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scott, back to you. >> pelley: kate merrill of wbz. there are a number of hospitals in the area that had received victims of this terrorist attack. the latest we had from the leston police was that two people had been killed. we don't know of any more than r. j. vt dr. jon lapook has been talking to the various emergency rooms. doctor, what do you know now? >> reporter: well i know the number is closer to 60 or 61, scott. we have 22 at mass. general. we said there were 26 at the brigham and there are various other hospitals involved, also. as we heard, the injuries range acywhere from a punctured eardrum to lacerations to very serious wound injuries i spoke to the head of the emergency department dr. walls at brigham and women's and he said there was a serious leg injury serious head and neck injury, and of course punctured eardrums that they're seeing. but most of all he said in llyition to the serious injuries, people were really shaken up. ge said people were just in ndock at having seen these pieces of body parts and u kething they

. >> the runners included wbz reporter paul burton, wbz our sister station in boston. here is his account of what happened. >> reporter: 50 yards from the explosion saw both of them go off. smoke and glass everywhere. we did not know what it was at first. we thought it sounded like a canon going off. we thought it was strange because we never heard cannons go off at any time during this race. so, we didn't know what to do. we kept on running. then when the second explosion happened we were stopped dead in our tracks. that's when everyone started running in the opposite direction toward us. we are 50 yards from the finish line trying to finish the race and we saw it all unfold. i watched how the smoke and the glass came across boylston street. my mother and my wife were in the grandstands watching this, they were about 15 feet from the explosion. it was terrifying. obviously there were a lot of injuries in this. >> reporter: the runners on the course were diverted to the boston common. organizers say 4500 of them were within two miles of the finish line. jessica, back t

. >> reporter: jonathan elias from cbs boston station wbz was nearby. >> there are body parts. people have been blown apart. >> 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 and i'm praying for all of them. we are all trying to put pressure on all the wounds for everybody, tourniquets and whatever we could do. it was chaos. >> reporter: runners were directed away from the chaos and people were ordered to stay clear of trash cans. >> reporter: edward davis is the boston police commissioner. >> people should be calm but they should understand that this is an ongoing event and they should understand that we need all the information that we can get available to us. >> pelley: terrell brown's report from boston tonight. there were more than 100 people still in the hospital, some of them as young as two, three, nine years old. some of those people are in critical condition. john miller has been

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

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that was the wbz anchor. now, wjz has the latest on the explosions that rocked the boston marathon. so far, as least two people are confirmed dead. dozens of others injured. several of those injuries are critical. police say two explosive devices went off, just seconds apart. people in boston tonight are being urged to stay home. there is no claim of responsibility as of yet. there is heightened security up and down the entire east coast tonight, including in baltimore. we invite you to stay with wjz and cbs news for complete coverage of the explosion at the end of the boston marathon. we will continue to update you on all major developments. and of course, make sure to tune in tonight at 7:00 for a special hour-long edition of the cbs evening news with scott pelley. >>> and still to come tonight on wjz's eyewitness news. we'll continue to follow that breaking news out of boston. stay with us. we'll be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,, hoo-hoo...hoo-hoo. hoo-hoo hoo. sir... i'll get it together i promise... heeheehee. jimmy: ronny, how happy are folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to

that was unclear at the time. >> pelley: jim armstrong of wbz, jim, thank you very much.we'll come back to you as the developments warrant. jim and i just used the word suspect when we were discussg all of this and i want to emphasize to everyone that we do not know whether the man that police apparently have surrounded now in watertown is dzhokhar tsarnaev. we do not know that. but tsarnaev is the 19-year-old who is the last remaining suspect in the boston marathon bombings and has been the target of an intense manhunt all day long in this area. these are live pictures that you are watching of the massive police response. john miller, i wonder. we have been watching this now for about an hour. is it too much to say that if this was nothing these officers wouldn't still be there? this has been going on for a while. >> it has been going on for a while and these are -- these are the kind of things where you want to slow down the incident and i think they've dean good job of that and they have a number of things that they need to do but i think even if it were nothing, even

wbz, so:30 in local boston news. couple other sources, @marynmck, has been tweeting the boston scanner. @terrymcqueeny, and andrew kitzinger. you saw the black mercedes pebe. this is in an elementary school. this was some years ago where chef che chechynian rebels died. hundreds died. we do believe we are talking about some ethnic chechynians. maybe born incur kurzikstan. hundreds of people died where they pumped the gas into the theater. if we find out these were che chechynians, rush yas hsia has dealing with this for quite sochl time. sg. >> one boston marathon spect is dead, the other still on the loose. in you details coming in. >>> an overnight fire fight in massachusetts caught on camera as one suspect in the boston bombings is killed and another remains on the loose. though nbc news is reporting law enforcement may know where this person is. the entear tire city of boston is under orders. they have put a no-fly order over watertown, massachusetts. >>> i'm marla tallez. >> i'm laura garcia cannon. let's go str

