tom fuentes is here with me. you looked at these videos, tom, you looked at the still photos. >> yes. >> and you heard the appeal from the fbi agent in charge. you're a former assistant director of the fbi. this is pretty powerful stuff. >> yes, it is. it's expected that as of right now millions of people are watching this worldwide and are seeing it plus all of the other media outlets putting it on their websites and on their broadcasts, so, yeah. this is very powerful stuff to put this out like this right now. >> fran, they clearly want someone to call that number 800-call-fbi and provide a name or some information about these two suspects. >> absolutely. wolf, we should remind our viewers, the bureau takes it very seriously in terms of putting these photographs out. so they wouldn't have done it unless they had real reason to believe these guys were connected. you talked about suspect number two in the white hat video of him putting the package down. you can see in the video their bags. they had clear pictures

and one thing i wa nt to add to what tom fuentes said. that not only will you recognize these people, because now they have twice as many circles of family members or friends, but it also exponentially increases the chance that you would recognize them because there are two. not that, oh, i know that guy, or i know that guy, but i've seen these two guys together. that could be a potential tip that would lead maybe to their identity. but very instructive from rick, focus on these pictures, and help us find them. >> i wouldn't be surprised if the fbi is getting dozens and dozens if not hundreds or thousands of tips right now from citizens in the united states, perhaps around the world. everyone stand by. we have a special guest. someone who feels closely to what's going on in boston. the former massachusetts governor, the former presidential candidate, mitt romney is joining us from boston right now. governor, this must be such an emotional moment for you, when you see these pictures, these videos of these two suspects identified as suspect

tom fuentes, let me bring you into this conversation right now. based on the fact they did discover a whole lot of other explosives, another pressure cooker, can we assume these two brothers were planning on more bombings if in fact they would have gotten away from the two boston marathon bombings? >> yes, wolf, i think we can more or less assume that that probably was in the intent or that they were saving it if they had a last standoff, they would detonate at the time they were cornered. if they had an opportunity, let's say, to do it that way. also raises the question this is exactly the whole issue going back to the miranda, if he had the public safety concern of what were those explosive devices intended for? that's one of the reasons they wanted to talk to him or one of the things thaw wanted to talk to him about at the time before they realized how severely hurt he was. it absolutely proves the point there could have more more attacks planned or another person who was a part of it who maybe at the last minute didn't do it. another reason to

let's talk about the video that we just saw, tom fuentes, former fbi assistant director is here, cnn contributor. this video, it may have been unsophisticated bomb, but it looked horrific, tom. >> looks horrific, but this video, i think, is pretty similar to the ones that we've already seen, just have better sound quality and you can hear the screams and explosions. >> the smoke was permeating the whole area and you heard the explosions within a few seconds apart. >> again, that would be amplified because it's surrounded by tall buildings. that would help contain that in a confined area, as opposed to a

. >> let me bring tom fuentes into this discussion, former assistant fbi director, also a cnn contributor. the two explosive devices, tom, small packages, not to include a c-4 or other plastic explosives, what does that say to you? >> somebody amateurish put that together and probably wasn't a well trained terrorist who either would have had access to a more potent device that would have caused much more damage and bigger causalities, had it been. >> more sophisticated device would have been a more powerful explosive, but also a device that would include projectiles, if you will. throw in nails and other stuff that could injure and kill a lot of people. >> you could add shrapnel to it, that was done in the atlanta olympic bombings, but here you also have, from the bombers point of view, all the glass and plate glass window at sidewalk level that become shrapnel. the exlossives are going to create that. we'll find out many injured were injured by the glass that was airborne. >> just to be precise on this, tom, the material needed, as of now believed to be a relatively crude bomb, that's pr

but as tom fuentes said earlier, wolf, once you know that it's an intentional act designed to create causalities and injuries and it's not a manhole cover or gas explosion, the fbi's within its rights to designate it a terror attack and begin to coordinate at the federal level the ongoing investigation. >> good point. fran, this is what i want to do. the boston globe released some dramatic video of twin bombings near the finish line at the boston marathon. the video is disturbing. you'll hear the first explosion and a few seconds later you'll hear the second explosion. i'll play it and we'll assess what we just saw. watch this.

