i'm wolf blitzer reporting from washington. once again, we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. we're watching important developments unfold here in boston in the aftermath of the bombings at the boston marathon. also, in washington suspicious letters arriving at a u.s. senators office. and now a similarly suspicious letter addressed to the president of the united states. at the same time there are evacuations up on capitol hill because of some perhaps unrelated or related activities. let me go to our white house correspondent brianna keilar. brianna, walk us through for viewers who might be tuning in just now what exactly we know about this suspicious letter addressed to the president? >> reporter: this letter, wolf, went to an offsite mail facility. as you see on capitol hill, the white house does the same thing when it comes to mail. you send a letter to the president, it doesn't go obviously directly to the white house for precaution. it goes to an offsite mail facility at an undisclosed lo

cnn political editor paul steinhauser joins us now from washington. paul, what do you expect to hear from the president tomorrow? >> reporter: we just learned a little bit of what the president may say tomorrow in hartford, connecticut. this from our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin, and the president will say the nation has an obligation to the children lost in newtown and the other victims of gun violence to act on these proposals. that's basically what the president is going to be doing in connecticut, just as he did in colorado last week, another state that just passed some very tough gun control legislation. he's basically going to be touting these new laws in the state and kind of putting the onus back on congress to get something done. as you mentioned, as early as this week, as early as this week, a democratic bill could start work in the full senate. this bill, of course, don, has background checks, universal background checks is part of what have this bill has. take a look at this. this is interesting. all the polls we've seen,

cnn political editor paul sustain has joins us now from washington. paul, what do you expect to hear from the president tomorrow? >> reporter: we just learned a little bit what the president may say tomorrow in hartford, connecticut, this from our chief white house correspondent, and the president will say the nation has an obligation to the children lost in newtown and the other victims of gun violence to act on these proposals. that's basically what the president is going to be doing in connecticut, just as he did in colorado last week, another state that just passed some very tough gun control legislation. he's basically going to be touting these new laws in the state and kind of putting the onus back on congress to get something done. as you mentioned, as early as this week, as early as this week, a democratic bill could start work in the full senate. this bill, of course, don, has background checks, universal background checks is part what have this bill has. take a look at this. this is interesting. all the polls we've seen, including this win f

tom foreman, cnn, washington. >> thank you for joining us. i'll see you tomorrow beginning at 12:00 noon eastern time. >>> hello everyone, i'm ashleigh banfield, and a busy day happening now. more serious fallout from the scandal at rutgers universal. espn is reporting that athletic director tim pernetti is out of a job. this comes after the resignation of the assistant coach, jimmy martelli. for martelli this all is a result of what you have on your screen, a video broadcast by espn showing coaches, at least one in particular, physically and verbally abusing the players. our pamela brown joins us now on the telephone. pamela, what more do you know about this decision? is this whiplash? is this strategic? or is there nothing to read into it because it's just too early? >> reporter: right now, it is too early. we have been reaching out to the university today. so far, officials they are staying tight-lipped. there is a press conference at 1:00 today at rutgers university, so we hope to learn more then. but right now, according to espn and othe

as long as washington doesn't get in the way. frankly, the american people deserve better than what we've been seeing a shortsighted crisis driven decision making like the reckless across the board spending cuts that are already hurting a lot of communities out there. cuts that economists predict will cost us hundreds of thousands of jobs during the course of this year. if we want to keep rebuilding our economy on a stronger, more stable foundation, then we've got to get smarter about our priorities as a nation. and that's what the budget i'm sending to congress today represents. a fiscally responsible blueprint for middle class jobs and growth. for years, the debate in this town has raged between reducing our deficits at all costs and makie ining the investments necy to grow our economy. this budget answers that argument because we can do both. we can grow our economy and shrink our deficits. in fact, as we saw in the 1990s, nothing shrinks deficits faster than a growing economy. that's been my goal since i took office and that

