Page 2 - Sidewalk Level News Today

Gathering material at the site. the picture on the front of "the globe globe" displays people from the roof. there is degree of the bomb from several rooftops they are gathering. the other interesting thing that is going on has nothing to do with streets being blocked so much as it has to do with i talk to one of the forensic people last evening and they were talking about psychological profiles that this will be a particularly interesting psychological profile because asbestos has been pointed ...

Together and probably wasnt a well trained terrorist who either would have had access to a more potent device that would have caused much more damage and bigger causalities, had it been. >> more sophisticated device would have been a more powerful explosive, but also a device that would include projectiles, if you will. throw in nails and other stuff that could injure and kill a lot of people. >> you could add shrapnel to it, that was done in the atlanta olympic bombings, but here you also have,...

At the finish line. doctors and nurses and emts gathered to help the marathoners who need help as they finish the 26-mile run. were is not for them, the injuries might be much higher than there are now. there are two dead and at least 60 injured in boston city hospital and massachusetts general hospital. those estimates will probably rise during the evening. but the triage unit was in operation but in addition to that, chris, as is so often as is the case, a young lawyer who i spoke to, he was r...

Either in a trash basket or mailbox perhaps. sidewalk level. a lot of the injuries were from the lower body parts of those who were wounded. >> wow. >> so michael, this is a direct hit. i was saying earlier -- and i dont think its that poetic to admit, the thing about terrorism is to make people be afraid to live their lives and to go after targets of weddings or really nice hotels or really nice resorts in mali. they find people that are most at ease and want people to not feel confident of lif...

Sorts of scientific stuff, csi, adjust the satellite, you find the guy down on the ground. but what can be done about enhancing actual ly leather on the sidewalks, boots on the sidewalks of great american cities, police departments like new york, enhance their capability in dealing with things before they happen, intelligence on the sidewalk level? >> well, theres a lot that can be done, and thats in my op-ed that willie was referring to. we need to do more of what new york city has done, which ...

Building, there is retail there. let me tell you whats in this building, a technical school, a national greeting card store chain and radioshack. this is in the heart of manhattan off sixth avenue, and some of the sound you hear is because ive moved over to the national desk. our assignment editor and i are both working on the story, and weve just gotten information from employees inside that radio shack telling us that con ed was out there two days ago. >> yeah, hunter ryan actually called the ...

Time to do maximum damage. but the damage was minimal. when youre looking around here, the people who are traveling here since so much is shut down, are here, frankly, trying to take pictures. theyre tourists. theyre new yorkers who want to see whats going on. heres what we know about what happened in here. obviously, there is this maze of subways and tunnels, bus terminals that are below where im standing here at sidewalk level. the 27-year-old suspect who lives in brooklyn had a 5-inch metal p...