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Finishing the race. i had finished. within the shoot area where you get your drinks and some nutrition post race. i had just gotten offer the phone with my daughter, who i m here with my family. they travel around with me for these events. and we were talking and she had mentioned she was going back to the lobby of the fairmont hotel which is here in copley, as well. i had turned around to get one of these blankets they put on you to keep you warm, and i was about 100 yards away from the explosion when the first one went off. didn t just see it, but felt it. that s the only way i can put it. i know a lot of people have said the same thing that you have had on this evening so i echo that i shall comment. and people said it was 15, 20 seconds apart but i think it was more like five seconds when the second one happened to have gone off. what did it feel? could you actually feel like the ....
Evening. with that said, yeah, i was finishing the race. i had finished. within the shoot area where you get your drinks and some nutrition post race. i had just gotten offer the phone with my daughter, who i m here with my family. they travel around with me for these events. and we were talking and she had mentioned she was going back to the lobby of the fairmont hotel which is here in copley, as well. i had turned around to get one of these blankets they put on you to keep you warm, and i was about 100 yards away from the explosion when the first one went off. didn t just see it, but felt it. that s the only way i can put it. i know a lot of people have said the same thing that you have had on this evening so i echo that i shall comment. and people said it was 15, 20 seconds apart but i think it was more like five seconds when the second one happened to have gone off. what did it feel? ....
Police, you know, said if you re not injured you need to get out of here, you need to go, so i got separated from my wife, and there was another young lady, and i think her boyfriend, or husband, maybe fiance was hurt as well, and she was trying to get back to him, and, you know, so her and i, you know, we just we just tried to find a which to get to them, so we snuck around the back side, around where the church is at copley, and we went to the back side of the tent and as soon as i saw them pull my wife out to put her in an ambulance, you know, i yelled, that s my wife, can i please go with her, and then so i got in the ambulance with her, and she was cool as a cucumber, you know, i m okay. i m okay, and of course in my mind i m trying to be calm for her but i m freaking out. and they get us to the hospital, and i think i know i was in ....
See there an eery sight. on any normal day, hundreds and hundreds of people would be there getting their medals, hugging each other. winding down. getting some water. again, it is completely empty. as this whole area is now evacuated. janet, real quick, if i can, i m not sure i understood you correctly. when you saw that, the police racing by, was it going down clarendon or going down, i believe that s st. james to your right? was it going down for example, was it going down toward the was that the copley, fairmont copley on your right? a dozen regular police cars. the regular sedans went screaming down clarendon toward boyleston and a moment ago as you saw on live tv, we had three sort of suv police cars screaming down st. james in the direction of copley square proper in the direction of the medical tent. then you saw also the federal agents. all right. janet, we ll be checking with you. thank you very much for that ....
i want to ask you a little about the area. a lot of words are being thrown about. there is a cup of copley think of there s copley square, coply hotel and the copley shopping center. from the video i m seeing, it looks like the explosions were on boyleston maybe between dart mouth and exiter streets. do you have any confirmation of where this happened? if you look at the map for the boston marathon, probably the biggest landmark in the immediate area would be the boston public library. the finish line is on boyleston. that s across from the convention center so we re not sure which location this explosion is coming out of. reporter: at this time we don t know. did most of the injured from ....