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video, with any images they have of when those two bombs were detonated. >> reporter: a law enforcement official tells cbs news, the bombs that exploded near the finish line of the boston marathon, were built and put in place to look like pieces of trash. the devices were put inside pressure cookers and placed insiding bags. the pots were packed with nails and small metal pellets. >> we were maybe 10 feet away from the explosion. >> reporter: nicholas yanni and his wife are among the survive overs, -- survivors being treat federal are shrapnel injuries and pierced ear drums. >> i cou...

from nbc news, this is a special edition of "today," with lester holt live from kabul, and tamron hall, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. welcome to "today" on a saturday morning, or afternoon where i am. i'm lester holt reporting from afghanistan. >> i'm tamron hall. it's almost 11 years since the war there began. it's a time of transition that we're witnessing, lester. >> tamron, indeed it is. the surge troops are gone. 68,000 u.s. soldiers remain. trying to get the afghan troops ready to take control of their country and the fight. how is that effort going? i'll have muc...

economy around. but new optimism could help energize president obama. hallie jackson has this "201 commitment 2012" report. >> a new poll shows president obama with the double-digit lead over mitt romney in ohio. mitt romney's bus tour makes its final stop today in a key state . >> ohioans, you have a huge say so in this. >> fewer americans are working today -- >> there flooding the state with ads that showed that romney is better for the economy. >> it is a repeat of what he said four years ago. >> it may be a tough sell in a state where unemployment is lower than the national avera...

romney took in cash in private! fundraisers, a bus tour of ohio and a stop in virginia. president obama raised money in milwaukee, with the help of baseball icon hank aaron. both spoke about the economy. and romney did notmy back off h argument that the president is making more dependent on government. >> the fact that we have one out of six people in poverty is unacceptable. the fact that we have 47 million on food stamps. 47 million.d8 when he took off, there were 32 million on food stamps. >> this country does not success when few doht well, america succeeds when folks working ...

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