tom fuentes, i wanted to bring you back into the analysis going on, tom fuentes, former assistant director of the fbi. walk us through, the president hears through his national security team, homeland security team, white house chief of staff, director of the fbi robert muller briefs him on the telephone. the president wants to know what's going on, but there may be more questions than answers. >> always in that situation, the initial blast goes off, no one knows who did it, how big it was, how many were injured, all they know is the bureau and atf and other federal agencies, state and local agencies, would have had hundreds, if not thousands of law enforcement officers really deployed at the event because of such a huge event, in addition to the medical personnel we talked about earlier. it's not like the president has to be told, okay, send somebody there. they are already there. he may say pull out the stops and send more people, but there's already a huge deployment at the event before the first runner arrives that day. there would have been weeks, if not months, of planning on the par

. >> hold on a minute, fran, i want to bring in tom fuentes, former assistant fbi director into the conversation.

>> yeah, tom foreman, tom fuentes, thanks very much for that analysis. the fbi agent in charge says this investigation is in its infancy right now. up next, video from the crucial moments while the marathon was understood way, before the attack. what investigators are looking for in every image. we'll assess for you, and you may have seen the video, a man blown off his feet when the bombs went off. he's telling his dramatic story. ♪ (train horn) vo: wherever our trains go, the economy comes to life. norfolk southern. one line, infinite possibilities. how old is the oldest person you've known? we gave people a sticker and had them show us. we learned a lot of us have known someone who's lived well into their 90s. and that's a great thing. but even though we're living longer, one thing that hasn't changed: the official retirement age. ♪ the question is how do you make sure you have the money you need to enjoy all of these years. ♪ over our secure network, verizon innovators are building a world of medical treatment data in the cloud. so doctors can m

we know from tom fuentes, former assistant fbi director, that could be crucial. it tells us not only about who made the bombs but could be a key piece of evidence in tracking them down. you may be able to go to the places where these nails are sold to learn information about who bought them. our thanks to both poppy and tom for that. there is a lot of other news going on in the world right now. let's go to the atlanta and carol costello for that. >> john, thank you. i am carol costello, reporting from atlanta. across the country today americans are pausing to honor the victims of the boston marathon bombings. at the new york stock exchange a moment of silence just before the opening bell. let's take a look at the big board right now. there you see it. you see stocks are up 101 points so it's doing okay. we'll keep an eye on it. >>> other news we're following this morning, gold prices are making a slight rebounds after the biggest sell-off in decades. at last price, $1300 an ounce, the slight upturn comes after it falls in the biggest daily drop ever. analysts say

. >>> i want to bring in tom fuentes, he's in washington. welcome, tom. i want to start first with the cold case that deborah feyerick was telling us about. hindsight is 20/20, but should police have approached those killings in a different way? >> well, it would seem so, but the police need to explain how they conducted their investigation. they have three victims brutally murdered and normal procedure would be to immediately be contacting every person that was close to the victims. friends, classmates, neighbors, all the usual people. and if, in fact, tamerlan was best friends with one of the victims, then you would think he would be one of the first people that would be located and contacted. why he never was, i don't know. again, this is a local triple homicide so police would handle this on their own. unless there's evidence of organized crime or evidence of terrorism, it's going to stay at the local police level and not rise to a federal investigation. >> so local police wouldn't have connected the dots when tamerlan tsarnaev? >> like i said, i don'

also tom fuentes, juliette kayyem here. a lot of information here first and foremost the brothers believed to be from chechnya. let's start with that. >> couple points. one is, if they're in, fact, students at bunker hill college, there's the student immigration visa data base which will follow things like we'll know exactly their bigraphic information. there will have been fingerpr t fingerprints provided for the application. which will not only allow us to do forensics on the post-blast investigation but tie it from an evidentiary point of view to prosecute them. it will also be interesting to see as suggested before, we'll be able to zero in behind the scenes right now, all the focus is on tightening the noose around him. there's a lot of work that's being done behind the scenes that the american public doesn't see on going to the residence. right now i suspect his apartment is being forensically checked as well. there's going to be a lot more information coming forward in the next few hours. >> juliette, bunker hill com

