Via TPM:
BOSTON (AP) — Two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon have resulted in injuries.
Bloody spectators were being carried Monday to the medical tent that had been set up to care for fatigued runners. Police wove through competitors as they ran back toward the course.
“There are a lot of people down,” said one man, whose bib No. 17528 identified him as Frank Deruyter of North Carolina. He was not injured, but marathon workers were carrying one woman, who did not appear to be a runner, to the medical area as blood gushed from her leg. A Boston police officer was wheeled from the course with a leg injury that was bleeding.
About three hours after the winners crossed the line, there was a loud explosion on the north side of Boylston Street, just before the photo bridge that marks the finish line. Another explosion could be heard a few seconds later.
Live updates on any number of sites:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/15/boston-marathon-explosion-breaking-updates.html?source=socialflow&account=thedailybeast&medium=twitter
Shoot! I wanted to thank PainesMe for the heads up on this. So… thank you for the quick tip, PainesMe!
Glad I could help spread the word.
I’ve just turned on the TV. Simply horrific.
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3fMukiYAs1w#!
Talking to a relative who lives in the boston area. Local media is pretty much exclusively talking bombs and the possiblity of a 3rd device.
edit: well looks like there were 3 explosions.
I just texted my brother and sister-in-law who live in Boston. Her parents are visiting from Italy, and they were planning on going to the marathon. Not sure why they changed their plans, but sure glad they did.
The Atlantic is also gathering information as they get it. Warning that some of the pictures are horrible. They are reporting that the 3rd devise was found and there was a controlled explosion.
A coworker was running, but he apparently finished the race before the explosion and is ok.
NPR saying that 22 are injured and 2 are dead.
Boston Police news conference: Third explosion at JFK Library. As of now, police are treating all three explosions as linked.
you guys if you go to the atlantic pictures, just dont click on #8. just don’t. the guy in the wheelchair with the guy in the cowboy hat is being cropped because it is horrific. no legs horrific. Just wanted to give everyone fair warning.
The JFK Library incident is still confusing. Chris Matthews just indicated on MSNBC that it appears that that event is not related. But so help me God if this is domestic right wing terrorism.
V, there was also a picture showing a person cut in half.
If you know someone running (or supporting) Google has posted up their People Finder meant to give people looking for each other a place to share info.
And NPR now saying that the Boston Globe is reporting more than 100 people injured. NPR reporter also indicating that the police are looking at this as possible domestic terrorism.
The President will address the nation at 6 pm
Good lord.
Reports are that there is a person of interest or a suspect (two different reports) in custody.
i’m worried this is somehow tangentally related to some jerk’s idea of celebrating Patriot’s Day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriots'_Day
CNN reporting that this could be foreign or domestic. I guess Mars has been ruled out.
@JonahNRO: NBC confirms NY Post report that potential suspect under guard at hospital. Just heard on NPR.
CNN just announced an 8 year old child is one of the dead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBh8gMlJZM8
Why are wignuts exercised over the fact that President Obama didn’t use the word “terrorism” this afternoon? Can’t they five the bullshit a rest for ten minutes?
Can’t they five the bullshit a rest for ten minutes?
I had to read that sentence 3 times before I realized “five” was a typo.
Sorry. Commenting from my phone.
No prob. Jason. I was making fun of my own stupidity.
Times like this, it sure would be nice to have an ATF Director. I wonder why we don’t?
h/t Attaturk
They (the ATF) would not be handling it anyway as a lead agency.
FBI investigators and FBI forensic bomb techs have it……ATF would only be an assist to them
And Command will be united under Boston PD/FD – they are the authority(s) having jurisdiction
Evidence collection will be painstaking and through. This is gonna take a little while…..
I cant believe this happen in boston i put up a blog with emergency numbers to the hospital in boston also it contains links to the red cross for donation
Do you really want an ATF director, given their operational stumbles, or do you just want to use this news event as a political soapbox for petty executive branch grumbles?
What operational stumbles?
If we need (in general, not in this case) an ATF, then we need someone to lead it. Therefore, we need a director for the ATF.
That a lobbying organization has that much control over whether a government agency has a director demonstrates the power of influence over our nations affairs and the lack of courage on the part of those who they influence.
That an agency “stumbles” does not negate the “need.”
Interesting how defensive right-wingers are over the merest mention of the idea that this might be domestic terrorism. Guilty consciences, fellas?
It is Wingnut Week (Tax day, anniversary of Oklahoma City and Waco). On the other hand, the choice of target is not consistent with right-wing violence.
Patriot day, Tax Day, Boston all rolled into one. I’m not gonna leap to conclusions but if I was the Director of the FBI, I know where I would focus a good chunk of my resources and it wouldn’t be on the communists.
The bombs were not really designed to cause mass destruction (of lives and property). So it seems to me that they were intended to send a message. Now if “they” had chosen the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution…
Sometimes, things are what they seem.
“What operational stumbles?”
C’mon, Puck, keep up on your wingnut memes. Fast and furious, amiright?