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Bombings. the fbi felt it was beneficial to release these pictures. although it appears to have touched off this night of violence in massachusetts, what the fbi couldnt know is the longer it took to find them could they be planning another bombing? it certainly appears that they had plenty of explosives. >> pete, i dont want you to turn you into a fbi profiler here but any surprise the two suspects remained so close to the scene of the bombing on monday? in other words, they didnt flee, that th...

To the fbi. whether it is just as a result of the boston bombing or whether there was something else that had their interest, i dont know the answer to that. >> nbc pete williams, again, reporting these two are bothers. one 19 years old. he is the one still at large. he is the one who in the pictures we have been showing wearing the white hat and the one that planted the second bomb, a cambridge resident. the other is 20 years old. he perished and law enforcement authorities found him with an ie...

To harvard and boston university. this erupted last night as you again pointed out with the robbery of a 7-eleven convenience store in central square cambridge. that is halfway between harvard square and harvard university and mit, which runs along the charles river. that is where this began. what we are watching now. they are going house-to-house in a very, very thickly congested area. >> mike, we are going to pete williams. mike is reporting that he got from "the boston globe," pete, showing t...

Planted the second bomb in the boston marathon bomb tragedies. he is apparently a cambridge resident born in 1993. the other suspect, the two of them appear to be brothers. the other suspect is 20. the 19 at large is dzhokhar tsarnaev. could be a v or z at the end of his name. pete having a hard time reading his license. we dont know much about where he comes from but we have a sense from pieces of information that are coming in from different news organizations that he has been in this country ...

>> according to mike barnicle and "the boston globe" reporting one of the suspects has lived here for some time, receiving some sort of high school scholarship. >> yeah. the city of cambridge awards a scholarship $2,500 to cambridge high school seniors and others who want to pursue higher education. according to the globe, the man at large, the 19-year-old in the white hat, in 2011, so just two years ago, was the recipient of one of these scholarships. that indicates he has lived in the cambridg...

This black mercedes suv. referred to before. and keep the victim inside the driver of the vehicle with them for half an hour as they drive through cambridge. they eventually let him out in cambridge. police began to chase the vehicle. a chase that takes them to watertown and at watertown, there is this firefight. the ieds are hurled prosecute the vehicle at police. bullets are flying. one of the suspects -- and that is the one in the black hat that we saw yesterday in the video relieved by fbi. ...

Account for people in calm and charles gate they will be conducting a controlled observation. one of the explosives they had in their custody apparently as they were speeding from the streets from cambridge to watertown it has been discovered and so they are going to be conducting a controlled detonation. if youre in the area, that is what youre hearing. >> and why you see such a wide swath of boston shutdown. people inside their homes. >> they had no choice. >> they dont know what is out there ...

With people living there, some who may know what is going on and some who dont, trying to make sure that everybody is safe and can you imagine the intensity that law enforcement feels right now after the terror and carnage these two suspects have reportedly incurred upon our society? >> and one extremely dangerous suspect still on the loose. watertown is completely shut down. the entire transit system across boston shut down. harvard is shut down today. mit shut down today. businesses told to st...

Hat, number two there in the white hat. suspect number one is now confirmed dead in a shoot-out. it is suspect number two, the man with the white hat there who is still on the run and who has boston and the western suburbs essentially locked down right now. michael, youve been following this investigation closely all week. what can you tell us about what happened between the time we saw those photographs publicly yesterday at the press conference and that shoot-out last night? >> reporter: well,...

Before we report it, obviously. mike barnicle joins us on the phone. orient us watertown, massachusetts, where it is and what kind of town it is and what is happening right now. >> watertown, willie, is adjacent to cambridge, massachusetts. if you are on the cambridge side of the road from boston and you go up memorial drive, which runs alongside the charles river, memorial drive leads into mt. auburn street, which leads into the north end of cambridge and then watertown. watertown is a bedroom ...