ow former fbi director, tom fuentes. what is the significant information on the timing device? what does that tell you about the significance of the attack, who might have been responsible. >> first of all, timing device means one person could have done both bombs, could have set timers to go off simultaneously and a variance of 15, 20 second. it means it didn't require multiple people to carry out the attack. but it may have a couple of people involved in it. secondly, if that's true, that a pressure cooker was used for the explosive to be placed inside, that would actually diminish the power of the bomb. it itself could become shrapnel but usually when you take a bomb if you contain it in something like that, it will tend to smoother it slightly and reduce the power. we've seen, i've been to bombings where there was some type of material wrapped around it that became a containment in and of itself. when the police bomb squad detonate a suspicious package they're using an oversized pressure cooker. also explosives in iraq where they try to put them inside cement truck, big bow

stand by, tom. tom fuentes is going to be with us. juliet is here as well, our homeland security analyst. it takes a while. >> yes. >> it is amazing. what, three days, monday, tuesday, wednesday. >> right. >> since this horrible tragedy occurred. it's going to take a while for law enforcement to find out what really happened. >> right. i've been saying all day the most important -- since the event has already happened the most important thing is that you preserve the evidence and you have a solid case and then you get a guilty verdict against the right person. that's all that matters right now to everyone involved on the law enforcement and national security side. so they're not on 24/7 time. they're taking the long view because they know this will be a very long process. even if you find someone within the next week or so just imagine the trial is going to be, you know, maybe up to a year off. just looking at how these things normally work. it will be a big deal trial. so there will be lots of speculation. i think, you know, part of

former fbi official tom fuentes joins us now. we're told definitively from sources in boston that these were two bombs that went off at the end of the boston marathon in the last mile on boylston street, copley square area. what exactly would the fbi be doing right now and what are you hearing from your law enforcement sources? >> hi, jake. well, it's too soon for any sources to know since no one has apparently claimed public credit for planting those bombs or setting them off. we're going to have to wait on that a little bit. what the main focus is initially, is to rescue the people who are injured, get them to medical facilities as quickly as possible, create a perimeter, cordon off the area so no one can come obliterate the crime scene, which is possible when you have a large crowd in an area like that and people panic in the aftermath of a bombing. so that's the preliminary thing. then, after that, the crime scene investigators come in, particularly ones with post-blast investigative expertise, to look for the residue, the te

tom fuentes is a former assistant director with the fbi who knows a lot about situations like this, he is joining us on the phone now from washington. tom, you have been watching all night, what are your observations? >> i think right now we have a lot of confusion going on trying to figure out whether it's connected to the boston marathon bombing and what occurred last night. several pockets, could be the individual, they could have received notification from somebody recognizing one or both of the subjects in the video and reporting that and the police possibly approached the location. they ended up in a shoot-out and explosives being used. the second possibility is you could have a copy cat. you could have somebody else drawing on what they have seen this week from the marathon bombing and they may have planted explosives. police may have responded to that with one or two suspects, so that's still a possibility. and then the person in custody now, trying to verify whether that person is related to the explosives at m.i.t., the killing of a police officer at m.i.t., and, of course, t

tom fuentes coming up about 6:30 a.m. eastern time. let's go back to zoraida in new york for more of the other news. >> good morning to you john. the man accused of sending letters to president obama and two others tainted with the deadly poison ricin is due in court today. 41-year-old james everett dutschke, a martial arts instructor and former let cal candidate was arrested over the weekend. he is charged with possession and use of a biological agent. dutschke allegedly sent the tainted letters to the president, mississippi senator roger wicker and also to a local mississippi judge in >>> and four people recovering this morning after a man with a knife charged a church choir in albuquerque during his closing hymn. witnesses say the suspect jumped over several pews yesterday and simply started stabbing people. parishioners, including the flute player, taggled him and held him until police arrived. >> i took my flute and i charged the guy, and i god him into a bear hug and pinned him against the wall. but he was much taller than i am.