joe johns is joining us now from washington. a lot of people are wondering if the fbi missed something when the russians first tipped them off about tamerlan tsarnaev, the older brother. what's the latest there in washington? >> reporter: that certainly is the question right now. some of this is about the federal databases. the issue is whether tamerlan tsarnaev's movements between here and russian slipped through a security net. >> reporter: he first hit the fbi radar in 2011 when the russian government told the agency they should check him out. >> the russian fsb sent a letter to the fbi and other agencies that we think this guy has become radical. >> reporter: the fbi said it was based on information that he was a following of islam, a radical believe, he changed drastically in 2010. fbi says it checked u.s. government databases, telephone km communications and online activity. the fbi says it did not find any terrorism activities, so it gave that information to russia and ask for but did not receive additional information. >

during the anthrax case of 2001 two postal workers in washington were culled. that's the main concern. >> absolutely. it just seems so unlikely. the first suspect under arrest was an elvis impersonator and this latest guy is a marshal arts instruct would these people know about ricin? >> that's a good question. the investigation will help determine whether they did it. did they have help or why did the material when it went through the field tests at the mail facility test positive to even start this thing in the first place. that will be determined. you're right, it's a colorful cast of characters in this case. >> that's one way to put it it. tom fuentes, thanks so much. i appreciate it. >>> how will history remember president george w. bush? we'll talk to an analyst. we'll be right back. [ female announcer ] the only patch for the treatment of mild to moderate alzheimer's disease is exelon patch. now with more treatment options, exelon patch may improve overall function and cognition. your loved one can get a free 30-day trial. and you can have access to nurs

you were in washington. what stood out to you? >> i think that will was some great jokes some very hardq, stingers. i thought president obama did a very good job yesterday. he has the delivery down pat. and i think it was particularly funny because a lot of it was ause he was talking to a room that really knows the nuances of the political jokes. frankly, because he followed ed henry who droned on forever and ever and ever. it was great relief and very comic >> l.z., what did you think about the dinner and the jokes? president versus conan o'brien? >> you know i thought that -- i thought conan was -- starting off. i kept waiting for him to get it in with president obama. that came out later. i think the president's delivery has always been impeccable. he seems to be at ease in the public spotlight. i want to point out the fact this was a fund-raiser. $100,000 was raised scholarships for generous people like you and i, don, to help keep this profession alive. to me that's the most for part happened last a lot of young women and lot

pentagon correspondent barbara starr is live for us now from washington. so barbara, we know the u.s. has delayed a planned missile test to avoid any kind of misconceived notions about the intent. what is the latest response from washington? >> reporter: well, that's right, fredricka. a minute man missile test, a u.s. intercontinental police tick missile long planned test now being delayed because they don't want to send any signal that could inadvertently or perhaps deliberately cause n llh korea to believe it is a provocation. that's a pretty extraordinary step to take. we are also seeing the u.s. really trying to sort of tamp things down, really kind of talk the line of diplomacy. in fact a u.s. military meeting with the south koreans was scheduled for washington this week which the top u.s. commander in korea was going to attend. all of that has been put off now. those officials believe they need to stay in korea and monitor the situation. as you said, a lot of concern, however, about this upcoming april 10th day when south korean workers are told to b

>> barbara starr in washington. thank you. from washington now to texas. a news conference is scheduled this hour that could reveal more details in the search for the person who killed two prosecutors in kaufman many count county. right now the main clues are muddy tire tracks outside the home of one of the dead prosecutors. they're desperate for clues. this now live from kaufman county, cnn's george howell. hello to you. what more could we learn at this upcoming news conference? >> reporter: don, you know, we have many, many questions under the sun right now. a lot of reporters asking a lot of questions and put it into context, you have a community that is nervous. you have prosecutors that are concerned that public officials are being targeted. so we have a lot of questions to ask. we got some sort of better understanding of where this investigation is going. i want to show you right over here, you can see cameras are set up, this news conference that happened here in the next 20 to 30 minutes, our camera there in the red, front and center. and we will a

