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At the end of a week of many tough news stories, David Greene and Steve Inskeep look back at the week with sound of people and places in the news.

In West, Texas, the site of that huge explosion at a fertilizer plant, authorities still will not say how many people are believed dead. Plus, they have not given any indication about what caused the fire that was burning at the plant before the blast.

The frozen food industry wants you to know that even though its food isn't "fresh," it's still good. And they're paying big bucks to convince you.

While the manhunt for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings continued Thursday night into Friday morning, residents of Watertown and surrounding communities were hiding in bedrooms, looking out from roofs and peering from behind locked doors. Many did not sleep as helicopters swirled overhead.

Not 24 hours after the FBI released images of two suspects in Monday's blasts, one of the suspects is dead and the other is still at large.

The Texas Department of Public Safety says the bodies of 12 people were recovered after the Wednesday night explosion, and 200 people are hurt. Rescuers are still searching houses for victims.

Terrorism expert Bruce Hoffman talks to David Greene about the implications of what's known about the issues involving the Boston Marathon bombing. Hoffman is the director of the Center for Security Studies and director of the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.

NPR's Tom Gjelten has an update for Morning Edition listeners on the Boston Marathon bombing Case. Steve Inskeep also talks to Robin Young, host of Here & Now from member station WBUR, about one of the bombing suspects.

Images collected from social media show veritable ghost towns Friday after local residents were ordered to "shelter in place" during a manhunt for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.