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Group or those people who rented that place or have been in the basement for two weeks doing this or that and making purchases. so the public help here is going to be crucial in addition in addition to solid painstaking investigation. >> one quick word and then ive got to bring in our journalists, reassure the folks watching. there is a lot to go on. even though these are small devices, youve got where the jiffy bag was bought, the tape used, the glue on the stamps, the ink in the printer. is th...

We traced nails, carpenter nails put in packages to the hardware stores that sold them. i never thought you could do that. you can do that. the fbi will do that. this will get solved. >> and commissioner, you just mentioned misspellings, which are sometimes intentional to throw people off. >> thats correct. but this is one of the things the investigators are now doing in their searching of social media. potential suspects who may have advanced threats against any of these individuals. the fact t...

We traced nails, carpenter nails put in packages to the hardware stores that sold them. i never thought you could do that. you can do that. the fbi will do that. this will get solved. >> and commissioner, you just mentioned misspellings, which are sometimes intentional to throw people off. >> thats correct. but this is one of the things the investigators are now doing in their searching of social media. potential suspects who may have advanced threats against any of these individuals. the fact t...

Of devices, we know from talking to doctors, there were carpenter nails, bee bb-like devices. and then its indiscriminate. it travels very fast. and theyve behaving, in some ways, like bullets. it can cause all sorts of different injuries. yeah, it could have been a lot worse. one thing i will say when you fire a gun or a bullet, its designed to travel a certain speed, a certain direction. this is just sort of like a scatter shock of things. >> david also talked about you hear it after it hits y...

Three people are dead. do you think this is the maximum damage that was done? or could this have been a lot worse? >> its a good question. when you think about these types of devices, we know from talking to doctors, there were carpenter nails, bee bb-like devices. and then its indiscriminate. it travels very fast. and theyve behaving, in some ways, like bullets. it can cause all sorts of different injuries. yeah, fit could have been a lot worse. one thing i will say when you fire a gun or a bul...

They have 42 operating rooms, they cleared seven of them right away and got those patients up there. so that was, you know, all within the first couple of hours. >> also, what theyre finding inside the patients is part of the investigation, ball bearings, bbs. >> yeah, and they confirmed that today. it can be very hard. ive seen the situation. you do have debris from the area, and sometimes its difficult to parse out what exactly is this and where did it come? we ask that question very clearly t...

Projecti projectiles, also found carpenter nails and those round -- those round objects in one patient had both, other patients just had nails. so the point here being that we now know from the doctors here that there was specific effort made to implant devices that would maximize injury into these bomb blasts. i spoke with the doctors about how resilient the patients have been. one of the doctors told me that the patients when they came in were remarkably stoic, saying that they were almost her...

Terrific reporting from there bringing us all the latest information. poppy, whats new now? >> reporter: good morning, john. some very critical information just came out of the press conference with doctors from brigham and womens hospital. we know there are 31 patients here at the hospital, 5 in critical condition right now. the news out of this press conference is -- and im quoting the doctor here that held the press conference -- no question some of the objects were implanted in the device. w...

Going to expect, lower limb injuries, you heard that. >> the amputations. >> thats the amputations. at least one patient here who had a head injury that required an operation further away from the explosive site. and one patient had shrapnel injury to the neck that actually hit one of the arteries and that needed to be operated right away. those patients are doing okay, my understanding is. that gives you an idea of the nature. >> there were questions over the shrapnel and the nature of the meta...

Deadly bombs were apparently placed inside metal pressure cookers and hidden inside backpacks. doctors believe that pellets, nails, carpenter nails and other sharp objects were packed inside the bombs and used as projectiles and to inflict maximum damage on people when the bombs exploded. >> there are a variety of sharp objects that we found in their bodies, probably this bomb had multiple metallic fragments in them and we removed pellets and nails. >> we are expecting another press conference a...