so we don't see this as likely to lead to much action here in washington, d.c. it is sort of a mission statement for the president going forward, brooke. >> okay. so this could make for some fun fodder over dinner tonight, where i understand the president is planning to sell this. who is coming to dinner? republicans only? >> yes. republicans only. this is part two of that date with the republicans. he first -- first one he held a few weeks ago. we have a partial list of the senators, republican senators, cnn has independently confirmed we have been calling around to offices that do plan to attend the dinner tonight. it is going to be here at the white house, in the old family dining room, at 6:30 this evening. no hotel meals for this group. the last group ate at the jefferson hotel. we expect he'll talk about the budget, but also immigration reform will be up for discussion. and, brooke, i'll emphasize guns. this is an issue that the president has gotten personally involved in. i can confirm to you, or tell you, that yesterday the president personally placed ca

. >>> let's go to washington now. immigration reform bill will be unveiled tuesday in the senate. the compromise legislation is expected to provide a 13-year path to citizenship for undocumented workers. cnn's athena jones at the white house now. explain the details of what's in the bill. >> reporter: hi, don. we did hear some details of florida senator marco rubio on seven of the sunday talk shows. we heard him lay out details, so-called triggers. three things that have to happen before people here illegally can get legal status. i believe we have a graphic to put on the screen. the first is an e-verify system to allow workers to check the citizenship status of people they want to hire. another is a tracking system for immigrants to make sure that people who come here legally don't end up overstaying the visas. that's a big problem. and the last is what he called some real border security. which would include fences. the idea here is that this is not going to be easy for the undocumented. they have to pass a background check and pay a fine before they go through this legalization

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so it is a very interesting time in washington. we're not usually telling jokes and we're not usually standing next to actors and singers and all that kind of stand-out night in the year for white house correspondents. >> understood. so the fun is passed sadly, now we have to get back to what's serious. a lot of lawmakers are talking this morning about this marathon bomber suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev having his miranda rights read to him in the hospital after 16 hours of questioning. i want to play a clip from the attorney general eric holder talking to cnn last night at the correspondents dinner and -- about his reaction and also reaction this morning from congressman peter king, the republican from new york. let's listen to both. >> the decision to mirandize him was one that the magistrate made and that totally consistent with the laws that we have. we had had a two-day period that we were able to question him under the public safety exception so i think everything was done appropriately and we got good leads. >> the attorney gener

joe johns reporting from washington. meanwhile, the defense secretary chuck hagel spoke about the bombing investigation today. he said so far he has not seen any intelligence directly linking the surviving suspect and his older brother, the 26-year-old tamerlan tsarnaev, to any, any terrorist organization per se, but the chairman of the house intelligence committee says the older tsarnaev who was killed after the shootout with police, may have become seriously radicalized by islamic extremists when he went to russia last year. here's what the house homeland security chairman had to say today on cnn's state of the union. >> there were reports they had suicide vests on. you don't learn that overnight. i personally believe that this man received training when he was over there, and he radicalized from 2010 to the present, and nine months after he comes back from the chechen region, he pulled off the largest terror attack since 9/11. >> after a dramatic shootout with police that killed his older brother and then eluding poli

cnn political editor paul steinhauser joins us now from washington. paul, what do you expect to hear from the president tomorrow? >> reporter: we just learned a little bit of what the president may say tomorrow in hartford, connecticut. this from our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin, the white house saying that the president will say the nation has an obligation to the children lost in newtown and the other victims of gun violence to act on these proposals. that's basically what the president is going to be doing in connecticut, just as he did in colorado last week, another state that just passed some very tough gun control legislation. he's basically going to be touting these new laws in the state and kind of putting the onus back on congress to get something done. as you mentioned, as early as this week, as early as this week, a democratic bill could start work in the full senate. this bill, of course, don, has background checks, universal background checks is part of what have this bill has. take a look at this. this is interesting. a

