<p>the live report is saying there is no suspect at Brigham and Women’s hospital, people are being talked with but there is no suspect.</p>
<p>113 wounded, 3 dead now. Those poor people.</p>
<p>I know, sally305. And they are saying that these were small bombs! I suppose larger bombs would have taken down buildings.</p>
<p>Reading along, happy to hear that everyone is safe and accounted for.</p>
<p>This is so horrific.My heart goes out to those injured and to the families of those whose lives were lost. I have not heard from all my family in Boston but both d’s have heard from all their friends and they are all safe, one works a block away from the explosion and was in the office at the time, hunkering down in place.
Older d worked on a program today in NY with a faculty member from her university who left to fly back to Boston… doubt that he was able to get back there tonight…but that should be the least of anyone’s problems.
I think much will be unraveled in the days and weeks ahead and I for one would hate to make any false assumptions or jump to any conclusions about who might be responsible for perpetrating such a horrible and tragic act.</p>
<p>April 15… tax day… wonder if it’s some anti-government group…</p>
<p>I think we can be sure that it is “some” anti-US government group. {Foreign or domestic}</p>
<p>But, Patriot Day is very sacred to the type who would be anti-taxes. I’d be surprised if that were the type of group.</p>
<p>Another crazy university student like Aurora, Sandy Hook and Virginia Tech?</p>
<p>To be fair to media, I don’t think they are doing anything their viewing public isnt asking for by tuning in. CNN and Fox are constant news, so they have to say something and generally distinguish between fact and speculation. The big three have gone back to regular programming in the absence of anything new to say. I do wish they’d stop with the snazzy lurid titles and hyperbolic prose, though. </p>
<p>I too turned it off, you can’t watch it without feeling distressed again and again and again. My Boston family is safe and our local runners are all accounted for. May what or who ever you believe in be called on to comfort those who have suffered today.</p>
<p>You can drive yourself crazy wondering who did this. </p>
<p>I can’t even imagine trying to analyze such a huge crime scene, with tons of trash and debris, dozens of witnesses, zillions of cell phone photos and video, and video cameras in the stores.</p>
<p>I agree, greenbutton. The media are keeping up a constant stream of chatter, and that is what we want. I feel a need to tune in during tragedies, as a way to feel connected, and to see that someone is in charge. I find the press conferences comforting.</p>
<p>I was asking my husband about this and he told me something I hadn’t known. During parades or festivals or other populated events, the sanitation department removes al garbage cans to prevent them being used for explosives.</p>
<p>Is that right, zooser? I guess they don’t do this in Boston?</p>
<p>I never knew but my husband said that they remove cans the day before and return them after. The guys with brooms always follow the parades and there is a flatbed truck with the cans on them.</p>
<p>Yes that is true. Also in NYC, all the garbage cans are removed along First Avenue for about 10-12 blocks or so when the U.N. session opens in October.</p>
<p>what a crazy world we live in, that somebody has to think of removing the garbage cans to keep us safe.</p>
<p>There was a period of years in London, during and after the bombings by Irish radicals, when there were no garbage cans in the entire city. If you ate fast food on the street, you’d have to stick the paper wrapper in your purse.</p>
<p>Typically garbage cans are removed before a parade, and often manhole covers are checked and closed down.</p>
<p>However, most parades don’t stretch for 26 miles. That’s a lot of area to treat with the same kind of security people treat most parades.</p>
<p>I’ve seen several marathons. They have cans along the route, typically just below the water stations, for the tossed cups.</p>
<p>I am afraid there will be more deaths as many are critically injured . I was supposed to work today and got the day off, many of my co workers had to stay. ,</p>
<p>I believe they also remove trash cans for the Honolulu Marathon, which has 10s of thousands of entrants as well. I have never run a marathon but H used to before we met.</p>