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Year's attack weren't mentioned yesterday. dzhokhar tsarnaev is in -- on trial in november. his attorneys will be in boston's courtroom at a hearing that will address prison restrictions imposed on him. abc's brian ross has more. >> he is in isolation in a small cell at a federal prison hospital outside boston. he's 20 years old now. his visitors have included his lawyers and his two sisters. he is given meals prepared under muslim guidelines but no radio and tv. we haven't heard anything publicly and certainly no apology. his lawyers say his defense will be he was under the sway of his older ...

Analyst and a senior partner at flash point global partners. we were talking about this a little in the break. first of all, what do we know about the tsarnaev brothers and what might have caused them to become radicalized. >> we know bits and pieces. reportedly, the fbi has found multiple copies of a magazine on these folks' computers, inspire magazine. it's a bomb-making manual written by al qaeda in yemen written in english. its purpose is to teach radical -- the lone wolf terrorist attack. was this what radicalized them? were they radicalized before they got this? it's not really clear. wh...

Risks probably come from this area. we are now in chechnya, in grozny. this was the scene of two very violent wars between chechen separatists, chechen rebels who wanted independence and the russian government. and grozny, if you remember, became something of the by-word for destruction. this entire city was flattened during the two wars in the 1990s. after and during those two conflicts -- by the way, you can see the city has been completely rebuilt. it's something -- >> it looks terrific behind you. >> reporter: a lot of people were surprised. i myself was surprised at how gleaming sochi has...

Undermine that prestige. patti ann: his group of chechen rebels is believed to have inspired the tsarnaev brothers, they were from the caucasus. is that the strategy to hit the soft targets and not sochi itself, but a transportation hub that people will pass through to get there that's less protected? >> i don't think we know what is ultimate strategy is. but sochi is pretty much shut down. people can come in there, but everything will be examined, their bagged and luggage. everything will be examined. it will be tougher to penetrate sochi. but given the size of russian, any some of the target...

Connections with radical chechen rebels, but not sure if he had anything to do with radicalizing the tsarnaev brothers. and up next, a witness taking the fifth in congressional hearings on the irs. [ male announcer ] i've seen incredible things. otherworldly things. but there are some things i've never seen before. this ge jet engine can understand 5,000 data samples per second. which is good for business. because planes use less fuel, spend less time on the ground and more time in the air. suddenly, faraway places don't seem so...far away. ♪