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Long rifle, heavy weapons, you will find, vest, body armor, that type of thing like the shooting in los angeles with the two robbery suspects, where they were completely body armored up and they had automatic weapons and they took out numerous vehicles and personnel... it would be highly unlikely that this would occur on a regular basis. you know, it seems like there might be a connection to the bombings. but it's really too early to make that jump. >> i mean, the way this is being handled, just we heard mike tobin talking about, they have so many officers on the ground and in the air. this so...

>> tell us what you are hearing about this, about ieds. you are hearing a lot of thing it's grenades, long rifles, explosives, these ieds, people told to turn off their cell phones. this experience -- in your experience, does this seem out of the ordinary? >> reporter: it is certainly not ordinary for a robbery case. you wouldn't get this police presence to an officer down, shot earlier in the evening. you wouldn't have a case with so much armament. and discussion of armament. we heard discussion and radio traffic about the dynamite, we have heard radio traffic as you mentioned about grenades,...

And why this is a little bit out of the ordinary. >> reporter: why it's out of the ordinary. if you did have an officer shot, as we got the report earlier today, you would have a big police response. but what separates this, if it was related to a robbery, as we heard earlier in the evening, you wouldn't have people who are armed at the teeth as we have in this situation, at least, according to the scanner traffic. we have reports of hand grenades over the radio. we have reports of additional ieds, improvised explosive devices. a command for all police officers on the scene to power down their...

Is still considered to be at large, at least according to the scanner traffic... we are going fast and loose because the situation is developing right now. >> that sounds absolutely crazy, some of the things you are saying, power down your cell phones. this sounds like something much bigger than a robbery. can you walk us through? we know this started with a policeman at the m.i.t. campus, responding to something there and this escalated into this chase. can you walk us through where we are? >> reporter: that was it. we got reports of a shooting at the m.i.t. campus, 10 minutes by car away fro...

Would be consistent with the discussion of explosives here on the scene. >> that is sounding like a lot more than something that would happen after a robbery and a chase? is there anything else that you are hearing at this point that maybe anything that is fresh and new that is coming in? >> reporter: the one thing that i am unable to do is make a link right now and say that this is somehow related to the two suspects, identified suspects by the federal bureau of investigation, the joint terrorism task force, earlier today. the link that you get is the proximity and the timing, that they weren...