joining us now is will ritter, the press secretary arranging a party for mr.ez when he heard the blasts going off. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> where were you? >> i was at the corner. we were going to have a press conference, we were going to talk to the media. we were assembling the media. >> he already cleared the finish line? >> he had, fortunately ten minutes earlier. he heard the blasts and turned and saw the smoke from boston public library 100 feet away. >> in terms of the scene and how people reacted, most people's instinct is to run away. people who are trained or know they have something to offer will run toward the scene, how did that balance out? >> that was scary there. where i was, where the friends and family meet up with the 26,000 people crossing the finish line, you have a lot of fathers jumping the barricades. you have police and fire jumping to get to the explosion. you have a great mass of people running east toward boston garden, boston common public gardens. it was a lot of chaos. >> the chaos in terms of people try

i am roger ritter. i'm a 60 year resident of district 7, and i'm current president of the balboa terrace home association, vice president of the west of twin peaks central council. my particular concern is traffic safety on westportal where my wife and i walk everyday and westportal and 14th avenue which currently has stop signs but no traffic lights. that has become an increasingly dangerous intersection and left turns and u turns and cars essentially forcing pedestrians to play russian roulette but cars may stop at the signs. pedestrians stop and it's unclear who has the right of way. if the pedestrian is in cross walk and cars move forward and we also have a problem with cars with u turns and they are unable to do the u turn and they need to back up and thus jeopardizing pedestrians. my suggestion is for a traffic light, a signal on westportal and west 14th avenue and a no u turn at those intersections. thank you. >> thank you roger. >> good afternoon supervisors. i am robert gee and we -- the club i

will ritter, thank you very much, as we're look again at the boston globe video.eally appreciate you coming on and telling us what you saw and heard there on the ground. senior political analyst brit hume has been through a number of different international incidents like this, attacks and big event. he's here with some thoughts. good evening. you know, a lot of times on these big things, the first information is so iffy. it's so vague. it's so fluid. that's what happens in these events. >> it presents a tremendous challenge to journalists covering these events live minute to minute and of course, we've got so many ways to do that now we didn't used to have. there has been live television and radio for years. but now we have virtually live coverage on the internet through a multitude of different avenues and early information is often wrong. early information that is not only the information reported by the media, but the information given to the media by authorities who are themselves in the early stages of trying to find out what happened is often off base and t

well it started mainly because of an extremist monk called live through who ritter around the country conducting hate speech is inciting people and the problem recently is central man mine. was apparently because of a disputed poll show but the new information that we have and from what we've learned we've been talking to people it seems entirely orchestrated for an excuse to start this conflict and i don't want to call it a conflict because one side. has the backing of the state and it's completely oppressing the other so it's not done with like the ethnic conflict it's this this vi this is benefiting someone and for many unspent affecting the military the miniature ruling. until a few years ago and that is reforms taking place and and some people just seem to think that it's a way of the minute she reasserting just reminding everybody that stability actually only comes when they're around and say you're speaking about the attack i was on the twentieth of march or believe you wrote about it on your blog where you you recount some eyewitness testimony of what happened in mc. what did

now to those who witnessed this horror, will ritter about 100 feet from the site of the first blast setting up a news conference. and he says he felt them. >> thank you. >> i watched you making rounds and now this morning i know you've been true through this a lot. i know what you saw. i'm curious now what nine and a half or so hours after the attacks and some clarity. how do you piece this day together? what do you think your take away is going to be? >> as a bostonin it hurts. i think this is a wonderful day, one of the most celebrated days in boston. you have kids sitting at the finish line clapping for moms and dads. and for some reason now they're in the hospital or they've passed away. so it's senseless. and it hurts. and people are still just walking around and just shocked and distraught. >> i'm told you were 100 feet away. i've heard you say you can feel it yes. i mean, it's like you're in a fire works show. you know? there is a concussions going off. i can feel it. you knew that is what's happening was not cannon blast. and people started running and screaming. >> i watch what app

now to those who witnessed this horror, will ritter about 100 feet from the site of the first blast settingp a news conference. and he says he felt them. >> thank you. >> i watched you making rounds and now this morning i know you've been true through this a lot. i know what you saw. i'm curious now what nine and a half or so hours after the attacks and some clarity. how do you piece this day together? what do you think your take away is going to be? >> as a bostonin it hurts. i think this is a wonderful day, one of the most celebrated days in boston. you have kids sitting at the finish line clapping for moms and dads. and for some reason now they're in the hospital or they've passed away. so it's senseless. and it hurts. and people are still just walking around and just shocked and distraught. >> i'm told you were 100 feet away. i've heard you say you can feel it yes. i mean, it's like you're in a fire works show.w? there is a concussions going off. i can feel it. you knew that is what's happening was not cannon blast. and people started running and screaming. >> i watch what appeared to b

now to those who witnessed this horror, will ritter about 100 feet from the site of the first blast settingws conference. and he says he felt them. >> thank you. >> i watched you making rounds and now this morning i know you've been true through this a lot. i know what you saw. i'm curious now what nine and a half or so hours after the attacks and some clarity. how do you piece this day together? what do you think your take away is going to be? >> as a bostonin it hurts. i think this is a wonderful day, one of the most celebrated days in boston. you have kids sitting at the finish line clapping for moms and dads. and for some reason now they're in the hospital or they've passed away. so it's senseless. and it hurts. and people are still just walking around and just shocked and distraught. >> i'm told you were 100 feet away. i've heard you say you can feel it yes. i mean, it's like you're in a fire works show. you know? there is a concussions going off. i can feel it. you knew that is what's happening was not cannon blast. and people started running and screaming. >> i watch what appeared to

. >> all right, we are going to go to an eyewitness who is on the phone now, will ritter. he was an eyewitness to the blast. will, thanks for joining us. what did you see? >> thanks for having me. i was a block away, about kitty corner across copley square. i was trying to arrange a press conference for a candidate that i work for that just finished running. and we heard two short bursts, about as loud as the big concussion bursts at the end of a fireworks show, about a second apart from one another. looked toward boston bpublic library, the finish line for the boston marathon, and saw billowy white smoke come up. cops started jumping the bike rack and running toward the scene, and then a lot of emergency vehicles just general pandemonium. >> and what did you see in terms of injuries, if anything, and describe for us the scene, when you say general pandemonium, were people running away from the blasts, were law enforcement and national guardsmen running to the blast? we were told 400 national guardsmen were already on the scene because of general security for the boston ma

nbc has spoken with william ritter. he's the former director of operations for the romney campaign, now a current spokesman for senate candidate gabriel gomez. he told nbc he was near the finish line of the boston marathon at the time. he heard what sounded like two explosions. he said that he saw smoke rising from the north side of the boston public library. that's right there in coply square where the race ends. they cordened off the finish line, he told nbc. he was standing there. police are not allowing people to move as you can see from the pictures. the operations there have all stopped down. at this point we've heard of no reports of injuries. but, again, it appears that there were two explosions, boston police are confirming there was a major incident somewhere near the finish line of the boston marathon today. >> certainly, bertha, as these pictures broadcast all around on all of the networks, this market is reacting to it. one trader just coming over saying, look, we live in a terrorist world. so at the end of

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