athena jones is live for us now from washington. what are some of the key points coming out of kerry's trip so far? >> reporter: good afternoon, fredricka. the key point here is that everyone that secretary kerry has spoken with and met with during these last few days -- the south koreans, the chinese, the japanese -- everyone wants to see this situation with new york resolved peacefully. let's listen to a little bit of what secretary kerry had to say upon arriving in japan. >> i think we have to be careful and thoughtful and, frankly, not lay out publicly all the options but work privately and quietly at the highest levels of government in order to try to take steps to bring about a peaceful resolution. and i want to emphasize to everybody that that is the outcome that we want. >> reporter: secretary kerry has said that everything is still on the table but what they want to see is a peaceful outcome and that the u.s. and its partners are standing ready in good fatht to resolve this. he's also stressed that north korea has to be rea

i'm wolf blitzer in washington. some real signs of progress in housing market today. figures released for february show home prices rose faster, get this, faster than anytime since 2006. christine romans joining us from new york right now. christine, the report says home prices climbed, what, 9.3% from the same time last year? that's very impressive. what's driving the increase? >> well, very low interest rates, cash buyers, wolf from all over the world, quite frankly. there's not a lot of inventory in some places. if you want to buy a house, you have to pay up for it because there aren't a lot of choices for it. all of those things coming together. wlo look at price increases. the fastest year over year spike in home price is since 2006. we remember 2006 the peak of the bule overall. look where the biggest home prices increases are, wolf in some parts of the country, up double digits. look at san francisco, up almost 19% year over year. las vegas, up more than 17%. phoenix, home prices, wolf, from february last year to february this year, up 23%. detroit, up 15%. atl

he is in washington, d.c. and from the american college of emergency physicians is a doctor on the phone. if i could just ask you -- i hope you heard all the details. are you surprised to hear the details but not only of his arrival, but his departure and treatment in between? >> no because he is a suspect. he is very highly guarded. they have to ensure his physical safety and physical custody as well as take care of his medical issues. so, i'm not that surprised at how they handled it. >> also the transfer of this high level detainee. clearly the media was camping out 24 hours to try to get a shot of his transfer. no one was able to. the fact they used a loading dock, does that surprise you at all? >> no, because as you said they wanted to keep him sheltered from, you know, the media, any kind of pap rat zi, anything related to that. they had to have a lot of people around with him and have the medical evacuation and the transfer. they wanted it very protected because of the status of this patient. >> and tom

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she jetted between her congressional district in arizona and worked in washington, d.c. he lived in houston texas where he worked at the space center. this is the first home they bought and lived in together. another plus, before giffords was shot she has had a rocky relationship with kelly's two teenage daughters from a previous marriage. >> the tense relationship you've had with your daughters, it's changed. >> it has changed. >> that's a positive that has come out of this tragedy. >> a lot better. >> they've also grown up a little bit too. as a family we've evolved because of certainly, you know because of what happened. so it's brought us all closer together. >> giffords now fully understands that six people died and 13 were injured because a deranged young man set out to assassinate her. in fact she brought him up unsolicited. kelly spoke at his sentencing as giffords sat stoically staring him down. >> to sit in the courtroom and look at the man who shot you through the head, what was that like. >> beady eyes. >> he hads some interesting expressions on his face rchl

want to bring in rene marsh in washington. i understand it's pins used to connect the tail to the fuselage and there's something that's wrong with it. >> that's right. absolutely, suzanne. the 737 as you mentioned, it's a very popular plane. and if you're a frequent flier, chances are you have been on one of these planes. i want to show you exactly what we're talking about here. so the faa they're focusing on this part of the plane. we're talking about these flat horizontal panels here. that's where these pins are located on more than 1,000 of these planes. and, again, the pins are located right there. and the pilots unfortunately could lose control of the plane if these pins fail. now, it sounds very scary, but experts tell me that it actually would not cause a crash today. i spoke with one aviation mechanic and others in the industry who say this is a safety problem, yes, but it is not an immediate concern. now, the faa says that the issue is with the pins that essentially hold everything together in the tail of the plane. n

