er: i'm not exactly sure. the officers are yelling get down, get down. some people are now getting back up. >> i've been in war zones, iraq, afghanistan and lebanon. so it was about as weird as it can get to think that i'm in an american city and this is happening. >> as blackhawk choppers hover overhead, police go door to door in an attempt to smoke out the suspect. trapped inside their homes, instructed only to open their doors for identified police, frightened bostonians record their city under siege. >> actually look out the window and notice there are nine s.w.a.t. guys about to kick down the neighbor's basement door. i just snapped a picture of that. i kept on posting a bunch of them and has lots and lots of messages where people said, keep it up. you're my news for today. >> everybody in their own sense became a reporter of what was unfolding. >> in maryland, media gather around the suspect's uncle who demands his nephew give himself up. >> i say, dzhokhar, if you're alive, turn

nbc's kerry sanders is with us now that part of the story. r: good morning, matt. with more than 26,000 people running in the race from 98 different countries as news spread on the internet, you can imagine phone calls started coming in from around the world and that crushed the cell phone system. voice calls were next to impossible but the one thing that did work and worked well on these phones, social media. within moments of the blast -- >> i have to call my husband, thank you. >> reporter: as panic set in, those nearby reached for their cell phones, calling, tweeting pictures but within minutes the cell phone system was overwhelmed. >> i was glad that i was able to text because it was very hard to keep up with everyone back at home asking if we were okay. >> reporter: what did work, texting, facebook and twitter. almost immediately pictures went online, one of the first on twitter appears to show a plume of smoke from the first explosion, and orange flames from the second detonation. as news spread in international nanoseconds, family memb

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kerry sanders has covered all kinds of war in central america for decades. reportg from the ground.o get down what appears to be a staging area where they are hunkerri inhunke for the long haul. >>> the entire city is on lockdown. we're continuing to learn more every moment about the terror attack on monday and the pursuit of justice following it. i think it's fair to say for this entire week we've been in a pretty direct confrontation with evil. i want to congratulate and thank all the law enforcement for the extraordinary job that we have been doing on behalf of the citizens. we've seen the best and the worst of human behavior. it's the best that all of us want to focus on. we're awaiting word from law enforcement before commenting further. it's a huge pleasure for me an an important moment to welcome one of our most important partners. our close neighbor and our friend. one of the first phone calls i made. >> secretary of state john kerry. long-time native of boston referring to his town calling it a direct confrontation with evil. >> we have the pictures of what kerry sanders ap

nbc news correspondent kerry sanders was on the "today" show from watertown when police told him to take cover. >> the officers started yelling get down. >> the uncle of the surviving brother pleaded with his uncle. >> if you are alive, turn yourself in and ask for forgiveness from the victims, from the injured. >> just as dusk was falling tonight, another break in the manhunt and for the second night in a row a suburban boston neighborhood was on pins and needles jarred by something that sure sounded like gunfire. after more than 24 hours of searching, police seem to finally have the remaining suspect in the marathon bombings cornered. police say a resident here in watertown called in to report blood in a backyard leading to a boat where police believe the suspect was hiding. as an ambulance left the area around 9:00 p.m. eastern time tonight -- >> the suspect is in custody. >> the crowd cheered. in the end, it had all come down to ordinary citizens rallying to help the authorities. the younger brother now in a boston hospital undergoing treatment and of course authorities would very mu

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kerry sanders, what's it like on your street corner? >> reporter: okay, brian. it's come to a conclusion. folks are taking the huge sigh of relief. people are coming out of their houses. they are in their cars. there are folks walking up and down the street. you know, it's just really contagious to see how happy people are. they have been through a tremendous amount. you know, there is still a lot of pain here. for the moment people are really, really thrilled. you know, i'm originally from new england. my niece is up in the north end. she's telling me people are out there celebrating. back to you, brian. >> the commander of the state police has started talking. let's go to the news conference. >> to those families that lost loved ones or suffered injuries they have to live with the rest of their lives, for a police officer, a young man starting a career at m.i.t. and a police officer with the mbta who almost lost his life and from neighborhoods that lived in fear for an spire day, we are eternally grateful for the outcome here tonight. we have a suspect in cust

i want to go to kerry sanders, who has been covering this throughout, in fact, at one point one of thewe all remember is kerry, you getting told to get down on the ground, recognizing that this was an ongoing, dangerous situation really for not just since monday, but particularly once it became clear that these guys were on the run and were shooting people and killing people in cold blood. so, it also makes it very understandable that scene yesterday that gave us all a rush when you saw the people of watertown lining the streets and cheering, cheering for the police, cheering for the rescue personnel. their way of saying thank you, job well done. >> reporter: i got to tell you, it was chilling last night, and folks were standing out on the corner, chris, in shorts because they had just gotten out of their house. and i saw these three people on the corner in the cold, and every time a marked unit came by, they were cheering, and they were cheering with the same enthusiasm for everyone and they stood there for 45 minutes, just clapping and cheering as every first responder came by. and i

