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Federal, state, local. ed henry at the white house on that. ed, what can you tell us as far as what the administration is offering and doing? i jump evidenced the gun, ed is not ready yet eye. youre mentioning a lot of this -- the fear that this puts in americans, which is what terrorist wants. we thought with got over this, the post 9/11, happened in london a couple times insuring madrid, scores of cities around the world, brutally -- not here to any notable degree. so its unnerving in that sen...

Question, where these devices were. talked to one or several might have been in garbage cans. london, familiar with that from the old days of the ira attacks. others hidden in subway stations in london, not too many summers ago. similarry in madrid. what do you make of this? >> all too familiar. for anybody remembers the bombing campaign of the irish run party -- irish republican party, they were the ones who perfected the idea of a device in a trash can. so much so it became so common on the st...

People running from the scene, some of them deposited bags and parcels they were carrying. each one of those beings and parcels is being treated as a suspicion device at this point in time. we have multiple dod teams checking each bag but at this point we have not found another device. the three incidents occurred, two of them occurred simultaneously on boylston street and the third one occurred at jfk a half hour ago. people should be calm. but they should understand that this is an ongoing eve...

Its early at point to ascribe motive or you say there might be one in dust, remains to be seen. it up sos like a basic device, rudimentary device, who knows, a backpack, small box, a bag, something. this is kind of like similar to devices may have been used in the london bombing in 2005, maybe the unibomber. im not surprised. the target is a populated area. the finish line at the boston marathon. a lot of people standing around to make a statement, thats the place to make it. a horrible, tragic ...

Towards copley square. >> neil: the mood among your friends and colleagues right now. we get reports confirming another explosion at the jfk library, not too far from that neck of the woods. what are they fearing there? that this is more widespread than thought? theyre still on pins and needles? i imagine both are understatements. >> im just repeating what im hearing from people calling me. i heard that the jfk device was unrelated. i dont know. but i heard they found another explosive device in...

>> cordon off the immediate areas to find out where the device emanated from. >> neil: what about multiple devices? >> thats increasing. each scene is treated separately. and you start gathering -- expanding the crime scene, looking for thingses such as closed circuit cameras that may have been used for everyday purposes outside of hotels or banks and start looking to -- >> neil: i dont want to interrupt you but for exactly what you said, young man, were hearing a few more devices found in the a...

Device as whatted intoed, -- wht explode, and the bomb squad in boston is sew fess tick indicate whod literally put the pieces together of the bombs that exploded to see if they were all made in the same way by the same ingredients, the same bombmaker. >> neil: were getting word as well from attorney general eric holder that the full resources of the department of justice are being made available to boston officials and massachusetts officials, as needed, whenever needed, however many folks they...

The kind of tricks that terrorists like to use is to bring first responders and others to the scene and then have another device go off nearby. but im -- if they can find the device and dismantle and it hold on to those african sick elements its key toward gathering an investigation and moving forward. >> neil: to bring you up to speed here, we know of two known explosions today. especially back-to-back at the end of the boston city marathon today. in which over 26,000 runners participated. thes...

Radiation of the explosion. but one i was monitoring monitoe police scanner traffic in boston and the police, every officer was specifically being told, be careful of every trash can. so, i think thats why youre saying -- some of these might be controlled explosions, not necessarily they found a device. they could be controlled explosions, just something suspicious, something theyre going to do in this situation. also, we understand that they were shutting down cell phone traffic, which is inter...

Office. ed? >> 3:00 p.m. eastern time the president was informed by his homeland security advisor here the white house. she replaced john brennan. were told other senior aides in the oval office giving the president updates. he will get briefings throughout the afternoon. well wait to see if he come out and says anything to the public. i gather, having been through this before, the president is going to get as much facts as possible before the federal government jumps out ahead and says anything...