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>> i think you are referring to sean o'brien who is a firefighter in boston. a great firefighter. great guy. i always describe that scene when the bomb went off, the guys from ladder 7 from the nearest fire station to the area were actually admonishing a bunch of college kids who put a hibachi barbecue on a porch overlooking the marathon scene to shut it down. then they heard the bombs. one of the upton had just done three tours as a marine in afghanistan. when he heard it, he knew it was a bomb. he said, "bomb." they ran around the corner. another marine tommy hughes was with them from ladder...

Kated the man that was charged. it is very early. >> i'm getting the breaking news as i'm speak to you is these suspects are now in the custody of the fbi. game change again. >> it is very important. there are three or four ways this could be relevant. it could be these are people who know about whether or not the older brother was trained in russia, know about any connections between foreign sources, it could be people who helped them escape after the fact. it could be people at the scene. they showed a picture the other day of a somebody at the marathon scene of somebody that may have been i...

Really 20 hours in boston it was 11:00 a.m. thursday that we had the prayer service with the president who offered very moving remarks and it was about five hours after that that authorities relieved photos of the two suspects, close-up photos of the two guys in the hats and really it was just a few hours later on thursday evening when there was a 10:30 p.m. shooting at mit that turned out to be the shooting that wounded a police officer. i was at that scene quickly afterwards and there was a lot of police presence. almost as much as you could possibly imagine just crewsers lining the street i...

Account for people in calm and charles gate they will be conducting a controlled observation. one of the explosives they had in their custody apparently as they were speeding from the streets from cambridge to watertown it has been discovered and so they are going to be conducting a controlled detonation. if you're in the area, that is what you're hearing. >> and why you see such a wide swath of boston shutdown. people inside their homes. >> they had no choice. >> they don't know what is out there and they don't know what devices these guys may have left. let's go to michael isikoff, the nbc n...

Before we report it, obviously. mike barnicle joins us on the phone. orient us watertown, massachusetts, where it is and what kind of town it is and what is happening right now. >> watertown, willie, is adjacent to cambridge, massachusetts. if you are on the cambridge side of the road from boston and you go up memorial drive, which runs alongside the charles river, memorial drive leads into mt. auburn street, which leads into the north end of cambridge and then watertown. watertown is a bedroom community. it's quite close to boston. obviously, it's three or four miles from the marathon scene. ...