add tom fuentes to the conversation. you've been watching this. you heard the gun shots that drew heard. you saw the emergency vehicles go behind us. you heard the reports that deb is saying about the suspect perhaps being cornered. do you think this is it? this is the moment? >> well right now, erin, we have no way to know whether it is or is not for sure. but what they're hoping or what you would hope in a situation like this is that you have a -- what would be characterized as a barricaded subject with no hostages, meaning he's hold up in some room or apartment or facility but he's alone. he doesn't have anybody else. the police can surround it. they can inject gas and try to just flush him out and try to get him to surrender that way. that would be the optimum. >> david fitzpatrick is our producer as we said who is on the scene. david, tell us exactly again where you are and what is happening. >> erin, i'm in a parking lot -- commercial parking lot, probably 400 yards away from were heavily armed officers moving in amongst some houses. i see s

tom fuentes joins me live now. 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

also, with us cnn contributor and former fbi assistant director tom fuentes. julia, what are you hearing at this hour? what is important for people to know? >> people need to focus on first the response and how it really was successful moving people out. the primary concern was these runners who ended up coming right down this street rather than down boylston. the second thing is there is going to be a lot of rumors for the next 12 to 24 hours. the good news on this front is we have the devices, so that we can examine them, and there's probably a lot of cameras and video surveillance, iphones, people took pictures. i would suspect there's a break in this within 24 hours. >> there's a lot that can be learned from looking at these devices, the remnants of these devices. >> absolutely. what's the sophistication level. fingerprints. if it's someone who is new at it, they might have left other traces that will lead them in different directions. there's going to be both the foreign intelligence aspect to this and then the domestic side to it. people are asking me al

i talked to tom fuentes, the former assistant director of the fbi earlier today. he was saying he thought it could be done on the internet. he used the example of the toronto 18. he said somebody involved in that plot claimed they got information over the internet in a home study program and actually tested a device in their own home. do you buy that? >> no, not at all. i've spent 30 years dealing with explosives. i'm still scared of them. i wouldn't touch them without someone standing over my shoulder. i don't know how they got detonators. that's sort of key. diddic that use cell phones for secondary power sources? i could go on and on and on, and the chances of you and i going the the store and coming home and assembling these things and making it go off is very, very remote. it's very hard to do, or they got very, very lucky. i just don't see it. >> juliet, there are so many questions and not a lot of answers, but again, why this guy who doesn't have a lot of money, doesn't have a job, travels around russia. i know he's staying with relatives but there's still

tom fuentes joining us this morning. thank you, tom. >> you're welcome, poppy. >>> extra security on hand for oklahoma city's marathon. it's going on right now. before the race there was a moment of silence for the 168 victims of the oklahoma city bombing back in 1995, but this year there is added emotion. that is because the 23,000-person starting field includes some people who ran in boston two weeks ago. they weren't able to finish the boston marathon because of the bombings. so organizers invited them to come to this race, gave them free entry today. today's memorial marathon is expected to raise about $1 million. an update now on another big story we've been following for you. a new arrest has been made in the case of those ricin-laced letters sent to president obama, to a senate republican and to a mississippi judge. this comes just days after prosecutors dropped charges against another man. o we're following the story from tupelo, mississippi. >> poppy, a judge here who received one of those ricin letters says he'

