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Alive. >> reporter: this was supposed to be so exciting. this was a christmas present. then what happened? >> when we were coming out the door, there was maa massive bom and everyone started running and screaming. >> reporter: you had no idea it was a bomb what did you think it was? >> a fire work or something that had exploded. i didnt know what it was. >> reporter: what did you first feel? you got hit on your back side? >> my back was hurt. the whole building was shaking. >> reporter: the buil...

Heard something. they heard the explosion. they felt the explosion but they didnt see anything. they didnt see any smoke. the videotaped taken inside the arena and then suddenly, within 30-45 minutes, we got these reports of multiple dead. and yet nobody was inside the arena saw anything of the sort. we saw some people walking out of the arena with minor injuries and then it fits together when they said it was in the foyer of the arena outside. thats when the arena came out a short time later sa...

>> the police have said theyre treating this as a potential terrorist attack. your thoughts towards the people who did this? >> why? what was the point? i mean, your children, we let them out for a day out thinking theyll remember the concert. >> so many family members were together for tonights concert. so many parents, for example, brought their teenage daughters. the crowd base for ariana grande, tconcert tonight. i want to read the way the "associated press" is putting it. at this hour it, d...

All right. we are now looking at live images as we continue our coverage of the streets there in manchester following that deadly explosion. we are trying to find out more. jim, if you are still with us, i wanted to ask you about -- on a tactical sense what happened here on the night of this explosion. as weve seen in the past, it has always been during concerts, during performances. but this specifically happened after the concert was over. people were already exiting the arena, where we unders...

Is as a live music event, when you are a fan, they were elated and thats part of the tragedy here. kelly, thank you. we are talking in our studio, shawn, i wanted to talk to you about where this bomber was. yes, theres a lot we dont know. were going on the theory this was a blolone terrorist bomber. that he might have been in a foyer, in kind of a common area. victorias station, then you have the arena separated by two or three layers. might this have been someone heinous enough to have located ...

Somebody circumventing security here. we have talked about this being in the foyer, the lobby of the ticket area. this is a public base. not inside the venue at all, but outside the ticket area, thats where the majority of the 19 fatalities were in the 50 plus injuries. remember, the man you were talking to said that he heard two different explosions and we have differing accounts from a number of people around there, most of them said they heard one big explosion, even the dashcam that kind of ...

So we ran. we walked quickly down the stairs. thats when people were flooding through the concert doors. the sound was definitely coming from the main foyer. im exiting the building, we then saw crowds of people and children devastated. we went to the car, ten seconds away. as soon as we got to the car, you could smell the burning. coming out then, there were people around. the children with devastated. we could see police running in front of our car. with huge red backpacks on them. running int...

Could hear what sounded like an explosion. this was from the outside. it was really loud, and extraordinarily loud explosion from the outsides you can imagine what it was like on the inside. again, the early reports were saying it was something on the right-hand side of the stage was if you are looking at arianna ground a performing. she had just walked behind the curtain and then the explosion happened and they thought on the right-hand side of the stage the wings of the video and there was no ...

Reports are very unreliable. its a very difficult situation and for people to have their wits about them, to be able to give accurate reporting about the location of the blast was the reporting coming out so far certainly would trace was saying talking about it being the foyer. it doesnt lend itself to thinking it was pyrotechnics or leftover technical from the concert. >> martha: weve all been down this road many times and covered the situations too many times. but it does appear that if it did...

Seat arena, the arena adjoining a victoria train station in manchester, a main train station and ended the scene of the explosion or explosions apparently in what they call the foyer area outside of the main arena, the box office area so perhaps it adjacent the wider public. >> lets open up for just 20 seconds here as we listen in. on commercial right now. as weve been telling you throughout the evening, somewhere in that area in england time in manchester, england, at the end of the ariana gran...