Turned on the news at 8 and found that it’s not as bad as I’d first heard, thank God. At that time they were saying two fatalities with 150 injured. That toll will certainly rise, but one policeman hazarded 40 dead, which is still much better than the number I’d been thinking. It seems that it may have been only four bombs and not seven.

Reporters are saying that the emergency response has been extremely fast and effective, in part because everyone had been expecting something like this. One London reporter commented that he saw a woman shaking her head and saying, “I knew something like this would happen someday.”

There was footage playing over and over on Fox of the video that someone on one of the trains shot as people were getting off the train. I’m assuming that the video was shot with a cell phone or some little hand-held camera, because it’s so blurry and low-quality it’s difficult to see what you’re looking at sometimes. Eventually you make out shattered windows. I don’t know what the situation was of the person who shot this, but the surprising thing really is that they were able to shoot it at all. The people on the train aren’t running. Everyone is making their way off the train, but given how slowly they’re making progress, the faces (such as you can make them out) are remarkably composed.

Did they really know something like that would happen someday?