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They had to take down the safety barriers to get to the injured. boylston is lined with metal safety barriers to keep the crowds back. all accounts are that the emts and first responders did an absolutely magnificent job of what had to be an out of nowhere event. my sense is now, having been around, is that the federal response is starting to take over from the local response. i think -- and i think don eluded to this earlier. as soon as they set up the joint operating center, then it's a federal investigation. the boston police, the ones i spoke to on the scene, they were very nervous, very j...

Serves the same purpose. boston.com set up a google doc for people who need a place to stay or a place to house runners who can't get to their hotel. we'll put that up on our website. the major thing about marathon day in major cities -- i haven't been to the boston marathon but in a lot of cities, is the communal spirit they tend to engender. charlie, i wonder your sense of how the boston police and local boston officials have responded to this and what the feeling in the city is about that response so far? >> well, let's go from the -- from the most on the ground and work out. the emts and e...

Again, there's still a very fluid situation. i've heard the number of 130 injured. the question now is, how many have been treated and released. we don't have a clear number on that. we do know there are, perhaps, a dozen or more people, something in that range, based on the reporting, the numbers we're hearing, of people who are still in potentially life-threatening situations. they're not calling it critical. they're not giving out that information. but still a lot of people in some severe danger here. >> ron allen, thank you so much. want one of the things that's strike being what we know s...