Manhunt Continues in Watertown, Mass

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(1) City of Boston is about three miles away from the area of activities. Still there is a city-wide lockdown. All government agencies, at all levels (including libraries), are closed the entire day. Few businesses are open, not even fast food or Dunkin' Donuts. Most trash has not been picked up (in part because way stations are even closer to activities). Few vehicles are on the streets of Boston (there was almost none in the morning).
(2) You may have known by now, from news reports, that since dawn, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) has shut down its service (subway, bus, commuter rail)--its train stations remain locked--so is Amtrak (I do not know the geographic extent of Amtrak shutdown).
(3) So this is what lockdown looks like, in US.
(4) Boston Marathon bombing occurred on Patriots' Day (Monday, Apr 15). Today is Friday. Seven blocks of Boylston Street remains closed off (as crome scenes; as well as a few side streets emanating from Boyslston Street), though two bombs exploded within one block of Boylston Street, and another bomb, not exploded, was found half a block away (also on Boylston Street).
(5) I have never been to China. My thinking is what is done in Boston is more extensive than in Taiwan. On the even of presidential election in 2004, then president Chen Shui-bian and vice president Annette Lu were shot. I was in US, not in Taiwan. But probably the lockdown at the crime scene, was transient, if any. That is why some forensic experts speculated/criticized critical evidences were lost for ever.