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With the south carolina district. theres another race going on here in massachusetts though you wouldnt necessarily know it because so much focus has been on the boston terrorist attacks. today a primary election is being held to pick democratic and republican candidates to run against each other for john kerrys former senate seat. he stepped down earlier this year when he took the job as secretary of state. virginias governor is getting heat over a wedding gift to his daughter. "the washing...

Welcome back to cnn. im jake tapper with my colleague brooke baldwin. were live in boston right in front of copley square for special coverage of the investigation and the fallout of the boston marathon terrorist attacks. three lives lost in those bombings, more than 260 people wounded, but their injuries are getting better. thankfully cnn learned 20 boston bombing victims remain in the hospital and not a single one of them is currently listed in critical condition. were waiting right now on a...

Driving all of this is that transfers out of the prison have dried up. theres not been a low level prisoner transferred since 2011 who wasnt ordered released by a judge or some other judicial process. 86 have been long since designated for potential transfers, security conditions have been -- can be met but they remain stuck there more than three years later and president obama until recently had not talked about closing guantanamo any more and reassigned the ambassador whose job it was to negot...

I do think we have to go back and review what happened. we have to look at the immigration status, the fact of how the russians shared this information. weve got to look at all of this. i think you have to have a starting point. when you have three people dead, over 200 people injured, people have lost limbs that we have one of the biggest terrorist attacks on the homeland, your starting point is hey everybody did their job and did great. thats not your starting point. your starting point is thi...

As so much of the progressive left. they dont want you to say anything about these islamic jihadi threat if it can be remotely construed as a quote unquote hate crime as homophobe homophobeic or racist or whatever. >> as far as i can tell, it hasnt been a dominant theme of the past two weeks. of course, youll have some talk on some far crazy websites of that kind of thing, but if there was some epidemic of retaliation against muslims in the wake of what we saw two weeks ago, okay. but there hasn...

M.i.t. police officer allegedly gunned down by the suspects in the desperate hours after they were identified. were also remembering today the wounded. 20ictims the terrorist attacks in boston are still in the hospital out of the 264 who were initially injured. one of them is jared cloury. he and his friends heard the first blast in boston and were trying to jump the barricade into the street to get to safety when the second explosion went off right at their feet. >> i stopped for just a secon...

The makeshift memorial behind us. paid her respects and then wheeled off. just literally hundreds of these victims. more and more of them being discharged from hospitals and wanting to get on with their lives wanting to rebuild their lives as much as we can. it is a testament. we talked about this it is a testament to the unbelievable medical work done by both the first responders here who in their makeshift tent theyre there for the marathon at that moment, compromised the biggest emergency roo...

Frightening word these days. >> i probably said, bomb, bomb, about -- 100 times in that terminal. and through tsa. >> reporter: traveling with friend to an 18th century battle re-enactme re-enactment, doil planned ahead, carrying medical documentation. it got him through security. the jetblue pilot heard doyle say bomb, and refused to allow him on the flight. his friend stayed with him. >> it is frustrating. especially after three hours of sitting there, and two years planning. doesnt happen. >>...

I said this after 9/11, too. of course, you really see hatred when you point out inconvenient truths. the fact is that many of these grievance groups, whether its care or the american arab anti-discrimination committee, a lot of these groups, of course, that are very tight with the justice department have claimed that there is this climate of intolerance towards muslims, and theyre always rushing to find with their m micro scopes and magnifying glasses some sort of evidence of systemic discrimin...

>> shepard: thanks, catherine. the surviving suspect, dzhokar tsarnaev just got a new attorney, month the defendants she had let represented. in the unibomber, ted kozinski, and jarred loughner who shot congresswoman gabrielle giffords in tucson. both killers were spared the death penalty and are serving life sentences instead. shes good. >> she is supposed to be good but she supposed to be really good at negotiating life sentences. not -- im sure she has trial experience, but she goes in there ...