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Where harvard university is, part of harvard university, across the river from cambridge. the harvard football stadium are pretty much all shut down with a multijurisdictional law enforcement response. many, many different jurisdictions responding here. it's an unprecedented scene. >> just the sheer numbers. 320,000 people by nbc's count sheltering in place as ordered by police when you put together these communities of cambridge, newton, brighton, watertown, alston, belmont. 320,000 people now by order of police locked in their homes. >> families who have to explain to their children why they...

Off the carjacking victim out to watertown. i got to watertown just after what residents told me they heard was shooting that sounded like pop, pop, pop, and some loud, you know, fireworks noises. in fact, one cab driver who was coming off a shift told me he thought -- it's weird, what a weird hour and weird season for fireworks but he started to head towards the fireworks and people called out their windows and said that is gunfire. he saw cops and was turned away. when i got there around 1:00 a.m., i saw probably a dozen police officers pretty soon after i got to east watertown draw their gu...

It's an interesting community. it's a very diverse community. and it is now the scene of something that i can't recall ever seeing before, an entire community, as lester indicated, shut down, locked down. it's about six miles from where i am now speaking to you and following the police scanner traffic all evening long and into the early morning, this is just -- i can't recall a more incredible story. >> pete, we are looking right now, mike, at military convoy essentially entering watertown, mass. our reporter saw civilian buses and humvees making their way into the town. this is a bedroom comm...

Marathon bombings. mtba entire system including commuter rail is shut down. amtrak is shut down and residents in watertown, waltham, belmont, newton, cambridge and brighton to remain indoors. businesses are asked, directed not to open. in watertown, all vehicle traffic is banned. look at this. colleges. harvard, mit, brandeis, boston university and boston college and emerson and suffolk and northeastern all have classes that are closed today. and all boston area public schools cancel all classes and all activities. they are setting the scene to comb every corner of this area for this guy. >> w...

These men from surveillance video and iphone videos and all different types of video that came in from the boston marathon where they were able to hone in on the suspects approaching the scene and carrying those black bags that had the bombs inside. the suspect in the white hat as i mentioned remains at large and believed to be in a gray sweatshirt and is considered armed and extremely dangerous and that is, of course, why watertown is locked down right now. and surrounding towns as well. in all of the violence that happened through the night, one mit police officer is dead. another officer is...