in washington, budgets no laughing matter. the president's budget out today. bria brianna keilar in washington with details. >> reporter: that was pretty funny, but this is serious stuff when president obama officially unveils his budget in the rose garden at 11:00 a.m. this isn't something, carol, that is going to be enacted. but it's really his now official opening salvo in a new round of discussions about deficit reduction that he will be having with republicans. his message, deficit reduction is important, but not at the expense of investing in things like education, job training, infrastructure, some of the new areas of spending in this new budget. one thing in there, though, that is getting a lot of headlines, chain cpi. you say what is that? a fancy way to talk about adjusting the cost of living increase for social security beneficiaries, so reducing the increase that social security beneficiaries will see over time. republicans like this, generally speaking, democrats do not. take a look how this will affect seniors in a real way over time. chart for s

new york, washington, most major cities, because you don't know the extent of this. but, again, right now, it is pure speculation because we don't know the source of the explosion. but you just don't know. and, you know, and out of abundance of caution, i'm sure there are other places in boston right now, if anyone sees anything, please pick up the phone and call 911. if you see something, say something. this is not the time right now, in this day and age, anytime, wolf that if someone sees something in their gut they think it is suspicious, to pick up the phone and call 911. see something, say something, wolf. >> good advice. we are being told by the boston globe it is now reporting that the lennox hotel in boston out of an abundance of precaution, we're told, is being evacuated right now. and also out of an abundance of caution there are activities going on in new york city, alina cho is watching what's going on in new york. what are you learning? >> wolf, we're just getting a report in that counterterrorism crews are being deployed around landmarks in new york cit

but we're going to start this hour in a city some distance away, again, washington, d.c., because the ideas of looking backward to see whether we knew everything we could about these suspects and looking forward in terms of how we can stay safe are critically important and under discussion right now. in the nation's capital, senators discussing today whether or not this immigrant, who allegedly led his younger brother into a bombing here at the boston marathon, whether that plot, that ultimately claimed four lives and life of one of the bomber, could have been avoided. members of congress want to know what the u.s. government knew or did not know about this now deceased suspect's trip back home in 2012. tracking that for us, in some really heated testimony today, cnn's jim acosta. jim? lay out the information for us. what's being said? what is the controversy? >> reporter: well, chris, you're absolutely right, lawmakers on capitol hill are trying to get to the bottom of what was known about the older suspect who is now dead, tamerlan tsarnaev, and this trip ta hat he took to rusa last

but we also understand that there's gigantic bureaucracies all over washington all over government that can be cut. and you know christine, one of the things that happened with the economic distress we have been going through as americans is that say most of us have had to cut. whether it's in our homes or our businesses. so i think that we don't feel all that much sympathy for government when it's told it's got to cut 2% 3%. >> and you expect your government to help you in your hour of need. you do. you expect that to be the thing that exists. >> that's one of the primary functions of government. >> ben, the response to the boston bombings remind the crowd that yes, the government can work for you, or did it not move the needle for them sdm. >> of course it reminded them of exactly that and there's so much inconsistency in how we talk about the issues. anna wants to make an exception for national security. a lot of republicans want to make an exception for the pentagon. a lot of democrats want to make an exception for entitlement programs like social security and medicaid. the problem

we have sent, obviously, just recent behavior, the strengthening of behavior with our actions with washington, and coordinatored actions and military exercises, i think china has taken notice of this and realized finally that this situation is decivilizing. >> if north korea doesn't listen to the admonishments from china, then what? >> we'll see. the real question is, and this is something we're debating ourselves among north korea watchers and china watchers as well. is that what kind of leverage does china really have? the answer is we don't quite know because china has never really exercised oppression of the north for fear that they fear destabilizing situations and they fear instability in north korea. so we have to see how serious china really is in suppressing the north. to really find out if it has the leverage that we think it has. >> senior research scholar at columbia university, thanks so much for your time. >> sure. >> up next, headed straight to the georgia dome. catch up with cnn sports, joe carter, and all things ncaa. and later, comedian kathy griffin says it's sad but true.