. >>> we are going to -- our sister station in boston, wbz. let's listen in. >> as more and more police arrived especially fbi agents, many of them carrying long guns and making their way down norfolk street fairly quiet residential neighborhood with several businesses mixed in, neighbors say it's kind of one of those urban hipster type of neighborhoods that's filled with plenty of younger and older people, families, as well. it is diverse. there's also a large brazilian and portugese community here according to neighbors. so they say the suspect would have fit in very well and most of the neighbors here on norfolk street don't even really know who he is. they are being evacuated from their homes on norfolk street at this point over the last 45 minutes or so. we've seen these people being brought out of their homes. many of them are families. they have had babies with them. they have had their pets and being told by police to leave their neighborhood at this point. we also did speak to a young lady named deanna. she sa she went to sc zhok dr t

this is from our station wbz. we understand an eight-year-old boy has died from his wounds suffered in the bombing. a short time ago, massachusetts governor patrick met with reporters and here's what he had to say. >> over 100 people were injured, some gravely. we are not ready yet to confirm the details of those injuries. there are federal, state and local law enforcement all on scene and coordinating very closely the f.b.i. has taken charge of the investigation as i mentioned. special agent in charge rick deslauriers will speak to that in just a minute. this is an active investigation, particularly in the several blocks around boylston street around that blast area. that's a crime scene. the national guard has secured that crime scene and is limiting access to it. >> pelley: as you just heard the governor mentioned that the f.b.i. is taking the lead in the investigation. nick deslauriers is the agent in charge. >> it is a criminal investigation that is -- has the potential -- is a potential terrorist investigati

and that included wbz reporter paul burton. >> reporter: 50 yards from the explosion, saw both of them go off. there was smoke and glass everywhere. we did not know what it was at first. we thought it sounded like a cannon going off. we thought that was very strange because we had never heard canons go off at any time during this race. so we didn't know what to do. we kept on running. when the second explosion happened we were stopped in our tracks. that's when everyone started running in the opposite direction towards us. we were literally about 50 yards from the finish line trying to finish the race and we saw it all unfold. i watched how the smoke and the glass came across the street. my mother and my wife were in the grandstand watching this. they were about 15 feet from the explosion. it was terrifying. and obviously there were a lot of injuries in this. >> reporter: now, the runners still on the course were diverted to boston common. organizers say that about 4,500 of them were within two miles of the finish line. back to you. >> all right, thank you very much, kai. now the inves

. >> 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 th

senate debate continues live from wbz, please stay with us. >> welcome back to the wbz "boston globe" democratic u.s. senate debate. our next question comes from cynthia, political editor of the "boston globe." cynthia. >> congressman markey, before the break you mentioned background checks. the question now is, after last week's collapse of background check legislation in the senate, one thing seems apparent. even with the emotional support of the fallout from the newtown massacre late last year, the political tactics of gun control advocates are not winning on capitol hill. how would you change that? >> i believe congressman lynch, you go first. >> thank you, cynthia. i think the president has come out with a very reasonable proposal. i support the elles of his plan and i'll probably add one of my own. he was asking for reinstatement of the assault weapons ban which i think is totally appropriate. even hunters and sportsmen don't need assault weapons. number two, eliminate one of the access to these high capacity magazines. i totally support that. his third proposal was probably the

