[NEWS] Explosions near Boston Marathon Finish Line (UPDATE: MIT/Watertown shootout w/ suspects)

3 photographs coming their way now, to ID person in custody


Streets that are cleared will be annouced on-air


Neighbor here saw robots taking a pressure cooker like device out of a car that had blown out windows. #7News

 

taking everyone out of their house out gunpoint is massive overkill. Jumpy cops pointing guns at dozens of innocent people with their hands up is a recipe for disaster.

 

this guys gotta be somewhat smart & shifty to not be caught yet


No matter what happens with suspect neighborhood still a dangerous place with explosives left on street.

#CommunityAlert: Residents of Watertown, Waltham, Newton, Belmont, Cambridge and Allston Brighton reminded to stay indoors.

 

Those guys stood out most to me as well, out of all the photos.

 

I don't have any problem with forced evac, but I just saw two cops pointing a rifle at kids and parents.

 

Same here.

New:
officer requesting to speak with commanding officer via cell phone


Follow @wcvbkelleyt - she's at location where police have surrounded a car on Comm Ave; She sees bomb squad suiting up #WCVB


5 tactical support teams deployed, beginning house to house clearing of area

All officers on watertown seach, NO fluorescent orange coats


Black coats only, they must be pretty sure he's still hiding somewhere


FYI many of the online streams are overloaded, if you have a shortwave scanner lying around fire it up!


Expanded crime tape plus bomb sniffing dogs brought to this apartment on Nichols Street in Watertown. pic.twitter.com/padBzrNcvh

 

New:

2 guys in handcuffs bomb squad showing up


Boston's WBZ (channel 4) reporting on some sort of disturbance near Kenmore Sq. Two men handcuffed. En route


@AureliusR military arrived in watertown


Charlesgate to Kenmore Square closed. Bomb squad looking at something taken out of trunk of car. #7News

Send trooper back to bring crime scene personnel to 89 nichols

 

Pete Williams is saying the two suspects from monday were permanent residents, here for at least a year and maybe Chechen.

 

they've been handcuffing random people all night

 

one has Arkansas DL, not showing up on system, may be fake

 

What a blast from the past.

 

It sounds like to me they think there might be more people than just the two suspects involved with the way they are treating this


garage reported open that was closed earlier...did he steal car and bolt area?


A woman told us her shed is open lock is on the ground 10 fairfield


@AureliusR 10 Fairfield is just a block away from 89 Nichols

 

Damn.. both guys were brothers.

 

Chechnya...interesting twist.

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>BREAKING: AP: Surviving Boston bomb suspect identified as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge, Mass. -SS</p>&mdash; The Associated Press (@AP) <a href="https://twitter.com/AP/status/325198361428893698">April 19, 2013</a></blockquote>
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AP just said suspects are from Chechnya, as someone just said above. hopefully just radicals, not represented by the Russians.

 

Those f-ckers go hard.

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Authorities say that the 2 Boston bomb suspects are brothers, are legal permanent residents of Chechen origin - @<a href="https://twitter.com/nbcnews">nbcnews</a>, @<a href="https://twitter.com/petewilliamsnbc">petewilliamsnbc</a></p>&mdash; Breaking News (@BreakingNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/BreakingNews/status/325198420526645249">April 19, 2013</a></blockquote>
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FOX is gonna have a field day. They're gonna roll out that Cold War relic Kissinger to wax poetic on Russia.

 

@AureliusR Something happening with a package. Female officer sounded a bit panicky.


Police presence so large now they're being moved into position via buses. pic.twitter.com/dQWUJQGaGk