Reports of a third explosion elsewhere 
There was also a third blast at the JFK library about five miles away, officers confirmed.
Oh heck.....that's an important library...
Yep
I think they set up a no fly zone over the site now...
I dont undrestand Baz ?
I think it means any unidentified flying over that area will be shot down Erin
I thought Baz meant this site ...Gaga
Blonde moment .
PSML
Erinp!!!
I've made myself laugh
[Update, 4:37 p.m. ET] Organizers with the London Marathon, scheduled for this coming Sunday, have taken notice.
"We are deeply saddened and shocked by the news from Boston," London Marathon officials said Monday. "Our immediate thoughts are with the people there and their families. It is a very sad day for athletics and for our friends and colleagues in marathon running. Our security plan is developed jointly with the Metropolitan Police and we were in contact with them as soon as we heard the news."
I think they set up a no fly zone over the site now...
I dont undrestand Baz ?
I think it means any unidentified flying over that area will be shot down Erin
I thought Baz meant this site ...Gaga Blonde moment .
What you like
Another bomb at the JFK Libary.
WASHINGTON: A senior US intelligence official said two more explosive devices have been found near the scene of the Boston Marathon where two bombs detonated earlier. The official said the new devices were being dismantled
If this event ends up with so few deaths it will be a small miracle. Although the injuries are likely to be horrific. *warning* This is a vivid video but there is nothing too horrible shown.
NBC News is reporting that an eight-year-old child was one of the two people killed in the Boston Marathon blasts:
Law enforcement official confirms that one of two people killed in today's explosions was eight years old. #BostonMarathon
The 8-year-old boy reportedly was at the event to watch his father run
(CNN) -- In his communion photograph, 8-year-old Martin Richard is smiling, adorably missing a few teeth, handsome and proud in his white suit. He holds a colorful communion banner. On it, a dove that symbolizes the Holy Spirit.
On Tuesday, much of the world was looking at that photo and struggling to comprehend the way Martin's life was stolen. He was watching the Boston Marathon on Monday, excited to see his dad cross the finish, CNN affiliate WHDH said. Two bombs exploded just off Copley Square in the heart of the city.
The boy was killed, authorities said.
Martin's mother, Denise, and his sister were grievously injured, The Boston Globe reported.
The boy's father, Bill Richard, is a community leader in the Ashmont section of Dorchester, according to the paper.
Early Tuesday, people arrived at the Richards' home in the working-class neighborhood dotted with large New England-style homes. On the stone steps of the Richards' blue-gray house, visitors gingerly laid down flowers. Someone had written "peace" at the end of the driveway, according to the Globe.
What a terrible thing.
Does anyone have a link to Live USA news - not past stuff - live broadcasting
3 dead, 140 injured two brothers have lost limbs
Al Quaida didn't occur to me either.
Joe, I said to Mr C last night it wouldn't surprise me if it was some nutter protesting their rights with regards to the calls for tighter gun control.
Listening to R2 discussing it now.
I'd have thought if it was them they'd have been gloating over it.Alas America has many of it's own home grown nut jobs.
Does anyone have a link to Live USA news - not past stuff - live broadcasting
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics...eam-abc-news-6046305
Thank you
The FBI has said it will go to the "ends of the Earth" to find those who used pressure cooker bombs to kill three and injure more than 170 people at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
The pressure cooker bombs were hidden in duffel bags packed with nails, shards of metal and ball bearings and placed on the ground, around 100m apart along the finishing stretch of the Boston Marathon route, a source close to the investigation has disclosed.
They said that law enforcement officials had some of the bomb components but did not yet know what had been used to set off the explosives.
A 2010 Department of Homeland Security statement warns that terrorists could use pressure cookers to make bombs, saying that at least one of the three devices used in the May 2010 Times Square attack comprised a pressure cooker.
Krystle Campbell was killed in the blast (Pic: Facebook/Krystle Campbell)
The second of the three victims killed in the attack has been named as 29-year-old restaurant manager Krystle Campbell, of Medford, who had been in Boston to take a picture of her boyfriend crossing the finish line.
Her father, William Campbell, says his daughter was "very caring, very loving person, and was daddy's little girl." He says the loss has devastated the family.
President Barack Obama today labelled the twin-bombing an "act of terror".
Speaking at a news conference, he said: "What we don't yet know, however, is who carried out this attack or why, whether it was planned and executed by a terrorist organisation, foreign or domestic, or was the act of a malevolent individual."
He added: "What I have indicated to you is what we now know. We know it was bombs that were set off. We know that obviously they did some severe damage. We do not know who did them.
"We don't have a sense of motive yet. So everything else at this point is speculation."
The FBI said it was following a number of leads in the wake of the attacks but special agent Richard DesLauriers declined to say whether anyone was in custody.
Boston marathon attacks: Suspect 'identified', say US media
Investigators are preparing to arrest a suspect in relation to Monday's Boston marathon bombings, officials have told US media.
The breakthrough reportedly came from security video of a man dropping off a bag on the street near the race's finish line, before walking away.
The twin blasts killed an eight-year-old boy, a woman aged 29 and a postgraduate student from China.
Officials are due to hold a press conference at 17:00 ET (21:00 GMT).
Investigators have been sifting through thousands of pieces of evidence, ranging from video recorded on mobile phones to fragments of shrapnel removed from the victims' legs. More than 170 people were wounded in the attack.
Updated
Investigators have arrested a suspect in relation to Monday's Boston marathon bombings, law enforcement officials have told US media.
Officials are due to hold a press conference at 17:00 ET (21:00 GMT).
Update: Boston police deny reports of arrest of #BostonMarathon suspect
Yep. Reported in many media. Sort of trying to get someone or some groups so the perp can be arrested in a media frenzy. 
Yep. Reported in many media. Sort of trying to get someone or some groups so the perp can be arrested in a media frenzy.
That's what I was frightened of, so I tend not to believe anything until it actually happens
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22190353
No arrest made.
Boston police having looked at videos want to speak to two men ,one was seen dropping the suspected bag at the scene with the bomb.
FBI release photo of two suspects.
The two Boston Marathon suspects shot dead an MIT police officer on the university campus and then apparently carjacked a vehicle which was chased by police. A shootout led to one police officer being seriously injured and a suspect (pictured in black cap during the marathon news.uk.msn.com) killed. The other suspect (pictured in a white cap) escaped after throwing bombs at police
Looks like they are home grown loonies.. which is bad enough but is also good for the London Marathon going off without a hitch as it wasn't Muslim Extremists.. 
Reports saying they have been in America a over a year... it suggest more likely some sort of terrorist attack.
edited to say, this is BBC news, maybe different news channels are reporting different things as its all ongoing at the moment.
Chechnyan suspects from Russia so looking more likely to be international terrorism rather than domestic.
It's looking that way, El.
Rumours that they may be brothers.
Two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing killed an MIT police officer, injured a transit officer in a firefight and threw explosive devices at police during their getaway attempt in a long night of violence that left one of them dead and another still at large Friday, authorities said as the manhunt intensified for a young man described as a dangerous terrorist. The suspects were identified to The Associated Press as coming from the Russian region near Chechnya, which has been plagued by an Islamic insurgency stemming from separatist wars. A law enforcement intelligence bulletin obtained by the AP identified the surviving bomb suspect as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old who had been living in Cambridge, just outside Boston, and said he "may be armed and dangerous."
