Boston Bombing Day 3 | Rumors Run Wild, $1B System Fails

The first explosion occurred about 10 or 15 seconds later there was a second explosion. We need another one here at 755 Good Morning America. Important advances in the Boston attacks. Police are looking for any clues that could help them solve who was behind the explosion. You could see everyone. in the white suits, kneeling, collecting the physical evidence and they were standing. Toops, they were just swarming the area, meticulously collecting every piece of evidence, destroying anything that might try to put this bomb and these devices back together, the FBI. In fact, we use a satellite to record the precise GPS coordinates where each piece of evidence was recovered at the 24 block crime scene.

We can collect all the pieces of a bomb, put them back together, and then begin tracking the components, who bought them and where. Did they buy them and also try to get forensics on them? Hairs, fibers, fingerprints, DNA and then they really started to trace it back to the attacker. There was so much blood. There was so much devastation to the human tissue and everything. The FBI. Set up a giant warehouse to store and catalog every piece of physical evidence. We actually have pieces of the backpack that were found there. This is from the actual backpack.

The zipper is still there. We also have pieces of shrapnel from this. You can see. the ball bearings of the BBs and you can see again the epoxy with which they were glued the tremendous damage they do to human flesh and tissue the damage done by the BBs can be seen in the x-rays of the victims the BBs are the little white dots Absolutely cut more than 160 cell phones recovered from the crime scene. They are all marked with biohazard tape because most of them were found with blood. We had to look at each of these phones because at that time we initially didn't know if these bombs were time-fuzed, if they were mechanically operated or in the case of cell phones, they could have been detonated by cell phones, but the physical evidence more important thing found in the first three days were pieces of the pressure cookers turned into bombs so this was the top of the pressure that was the top of the pressure cooker device of the first bomb that exploded exactly blew up Sky High in The first explosion and was discovered on the roof of a nearby hotel even more important was the bottom of the pressure cooker, part of the reason it was so important was because it had the manufacturer's name and a serial number, so so we literally created a research cell from scratch to learn everything we could about that pressure cooker or pressure cookers of that type who makes them where they are made how they are distributed where they are sold the FBI team caught the pressure cooker At a Macy's store in Boston where one person had purchased five in the months before the

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, the pressure cooker provided another clue.

Al-Qaeda had produced elaborate online instructions on how to build pressure cooker bombs; It could end up being someone else, but right now it has all the indicators and all the aspects of being a Kaaa or Alqa affiliated attack. This is a device very similar to improvised explosive devices. that we have found all over Afghanistan used to kill our soldiers, but while the FBI was silent on the evidence, was gathering speculation and conspiracy theories were taking hold, there was all kinds of misinformation circulating around Boston, it was absolute chaos because for days I've been hearing

rumors

about a man in a baseball cap or an Easter man with a backpack and the police were just soaked in

rumors

and stories.

The Internet SLO saw a figure on a rooftop just as the bombs went off. I want to ask you. about a photo everyone was emailing today it's a man standing on top of a roof you see him right there what do you know about it? Well, he is very intriguing, but the authorities here say they are not giving him any special priority, he is one of many. tips and leads they are following the New York Post published this photo of two young men who had been the subject of the police investigation, the editors were unaware that the FBI had already determined that they were not involved as soon as it came to light, we knew it was wrong , we knew what we had at that command post and then on Wednesday afternoon the rumors of an arrest became real, completely fake news.

One of our sources is our national security collaborator, Fran Townsen, one of the sources is a Boston police officer. Source telling me uh, that an arrest was made, all of a sudden I started getting calls and people were telling me that they had caught the suspect, they had caught the suspect and it was absolutely false, but it took off on social media, absolutely positive, people of Wildfire was confirming it all over the world. place where my mother called me, she said, oh, congratulations, you called him. I say, uh, no, your mom really called, yeah, she called, and my mom, you know, no, she doesn't call me during the day, she knows I'm busy, but she called.

I say no, no, we didn't catch anyone, but the officers and agents in the field looking for the bombers began to wonder if they could now retreat. I went into our Operations Center, hit the radio and deleted all the channels and it said the rumors that the suspects were captured are not true, everyone keep doing what you are doing, be careful, but two suspects were there again that night , the sobering truth of the matter was clear, the two real attackers were still at large and were able to attack again they think they got away with it they say Che they don't know who I am we have moments on our side major zarf tamberlin was at home in this Cambridge apartment building where he lived with his wife Catherine and a young daughter, a poxer expert, no one at his gym had any idea what he had done.

Young Zarth Johar returned to school at the University of Massachusetts. Dartmouth surveillance video shows him in the school's gym the day after the

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. in college living his life absolutely going to the gym hanging out with friends and friends would later say he showed up at several parties that week where he was known as a low level marijuana dealer while we were trying to figure out who these guys were and where they were you know what We were in this frantic effort, we knew what they had just done, they were out there, they could be planning to do something else, we have to stop these guys, but not before there is more bloodshed and death, respond to the fallen officer. officer down entire unit officer down