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Just after the second marathon explosion, the fbi says video caught dzhokhar tsarnaev running away, while firefighters rushed toward the blast scene to help. about 12 minutes before the bombings, a surveillance camera mounted on this corner captured video of two men carrying backpacks on the marathon route about two and a half blocks from where the bomb went off. the fbi says video shows tsarnaev at the site of the booming just before the blast. severely wounded herself, this witness recalled waking in the hospital and saying to look for her friend. and this witness said it was the last time s...

Good morning. i'm carol costello. thank you for being with us. stories we're watching in the newsroom, lower open on wall street. world markets dropped today, partly because of slower manufacturing in china. one good note in the u.s. economy. last week's jobless claims ticked down more than expected. >> a 37-year-old man in custody in connection with an investigation of ricin laced letters. matthew buquet was arrested. and an vastgation into the fertilizer plant explosion in west, texas, it says they may never know the cause. the safety board chair says federal and texas agencies refuse to g...

Country may have targets. in this situation, it enables them to go on the blast scene and not be overwhelmed by it. >> the techniques here are used by the same hundreds of agents that deploy to scenes like the boston marathon bombing. and the fertilizer plant blast in west, texas. >> that's cool. put that in the evidence, in the bucket. >> how do you stay ahead of the terrorists? >> as devices are recovered and reengineered, you look at the tactics and techniques that they use and learn from it. >> the atf says most bombs use a simple gun powder and energy source like batteries. >> five years ...

And, ed, will the president be speaking at that memorial service? >> reporter: it's our understanding that will be happening. but what's more impressive that will happen here at this scene here today is the massive contingency, a show of force of firefighters from around the region who will be showing up to hohn yort victims to honor the victims that died in that fire. all this happening as the investigation at the scene continues. and yesterday we got our first up close look at the blast scene. >> a bomb just went off inside here. it's pretty bad. we have a lot of firemen down. >> reporter: c...

Away to the waco area, as you mentioned, lacerations, cuts, those type of injuries. these were people a couple of miles from the blast scene. anybody who was at that blast scene -- i don't know if you just saw that video we just showed. any chance somebody fighting a fire and is right up there on those flames could survive something like that? >> you never know. so you want to keep your hope. i have not seen the video of what took place there. but you hope that people who survived the blast itself, they were evacuated quickly. what you want to do with an explosion of ammonia, you want to get p...