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Asking him to fire rosenstein. mr. trumps longtime personal attorney who is expected to appear in new york federal court tomorrow. rick. rick: laura, reporting. the bells are ringing in boston city mark five years since the marathon terror attack. how the community is remembering those lives that were lost. plus, the regional reaction to the us led strikes in syria decidedly different than the pentagons assessment. details on that coming up but first here is texas congressman john ratcliff some ...

Marathon terror attack and today nearly two years after the bombing, prosecutors are laying out the case against him. were live at the courthouse next. [ male announcer ] at northrop grumman, weve always been at the forefront of advanced electronics. providing technology to get more detail... ♪ ♪ detect hiddethreats... ♪ ♪ see the whole picture... ♪ ♪ process critical information and put it in the has of our defenders. reaching constantly evolving threatbefore they reach us. thats th...

The story. at first, the clerk thought he was drunk, but he realized whats happening, gave him the phone and the police are there in minutes. >> eric, thats an amazing story. you got the interview we all wanted. when i saw nit "the boston globe," i had to talk to you. eric, thank you very much. >> thank you for having me. >> greta: straight ahead, why are we paying the salary of a u.n. official who blames america on the boston bombings? and disturbing news tonight. were there red flags that were...

This is cnn breaking news. >> you are watching cnns continuing coverage of the capture of the second suspect in the boston marathon bombings. >> and lets get the latest after a very dramatic day here in the united states. [ applause ] >> you hear the cheers for bostons finest on friday night, a standing ovation for federal and local authorities after they captured the second suspect in bostons marathon terror attack. but it did not happen peacefully. gunfire erupted after the police had dzhokhar...

Tamerlan, he died after a shootout. the suspects threw a grenade and five pipe bombs at police during that confrontation overnight. three of those bombs detonated, two didnt. were also told that investigators are recovering what they describe as a significant amount of homemade explosives in their pursuit, including a pressure cooker bomb similar to one of the bombs used in the marathon terror attack. once again, as soon as this news conference begins in watertown, well have live coverage. in th...

It looks like a harmless device. the main reason is maybe as land mines that you can put that in the ground and with the pressure, you know, with it sealed it avoids environmental contamination and keeps the contents dry and ready to explode and protects the inner workings of the bomb. thats been the more common reason for doing it in the past. with all the publicity this week, it may gain popularity here as well unfortunately. >> thank you so much. >> youre welcome. thank you. >> from iraq to a...

Again, they are in a really stuff spot. the public is saying, protect us, do something, help us. heather: and we dont know what they know that they cannot share with us. >> exactly. heather: all they can do is reassure us and remind us, in times like these as the president said we are not democrat, we are not republican, we are all americans. thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it, bill, back to the scene there with you. bill: all right, heather thank you. in a moment here well go to...

Matter if its a marathon or concert or a yankees game, at the end you will have the most highly concentrated groups of people. heather: we dont want to place blame at this point. >> were not placing became. what im looking at here though from an attackers point of view is, a unconventional warfare attacker is always looking attack ticks that are used by law enforcement and the awareness of the civilian population. and then adjust their tactics to maneuver around those things. heather: so they pe...

Archaeologist putting together a puzzle. where do they think the bomb was put together? do they have any idea? >> reporter: the latest information we have from a congressional source this morning is that the working theory is that because this type of explosive, the black powder, these were not devices that were assembled at a great distance and transferred in, the risk of a premature detonation would have been too high. the working theory is they would have to be a accepted -bld close to the bl...

If they get a piece of the label, or some other logo from the bag. same thing with containers inside. and what was used to actually hold the explosive, and hold the shrapnel. all of those things will be recoverable if they can find them, and if they can, you know, piece together that that probably came from the device, and was it just part of the other trash that was in the area that got spread around. >> im sure theyll be looking closely at this image to see if in fact they blow it up or whatev...