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Into law. critics say the safe carry protection act allows licensed gun owners to bring their guns pretty much anywhere, like a bar, ups the bar owner objects. like a house of warship, like an airport, common areas but not past tsa check points. licensed gun opwners can bring guns into government buildings that dont have metal detectors. and local school boards will be able to allow teachers or other school staffers to carry guns on campus or even in the classroom. jason carter, grandson of jimm...

While security is really beefed up to this, what is your reaction to former police chief ray kelly coming out on sunday talk shows that he is concerned about a copy cat incident today in boston? >> well, betty, im sure that anybody can understand this is a big challenge. you have 36,000 runners and theres going to be a lot of spectators, thousands and thousands of spectators along the course. obviously for police and security officials, its difficult. in one sporting event it may be one specific...

Effective security so far. you mentioned checkpoints, tell us more about what changed this year and how they struck a balance between making sure people are safe and they are not feeling the oppressive weight of that security? >> reporter: i asked the commissioner that very question, you dont want the security so oppressive that people dont want to come out to the event because they dont want to take part in all of that. they plan for six months, solid six months about the plan for today and i w...

One of the check points and one of the cops there. you play hockey with them. and he made me open my coat. >> and security goes for everybody. to me, it is all after 9/11. the rules changed after last year. and i think people are take it in the spirit that matters. my son went through the checkpoint and can they -- they checked his bag. there were no specific threats that they knew of. an american has won. >> we are all trying to learn how to pronounce. >> hes naturalized american from aratribai...

Tried to be a counterweight to china in the region. he does have a trip scheduled to china in the coming months. >> kristen welker at the white house, thank you. boston is taking its security to new heights ahead of tomorrows marathon. besides having police on the ground, boston will have eyes and ears everywhere, thanks to high technology. and noses on the ground thanks to a specialized canine unit. >> reporter: everyone is going to feel the extra security here tomorrow. racers cant bring bac...

In a legally occupying government buildings. its also the case those same militants havent expanded those check points for several days. meanwhile, news here today is that a top -- says it sees no indication that pro-russian militants have the will to deescalate the situation, unless, of course, russia pushes them. but that isnt happening yet. back to you. >> jim, thank you. now to washington where the white house has made a decision not to make a decision on the keystone xl pipeline. the admi...

Clashes ensued. one ukrainian security officer was killed. another five were wounded. the ukrainian governments effort to reassert the authority made little headway. mobs continued to plow forward, taking over administrative buildings, police stations and entire buildings. its hitting up check points outside of them. in one town in eastern ukraine, some 400 handguns and 20 automatic weapons were looted from a police station. this according to the ukrainian interior ministry. the escalating situa...

Clashes ensued. one ukrainian security officer was killed. another five were wounded. the ukrainian governments effort to reassert the authority made little headway. mobs continued to plow forward, taking over administrative buildings, police stations and entire buildings. its hitting up check points outside of them. in one town in eastern ukraine, some 400 handguns and 20 automatic weapons were looted from a police station. this according to the ukrainian interior ministry. the escalating situa...

Clashes ensued. one ukrainian security officer was killed. another five were wounded. the ukrainian governments effort to reassert the authority made little headway. mobs continued to plow forward, taking over administrative buildings, police stations and entire cities. setting up check points outside of them. in one town in eastern ukraine, some 400 handguns and 20 automatic weapons were looted from a police station. this according to the ukrainian interior ministry. the escalating situation tr...

The unrest. ayman, describe the centers of unrest. >> reporter: its one thats very tense. especially in the past few hours. not only did they ignore an ultimatum that was required to lay down their arms and leave the buildings, theyve continued to seize more police stations. in the past hour alone about 45 miles from where we are pro russian separatist militias managed to take over another building. there was an exchange of gunfire, molotov cocktails were thrown. another police station in anothe...