A lot has happened in the last half hour. As noted before, the Globe reported that one of the two marathon suspects has been taken into custody in the Watertown shoot out. The FBI was not ready to confirm the connection. But reports are starting to come out of local TV reports that suggest that police at least believe that they are pursuing the marathon bombing suspects. WCVB.com is saying there’s a “strong link” between the shoot out tonight and the bombing.
Stepping back for a moment, what’s clear is that law enforcement in many cases is speaking with the press in the context of a massive and frequently violent manhunt. So there’s a mix of operational assumptions and what anyone can confirm in any meaningful sense. But it does seem increasingly clear that law enforcement is treating this as all part of the same story.