. >> 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 th

. >> our affiliate wbz in boston caught the explosions on camera as they happened. you can see chaos followed with the first blast as runners and spectators raced for cover. then about 15 seconds later a plume of smoke from the second explosion could be seen just down the street. there were also reports that the explosion at the john f. kennedy library a few miles from the marathon finish line. the boston police commissioner said that the library fire doesn't appear to be related to the explosions at the race. it may be related to an earlier fire. >>> an investigation into who may have planted those bombs are just getting underway. so far no claims of responsibility and no word on a motive. police say the pre-race intelligencing didn't give any indication that an attack was eminent. they are still surveying the area for safety threats. for now they are urging everyone to stay inside. >> we are recommending to people that they stay home, that if they are in hotels in the area that they return to their rooms and that they don't go any place in large crowds. we want to

we spoke to some people at our affiliate station wbz whos the exploss joining us from our washington bureau. what are you hearing? >> we have to be careful here to tell people that we don't have a complete picture at all of what's going on in boston. the information is very, very preliminary. right now the federal government is just getting ramped up in the sense of getting all of its command centers and control rooms together to try to figure out what this is. the preliminary cut of information and i everyone size capital p there are about a dozen people hurt. that's the first word back to the federal government, about a dozen people hurt. no confirmed fatality right now. y -- fatalities right now. there's been no claims of responsibility. as a starting point, a high ranking official in the government told me just a moment ago there's been no claims of responsibility. this is a very fluid situation. the information is going to change many many times over the coming hours as we get more information as we go. >> thanks. get back on the phone, talk to your sources as we get more inform

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 of 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 going 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 you may not get any advanced notice. >> rose: finally we conclude with a change of pace. a consider

with us lauren leamanczyk of our boston station wbz. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. we have quite a scene here in watertown, massachusetts, this morning. >> what can you tell us, lauren? >> reporter: well, what i can tell you is i have been here since about midnight overnight and in the last i would say half hour, a tun police presence here has increased exponential exponentially. just a short while ago, we saw officers from both state police and local police running down the street, guns drawn, they all staged in front of a house. and since then, we have seen armored truck after armored truck come in. we've also seen military vehicles. and now the boston police special operations unit is here. there's a helicopter flying overhead, and while this area has been the focus of a lot of police presence since early this morning, this is is most i've seen. at this point, it seems as though if they don't think they have the suspect in that house, they think they have someone very close to him because the amount of intensity her

they're dead. >> you just heard wbz on the scene just 30 feet away. good morning to you. you were so close. describe what you saw. >> so we were at the finish line because we cover the race. the marathon is a jewel in the city. we were standing at the finish line. it was myself and a photographer and a producer. we literally at the finish line you could see how excited people were. we were looking across the finish line and the bomb went off and the nature of this thing, you felt like a big huge firework went off next to you. an accident or something. the second blast went off and immediately everyone knew what was going on. most people were jumping in the street and running to get away. brian, the photographer i was working with, a big fella, he's 6'5" and he started grabbing barricades to tear it down to get to victims. i'm standing behind him and you look over the fence at the barricades and people on the ground, 15, maybe 20 bodies on the ground and nobody was screaming. nobody was saying anything. you could see shell shock in their eyes like they were stunned and you

and cbs station here in boston wbz was broadcasting the marathon and here is how things unfolded justight after the first explosion. >> oh, my god. they are dead. >> and you just heard wbz's jonathan aliaos he was there, and the scene just 30 feet away. he joins us now. good morning to you. you were so close describe what you saw. >> so we were at the finish line. we covered the race and the marathon is a duel in the city. we were standing at the finish line, myself a photographer and producer. and at the finish line people run across see how excited they were to get across high-fiving and looking exactly the way across the finish line when the bomb went off, and the destruction ty nature of this thing, you felt a big huge piece of fireworks went off you and then the second blast went off and immediately everybody knew what was going on. most people journalling in the street, running to get away and brian, the photographer i was working with, big fellow 6'5" ran over started grabbing the barricades to tear them down to get to victims. and the people on the ground just 15 maybe 20 bodi

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the local boston news radio station, wbz 1030, you can listen live. they have been doing a good job. further, twitter user,@marynmck. and then@terrymcqueeny and he is taking pictures tweeting the shootout outside of his apartment. here is the black mercedes that everyone was talking about. it has truly been an astonishing twitter feed. one of the most astonishing is this one. look at the calendar behind that chair. this is in andrew's apartment. a bullet hole as they fired bullets and had a shootout. these are hard to follow and you don't know what is what but the list i gave you and which i will give to you again later we think is dependable. we continue to monitor all of this. as bob said, he will have updates as well. we will continue throughout the day the second we know something. laura? >> maybe you can tweet that out as well. it is really interesting. people are gathering so much information. >> meanwhile, we are looking at the forecast here in the bay area. meteorologist, christina loren, has it. >> it is looking pretty good, pretty simple. th

