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>> how do you mean? >> not associated with the explosion. >> how do you mean? >> once the aircraft is incapacitated in flight, it begins a fall, and the stresses of gravity and air speed and the stresses being exerted on the fuselage itself will cause parts of the aircraft to depart from the main stay of the airplane. this is why you see wing sections in different locations, tail section in different locations, the engines are in different locations. and all of that will have to be gathered together and then reconstructed and then the investigators will be able to determine which came apart at...

Screams. these two guests will be joining me as we watch some of this continuing to play out on such a significant day for the city of boston. carrie, to you, you have created this prayer canvas. 100,000 signatures strong. it's been out by the finish line. it will be in boston common, it will be at fenway. why did you care so much to do this? >> i thought it was important to show the resilience and the compassion, and the unity of the people of america. and we wanted to create a giant symbol that would show that. we wanted something everyone could participate in, regardless of age. and i think...

I live five blocks from here and my district office is a block from the explosion site. i came up and made my office available to the nypd and fdny sxault first responders. it was used overnight as a command post. we've been helping and making sure everything's going smoothly with the affected families. we unfortunately lost seven lives. incredibly tragic situation. and making sure that everybody's getting the proper support to make sure that they get the services necessary. >> reporter: so gretchen, they continue the effort. they're frantically going through yet another toxic pile of rubble, ...

Some cranes wishes we have coming on the way. the plan right now is to extinguish the fire. we're doing surface removal at the present time. we have to clean the sidewalk of the debris, and the brick to check to make sure there was nobody on the sidewalk or the street. and then once the fire is under control and extinguished, we will start to do some surface removal, some debris removal. we have to be very careful. the building is in a very precarious position. we want to make sure that everybody is in there, first responders are safe. it's been a great interagency response between oem, police...

But we know we'll need some cranes, which we have coming on the way. the plan right now is to extinguish the fire. we have to clean the sidewalk of the debris and the brick to make sure there was nobody on the sidewalk or the street. once the fire is under control and extinguished, we'll start to do some surface removal, debris removal. we have to be very careful. the building is in a very precarious position. we want to make sure that everybody's in there that first responds is safe. it's been a great interagency response between oem, police, fire, buildings. but it's going to be a long, exte...