FLASHBACK - Fake Boston Marathon Bombing was ALSO Announced in Advance - Like Nashville

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We have been reporting all day long several local runners were in Boston today for the marathon. One of those was University of Mobile, cross country coach Ali Stevenson. His wife was sitting in the stands where the bomb went off just moments before the explosion. 15 Johnson Edas joins us now. John Stevenson is really a veteran marathon erasing all over the world. He says he noticed something a little different before today's race. He knows a lot more security before the marathon. Much more than he'd seen at any other marathon including bomb sniffing dogs, spotters on the roofs and loudspeaker announcements saying it was just a training exercise. But city law enforcement officials have said there were no credible threats before the race. My wife Melanie she had been sitting right when the explosion went off. Cross country coach Ali Stevenson had just crossed the finish line. She had come to see me at the finish and then we were walking back down towards the finish area. Then right where his wife had been sitting. And all the sudden we heard a loud explosion and this big salt smell came through and then another big explosion went off and then people started running and then people crying in the street. It was a horrible experience. Stevenson remembered seeing heightened security before the marathon. At the start line this morning they had bomb spotted on the roofs of the buildings. And they had bomb sniffing dogs coming up and down at the start line. And Melanie said there was bomb sniffing dogs at the finish line. They even made announcements on the loudspeaker about the increased security. They can't make an announcement saying to the participants do not worry. This is just a training exercise. And evidently I don't believe those who have an training exercise I think they must have known. They must have had some kind of threat of the position pulled in. Stevenson says he's been at plenty of marathons in major cities. But he's never seen that level of security. I'm not running some of the biggest marathons in the world. I'm running London and did Washington DC won Chicago and I've never seen anything like that before, Marathon. Stevenson tells me the fact that he finished the marathon when he did and his wife left her seat to meet him when she did right before the explosions is just plain miraculous. Greg and Kim. John, thanks. I talked with past.