breaking news out of washington. there's an unexpected delay in the move to end the faa furloughs that have been causing long delays at airports across the country. president obama hoped o sign a bill aimed the at ending the furloughs to ease tra troubles. but the president can't do that right away because of a misspelling in the bill. someone misspelled a word. congress passed the bill this week. sent it it to the. 's desk. this all happened really fast and then there was this misspelling. hopefully they will remember to hit the spell check button this time around. then he can sign it into law. >>> more now on travel. after the recent terror attacks, security lines at airports are now longer than ever. in addition to the furloughs, there was a problem there too. it it makes some travelers very anxious. iesha has tips on how to travel stress free. >> reporter: a terror attack can make traveling more stressful. sl it's normal for people to feel anxiety. just the visibility of security at the airports is enough to get

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we have to watch what happens in colorado and washington. if they are able to regulate it, able to make money off of it particularly, if states see that other states are making money off regulating marijuana, watch out with this it's a slippery slope, a lot of states not ready to go there. >> that's what will happen. we don't want a situation like the wire, where we have open drug markets, we don't want that, but there need to be substantive and reasonable plans in place. it's been argued in colorado for a long time. not just what's happening in colorado, but can the same plan apply to new york, the same plan apply to virginia? a lot of different places, all wraesle with this, but the federal government won't get involved, not with so many important issues on obama's agenda. >> jason johnson, anna navarro, go to see you both. >> thank you so much. >>> breaking news. the markets taking a dip. dow down 135. it's fluctuating, roller coaster ride. alison kosik joining us now. are we talking about the correlation between the numbers and the jobs

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and the lady in the back, wonderful, so polite from washington. and they treated me like gold, but they intensely interrogated me for hours and it was nerve wracking. i can't even express my inside nerves were going to come out of

you were there in washington. you were the white house correspondent to witness it all, to speak with her. my first question is this, beyond their obvious political afinnessfinit affinity, they seemed to have pretty strong personal chemistry. what was the basis of that? >> because they both believed in the same things and in many ways margaret thatcher went first. i was also assigned to london and i went to london in 1979, dating myself, but just months after she became prime minister, and she led the way. her version of conservatism really led the way for reagan. she went after welfare, she went after labor unions, she went after big government spending after the soviet union. she called for lower taxes. these were all things that reagan embraced. they were what reagan stood for. she had a somewhat condescending view toward him to begin with. viewed him as something of a cowboy. over time -- they didn't always get along. but they had an affinity, especially one that developed over time because she felt she found

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washington right now? how much coordination, tom, is there from the federal government in washington and whether the justice department or other agencies in the u.s. government? >> well, wolf and erin, there would be general oversight from washington. obviously at fbi headquarters and department of justice, but much of the focus and much of the coordination is really on site in boston among all of the agencies that are part of this massive investigation. so really the main coordination is actually occurring in boston with oversight from washington. and then also you have the tactical oversight or the tactical or incident command post would be very close to where these searches are going on right now. but i'd like to add something else that would be going on in washington, at quantico and in boston is that fbi and police psychologists would be working from the beginning to try to analyze these two, look at their demeanor in the videos, the interview of family and friends and classmates to look at their psyc

let's bring in elise labott in washington. elise? >> miguel, the administration is really trying to cool things down, even as north korea is making these threats and telling people to get out of north korea, because they can't guarantee their safety. the obama administration is really trying to, as you said, not make things get any hotter. the state department, secretary of state john kerry is saying that the u.s. needs a deterrent but also needs a diplomatic way forward. what secretary kerry will be doing when he goes to asia later this week is talk to south korea, japan and china about trying to find what they call a diplomatic off-ramp for north korea. how do you move off this rhetoric, calm things down and get to a place where they can actually talk to the north koreans? >> made it sound like this was a lot about -- internal situation with north korea, kim jong un, trying to consolidate his power there and less about the -- >> there's a cyclical pattern to north korea's behavior. kim jong un is young. he needs to solidify his pow

