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0 reliable sources. i m howard kurtz. if you missed any part of the program, you go to itunes and search for reliable sources to get our podcast. we are back here next sunday morning 11:00 a.m. early start begins right now. the surviving boston bombing suspect locked in a 10x10 cell this morning, talking less about the attack now that he s been read his miranda rights. plus tracking the terror trail in russia with secret recordings traced to the suspect s mother. and new heights for new york and actually for the nation. a live look at the skyscraper rising from the site of the fallen twin towers about to become the tallest in the western hemisphere. good morning to you. welcome to early start. happy you re with us this morning. i m zoraida sambolin in new york. and i m john berman live in boston. it s monday, april 29th. it s 5:00 a.m. in the east. we re back in boston this monday morning following all the latest developments in the boston marathon bombing investigation. our lead is reconstructing exactly what happened in russia. the fbi is now working with russian security officials to piece together suspected boston bomber tamerlan tsarnaev s every move during his 2011 visit to russia. investigators say they believe the tsarnaev brothers were likely self-radicalized and used the internet to make their bombs, but they are still looking at the possibility that other people in russia or in the u.s. may have been influences or accomplices. among these people, their mother, along with tamerlan s wife, who converted it s to islam when she married him in 2010. the bombing suspect s father postponed his trip to the united states. he told russian state media he is in the hospital because of a blood pressure spike. two weeks after the boston terror attack, more than two dozen people are still recovering in the hospital. right now officials say dzhokhar tsarnaev is able to speak, he s locked in a 10x10 cell. our pamela brown is live with the latest on the investigation. good morning, pamela. reporter: good morning to you. according to a prison hospital official we spoke with, dzhokhar tsarnaev is speaking with hospital officials, we re not sure whether he is speaking with other officials and his attorney, but that does mean his condition has improved. inside these prison walls, bombing suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev is living in solitude in a 10x10 cell, a slot for food and watched 24 hours a day. the accommodations are spare, a toilet, sink and bed. there is only room for 30 offenders in this special section, and now tsarnaev is one of them. as investigators figure out how and why he allegedly killed out the attacks with his brother, the justice department s role in the investigation has come under intense scrutiny. tsarnaev has stopped given substantive information since being given his miranda rights. in an exclusive interview on saturday night, attorney general eric holder commented on the situation. can you comment on tsarnaev s m miranda rights? we had a two-day period we were able to question him under the public safety exception. everything was done appropriately and we got good leads. reporter: republican congressman peter king strongly disagreed saying more time to interrogate tsarnaev could have brought forth new critical information to keep america save. disgraceful. that interrogation could have ended up saving many american lives. we don t know what the full consequences are. reporter: tsarnaev s brother tamerlan and his mother had been listed in a u.s. counterterroism database since russia raised concerns about them in 2011 and intelligence officials told cnn it was within that same year that an official with knowledge of the situation is saying that a communication was intercepted between the mother and one of their sons discussing jihad. the information came on a wiretap of the mother that the russians turned over only in recent days. vladimir putin acknowledges that the situation could have been handled better. to my great regret we were not able to provide our american colleagues information that would have had operative significance. attorney general eric holder declined to comment on the wiretap. in addition to the terrorism charges tsarnaev faces, he could face more charges soon. a grand jury is being presented with evidence and an indictment will be presented sometime in the next few weeks. that we can expect to see tsarnaev in court. john? our thanks to tampa brown in massachusetts where tsarnaev is being held now. we want to go to russia right now. we have new information out of russia. nick what is the latest out of moscow? it is a complex chain of events here, but it leads to a village at dagestan last night where at 5:00 in the morning russian special forces killed two militants they are linked through their own investigations here, tangent links between them and tamerlan tsarnaev. tsarnaev was linked to a man off his youtube page. we don t know if they met, but tamerlan was interested in his activities. that man was killed in december, but in his group are a number of other militants. one of them was killed last night by russian special forces in dagestan. they surrounded the house he was in. there appears to be a standoff and quite a violent end. we know these men were linked, not only have we seen pictures of them hanging out together in the forest, you can see some of these pictures here. we also have seen a police wanted list at a police station in russia showing these men, showing them as part of the group, all sought by russian authorities. we don t have a direct tie between those men and tsarnaev apart from the link on the youtube page. right now the fbi are hunting people stateside, the fsb, special services here, are hunting down the militants who have some sort of links to tsarnaev. and one of those raids ended deadly early this morning. at a minimum, a great deal of activity among the russian special services directed again at this group that tamerlan tsarnaev was interested in here. at least that s where he posted videos, correct? absolutely. this is the key thing here. we heard very little information from the russians about what they knew when publicly. they seem to be handling information through closed channels to the fbi. though some suggestions are that this was belated. on the ground now, this may be a coincidence, a man linked to the militant group who tamerlan tsarnaev was interested enough in to link to on his youtube account. that man was hunted down last night with his accomplices. it is said perhaps he is the brother who took the leadership of this group, a group responsible for some outrageous crimes in southern russia, and he was hunted down early this morning. all right. a lot of activity going on. thank you. back here in boston, we re standing in front of the memorial, just two weeks ago this was the finish line of the boston marathon. now this memorial is growing bigger and bigger by the day. more remarkable messages i was reading here this morning. it s quite lovely. maybe you can share some of those messages with us later. new this morning a mississippi man due in court today accused of sending letters to president obama and two others tainted with the deadly poison ricin. 41-year-old james everett dutschke, a martial arts instructor and former political candidate was arrested over the weekend. he is charged with possession and use of a biological agent. dutschke allegedly sent the letters to the president, a local mississippi judge as well sgloch . four people recovering from injuries after a man with a knife charged a church choir in new mexico after its closing hymn. witnesses say the suspect jumped over several pews and started stabbing people. parishioners including the flute player tackled him and held him until police arrived. i just dropped my flute, i charged the guy. i got him into a bear hug and pinned him against the wall, but he was much taller than i have. we had one woman, 80 years old, she wouldn t have been able to defend herself. 24-year-old lawrence capner was arrested. he is not a member of the charge. the four people who were stabbed are expected to recover. president obama will nominate charlotte mayor anthony fox to become the next transportation secretary. that s expected later today. foxx s city hosted the democratic national convention last year, and the nomination would make him the only african-american picked for a cabinet spot in the president s second term. a big milestone in new york city today. at noon eastern, the final sections of the spire will be raised to the top of 1 world trade center. once they re installed, the freedom tower will officially become the tallest building in the western hemisphere at 1,776 feet. a proud day for new yorkers and the entire nation after more than six years of construction. only two buildings in the world will stand taller once that spire is in place. the burj khalifa is the tallest, followed by the makkah royal hot hotel. coming up who killed an 8-year-old girl in her california home over the weekend? 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