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evidence analysis is ongoing. it would be impru can't to comment. >> what about the people ho who work in the area? if they can't get in for tomorrow, what should people do tomorrow? >> just in the area that is the cordoned off crime scene, along boylston street from berkeley to mass avenue and then north to newbury street and south to huntington, that's the secure area. now that may get installer over the course of the next several hours, but that area is not going to be accessible for normal traffic. there are people in hotels and people who live there who have to work out how they get to and from where they need to be. but otherwise, i think it's fair to say that area's pretty much going to be locked down until the information is complete. >> so people can walk to the
patients. the doctor said there's an eerie calm because the crisis, the intense triage sessions have essentially ended. the situation is somewhat stabilized in the hospital. but there are at least seven patients in the operating rooms in surgery right now with life-threatening and what they describe as limb-threatening wounds. a lot of people facing partial amputations or total amputations of arms and legs. as you might expect where there's a situation where a bomb goes off, a lot of shrapnel and moving around and flying around at a violent pace, and that's the kind of injury they're seeing that's causing the most life-threatening injuries. he said that there are also -- i asked him about what kind of shrapnel, he said it looked like -- he's not an expert, something of an expert, bb gun
pell lets. it wasn't the kind that was glass and other kinds of debris that you would a bomb exploding in the city street. exactly. he describes something like a bb pellet, which is something, the investigation will determine this as we go on, something that might have been packed into an explosive. that's one thing the police and investigates are trying determine, what they were made of. but that doctor mentioned that which i thought was interesting. a lot of tension here in the city. i just flew in and drove through the city, i know boston well, i used to live here, it's eerie where people are walking around trying to get a sense of where things are going, what's happening. desperate for information, hanging on the latest word about what's going on, what's new. there are a lot of police road blocks around boston. hard to get around.
would have this kind of effect? >> well, for example, if it's a kind of a pipe bomb that's made with black pouder and a timing device, and as we saw in the early reporting, shrapnel, bbs, whatever. that's a device that's not overly complicated to make. >> and that would expand the circle of plausible suspects because that is a capacity that many people have. >> less technical, the easier it is for the average person to get their hands on this. as opposed to some of the devices that we've seen coming out of the afghanistan and pakistan that are made by more sophisticated bombers and techniques, for example, where they use tatp as the explosive. this was the device that was attempted to be used in the new york subway. this takes a higher degree of train. it's also a lot more lethal.
exclusive and expensive to get tickets, it's free to everybody. it's an amazing community spirit. and not just american. because it's a big international event, an ethiopian and kenyan runner won today, thousands come from around the world. it's an amazing tribute to the human spirit. that's why it strikes everybody here so wrong. >> in fact one of the most iconic moments in the horrifying video that we see, as you see the explosion and the camera moves in, there is this line of flags from across countries of the world representing people from different countries around the world who have come to participate. that is precisely the place, you know, nothing more kind of open or koz moe poll tan than this image of country after country after country's flags literally
already set up to handle an event like this because they were dealing with the boston marathon, a special event. >> standard procedure. >> resources in place which saved them a lot of time. it's tough when you have a cold start, a bomb goes off, you have to set it up without any kind of prewarning. so they've got that infrastructure in place. and in that will be representatives from all of the agencies that are basically involved in the investigation, state, local, federal, there will be people coming in from washington. and this will be the nerve center of the investigation. so right now, it's kind of in 14/7 mode. >> and what agencies are represented ? when you talk about this, who is part of that? >> i can't tell you everybody in boston, certainly the fbi, the state police, atf, all the federal agencies, local police. i was in charge of the international terrorism division in new york as my last job.