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know that they vary widely in aid, from 2 years old, the youngest victim, 2 years old up into their 40s and some into their 70s. in terms of the injuries that they have sustained, doctors are telling us mainly that their lower extremities where they have suffered the most pain. two hospitals, the one behind me and massachusetts general held press conferences late last night. their trauma er speaking to the about what they had seen. i want you to listen to sound from both of those. injuries. >> a number of patients will require repeat operations tomorrow and serial operations over the next couple of days. a lot of the injuries are combined, combined bony, soft
to the bottom of this, and we will find out who did this and why they did this. bostonians will pull together and move forward as one proud city and as they do, the american people will be with them every single step of the way. good morning, everyone. welcome to this special edition of "early start." i'm john berman. >> i'm brooke baldwin. it is 4:00 a.m. on the east coast. downtown boston, this beautiful city is a crime scene this morning after a terror attack at the finish line of the boston marathon. normally such a joyous event that brings the city together. this is what we know at the moent, at least three people are dead this morning including an 8-year-old boy. "the boston globe" identifying that boy as martin rich char ri door chester, massachusetts. 17 of these people are said to
boston globe" as 8-year-old martin richard of dorchester, massachusetts. 144 people were wounded, 17 critical in the two bomb blasts. they were just 12 seconds apart. police are going to beef up security around the city today. so far there has been no claim of responsibility. right now authorities have no motive, no suspects, they say. the fbi is taking the lead in the investigation. they're calling it a level 1 mobilization. in other words, it really is all hands on deck this morning. joining us now to talk about this is julia cayan. she is a cnn contributor, a "boston globe" contributor. she has a rich history in counter terrorism. give me a sense of what's going on right now? >> right now, the fbi is the lead. they're getting all of the information together with the public information. all the cameras are going to disclose who might have been there.
he's a young boy from dorchester, massachusetts. his name is martin richards. "the boston globe" is reporting that late last night community members gathered at a local restaurant there in dorchester to remember him. his mother and his sister were severely injured. that is what the paper is reporting. they're saying the father's name is bill, that he is a community leader there, that the entire community has come to rally around them to support them. i want to read you a quote, john, from the paper. this comes from one of the other leaders in the community talking about the boy and that family, the richard family saying, quote, they are beloved by this family. it is surreal. it is tragic. and it is tragic beyond words. john? >> you know, it certainly is, poppy harlow. dorchester is a close knit community.
two blasts were made to see if they can trace whether it's possible that a cell phone could have been used to trigger those explosive devices. we have no indication one way or the other right now. we can also tell you this. an interesting piece of evidence that authorities are looking at, that they're tracking down every possible lead. we know they've spent at least eight hours in revere, massachusetts, five miles north of boston. we can show you police activity again last night around 5:30 in the evening, we know police were on the scene until at least 2:00 in the morning. our brian todd who was on the scene tells us that he did not see them leave with any evidence in particular. he didn't see them leave with any suspects in hand, but he did see them talking to a couple people in the lobby, people who had walked in while they were already on the scene who presumably will in that apartment. it's just an example to try to
track down leads, evidence, informants who are giving us information as well. >> reporter: susan candiotti, a huge amount of work going on from the cell phone records, to cameras, old-fashioned police work knocking on doors in revere, massachusetts. forensic teams will be closely analyzing the evidence left behind at the boston marathon finish line. they're hoping to find the bomb makers' signature from what remains of the explosives. they're saying it looks like an ied attack that you might see in iran or iraq. the navy is helping. cnn's barbara starr is live at the pentagon with more on that. good morning, barbara. >> reporter: good morning, john. the navy helping in a small but important way. a three man explosive ordinance
dolphins that were rescued after getting stranded in massachusetts. 129 dolphins stranded themselves on the shores of cape cod in the last several months. strange things happening on the coastline. celebration is underway to mark the 200th anniversary of charles dickens birthday. if you don't remember freshmen high school english, author of oliver twist and the "a christmas carol". they marked the occasion by cutting a cake. that's what they always do to celebrate these occasions. churches and institutions they run and such as schools and let's say adoption agencies, hospitals, that they have toe provide for their employees free of charge contraceptives, morning after pills, in other words abort tiff pills and the like at no cost. think what that does to people in faiths that do not share those views. bill: that was mitt romney last night on the obama
administration's health care law that recovers full coverage of contraception. the white house is facing major backlash as more church leaders, not just catholics of all faiths are coming out against this policy. romney even launching a petition against the mandate and tweeting quote, if you had enough the obama administration's attacks on religious liberty stand with me and sign the petition. less than an hour later the president's deputy campaign manager pushed bacalling romney a hypocrite. tweeting hope petition signers don't find out that mitt's massachusetts policies are identical. host of "the five", andrea and tear rose and bob beckel. how are you doing? >> we couldn't find bob this morning. for just a little while ago. he was missing. >> i was hiding out. i got beat up on "the five" yesterday. i was hiding out. bill: back in the alley. it is okay to come out and see the sunshine. andrea, does the white house have romney on the ropes for
better? >> first, i see in this a veiled shot at governor romney. >> no, this is not a shot at governor romney. >> i'm just kidding. >> seriously, i didn't even bring him up. >> i'm reading between the lines. let me answer the question. first what we did learn in massachusetts is that in fact, what we learned is that no individual state has the muscle sufficient, the market scale sufficient in order to bring costs down sufficiently. what we did find in massachusetts is costs to individual localities around the state did dramatically go down, now they have a safety net that is in place. all i can tell you is experts around here, you can call them a lot of things, partisan they are not, the experts at the budget office disagree. they say over the course of the long term this is going to save an enormous amount of money. understand the choice, we made tough decisions with health care to try to to figure out a way for the number of people that are uninsured whether we
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