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To know if in the middle of a crisis coverage for instance you say we don't know anything so we're going away from the story until we learn more you run the fear of losing the audience and so you're stuck in a story like that unless you exert real will power. with being on the air, with people who are forced to say things that don't mean anything like -- >> i think that's the big difference with this one, isn't it really? there have been officials who have been quite accessible to the press, that they have come out with great regularity and also had real information they have said officially p...

Kind of crisis coverage. i'm just wondering if you can kind of replay it in your head, those fractions of seconds where you went from what you thought you were doing, you actually thought you were covering a marathon and a wedding. when you went from that to realizing you are covering a major historic american disaster. >> yeah, we knew it immediately. the kind of carnage we saw, this wasn't something small. some people said early on maybe a manhole blew up. i couldn't imagine a manhole blowing up would cause such a horrific situation. i mean, what we saw, i knew pretty instantly that somethin...

You can see the joy on their faces. the runners i saw coming in were horrified by the scene. they were trying to process. they were running in with joy and immediately that changed. they were looking to the left and they saw body parts and people without limbs and a horrific scene that seemed to be out of a movie or a horrific show. i keep thinking of the walking dead. this is stuff we don't see every day in a situation unless you are in a war. that's the kind of injuries we were seeing. it was really traumatic. >> jackie, i want to go through how your mind set changed. i think you described i...

Changed. you described it well, i'm from boston, too. i remember as a kid, i used to think i got the day off from school because of the boston marathon. >> exactly. >> in fact, it's patriots day, this holiday that we celebrate there. it's very festive. it's just not the place where your mind is ready or poised to shift into any kind of negative or kind of crisis coverage. and so i'm just wondering if you can kind of replay it in your head those fractions of seconds where you went from what you thought you were doing, you actually thought you were covering a marathon and a wedding. when you wen...