we're now joined by cnn contributor and former fbi assistant director tom fuentes. tom, thanks for joining us. you've been talking to your sources, several agencies are involved including the fbi in this investigation. does anybody have any serious leads at this point? >> no, not yet, jake. i think the important factor here is that, especially the last part of the last piece, kaufman county district attorney's office, both mcclelland and hasse, did have minimal involvement in the most recent task force that investigated the aryan brotherhood of texas. that case was led by the bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms, the indictments returned last november of 35 people in houston, texas. and really that was a federal task force, state and local task force with atf, fbi, marshals, dea, department of homeland security, texas department of public safety, a number of county sheriffs offices. and to help the federal prosecutors there were a couple of counties which did provide some assistance to it. so the question there is, and had what sources of mine are basically wonder

you've seen him a lot on cnn, tom fuentes, cnn analyst. how does a government track terror suspects? is it done on a priority basis? >> yes, don, and at that point, you know, you have to define what you mean by terrorist suspect. at the time the russians make the request to investigate tamerlan, the investigation is done and it is very thorough by all accounts. other members of congress have been briefed on what occurred during that investigation and they're in agreement at least, so there's a difference of opinion even among members of congress as to how thorough, whether more should have been done at the time, but at the time the investigation is done and nothing derogatory comes up, the fbi is not informed of the underlying information that causes the russians to send a letter. they're only told take a look at them. so they open the case, they do a fairly thorough job, it is not like they take a quick look and stop it. they interview people, friends, look at the electronic, who he's in contact with, which he is going to be in contact wi

i want to bring in cnn analyst and former fbi assistant director tom fuentes. tom, can you explain how border officials interact with terrorism task forces? are they part of the task force? >> yes, jake. they're absolutely part of the task force. they're sitting side by side with every other member of the task force which would be obviously the fbi agents, but also state police, city police, county police, other federal agencies from dhs, the state department, every one of these concerned agencies and the u.s. attorney's office specifically will have representatives that are sitting there, side by side, literally, and each would have access to all of the databases that may come into play from their own home agency as well as the databases of the terrorist watch centers and screening centers, there is a variety of databases that come to play, especially because each agency also has its own individual guidelines for things that they're trying to keep track of as well. so everybody is sitting side by side, no fighting, no keeping information within one agency and

i think we have some more graphics, and i want tom fuentes to come in. now that he's been read his miranda rights, now that he knows he has the right to remain silent, what does the fbi do now, tom? >> wolf, we don't know he could have been read the rights yesterday or at a previous time. we know it's been done here at the hearing, but we don't know at the time he's nodding, getting his miranda rights and appears to be lucid, however, is he still under narcotic drugs, for example, is that still going to be an issue later. can he knowingly wave his rights if he's being treated with the sedation. >> let me read a little bit from the affidavit, from the transcript of these proceedings that occurred. extraordinary proceedings at the bedside of tsarnaev, the 19-year-old suspect. at one point, the good morning, your honor, this is the prosecutor, the u.s. attorney. good morning, your honor, william winerab for the united states. mr. thick, who's the attorney that represents tsarnaev. good morning, your honor, william thicke for mr. tsarnaev. the court, that's

let's bring back in tom fuentes. tom, new information, i know you just heard it, let's take a half a step back. the supposition that, well, we needed to hear more from russia, first of all, the fbi does have people on the ground in russia, who can do the united states' work, correct? >> that's correct. my last five years the fbi, that office worked for me. i ran the international operations of the fbi, and was responsible for the 76 offices around the world that the fbi has including the one in moscow, russia. >> now, this is obviously not about just simple blame. everybody wants this to get better and understanding what we can, to plug holes going forward. when you're hearing this, in the context of this discussion that is going on down there in washington, is there a suggestion here that is worth pursuing that we weren't doing something the right way here, that has to change. >> well, you're right, chris, that is, you know, something to be asked and looked at and examined. but i think at this point, the senators ar

we have tom fuentes and fran townsend both joining us, cnn national security analysts and tom used to be the fbi former assistant director. tom, first to you and then fran, same question, what do you make of this? >> well, this is, you know, not uncommon. back in 2006, the canadians uncovered a plot later referred to as the toronto 18, and it was a collaborative investigation in canada between their intelligence service and the royal canadian mounted police and the fbi and at the time i was still running international operations at the fbi. we provided assistance to them, phone record checks and people traveling around, you know, with connections to the u.s., to make sure there was no related u.s. plot, which there was not. so this sounds very similar to that. at least with that regard. this is also that case was one i referred to where the individual who was the mastermind took one course in mechanical engineering and figured out on his own how to make a bomb, and, you know, and detonate it remotely by telephone. sodevices can be done, if a person has training, education, and aptitud