tsarnaev take as train to washington d.c. complaining about a noisy child. saying new york looks dirty from afar, but zoom in and it gets real dirty. new york is so ratchet on black friday, it's ridiculous. i'm to bed soon. religion seems to be of growing importance over the last year. quote, brothers at the mosque either think i'm a convert or i'm from algeria or syria. on another occasion he shares, spent the day with this jamaican muslim convert. my religion is truth. other tweets are of interest to investigators. i will die young. several months later in august, boston marathon isn't good place to smoke. in january of this year, quote, i got those brothers that i'd take a bullet for in the leg or shoulder or something, nothing fatal though. quote, if you have the knowledge and the inspiration, all that is left is to take action. >> reporter: now while his brother was in dagestan the younger tsarnaev got a message from the koskov center. there's a big article that says quote, chechens mother accuses fbi of cold-blooded murder. there's also an interview th

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washington avenue, an hour before the incident. and that's why there are crime stoppers flyers posted there, too. >> he stopped here, like this, and he's doing like this. >> reporter: minutes before the alleged abduction sandra guzman spotted three men camped out by the park in a dark minivan and saw another peeking around the corner wearing a black mask over his eyes. >> it's not that cold here today for the mask. >> reporter: so you thought that was suspicious? >> mm-hmm. >> that was a report from our new york affiliate wabc reporting. >>> a hiker missing on an oregon mountain for a week has been found alive and frostbitten. mary owen also suffered an injured ankle and is recovering in hospital in portland. a helicopter retrieved her from mt. hood. the 23-year-old college student told our affiliate kgw she fell 40 feet early in her hike and survived by eating chia seeds and nutrigrain bars and burning the wrappers to stay warm. >> every night i had dreams. it was kind of just mind playing tricks with you. people would come and te

>> i was with the fbi's joint terrorism task force as a washington field office for six years. and was one of the team leaders with their evidence response team also, worked bombings overseas, here in the united states. one of the things they're going to do, we talked about technology, we talked about this video and all the pictures. we have seen this picture of this person, we have been looking at, deb feyerick was talking about the ben thorndike photos. what they have done, they will take this picture, any video that is along that route, and they will try to put together a timeline. going back before, during and after and what they'll do is they'll take this video, and they will send it to quantico. the fbi lab at quantico has an engineering section. i've used them on a number of my cases to help enhance video, and the technology has increased so much, you know, over the years -- >> mike. >> yes, go ahead. >> mike, i'm sorry, joe johns, we're getting word, has new information on the justice department. j joe, what are you hearing? >> again, anderson, the sum and parcel of wha

cnn's national political correspondent jim acosta joins us from washington now with what's going on. a lot of frustration, a lot of what ifs, could if this boston magnificent y massacre been prevented? those are the questions that will be brought forward today. >> that's right, wolf. it will be playing out on capitol hill. the senate intelligence committee has set a hearing for 2:30 this afternoon with fbi officials, they will be the lead briefers at this hearing. i'm told from a source of that committee. lawmakers want to find out if federal investigators somehow failed to see big red flags coming from tamerlan tsavraev. as lawmakers are praising authorities for the quick work in the boston bombing case, members of congress are still calling for hearings, into the fbi's handling of dead suspect tamerlan tsavraev, who traveled back to a dangerous region of russia, just last year. >> what did he do, when he went back for six months? sit in his aunt and uncle's home for six months or doing something else? and when he came back to this country, why didn't it ring a bell with the fbi int

