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Celebrating this marathon as they do every year on this holiday. the injuries that we've seen the most of are on the lower extremities. so the knees down especially or the hips down because of the type of bomb this was and how it was detonated. a trauma surgeon described that also one of the heads of surgeonry here at brigham and women's hospital. let me bring what you they said about the injuries. >> the worst of these injuries have been injuries to the legs. there have been a lot of damage. there is a lot of blast effect from these type of explosions. a lot of injuries to the muscle, the ski...

The blast effect of the bomb as well as small metallic fragments that entered their body, pallets, shrapnel, nails that these bombs had. and some had additional injuries we're addressing. again, i'm happy to report at this point that the patients are sick but are in rather stable condition and thank god they're all alive. [ inaudible question ] yes, there are a variety of sharp objects that we found in their body, probably this bomb had multiple metallic fragments in them and we -- we removed pellets and nails.

Going to stop and so there is a big rush as a surgeon, when you are there, everyone works as a team and the patients come in and we have some idea from the dispatcher what is going on and the 17-year-old gunshot wound to the neck, the vital signs are stable, that is all we know and when they come in, the best thing is to get airway breathing, circulation, someone is intubating the patient if they are critical and, putting an x-ray to make sure the chest is working and there is no pneumo thorax and the decision has to be made whether the patient is going straight to the operating room and, the ...

congressman peter king in new york is chairman of the homeland security committee. he's been briefed on the plot and joins us on the phone. what are the latest you can tell us? >> i got briefed by secretary napolitano and john brennan. basically it's a nonmetallic deaf vits, intended to be put on an american-bound airline. it never made to it the airline. it's right now as you said being tested and analyzed by the fbi. obviously a concern would be that being unmetallic as to whether or not this could evade security in our airport. that's a real concern. also, this is an ongoing opera...

everyone, it's 10:00 here on the east coast. they have foiled a terrorist plot to blow up an airliner, they're not saying where, oar when it happened. here's what we know, according to the fbi an improvised explosive device was seized and fbi officials are investigating it. it's a nonmetallic explosive similar to the one the underwear bomber used in his failed attempt in 2009. similar but not the same. the plot has the hallmarks of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. and president obama was briefed about the threat in april. chairman of the homeland security committee has been detaild...