Live Blog #3 Boston Marathon Bombings

I thought I’d put up one more thread, since the last one has so many comments. Feel free to talk about other topics if you want.

One interesting report from The New York Times. an unexploded bomb was found in Newton, which is a suburb Southwest of Boston.

Police officials said they did not yet have any suspects in custody. A person briefed on preliminary developments in the investigation said that members of Boston’s Joint Terrorist Task Force were at Brigham and Women’s Hospital interviewing a wounded man seen running from the scene of the two blasts, near 671 Boylston Street. The person said that police investigators had contacted the local gas and electric company and determined that the explosions were not related to gas or electrical service.

The authorities also found a device at St. James and Trinity Streets that did not explode, the person said, and two other devices were found, including one in Newton, outside of Boston.

The Mandarin, Marriott and Lenox hotels were evacuated because of reports of suspicious packages, but no confirmed explosive devices have yet been found at those hotels.

The person also said that the maritime security level in Boston was raised from level one to level two; three is the highest level.

“We’re treating this as an ongoing event at this time,” Edward F. Davis, Boston’s police commissioner, said at a late afternoon news conference.