. >> jonathan elias was reporting for wbz tv on april 15th. >> it's sort of like the fourth of july for massachusetts. people celebrate who we are, where we are and what we are. >> 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 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? >> 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 kayla's cells made her terribly ill. >> those first few years were hard, she needed to have medical procedures, time in the hospital, lots of pneumonias. >

and take a look at had video from wbz in boston.t shows a runner's wife on the stand, when the bombs goes off on the other side of the street. tonight, police say the bombs were made out of pressure cookersers and were filled with nails and ball bearings to inflict massive damage. those types of bombs are also used overseas. >> police are trying to determine what was used to sets off the explosives. >>> one of the lasting images from yesterday's attack, an elderly runner, knocked to the ground with the impact of the explosion. terrell brown spoke to that man. >> reporter: at the first bomb explosion near the finish line, one runner is seen falling to the ground. legs buckled by the blast. the runner is 78-year-old bill efrin. >> shocked when it just hit my whole body. and my legs just started gittering around. i knew i was going down. >> reporter: a veteran of 45 marathons. efrin traveled from his home of washington state, to run the marathon for the third time. >> i was just approaching the last straightaway to the finish line. and

>> i worked in boston at cbs station, wbz for a while.e city comes alive when the marathon is happening. this really is a special time for the city. to see this happen to such a wonderful group of people. because working there, they embraced you almost immediately. and this is such a tragic event. but i will say this, boston is the type of town, they don't like to be messed with. yes, they are tough people, resilient and i know they will come back stronger. of all the places for this to happen, boston is known for its world class hospitals. so you know they were prepared for something like this. they're getting the best treatment that they could get. >> my experience watching this obviously, the obvious feelings of just shock and horror and sadness all that. but social media really struck me. i just got on twitter recently. we talked about that on the show. i went right to it and i got lots and lots of updates. it's really amazing how that works during a crisis like that. also, on my facebook page. most of my friends tend to be from new y

. >> 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 shld be calm. buthey should understand that this is an ongoing event. they should understand that we need all the inf7ation that we can get available to us. >> charli

this is another eyewitness account from the photographer for television station wbz in boston. >> itk probably five or ten seconds to realize what had happened, 'cause it couldn't happen there. so it was just too surreal. then my head was screaming run one way and my feet started walking the other and started recording and within another 15, 20 seconds, another device went off up the street. so that's when you realize it wasn't an accident. it wasn't a generator, it wasn't a furnace. something was going on. >> at least two people are dead. many others injured. some seriously. could be up to 100 injured. let's talk to former massachusetts senator republican scott brown. he joins us tonight from denver. senator, first your thoughts on this day and, well, just an overall thought. >> first of all, i know the race director, i know a lot of the runners and i know the law enforcement. i was shocked initially. now i'm mad. it's cowardly for the perpetrator or perpetrators to have facilitated this type of terrorism, something that is patriots day. the red sox are playing. the marathon was hap

he is an anchor for the cbs affiliate wbz television in boston. i am pleased to have him here. welcome. >> thank you, charlie. >> rose: tell me what we know. at this point right now we're waiting to hear from the f.b.i. it's been a very fluid situation and a very fast-paced investigation as far as that goes. my sources with the boston police department are telling me they still don't have a suspect name, they don't have pictures yet that they've been given by federal agent bus that could change in a moment's notice. we know they have a lot of tape and pictures that they have gone through and still more to go through to identify who it was that placed that package or those packages in those locations before they were detonated. >> rose: let me drill down on that a bit. what is it you think they have -- they don't have a video of a person, but they have what? >> well, they're being very careful about, that charlie. they may have a lot more, they're just not telling anyone anything. the sources i have say when the f.b.i. took this over everything clamped down as far as information

