meagan is on the phone, ran for the school's cross country team incomes the race yesterday. are you with me? >> yes. >> if you could, first and foremost, you were a few blocks away when the explosion os occurred. what did you hear and see? >> i heard a very loud explosion. didn't really feel too much. i turned around and saw a lot of smoke. another explosion happened. i was walking with my parents, we got done meeting with friends. i went to the athletes meeting area to meet with him. we were starting to walk the other way when it happened. on the way back to the hotel, i got text messages. >> people described the scene, what they heard, sounding like cannon fire going off. >> yes. everyone was like cannons. >> this was around 3:00. is this your first time running in the marathon? >> it was my first time up there. it was a big weekends for me. >> were your parents at the finish line? were they around the finish line area? >> they with a half mile up, and met me at the end. >> following the the explosion and what happened there after, we hear so much about the thousands and t

here's wayne against meagan. let's watch. >> if there's anything that moves people in this country or has moved them in one direction or the other recently, it is that newtown tragedy. and you hear the parents and the spouses of those killed. 20 children and 6 adults killed. say 11 children had the chance to escape as that guy reloaded. >> criminals aren't going to have less one round in the hand of someone that's going to do horror is too many. >> how to you know, wayne? let me just jump in. i'll give you the floor, i promise. adam lanza, his mother was a legal gun owner. how do you know this person, his mother would not have obeyed the law and limited the magazine clip and adam lanza would have been limited to 10 rounds instead of 30? >> meagan, people that know guns, you can change magazine clips in a second. there's no evidence that, you know, that anything would have changed. >> so you go to the gun salesman, mayor, and you go to buy a 30-round clip and he says, don't waste your money, young man, because you

here's wayne against meagan. watch. >> if there's anything that moves people in this country or has moved them in one direction or the other recently, it is that newtown tragedy. and you hear the parents and the spouses of those killed. 20 children and 6 adults killed. say 11 children had the chance to escape as that guy reloaded. >> criminals aren't going to have less one round in the hand of someone that's going to do horror is too many. >> how to you know, wayne? let me just jump in. i'll give you the floor, i promise. adam lanza, his mother was a legal gun owner. how do you know this person, his mother would not have obeyed the law and limited the magazine clip and adam lanza would have been limited to 10 rounds instead of 30? >> meagan, people that know guns, you can change magazine clips in a second. there's no evidence that, you know, that anything would have changed. >> so you go to the gun salesman, mayor, and you go to buy a 30-round clip and he says, don't waste your money, young man, because you know

meagan is on assignment today, and this morning, boston is on heightened alert. less than 24 hours after a series of explosions in downtown at the marathon. thousands were celebrating patriots day and running in the marathon, when a few yard away from the finish line, we had the first explosion. 30 seconds later, another explosion, three people were killed including anel 8-year- old boy. >> i saw quite a few casualties coming back. one guy, his legs gone at the knees, ankles and feet missing, shrapnel and people on the side of the head and other things. >> first responders rushed to the scene. some transported by wheelchairs and stretchers. one official described the scene as a war zone. barack obama is promising action in this. law enforcement says bomb techs are combing over forensic evidence for clues as to a motive and how it was done, and possibly what is tamm or domestic terrorism. 27,000 people. sherrie johnson is live at bwi thurgood marshal with the local runners and a numb of people made it home yesterday. some will be coming home today. >> reporter: th

actually he evaded the question, but to credit of fox news's meagan kelly, she persisted and repeatedly, what does he say to those 11 children alive today? repeatedly, as you'd expect, he fell back on the same tired talking points. >> meagan, people that know guns, you can change magazine clips in a second. there's no evidence that, you know, that anything would have changed. i mean, the fact is if you're a homeowner, though, and you have someone coming through your door in the middle of the night, why should you be limited to three rounds or four rounds like mayor bloomberg wants to do? >> joining us now is karen finney, a former dnc communications director, and soon to be a colleague/host here at msnbc, and julian epstein, a democratic strategist. welcome to you both. karen, he just doesn't have an answer, does he? he just does not have an answer to that question about limiting magazine clips, does he? >> no, no, he doesn't. that's why he threw in, you know, bloomberg, right? because that's one of those shiny objects for conservatives, you know. he clearly doesn't have an answer. but

. >> do you have any further -- >> i will go after meagan levitan. >> commissioner levitan. >> i ask this from the perspective of somebody that does this everyday for a living and real estate sales and tractions and what not. do we have anywhere in writing and understanding between buyer and seller this is the negotiated price? >> in the form of -- i will back up a second. normally we would have a letter of intent executed between the parties and that will define the terms and conditions making the agreement easier to write. in this case we had collaborative on going discussion with the ministry and their representatives so we didn't feel it necessary to go to that extent. we have a lot of email discussions and these days that is written communications and the price has been agreed to in those exchanges with their representative. plus we have a board action taken by the noe valley ministry that authorized the execution of documents at agreed upon purchase price which is the price before you today and that gave me certainty that we have understanding of the terms and conditions. >> co

. >> we saw from meagan keilar who witnessed the explosion on monday and came back yesterday.ked with her, what brought you back here? i was very apprehensive to come back, i feel like i need to be here. i feel like i need to be here, paying my respects to honor the victims. as tough as it was for her, you know, we are seeing that sort of across the board here in the city. united by grief, by what has happened. >> and, again, mourning tomorrow. nationally, carol, when the president comes. and not over yet. the investigation continues, again, national mourning tomorrow, once the president gets here, quite some time before people can get back to normalcy as you said. >> don lemon, thank you so much. >>> back to the investigative find in boston. the lid to the pressure cooker, thought to have been used in the bombings, found on the rooftop at the scene. couple that with bits and pieces of wire, a control panel, nylon and maybe -- maybe it's enough to find a suspect. joining me now are tom fuentes, cnn analyst and former fbi assistant director and fran townsend, cnn national secur

iusot off the pneit meagan weber, spokesperson for the children. they have treated eight children.hey all still there? not all still in the hospital, so that means some of those children have been released. she said their conditions ran from good to serious. meaning the reon t were severe or critical condition, we're awaiting word from the hospital on what exactly gooo sio mes. buheac ,hahose eight children that were injured, some are well enough to children's hospital.rom boston of course as soon as i off with u, i'll get back on the phone with r. i wanted toring that to our viewers asoon as possible, escially following the news of e death of that 8-arld boy. john. >> poppy, thank you so much. we'll take any good news we can get rht now. eight children are doing well, reased from boston's children's hospital. dical re centersneah.hildren's poppy haow appreciate it. meantime, oer cities acro thena, all on alert this morning. washington, miami, los angeles, all increasing security, and in trscrs e ty.liceteinp and in the subway system as well. checking the subways in boston thisorni