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I know that popular board member dobrojim is running.

Jim, if you're okay, check in...okay? Thinking about you.

Terrible stuff...don't know much as I type this at 3:35 p.m., Eastern time.

Live updates:

http://live.reuters.com/Event/Boston_Marathon_Explosion

This is awful.

What Brian Williams and experts were saying seems true - the fact the 2nd explosion occurred 15-20 seconds after the 1st is a tell-tale sign of a bombing attack. When the 1st goes off, people rush over to help the affected, then the 2nd goes off and clears out another group of people.

Twitter ablaze with info (albeit, you have to take what you hear a with a grain of salt).

Kevin forwards a tweet that says: "Police officer near Boston Marathon finish line: There are secondary devices that have been found and are unexploded."

From what I've gathered is that they found at least 1 other devices in a trash can and the bomb squad controlled-detonated it. They're looking for others. Injuries look pretty damn severe and rages from 20 to upwards of 60 people. Death count numbers range from 2 to 6.

If I remember correctly, the finish line clock was about the 4:09 mark when video captured the explosion.

I just looked for Jim online in the Boston Marathon tracker and someone with his name finished at the 3:54 mark. So hopefully, he was away from the finish line when the explosions occurred.

That time sounds about right for him. He runs it in the high 3:30's/low 3:40's, plus some time to get out of the corral in the beginning.

My sister was there but posted to facebook that she is ok.

She finished at 3:49:05, so got there just in time. Phew!

One of my vendors is based in Boston. Nowhere near Copley Square. Heard mention on CNN of a third explosion at the JFK Library, but few details so far.

They're shutting off cell service to Boston: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/official ... own-boston

Someone posted on Jim's fb page that he's ok.

The footage is nuts. It always gives me chills seeing brave people run toward the carnage to help the injured.

They're saying it was a fire at the JFK Library, not an explosion.

Holy cow! Just hearing about this. Glad jim looks to be okay.

Just awful.

NYC entering lockdown mode as well. Times Square packed with cops.

What a totally horrid thing to happen. I really hope we catch the slime who did this, and I feel for everyone who got affected.

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Very sad day. It must have been horrible to be there. The death and casualty toll keeps climbing, and after watching the video, that's not surprising.

Just to let everyone know as well as hear my story, I am fine physically. I was nowhere
near the explosions when they went off. I could have been but in fact, I wasn't. The video I saw
seemed like the crowd had thinned out substantially compared to when I went through.
The damage could have been far worse. If the explosions had gone off 1-2 hours earlier
the casualties would have almost certainly been far worse.

I ran a 3:52 starting in the 2nd wave at 10:20 AM so I was over the finish line around 2:13 pm.
(It took me about a min to get to the starting line from my corral which was the 3rd in that wave).
The bombs from what I saw reported went off about an hour later. I had actually seen fire trucks
as I was walking back to the Hostel and dismissed it as something ordinary that just happened to
be on Marathon Monday. When I heard I of course called home and my phone, which I didn't run with,
was flooded by messages and txts. So touched by the many folks who had me in their thoughts.

FWIW, I have been known to get hyper-emotional just from running a marathon
(if you never done one, it's hard to explain), so I am overloaded and still somewhat
shocked. I need a good cry actually.

Speaking of shocked, I think the whole town of Boston is shocked. They've been doing
this marathon thing for nearly 120 years. If you've never seen what the town is like on
marathon weekend, it's pretty remarkable, no divisive partisanship schism at all. They are
100% all in when it comes to this whole day which is also a state holiday as well as the race .
I have a feeling they are going to take this very personally and expect the most vigorous
investigation and prosecution imaginable. I think there is a very good chance the perps
will be caught. Hope that doesn't end up being wishful thinking.

Really glad to see you're safe, Jim.

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Glad you're safe Dobro.

I had no idea the extent to which Boston felt about the marathon. With that added info, it feels more and more like domestic terrorism.