Page 89 - Explosive Device News Today

What that person was using as a guide or if they had a specific teacher show them how to do it. thats a very important -- thats how the investigation is similar to after an airplane crash when they reconstruct the plane to see exactly where the explosion happened and the parts that were closest to it. thats a very important feature, often, surprisingly, you can have something as part of the explosive device and yet still have the bombmakers dna, hair, skin particles or some other fluid on there ...

Explosive device hit us and shattered the window next to us. and, you know, and i looked back and i see a cloud of smoke. >> it took probably five or ten seconds to realize what had happened because it couldnt happen there. so, it was just too surreal. >> still personal tragedy quickly turned into communal hope as the city almost instantly came together. to comfort the fallen. and aid the afflicted. >> they responded within 15 seconds. you saw everybody coming down here. >> marathon volunteers a...

On another breaking development. and that is that we have the new pictures with bill hemmer and this is a picture believed to be something they are looking at as a possible explosive device or at least the suspect explosive device that may have been one of the areas of explosion in the boston bombing. there on the spot shadow that bag, that area right there may have been a trash can. you can see that bag right there. they are looking closely at that apparently were being told by authorities that...

Narrow any way, because a person would not want to leave a device there and figure its going to be in tact for 12 or 24 hours. they would pretty much assume that any backpack or package left on the ground is going to be picked up and examined within a short period of time. so it will be pretty much expected that a person would bring the device to the scene and have it detonated a short time later to avoid having it picked up by the authorities. i would like to add, much speculation has been made...

Perhaps. it just shows how many people can figure out how to make a simple explosive device that can have a lot of power and can injure a lot of people. so thats the preliminary assessment. down the road, well know for sure just what these bombs were made of. >> as far as your understanding, joe, i know theyre going down every single avenue, questioning people that are of interest to them. no one taken into custody at this point. do they have too much information as some former fbi agents were s...

Year long by runners, by their families and those who wanted to come out and support them. a day that meant so much to this city, a day that has now ended in tragedy. that is what it looked like just before 3:00 p.m., four hours, nine minutes and 44 seconds into that race. the first explosion on boylston street just off copley square, across from the public library, really the heart of boston. then 12 seconds later, about 100 yards up the street, a second explosion. elsewhere, authorities found ...

We know that about 17,000 runners had already crossed the finish line on boylston street, another 6,000 headed that way when the first big bomb went off just short of the finish line. and about two football fields away, 12 seconds later the second bomb went off. obviously those sites, tom, are critical to investigators in terms of physical evidence. what are they looking at right now. >> tom, the first thing they want to do is recover as much of the bomb device as they can, to help identify who ...

A clear signature, often you get that within 24 hours or so. that is the nervousness you find among state and local officials working with federal authorities that theyre desperate for answers here, at the moment mostly questions. >> no one has claimed any responsibility domestically, internationally, any place. >> right. that is also a signature of international terrorist groups who need to claim responsibility to get the attention in their view to get the credit sadly for something like this. ...

Responsibility of this terror attack. a source telling cnn the two bombs that exploded were small with no signs of high grade explosive tematerial. police found and defused one other explosive device. we started to show you this tape earlier. this is how it unfolded in real time. this is the reality of what happened today here in boston. [ explosion ] [ second explosion ] [ screaming ]

To the crime lab in quantico. try to reconstruct the explosive device, and then hope they can find a fingerprint, dna, some signature that might lead them to an individual or to an organization. i can tell you, though, at this point, wolf, all the sources i have talked to, they say this is not a bluff. that they have no suspect identified so far. they had a saudi national identified as a person of interest. they conducted a search of his apartment and said that individual has been cleared. in th...