i want to bring in tom fuentes, the former fbi assistant director and cnn analyst right now. he's joining us from washington. tom, the suspect, dzhokhar tsarnaev, he's sedated in the hospital. he's the only person right now who knows why any of this occurred. but if they can't question him yet, what are they focusing on on the investigation? walk us through a little bit about what's going on behind the scenes. >> well, they're doing what they would have been doing even if he could talk. that is going through every possible e-mail, telephone conversation, well they can't get the conversation, but at least who he contacted or received calls for. going to every person identified to interview them about what they know about him and his intentions, if possible. interviewing all of the former classmates and teachers and neighbors and relatives, and although as you heard this week, most of them have nothing but glowing accounts of how great a kid he was. so they'll probably hear much of that again. but they will go through trying to really identify everybody he's been in contact wit

tom fuentes is joining us and bob bahre. we know the fbi and cia were aware of the elder brother. and yet he was available to plan an attack on u.s. soil. is there anyway to see this as a failure? >> we shouldn't look at it as a failure of the fbi. we don't know what they knew and when they knew it. what is a failure, there's been no way to unify databases. the elder brothers buying explosives in new hampshire. gun powder. he had to give a driver's license for that. immigrations, his leaving. was the fbi in boston pinged on that? we know they weren't pinged on the return. but if you can take all this information and combine it. there would have been much clearer red flag on this. why isn't the fbi getting all this information? frankly, we don't know what's in the national security agency. normally the fbi does not have access to that raw intelligence. and so i think we're doing a disservice to the fbi by not getting it enough information on a timely basis. >> tom fuentes, do you see it in the same way? >> not exactly. much has been made about, aren't these agencies sharing since 9

tom fuentes, what are your thoughts? >> i agree with fran, i think he's trying to reassure the public even though he didn't concur with all the details already publicly provided in the investigation. so he's doing his job, as the governor, to tell the people that everything's being done i think with regard to the press conference, you really -- having go on and what to say and all the people that will be at the podium, you have competing interests here. you have on the one hand the need to inform the public and tell them and reassure the public that the investigative agencies are working together and covering every lead. again, requesting the public's assistance. but you have the competition of, you need to solve the case. and when that special agent in charge, or the police commissioner and oers walk in front of the microphones, they know in their mind that the bad guy, or bad guys are probably watching that press conference, listening to what they say, and they have to be very careful of what they put out to not reveal

tom fuentes is joining us. tom, you're a former assistant director of the fbi, you're our cnn law enforcement analyst right now. if law enforcement sources are suggesting that there's substantial progress and this is significant, what does that say to you? do you think they have a breakthrough? >> well, i don't know if it's a breakthrough yet, wolf. but certainly it could be one of several things. you could have a better definitive idea of the bombs that were used in the attack and how they were made and where they were likely put together. that could be part of the information. also, you have the fact that the fbi is now finally able to interview many of the victims who have been taken to the hospital, getting surgery, heavily sedated not able to be talked to in the immediate aftermath, but maybe now as a result of being able to talk to somebody they might have a real eyewitness. in the initial aftermath everybody claiming to be an eyewitness was someone looking in another direction, maybe heard the bomb, hear

tom fuentes, former fbi assistant director. thanks so much for joining us. >>> new developments from south korea. the country's president warning the north that provocative action will be met with a, quote, strong response. it comes as the u.s. deployed stealth fighter jets in the region as part of joint military exercises. new york congressman peter king says he's concerned that with all of these threats, the north korean leader may be forced into doing something rash. >> kim jong-un is trying to establish himself, he's trying to be the tough guy. he's 28, 29 years old, and he's going further and further out. i don't know if he can get himself back in. my concern would be that he may feel to save face he has to launch some sort of attack on south korea, or some base in the pacific. >> north korea ratcheted up the rhetoric again this weekend declaring it was in a state of warthe south. >>> one worker was killed, three others injured at a nuclear plant in russellville, arkansas, about an hour away from little rock. enter ji, whi