the justice department in washington so far has no comment. all they're saying, stating the obvious, that the investigation into this curious case is continuing. paul kevin curtis charged with sending ricin-laced letters to president obama and other officials, was released suddenly from custody on tuesday. the united states marshal's office in mississippi is saying that. marshal's office did not know the circumstances of this release. and only that curtis was no longer in federal custody and that this comes after curtis' detention and preliminary hearing was canceled. the testimony had been going on for three days. a press conference involving federal prosecutors and defendant's lawyers was expected for later sometime today. curtis had originally been charged with threats against president obama, mississippi senator roger wicker, as well as a justice court judge in lee county, mississippi. very serious charges. he could have gotten 15 years, $500,000 in fines. we're still trying to find out what is happening with this case. certainly don't wan

remember shortly after 9/11, letters with anthrax sent to washington, new york and florida. five people died. those letters sent to a couple of u.s. senators and to a few national news outlets. the lead suspect committed inside. police in england police busted a group of suspected terrorist who is claimed they were making ricin. to show how deadly the stuff is, a man nearly died after exposure in a las vegas motel room. the fbi arrested him later for making the stuff. >>> we're going to burn to the boston bombings investigation. investigators spent another day at this landfill near the tsarnaev dorm room where he was spotted. cnn learned they were scouring the receipts at the landfill, this time they were looking for his laptop. meantime, tsarnaev is in a federal prison camp after a week spent in the hospital as many of the victims he is accused of wounding. he was moved to a facility holding detainees that need medical care. officials say his condition is improving and able to sit up and write. all this as his parents left their home for another part of russia. his father a

it's one of those things that happens in washington when you have a lot of members of congress who are totally, totally committed to making sure there's no reduction in the opportunity to go ahead and buy weapons. so it's a serious problem for the obama administration and for a lot of the proponents of expanded gun control in the united states. forget about the assault weapons type ban, forget about the magazine, the magazines, trying to reduce that. they're going to have enough trouble just trying to get the expanded backgrounds check in place. by no mean it's a done deal. >> how does the president actually get over that? he's trying to build momentum here obviously visiting hartford, connecticut, not far from where the school massacre took place. does he think that that kind of strategy to get people wiled up is going to put enough pressure on the senators to get something done? >> they've got a full court p z press this week. the first lady doing separate events on guns this week. i think the president today is going to be pretty emotional. he will meet with some of the family membe

it would go to the security officials in washington. that information would be shared. not a question of sending it to another agency. they all sit side by side on the jttf and have access to it. everybody has access to everything. as far as -- very common for russians and other countries for that matter to shotgun out their requests. we don't know if the one that came to the cia is the exact same one that came to the fbi or not. it's not uncommon to send it to multiple u.s. agencies, who decides to take it, who does what when they bring it over. in fairness to the cia, they are not authorized to conduct investigations in the u.s. that's the fbi and state and local law enforcement's job, not theirs. so what they would have done, they would have made an inquiry to the database, see that it was investigated by the fbi. see to the extent appropriate the name was entered into various terrorist databases. the one database has nearly 500,000 names. it does not qualify or warrant every person in that for 24/7 monitoring or to try to keep track of them into the future. >> but,

for that i want to go to gloria borger in washington. gloria, what are you hearing? >> well, what we're hearing, anderson, is that the suspect in a second interrogation told authorities that he indicated he intended to use the remaining explosives that he had and detonate them in times square. you'll recall that under a first interrogation he said he was going to times square to "party" that is what we saw ray kelly, the police commissioner say yesterday. apparently there was subsequent questioning. and under subsequent questioning the suspect indicated that he did intend to use the remaining explosives in that times square vicinity. now, we do not know whether new york authorities believe that they have any reason to continue to worry about this. i mean, we're going to hear from them i presume at a press conference later, but it seems to me that this suspect changed his story from a first interrogation to a second interrogation. now, as you know, people treat with suspicion anything that is said in a hospital interrogation. but it seems that his story did shift dram