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Have tamerlan tsarnaev on one government watch list well before the boston bombings. rick nelson is an expert on government databases. why didnt the watch list prevent this? >> difficult for the watch list in and of itself to stop the attack, it is just data, it is information. >> reporter: there are many watch lists, from border patrol to the fbi to the cia. the older brother and his mother were on one called the terrorist identities data mark environment or tide a low level list. something tha...

Getting her details? >> where are you getting your details? >> the internet. >> where everyone else gets their details, on the internet. >> last thing on this before i move on. this terrorist database tied. >> it stands for terrorist identities data environment. they picked words to make an acronym for this? >> absolutely. >> we need to stop doing that. >> i want to point out before we move on andy, we havent had baker on since he moved to idaho. i forgot how great he smells. america doesnt know...

Bombing case. youre looking at times square. authorities say the suspect planned to attack next. mayor michael bloomberg said the city would have been prepared but cautioned the toll could have been catastrophic. also tonight, russia warned the u.s. about the mother of the suspects and her name was also put on the terrorist identities data base. want to bring back john miller. john, so many twists and turns to this. lets get into when dzhokhar tsarnaev is taken to hospital and his life has been ...

And that the father and others may be having problems with. >> brian todd, thank you very much. we are just learning that the russians also asked the united states to check up on the brothers mother. her name was actually added to a data base called t.i.d.e. the terrorist identities data mart environment. her name was added at the same time her son tamerlans name was also added to that database. obviously, this opens up the investigation even further. lets go back to nick peyton walsh. nick, you...

Planned to attack next. mayor michael bloomberg said the city would have been prepared but cautioned the toll could have been catastrophic. also tonight, russia warned the u.s. about the mother of the suspects and her name was also put on the terrorist identities data base. want to bring back john miller. john, so many twists and turns to this. lets get into when dzhokhar tsarnaev is taken to hospital and his life has been saved, hes not dead, so he can be interrogated. the fbi get in there, the...

More pure and devout norm of islam than anybody else in the family. >> brian todd, thank you very much. the mother and tamerlan, we have breaking news right now. we are just learning that the russians also asked the united states to check up on the brothers mother. a crucial new development tonight. her name was actually added to a database called t.i.d.e., the terrorist identities data mart environment. her name was added at the same time her son tamerlans name was also added to that database. ...

And when you have somebody who is the subject of basically an assessment, is this person instituting a threat either on u.s. soil or russians, gathering information, thats one of the people you would place in tide. and thats the terrorist identities data mart environment. basically the white pages of terrorism. anybody who has ever come up in anything to a certain criteria can go in t.i.d.e. but thats not a watch list. t.i.d.e. doesnt ring any bells. its not the terrorist watch list, its not the...