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Year. so pressure is mounting for cell phone carriers and the devicemakers to figure out a way to deter theft. san francisco district attorney george gascon wants to see a so-called kill switch on phones. >> so when they get reported stolen, they could be rendered inoperable. >> reporter: he accuses the industry of dragging its feet to what he calls a technological solution. >> every time a phone gets stolen, we go back and replace a phone. so the carrier gets to make another sale, the manufacturer gets to make another sale, and their profit margins continue to build. >> reporter: the nation's...

Kill switch on phones. >> so when they get reported stolen, they could be rendered inoperable. >> reporter: he accuses the industry of dragging its feet to what he calls a technological solution. eve >> every time a phone gets stolen, we go back and replace a phone. so the carrier gets to make another sale, the manufacturer gets to make another sale, and their profit margins continue to build. >> reporter: the nation's largest carriers are getting more aggressive. now participating in a new nationwide database for stolen phones to prevent them from being activated. critics say it is yet to hav...

>> it's true. good morning. the millenial generation, 18 to 29, they're effective unemployment rate is sitting at 16.1%. that's a combination of those that are looking and can't find work, plus those that just gave up and quit. they said i'm out. >> steve: for enterprising kids out there, how about the rent a car company? >> enterprise rent a car, they are very much about getting kids in right out of college, the pay is not bad. you can make 30, 40, maybe $50,000 depending on your location. they've got 8500 management trainee positions available and they're look for grads. they want you to be ...

Where one mall goes to the other. i see one woman walking away now limping, covered in a sheet. i see three or four people on the ground being treated by paramedics. but i have a feeling there are more off to the left where i can't see, which is where that explosion was just across the street from me. it was a pretty big explosion. i could see there were a bunch of people piled around what may have been a trash can or something there across the street. i'm not entirely sure. >> describe the scene of where this took place, matt, for someone who isn't perhaps familiar with the boston area. is th...

The storefronts there. and it looks like some windows were blown out. >> i only saw blownout windows. it doesn't look like there was extensive damage on the second explosion, which i had a better viewpoint on, which seemed to me the smaurler explosion. looking up, down, at that first explosion when it went off, it did look bigger. it looked like a more sizable plume of smoke in the second one. >> i just want to repeat for our viewers, we don't know the cause of these at least twin explosions. we don't know what happened. could be anything as far as we know right now. but we do see the destruct...