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About for a long time, as you look at dallas hall at smu. lets talk about the players. who are the law enforcement agencies involved? >> so think of it as a symphony and the orchestra. the conductor would be the secret service. then with the secret service you would have a plethora of federal agencies, state agencies, and local agencies. everybody plays their instrument, so to speak, and together they perform the symphony and create the music that goes into the security plan. but without all the...

>> within the blast radius, a nursing home, hospital, and a middle school. >> the fire fighters that are missing were first responders. they were the ones that actually went to the scene on their call or page out. they responded to the scene and were actively fighting the fire at the time the explosion occurred. >> reporter: the firefighters, volunteers. the chemicals present, ammonia, it is explosive in concentrated form, adding water is a lethal mix. >> someone asked me the fire fighting metho...

Marathon running. our security plan is developed jointly with the metropolitan police and we were in contact with them soobs we heard the news. >> why dont we get back to the scene. you have new information for us? >> don, we do know now that officials are going to brief reporters at 9:30 just a few hours away. there is so much we dont know. we do not know if this attack was a foreign or domestic attack. but right now investigators are behind me on exitor street. they have set up about six or se...

>> the security plan will be reviewed. >> i think what the police will most likely be considering within their planning for the marathon will be the protection of the competitors, particularly at the start point. any terrorist that is looking for mass casualties would be looking for the largest number of casualties they can achieve. >> its a 52 mile area that needs to be guarded by security.

Front pages this morning. the washington post has a bold headline, it says an acts of terror. the houston chronicle talking about a father and daughter who ran the race say seconds may have saved families. the telegraph says the clock shows 4:09:44 then the shock wave hit. london has a marathon this weekend. police are taking another look at their security plan right now to see if they need to make any other changes before that race begins. youll want to stay with cnn throughout the morning for ...

We will get to the bottom of this. we will find out who did this and why. >> the attack came without warning and without mercy. an 8-year-old boy is among three people killed when one blast was followed just seconds later by another. and the death toll could rise. 140 people are wounded, many of them critically. many victims were hit in the legs with shrapnel and several amputations have been performed. the president says those responsible will feel the full weight of justice. were learning the ...

Person? >> i believe i mentioned in my statement, we dont have any definitive information regarding suspects or subjects. it could be a person, it could be persons. we dont have any -- we have not reached any conclusions s at al in that regard. >> commissioner davis, you run this even year after year, presumably with a sound security plan. can you talk about what happened this year? what went wrong? and do you think these people may have been planning this for many years? >> the second part of t...

Are you looking for one person? >> i believe i mentioned in my statement, we dont have a definitive information. it could be a person or persons. we havent reached any conclusions. >> you run this event presumably year after year with sound security plan. can you talk about what happened this year, what went wrong, do you think these people have been planning this for many years? >> second part of that question will be answered by the investigation. there is a lot of work that needs to be done t...

>> reporter: laperriere says the nra hired former republican congressman asa hutchinson to develop a more in depth security plan for schools. hutchison, a also former deputy director of the department of homeland security, compares this debate to the debate over armed federal air marshals. >> it increased safety of airlines. it is not like it is an armed camp when you go on airlines. it is very discrete use of armed guards that has a presence there to protect america. our children less important...

Here. the secretary of the state is responsible. she was the one who made the decision to reopen diplomatic relations with libya. she was not necessarily the one to carry out a particular security plan in benghazi. as tom pickering who headed this review board indicated, where the rubber hits the road is at the assistant secretary level. theres two bureaus, in the judgment of the committee, failed to do what needed to be done and those four individuals have been held responsible. >> p.j. i got t...