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At the finish line. doctors and nurses and emts gathered to help the marathoners who need help as they finish the 26-mile run. were is not for them, the injuries might be much higher than there are now. there are two dead and at least 60 injured in boston city hospital and massachusetts general hospital. those estimates will probably rise during the evening. but the triage unit was in operation but in addition to that, chris, as is so often as is the case, a young lawyer who i spoke to, he was r...

Miles. i wouldnt call them amateurs especially. but also running against the world class athletes. usually the ethiopians and the kenyans who are so good at this long-distance running. and are the world-grade competitors. all that happening in front of the world, the cameras, 96 countries represented. this horror occurred obviously for the world stage and thad have succeeded because already they have closed down the front of the white house. you cant even walk past our own presidents house right...

Finish line. six blocks from fenway park. so you have the convocation of thousands, 35,000 people from fenway park spilling out of the ballpark. you have thousands and thousands of people from all around the world at the finish line. waiting for for relatives, sisters, daughters, husbands, fathers who are running the marathon for various reasons. most of them charitable causes. this is a planned domestic incident. no doubt about that. an eyewitness who was standing on boylston about 75 yards to ...

Bombs and who hates government, who hates america. for whatever his or her reasons for doing something like this. this is well within the realm of one person. chris, what we dont know, for example, this horrific explosion that youre showing right now, we dont know if it was -- i dont want to say simply -- if it was just a low-order explosive, or was there shrapnel packed around? in essence, was this something to get more of a dramatic impact and a few casualties? or was there nails, bbs, screws ...

Explosion, there was a mechanical room fire. weve getting conflicts on this all along. you can have a fire and explosion beforehand. he said there never was. he said no fire was intentionally set. we have to dial back now from what was a report coming out a few moments ago this was aen explosion. it was a fire. it could have nothing to do with this and probably did not. were left with two explosions. were told by u.s. officials at nbc news not to worry about a further explosion up in boston. the...

Everyone involved in this explosion and assistance if you need some information over the next 24 to 48 hours. let me just say that this is a tragedy. were going to work together on this and boston police, the state police, fbi, all of the embassies we just met and committed to working together to make sure we come to a finality of what happened this afternoon and the governor has been helpful to us on several issue this is afternoon. ill turn it over to the governor and have him say a few words....

And television traffic. they will be doing everything they can to say, does this have an overseas component or strictly a u.s. component? >> right. and i agree with that. i think were all going to be doing our own kind of profiling trying to figure this thing out. i also think -- i had this tremendous political memory. i remember was john f. kennedy was killed and a cbs correspondent said i hope the right wing has its pound of flesh. it was lee harvey oswald who did the shooting and that was not...

Joint terrorism task force and boston will have the lead for this. all the other agencies will play their supporting roles. so well probably see at least for a few days some tightened security by the department of homeland security at airports. the cia will be working its sources overseas. everyone plays a part. the fbi will have a clear lead working in -- >> guys, theres a picture. guys -- >> were going to have that picture. everyones talking about it. well have it. lets go right now to adam ze...

Police. >> by the whom? >> by the police. >> yeah. so how far away were you from that? were looking at the explosion now, adam. how far were you from the explosion with all the white smoke coming up now? >> i would estimate at least two blocks. i dont know boston that well, but i was going into the back bay station. it felt like about two blocks. >> great. thank you so much for that, adam, for the firsthand account. weve been getting them all afternoon. were going to keep getting them. >> thank ...

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