here to help us go through the latest developments is tom fuentes, a former fbi assistant director. good morning to you, tom. thank you for joining us. the intelligence committee chair, mike rogers, he said i don't think this is over. that's a quote. and he went on to say there are clearly more persons of interest and they are not 100% sure if there are not other explosives. what do you make of that? >> well, i think just what he says, that, you know, it's still difficult to believe that he could have done all this, or the two brothers could have done all this without help even before or after the event. so you know, they are looking into that. they believe that there probably could be other friends or associates or classmates that could be aware of more information about the actual marathon bombing and in particular how they spent the days afterward. the attack occurred at 2:50 in the afternoon on monday the 15th of april, and they have three full days before their pictures appear on worldwide media and the internet, and begin the events that happened thursday night and friday with

we have tom fuentes with us right now. tom, we have been puzzling today at how you can go so quickly from finding an image like that of a vague description, putting a name to it, and then ultimately capturing that person. how belabored is that process? >> well extremely. that's why they haven't gotten that far yet. i think that's why the authorities are saying hold horses and wait a minute here. they have a very good picture of a suspect from the video, as we know. that we were aware of. but putting a name with a face is another matter, and then once they have that name, then trying to locate that person and get him into custody and then at that point probably execute search warrants at the residence, maybe find other paraphernalia of bomb-making equipment, or wire cutters that could be traced to the cut wires that went to make the device, but these are all incremental steps that are beyond where the authorities have been as of this morning and this afternoon. what we would hope is that the 5:00 press conference they'll pu

tom fuentes formerly with the fbi, your sources tell cnn the information the russians provided was extremely thin. but that said, the russians were right, this guy was apparently up to no good. how did he slip through the cracks? >> we still don't know what no good he was up to. he was reported, investigated here to the extent he can be. the placement on the list that john miller mentioned, t.i.d.e., has 500,000 people on that list. so obviously, nobody is going to be following them around and putting in all of the stops for people on that list. it's just something later you can check against. but we don't know what we don't know about what happened in russia and what he was up to in russia. i would like to add that they alert us apparently twice, the u.s., that they're suspicious of him and they want him looked at. he shows up on their soil, and spends six months there. and if he was meeting with militant groups, it's pretty clear that the russians were monitoring those groups and he should have, in that case, wandered into his surveillance and ended up either arrested or ended up killed wh

. >> we'll go to tom fuentes, former assistant director with the fbi. a cnn analyst, very broad base of knowledge on situations just like this. and tom, the news we just got that the mbta, all subways and buses suspended service at the request of the police. what do you make of that? >> hi, john. i think they are just trying to keep people locked down and reduce the amount of people out on the street and just want everybody to stay home as if you had a blizzard situation. but there's many considerations here. this has turned into almost a standard fugitive hunt that the police go through all the time. and police executives constantly learn from other incidents in other parts of the country. the most recent similar situation we had was the dorner case in los angeles just two months ago. but in that case when they found the burning vehicle, they believed he was on that mountain top. they only had 400 red dens to deal with to try to search and find him. and worry that he could carjack them and leave a week. it took a week with 400 buildings before they fou

fuentes. julie ann, we've been showing this picture of a pressure cooker device in a bag. what do you make of where this investigation stands? >> it's going to be for the forensics to reassemble the devices. this black wrapping around it, where might that have come from, as well as the eyewitness accounts and pictures and all the stuff the fbi is asking for from people who were there, runners, family members. they're going to both go on simultaneously, one at quantico and one obviously here or at d.c. they're putting tremendous emphasis on who saw what here, and that's because i think there are probably gaps in terms of timing of the photographs they have. they're probably thinking the perpetrator was here on-site and put the packages down. they're hoping someone has pictures and someone comes forward. >> the fact they're still asking for the public's help -- >> means there's a gap, or they want as much information as possible, and then it's just going to take days and weeks and months. and th