nbc news correspondent kerry sanders was on the "today" show from watertown when police told him to takeover. >> the officer started to yell get down, get down. >> reporter: the uncle of the surviving brother pleaded with his nephew. >> i say if you are alive turn yourself in and ask for forgiveness for the victims and the injured. >> reporter: as dusk was falling tonight, another break in the manhunt. for the second night in a row a suburban boston neighborhood was on pins and needles, jarred by something that sure sounded like gunfire. after more than 24 hours of searching, police seem to finally have the remaining suspect in the marathon bombings cornered. police say a resident here in watertown called in to report blood in a backyard leading to a boat where police believe the suspect was hiding. as an ambulance left the area around 9:00 p.m. eastern time tonight. >> suspect is in custody. >> reporter: the crowd cheered. in the end it had come down to ordinary citizens rallying to help the authorities. the younger brother now in a boston hospital undergoing treatment. of course, brian

i'm a few blocks from where michael isikoff is, and a few blocks from where kerry sanders is. right down the street and to the left is where the shootout between the two suspects and police happened very early this morning. now we know that tamerlan tsarnaev was shot and killed. and when police approached him he was wearing an improvised explosive device on his body. his brother, dzhokhar fled the scene. and they're worried that he may be wearing something similar. we are not quite sure what's happening in watertown right now. but i can tell you the scene has been very fluid. it's quieted down. it picks back up. the cars have been coming in and out of here pret te steadily for the past few hours. >> nbc katy tour from watertown, massachusetts. with us on the phone is former congressman, barney frank. i can't imagine the emotions you must be feeling. you've represented the state of massachusetts for 32 years. seeing one of america's major cities, one of your, your city of boston, shut down like this -- tell us what's going through your head. >> well, i have admiration first of

>> nbc's kerry sanders, thank you very much for appreciate you being out there in the cold for us andeeping us apprised. you know, it is remarkable, the one thing that has changed over the past decade is the word from law enforcement when incidents like this happen. it used to be about leaving the police to do their job. more and more, you essentially hear police, fbi, law enforcement of all kinds saying, give us everything you've got. tell us everything you know. don't self-censor. if you think you might have something, even if you don't know that it's directly material, but you think it could be, tell us, we'd rather have it than not have it. we have more faith in our data mining abilities than we used to. intelligence-based law enforcement apparatus in this country. we want it if you've got it. seeing that shape, seeing that change over time gives you some sense of the way we've evolved in terms of both law enforcement and counterterrorism. both at the international level autoal but responding and being resilient once it happens. peter krauss. thanks for being here. >> thanks for h

i think kerry sanders referred to those. there are some national guard military police units along with explosive ordinance and experts in dismantling or rendering safe, explosive devices. they need that robust presence because explosive devices tau d tossed f eed from the vehicle a tossed at police. explosive devices there, as well. it's a ghost town here. really remarkable scene. normally large media settings like this, you get a lot of people coming out and curious and wanting to take pictures. not a lot of that here. these streets are empty people are genuinely concerned and genuinely afraid and my guess is they're locked on to local tv. very unnerving thought that a man as desperate as this man apparently is is an incredible danger to everyone. >> lester holt in watertown. as we know, the manhunt has been expanded there after two individuals. dzhokhar tsarnaev and an unnamed accomplice that caught an amtrak train. i want to bring in roger back in and james kavanagh. you're hearing this new information. now, at this poin

you will now go to nbc's kerry sanders. what do you have is. >> reporter: it was more than an hour ago we were getting toward do a live report with brian williams on the network and we heard a barrage of gunfire coming from that direction. that's about two and half blocks down there. charles river would be behind me. then it sort of makes a little bit after jog and the road turns up there. we all focus had attention up there and so did authorities. there were screaming vehicles of police heading that direction. up here, armored personnel. s.w.a.t. teams up this way. then converging about 50 minutes or so of silence. then we heard four shots. boom boom, boom boom. then a little bit of momentary silence. then i think eight or nine more shots. now this is very hard to do accurately. but as best as i could tell. the shot were coming from one source and not returning. because they had a similar sound and it did not sound like automatic gunfire. it sounded like the trigger was being pull owed noted on a semi. likely multiple offi

the last major thing we heard was kerry sanders being pushed back around 12:30 or so earlier today. it's quiet here. people have been inside for the entire day. they've been inside since last night. we've seen very few people on the street here. we are in the middle of what you could call main street or the downtown part of watertown. the main area. the entire day we have been here, we've only seen maybe 5, 10, 12 people from the town come out and see what's going on. everybody is voluntarily -- they're on lockdown, so they're supposed to stay inside, but everybody is staying inside. we did see somebody come to their balcony earlier as the cops were walking by and doing their rounds and they were told to go back inside. it's anxious here. it's certainly anxious. it's been anxious all day long. you can tell it's anxious because we haven't had people come out. there's been so few, or no situations where you have gaggles and masses of news media and don't have people coming by to see what's going on. the fact everybody has stayed inside speaks to just how nervous this situation is. and