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Assistant director of the fbi counter terrorism division, thank you. >> welcome. >> where do you again? >> well, theyve begun and there is a long trail to follow z that is what is going to -- you follow the trail. no preconceived notions and speculation. when i talk about the trail o of -- forensics. the explosive people from ts police department and fbi lab and people going to be looking at the bombs going to try to identify anything abnormal about them, anything to do with the devices. and how...

Finish line. back to you. >> thank you very much. >> terrible. >> meanwhile the fbi taking a lead in the boston bombing. the agency spent years creating a system for catching would be bombers before they can build a bomb. >> the fbi is focusing on examining the clues from the marathon route. this includes looking at all of the bags that were dropped as the runners and bystanders left the area. they are looking at surveillance video and cell phone video and on-line chatter and forensics from the ...

Represented in this race. tell me what we know, fran. do we know any hard evidence yet that could lead us to a potential suspect? >> well, there are clearly persons of interest. we know that there is one saudi national who was wounded in the leg who is being spoken to and investigative leads are being run. but we should be clear with our viewers, piers, the fact that someones a person of interest, that can go either way. the leads will get run and the person will be cleared, or the person may be...

Whats left to what they see in these photographs, and try to see what they can learn in particular about the construction of these specific devices. theyll then try to see what they can learn about the device thats not pictured from the other bomb site in boston. theyll look for things like fingerprints, dna samples. you may find dna samples of victims, wolf, but you also may find dna samples of hair, and skin samples from the bomb maker himself. those are the sorts of details that they will beg...

Assistant director of the fbi counter terrorism division, thank you. >> welcome. >> where do you again? >> well, theyve begun and there is a long trail to follow z that is what is going to -- you follow the trail. no preconceived notions and speculation. when i talk about the trail o of -- forensics. the explosive people from ts police department and fbi lab and people going to be looking at the bombs going to try to identify anything abnormal about them, anything to do with the devices. and how...

Assistant director of the fbi counter terrorism division, thank you. >> welcome. >> where do you again? >> well, theyve begun and there is a long trail to follow z that is what is going to -- you follow the trail. no preconceived notions and speculation. when i talk about the trail o of -- forensics. the explosive people from ts police department and fbi lab and people going to be looking at the bombs going to try to identify anything abnormal about them, anything to do with the devices. and how...

Of frustration from sources you talk to in private, and at the public briefing, you heard the fbi special agent in charge, asking anyone who might think, would have any slightest clue, did you know anyone who might have had a big black nylon bag, who might have said something disparaging about the marathon, clearly what im told by sources, the public briefing they said there were no suspects as yet. what im told in private is a frantic review of the video evidence under way. there are gaps in th...

Not certain exactly what that means. but they say theres really -- its too soon to know one way or the other about him. he may have simply been an instant bystander and hes denied having anything to do with this. but that is an area theyre looking at. mika? >> pete, what do we know right now about any forensic evidence having to do with the kind of bombs employed, the kinds of devices employed? what with uz left? what have they found? do we know anything about the forensics of this investigation...

A look at. how does that kind of information sort of pops on to the screen from an amateur do to the investigation? >> chris, its a tremendous value to the investigator. there were many bombings over 3 1/2 decades. we had no picture at all. so you had this bombing, bombings, that was done in the crowded city center for the purpose of theater, terrorism theater. you had worldwide media. you had everybody with their electronic devices in the digital age. theres going to be pictures of the bomber. ...

Tips that are coming in. theyre looking at all sorts of pictures that theyre getting. but at the same time, theyre moving relatively slowly to actually analyze the evidence on the scene. it appears now, lawrence, that they wont actually get down on their hands and knees and do that painstaking gathering up of evidence and forensics until tomorrow, possibly, because theyre concerned of all these packages that they need to run down to make sure theyre not hazardous. and possibly because they want ...