. >> well, that's more of tom fuentes' area of expertise in mind. >> peter, hold on one second. we just got a development here. the uncle of the suspect has just released a statement. we want to go to it right now. this is what he had to say. >> i think we don't actually quite have that. >> it's coming. we're getting ready to go. >> move the mic stand down. can someone move the mic stand down? >> easy, easy, fellas. easy. >> whoa! >> sorry. >> someone take the stand back there. >> down in front. >> here we go. >> down in front. >> can you come up here, please? >> thank you. thank you very much. >> i wanted to speak on behalf of tsarnaev. what happened when we heard this morning about people negotiated for my family, i would say my family associated. i want to start, and i will finish with that. first, the only person here to deliver condolences are those who have been murdered. those who have been injured. those boys, those chinese girls, i've just been following this. i've been following it from day one, but never, ever would imagine that somehow the children of my brother woul

tom fuentes, as well. we've been talking about it all hour. is a city shaken by what happened but also a city that's staying strong and standing tall. there are difficult days ahead, now doubt about it, but the courage and resilience has been evidenced since the moment the bombs went off. today president obama repeated his promise to bring the killers to justice. >> the american people refuse to be terrorized. because what the world saw yesterday and the aftermath of the explosions were stories of heroism and kindness and generosity and love. >> i looked down and there was a person who was bleeding on the street. they were right off of the sidewalk just laying down and luckily this restaurant was helping them. and it was great to actually see people teaming up together to help the people that were in need. >> exhausted runners who kept running to the nearest hospital to give blood and those who stayed to tend to the wounded. the first responders who van into the chaos to save lives. >> all these guys jumping over fences trying to help out. peo

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"outfront" tonight, former fbi assistant director tom fuentes and fran townsend. what is the latest can you tell us from your reporting of what we know right now? there are so many question marks. >> and there remain a lot of questions, erin. we know that this was a well planned, coordinated attack that had the two bombs go off. we're told by law enforcement authorities that they were what they refer to as crude devices. that is it wasn't a high grade explosive. as bad as those explosions look, they could have been much worse if it was a high grade explosion. what they're looking for, we see many injuries from the flying glass. they'll look to see if there were other things put in the explosives packages to increase the likelihood of injury. >> often they do, right? they put all kinds of things whether it's ball bearings, nails -- >> exactly. that's right. so they're looking for that sort of thing. they made clear to me while they're calling -- the fbi has designated this a terrorism event, they don't know whether it was perpetrated by a domestic group or a foreig

we're going to talk to tom fuentes, former fbi assistant director, now a cnn contributor. in addition to the investigation this morning, there is still the remembering, and the mourning going around. all around this city, all around the country. for the three victims who died in the marathon bombing. thousands turned out for this candlelight vigil last night, paying tribute to one of the youngest casualties. cnn's pamela brown has been following that part of the story. she's here with us this morning. >> good morning to you. like you said, thousands turned out last night to remember the life of 8-year-old martin richard in a candlelight vigil. one of many ways communities throughout boston coming together to pay their respects as the city tries to pick up the pieces. an outpouring of raw emotion from a community struck by grief. friends and family of 8-year-old martin richard gathered in a park near his home to remember him and pray for his family. his 6-year-old sister lost a leg, and his mother has a serious brain injury. on tuesday friends and relatives dropped off flow

that chronology will come together of how that happened so rapidly. >> let's go to tom fuentes right now. he's the former assistant director of the fbi, our cnn law enforcement analyst who's really been helping us better appreciate what's going on behind the scenes. we know there's a lot going on here in the boston area in cambridge where these two suspects lived, in watertown where the encounter with the older brother ended last night in his death and the killing of this m.i.t. police officer -- what's going on? 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