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0 more threats out there. and the fbi accused of dropping the ball, why did agents question one of the suspects who years ago and then just let him go? >> and new this morning, the suspect's aunt speaks out what she had to say just moments ago. we are live from russia. good morning, welcome to "early start." i'm john berman live in boston. >> i'm zoraida sambolin in new york city. it's 5:00 a.m. in the east, i know you have a lot going on, john. >> that's right. we begin with new developments unfolding right here in the boston marathon bombing investigation. the surviving suspect, 19-year-old dzhokhar tsarnaev could be criminally charged today. waiting to find out what, if anything, he might be communicating to law enforcement officials. and there are new questions about whether the fbi dropped the ball after being warned by the russians in 2011 about cz tsarnaev's older brother, tamer ly tamerlan. nick paton walsh is in dagestan, and we have joe johns in washington, but we began with pamela brown with the latest on the investigation. after a week of terror, chaos and heartache, the city of boston is still recovering. there are signs that life is starting to return back to normal here. there is a sense of relief after the arrest of the suspect, 19-year-old dzhokhar tsarnaev. now the focus is on what charges he will face and when. >> reporter: one week after two deadly bombings exploded in downtown boston killing three and injuring 183 people, the only surviving suspect remains in serious condition. as federal prosecutors prepare to bring charges against him, law enforcement sources say dzhokhar tsarnaev is unable to talk after a gunshot wound to the neck. exactly when he suffered this injury is still unknown. >> this is a complex investigation. and it's hard to say exactly how he received that injury. there was a shootout in watertown. there were explosives thrown. so that's being looked into right now. it's hard to say how it owe kurd. >> reporter: we're learning more about the tense moments right before tsarnaev's arrest. this video shows him hiding out in a boat in a backyard in watertown. after 25 minutes of negotiations with fbi agents, tsarnaev was apprehended. >> three police officers surrounded the boat, other officers came and assisted. we held that position until the fbi hostage rescue team could come into place. >> in copely square, police are cleaning up the crime scene. despite signs the city is slowly returning to business as usual, heartache remains for many. late their morning, 29-year-old krystle campbell, who was killed in the explosions, will be laid to rest in bedford, massachusetts. a memorial was planned for the third victim, lingzi lu on boston university's campus tonight. critically injured transit officer, richard donohue remains hospitalized. >> this was an injury where the officer's blood volume was almost entirely lost to the point of the heart stopping. >> reporter: now doctors are saying they are cautiously optimistic about his recovery. >> reporter: today at 2:50 p.m., the exact time the first bomb went off a week ago there will ab moment of silence throughout the state of massachusetts. that will be followed by a ringing of the bells in boston and elsewhere. john? >> that's right. the city and the state will come together one more time today at 2:50 p.m. pamela brown, our thanks to you. as developments unfold, investigators will examine the activities of tamerlan tsarnaev including a trip he took to russia. he was on the fbi's radar because of possible links to extremism, so did the agency drop the ball? joe johns has that part of the story. >> reporter: investigators still have a lot to learn about this case, but there's already enough information for policymakers to start asking questions. the question being asked in washington is whether the fbi dropped the ball at the very start. in the search for house suspected marathon bomber tamerlan tsarnaev turned radical a big part of the investigation is what role a six-month trip to russia may have played and what contact he may have had with extremists in chechnya, where his family hales from. >> i think it's probable when he's in the region, a dangerous region known for tactics, he could have possibly been trained at that point. >> reporter: when he got back from russia, tsarnaev started posting radical videos on a new youtube page on a page that bore the name of prominent radicalists. one video showed a video of a jihadist killed in a town where tsarnaev went to visit his father in 2012. >> what does that say to you if anything? >> it's a major point in the investigation. >> reporter: in hindsight, many are asking whether the fbi missed a rising radical, having investigated tsarnaev in 2011 after the russians raised concerns about possible ties to extremis extremists. this man was pointed out by a for win government to be dangerous, he was interviewed by the fbi once. what did they find out? what did they miss? >> i want to know how the fbi or the system dropped the ball when he was identified as a potential terrorist. >> reporter: the fbi says it interviewed him, his family and looked for concerning phone and internet activities and found no threat. after asking russia for more information, moscow did not respond. the fbi closed the case and moved on. >> thousands of these requests come in worldwide. you don't have the resources to follow every person from then on for the rest of their life because they might be a bad guy. >> but what is still not clear is why tsarnaev would target his adopted city. one possibility, the "new york times" reporting that his citizenship was delayed perhaps because of the fbi investigation. >> a lot of questions. thank you. john, back to you. so, the crime scene stretches from behind me in boston all the way to russia's northern caucasus. nick paton walsh just spoke to the suspect's aunt and he is live for us in dagestan what are you learning for us? >> reporter: interesting conversation with the aunt, particularly about the six months with tamerlan tsarnaev and the time he spent here last year. she said he arrived around about march before his father turned up and said he was surprised about how in america he had become a pretty devout muslim, a woman w man who wouldn't look a woman he wasn't related to in the eye. she said his family fled chechnya before the second chechen war. also disbelief from her that her relatives could have been involved. is there a connection between this gunfight involving militant and police in dagestan and one of the boston bombers? the youtube page of deceased brother tamerlan tsarnaev suggest there's might be. he put up a link to a video , te video was removed but cnn found it, and it shows this man, abu dejan the name used by an islamist militant, and russian forces hit his hideout last december. an armored car brought in to kill as many as six militants inside. the grisly aftermath showing their heavy weapons but also the heavy hand used to kill them. four months later the marks remain of the tit for tat violence fueling militancy across this region. neighbors told us the young man who once lived here seemed peaceful, ordinary, but in the dust lies a question, why did tsarnaev's youtube page link to the rants of the militant who died here? in a town where tsarnaev's father lived and tamerlan visited just last year. inside you can see how intense the violence must have been in this apartment, and here could be the clearest link yet between one of the alleged boston bombers and the violence that's been gripping southern russia. a u.s. intelligence source told cnn that tsarnaev brothers' social media accounts are being examined for possible links to extremists in the caucasus, in case they reveal the darkest secrets of boston. why did the bombers do this? now, this does not mean that the two met, but why was he in the same town when he came back to visit his father last year. >> nick paton walsh from d ash s dagestan, thank you. coming up the next hour, peter brooke e brookes and did miss some major pieces of evidence? and chris laurence spoke to some of the stunned classmates at umass dartmouth, and we will hear what they had to say. >> residents of west, texas evacuated after that deadly fertilizer explosion begin picking up the pieces. you are watching "early start." 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