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Leave. we thought, well, they are not dedicated to the mission that a martyr would normally be. last night changed everything in that regard. they were not encountered. this isn't as if law enforcement got a lead, went to them and a shoot-out ensued. they initiated this by ambushing the m.i.t. campus police officer. he was sitting in his police car and they provoke the final attack. they may not have been ready to leave boston last monday, but last night, maybe they were ready to leave this world and go out and take police officers and other people with them. and now you still have the younger...

Of any of this at all, but with your background and all your experience in national security, tell us what you're tending to put together at this point. >> well, basically just watching and reading and passing by probably about 30 police cars from transit police -- excuse me, transit police, boston police, cambridge police, all of them. obviously, something big is going on. what we have to remember, there's three different incidents. there's the marathon attack, with the city very much on edge and a strong presence in the city. then you have a police officer shot at m.i.t. in cambridge. and th...

>> reporter: the information we have as of right now, and as we know, in situations like this, the first information is not always the accurate information, but the information we have right now is that there was an officer killed in cambridge, massachusetts, where m.i.t. is. there also was a carjacking in m.i.t. and then two suspects were apprehended in watertown, just beyond the m.i.t. campus in cambridge. those two suspects were apparently apprehended in tandem. that is, they were apprehended at the same time. as you can hear, there are a lot of sirens in boston right now. a lot of sirens i...

And alert that is going on right now would necessarily go there. and the reaction to a police shooting, there was a police officer at m.i.t. in cambridge killed this evening, roughly at 10:30, i believe s when that took place, there would be naturally an fbi and big police presence for anything involved with that. so, again, there is not necessarily any relationship whatsoever with what is going on here in the boston area this evening with what took place here on monday. that said, just to give you an update on what is going on right now, in the last 15 or 20 minutes we were told that m.i.t. h...

What's going on here, this is a crime scene that's been shut off since monday. we see investigators come and go into the area and we know that just yesterday we saw some of them inspecting one of the sites. but generally speaking, we don't have a great idea of what they are doing beyond our immediate line of sight and the media and the public is kept at bay, away from the investigation, as you might understand. >> all right. many thanks to you, jake tapper, there in boston. just -- he was clarifying there. one suspect apprehended in watertown. we are getting word there is an fbi presence on th...