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Long rifle, heavy weapons, you will find, vest, body armor, that type of thing like the shooting in los angeles with the two robbery suspects, where they were completely body armored up and they had automatic weapons and they took out numerous vehicles and personnel... it would be highly unlikely that this would occur on a regular basis. you know, it seems like there might be a connection to the bombings. but its really too early to make that jump. >> i mean, the way this is being handled, just ...

>> tell us what you are hearing about this, about ieds. you are hearing a lot of thing its grenades, long rifles, explosives, these ieds, people told to turn off their cell phones. this experience -- in your experience, does this seem out of the ordinary? >> reporter: it is certainly not ordinary for a robbery case. you wouldnt get this police presence to an officer down, shot earlier in the evening. you wouldnt have a case with so much armament. and discussion of armament. we heard discussion a...

And why this is a little bit out of the ordinary. >> reporter: why its out of the ordinary. if you did have an officer shot, as we got the report earlier today, you would have a big police response. but what separates this, if it was related to a robbery, as we heard earlier in the evening, you wouldnt have people who are armed at the teeth as we have in this situation, at least, according to the scanner traffic. we have reports of hand grenades over the radio. we have reports of additional ieds...

Is still considered to be at large, at least according to the scanner traffic... we are going fast and loose because the situation is developing right now. >> that sounds absolutely crazy, some of the things you are saying, power down your cell phones. this sounds like something much bigger than a robbery. can you walk us through? we know this started with a policeman at the m.i.t. campus, responding to something there and this escalated into this chase. can you walk us through where we are? >> ...

Would be consistent with the discussion of explosives here on the scene. >> that is sounding like a lot more than something that would happen after a robbery and a chase? is there anything else that you are hearing at this point that maybe anything that is fresh and new that is coming in? >> reporter: the one thing that i am unable to do is make a link right now and say that this is somehow related to the two suspects, identified suspects by the federal bureau of investigation, the joint terrori...

Mark, what is your assessment, with everything we are hearing about with the explosives and grenades and rifles and the heavily armed guys. what is your best assessment as to what is going on? >> caller: well, you know, its extremely hard to assess anything with what we know. but if we take it on face value. we have the boston bombing. and now we have this situation that is really happening in close proximity of the discussion of the description of the boston bombers. and now we have -- we have ...

Massachusetts, now, very close to boston. the proximity and the timings, all coming after the -- after the images of those individuals were released. >> is there anything else that you can tell us about that? because what you are describing seems like a pretty big operation, if it was just a simple robbery? >> reporter: it was a big operation. certainly the individuals, if all the scanner traffic proves to be accurate. certain individuals were strapped and armed. we have heard a discussion over ...

Things out here is the scanner traffic. the police officers talking about that, talking about hand grenades and additional bombs. police officers at the scene have been ordered to power down their cell foarngs presumably out of fear they could trigger additional explosives. there is a huge area that has been cordoned off here -- i shouldnt say huge, but 3 blocks. there is a terrific police presence out here. it looks like 15 police agents, according to communications that we have gotten so far w...

Extent that these guys appear to be. >> exactly. you dont hear about the explosive devices. you know, you mentioned long rifles and all the things you have been hearing in the scanner traffic. is there anything that you can tell us about the initial quote/unquote robbery, the beginning of all of this? >> reporter: yeah. i dont know -- i dont know that much about it. it happened -- it happened very quickly... in terms of the information came in just that there was a shooting on campus. and then i...