. >> pelley: paul burton of wbz. paul, thank you very much.jon lapook is getting new information from the hospitals involved. >> boston brigham and women's is now reporting unofficially that there are 18. this is from somebody i know there, not the official report. but that there are 18 wounded there. that's not official yet. >> pelley: our earlier report was that there were 19 at mass general. >> that's right. >> pelley: so a large number of people have been wounded in this. the boston police at this point are saying 23 injured, two dead. but these numbers were l change. >> pelley: i heard from one of my physician friends in boston, he said "i was walking through the brigham and women's hospital coming back from a red sox game when they called code amber in the hospital. i said what's that? he said outside disaster, expect large number of patients." >> pelley: a disaster plan set up in advance by the hospitals in boston went into effect immediately after the first explosions as at least 30, 40 injured persons were taken away from the scene. t

the testimony from dozens of wbz for the prosecution over a five week period paints a picture of mayhem questionable medical practices in gosnell's clinic which the state health department had not inspected in 17 years. one former employee said it would, quote, rain fetuses at the facility. in closing arguments, the attorney told his dog got better treatment at the vet than the women and children gosnell and his staff treated at their clinic. his defense attorney, jack mcmahon, cited the prosecution calling it elitist and racist and said there's zero scientific evidence, emotion aside, that any of the babies were ever born alive at the clinic. the defense, as you know, did not put on a single witness of his own. we asked him how his client was feeling after the closing arguments on late monday. >> i don't want to talk about it. i'm sure anybody, any human being facing this type of situation is going to be apprehensive and nervous. i don't think he'll be any different. >> reporter: if convicted of any of those 4 first degree murder charges, megyn, he'll face the death penalty. now we wai

. >>> wbz news crew was standing on the finish line when a deafening explosion rocked the square.spicions. >> we've had an attack. oh my god. oh, my god. >> three did not survive. the youngest 8-year-old martin richard who was at the finish line with his family. >> we're working diligently to bring those who are responsible for this crime to justice. >> a former justice of the peace was charged today with murdered two texas prosecutors one day after his wife was charged with the same krien. williams and his wife could face the death penalty if convicted. >>> a mississippi man is under arrest accused of trying to mail the poison ricin to president obama and senator roger wicker of mississippi. >> the spect,d paulas arrested at his home in mississippi. court papers say he has distrusted the government for years. >>> get out of here. please, get out of here. >> it was just a bright flash and a roar. i thought it was lightning striking the house. >> one witness says the force of the blast was like a tornado. >> authorities are still in search and rescue mode. >> ammonia nitrate can re

and now we're going to listen into the coverage of our cbs station there, wbz. >> all of this investigationcts are accused of robbing the 7-eleven, and at 7-eleven, you may remember, that's where we got the shot of the suspect in the gray sweatshirt, the most recent picture of him tonight. and officials are now working with the idea that the suspects thought that that m.i.t. officer had a description of them. and that's what began this chain of events. so from what we're hearing from john miller with cbs is that what began this was a robbery at the 7-eleven in cambridge which on the left screen -- >> and we're sitting here with john miller of cbs news. john, what can you add to that? >> i think as we've kind of brought this time line together, some of its pieces have shifted. what we are now told is that it starts with the robbery of the 7-eleven and that they take off from that. that they encounter an m.i.t. police officer. and rather than see, is he going to follow us? is he going to chase us? it appears that they came up and engaged him, killed him in his police vehicle, took off and the

again, thank you to wbz, thank you for "the boston globe" for conducting this very important discussion. steve and i have been on the campaign trail for months but we both suspended a week ago because of this great tradgedeefment -- tragedy. my heart goes out to all the families of the victims but congratulations to all the heroes who were able to help us through this incredible tragedy. it was a tragedy, but it was also a triumph. i think all of us in massachusetts are indebted to all who stood up in order to make this a very special week. we mourn the losses. we identify with those victims but we also honor the heroes. on the issue of homeland security, i served on the homeland security committee for seven years. i am the author of the provision after 9/11 that ensures that all cargo on all planes in the united states is now screened for bombs. the republicans oppose me for six years. i am the author of the legislation that requires the screening for nuclear weapons on ships coming into ports in the united states. the bush administration opposed me. i am the author of the legislation

some of the first pictures that are coming in to cnn from our affiliate wbz.ened just moments ago near the finish line of the boston marathon. and, lou, are you able to see these pictures? >> i am. i am watching them. >> what are you seeing as you see that explosion and you see the authorities rushing toward the area? >> well, at this point, you know, there are attempting to identify first and foremost what exactly took place and without going too far out on a limb, i would conservatively say that these were probably planned explosions. at this point they're handling a crime scene. on top of the fact that they're trying to render aid to anyone that may have been injured. they're now dealing with this as a crime scene. they're trying to identify exactly what took place, what explosive was used, if an explosive was used, the nature of it, accelerants. they're reviewing cameras. there is a whole undertaking at this point and i will say to you that they will gather a tremendous amount of information probably in the next few hours as to exactly what took place in t