going to -- back to the 15th, if you can remember, these were not suicide bombers, not people who were -- these were people looking to hide. well, if you're going to try to hide successfully, you should hide the evidence. and so this is just consistent with what you were saying that none of it really makes sense in terms of what were they -- what were they thinking of doing if they were thinking about the cover-up. and then that's where the friends come in. and just essentially try to hide this stuff because as one of them says, you know, we were friends, i didn't want to get him into trouble. it shows a disjoint between what happened and the activity of these students. >> and we're minutes away, we're minutes away from this very first court appearance with the three young students, these three young people at the federal courthouse, not too far from where we are here in boston. brian todd is there, i'm sure with a bevy of other news crews, awaiting this first appearance. brian, tell me what you're seeing and what do we expect? >> reporter: well, brooke, we