boston globe columnist kevin cullen was inside the courtroom for today's testimony and joins us now live. great to see you. can you share some of the more dramatic moments of today's testimony? >> reporter: well the way you describe it is pretty accurate. i would compare it to sort of a hollywood action film. this stuff doesn't happen in real life very often. the first cop, joe reynolds was on routine patrol. he was the first one that encountered them. he described going by them on one way and they going the other way on a side street and he was -- he looked eye to eye with dzhokhar tsarnaev. he turned around did a three point turn started following them and his supervisor john mclellan, a sergeant was on the way and said don't, you know go after them until there's some backup let me get there. as soon as mcclellan rolls around the corner on to laurel street and sees the cruiser, he says to joe reynolds light them up. that doesn't mean fire. that means turn on the blue lights. even before joe reynolds got to