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Time last night when the two allegedly held up a 7-eleven in cambridge. then a police officer at mit was shot and killed allegedly by these gentlemen here. then they car-jacked, according to law enforcement, a black mercedes suv and held captive the driver of that car for about 30 minutes before releasing him unharmed. that all led to a chase, a pursuit. the chase went into watertown at which point, according to law enforcement sources, these two guys were throwing explosive devices out of the c...

The middle of the night. after that, the first suspect on the left with the black hat is dead. law enforcement authorities literally drove over him. when they approached his body he had an ied attached to his body. willie also mentioned the trail of explosives and grenades that they flu out of their car as they sped through the streets. here is what we know so far. according to nbcs pete williams, the two suspects are brothers. one is 19 years old. the one still at large. the other is 20. the 19...

Where harvard university is, part of harvard university, across the river from cambridge. the harvard football stadium are pretty much all shut down with a multijurisdictional law enforcement response. many, many different jurisdictions responding here. its an unprecedented scene. >> just the sheer numbers. 320,000 people by nbcs count sheltering in place as ordered by police when you put together these communities of cambridge, newton, brighton, watertown, alston, belmont. 320,000 people now by...

Thankfully. the other, though, on the run. its almost impossible to believe he could still be on the run but given what they have been able to do already, these two slippery suspects who now we are hearing, we can report this officially now, nbc news has learned that these two suspects are brothers. they appeared to have lived in cambridge and what else, alex? 19 years old one of them. with a massachusetts drivers license. and the other is still being sought. we are also getting preliminary info...

This will lead us to more information about what exactly they might have been planning to do. we know one is dead. and the other is still on the run. it is the top of the hour. im mika brzezinski along with willie geist. we have been following astonishing breaking story throughout the night that started in cambridge, massachusetts. the two suspects, apparently, according to pete williams, got the sense their pictures were out there and they needed to make a break for it. >> what we know this mor...

This is youtube video one view from quite far away but you get a sense. its a war zone in watertown throughout the night and what people woke up to. probably quite some time no idea what is happening. ultimately they found out what we are reporting now. one of the suspects is dead in that shoot-out but actually he was run over by police. his body discovered with an ied attached to it. the second suspect, 19 years old, cambridge resident. still on the run. he is the one in the white hat and appea...

The fbi accelerated the pace of the investigation as the fbi hoped it would. i will leave it to pete williams to release further information about their names and their backgrounds. >> mike, i dont want to interrupt you but we do have pete williams. lets bring in him now for more information. >> we have the names although there is an ambiguity about the spelling of the last name here we are trying to resolve. we are told they are brothers. one is 19. one is 20. the one who is at large now, the p...

Boston. i should point out that "the boston globe" is now reporting that the suspect at large receives 2,500 scholarship from cambridge latin high school in june of 2011. that is the globe. residents of the two brothers, the one weve identified here on tv, youre looking at him right now. they have been here a while. the larger element in your question, mika, is, again, we have been saying this over and over and over again. it is entirely unprecedented. these communities, watertown especially and...

Marathon bombings. mtba entire system including commuter rail is shut down. amtrak is shut down and residents in watertown, waltham, belmont, newton, cambridge and brighton to remain indoors. businesses are asked, directed not to open. in watertown, all vehicle traffic is banned. look at this. colleges. harvard, mit, brandeis, boston university and boston college and emerson and suffolk and northeastern all have classes that are closed today. and all boston area public schools cancel all classes...

Lets take it to isikoff. >> this started where they live. they live in cambridge, massachusetts. this was a robbery in cambridge near mit in kendall square 10:20 last night they rob a 7-eleven. then they go and shoot an mit police officer who was seated in his cruiser and car-jack a black mercedes and hold the driver 30 minutes and release that person unharmed. then the police chase and when the shoot-out began and eventually suspect number one was killed but not before being found with an ied o...