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Have tamerlan tsarnaev on one government watch list well before the boston bombings. rick nelson is an expert on government databases. why didn't the watch list prevent this? >> difficult for the watch list in and of itself to stop the attack, it is just data, it is information. >> reporter: there are many watch lists, from border patrol to the fbi to the cia. the older brother and his mother were on one called the terrorist identities data mark environment or tide a low level list. something that came to a first line of defense. there's no active surveillance of people on tide, names are kept...

Getting her details? >> where are you getting your details? >> the internet. >> where everyone else gets their details, on the internet. >> last thing on this before i move on. this terrorist database tied. >> it stands for terrorist identities data environment. they picked words to make an acronym for this? >> absolutely. >> we need to stop doing that. >> i want to point out before we move on andy, we haven't had baker on since he moved to idaho. i forgot how great he smells. america doesn't know t you smell like the inside of a faberge egg. smell him. >> it's really good. >> it's stunning. >...

Bombing case. you're looking at times square. authorities say the suspect planned to attack next. mayor michael bloomberg said the city would have been prepared but cautioned the toll could have been catastrophic. also tonight, russia warned the u.s. about the mother of the suspects and her name was also put on the terrorist identities data base. want to bring back john miller. john, so many twists and turns to this. let's get into when dzhokhar tsarnaev is taken to hospital and his life has been saved, he's not dead, so he can be interrogated. the fbi get in there, they start interrogating bu...

And that the father and others may be having problems with. >> brian todd, thank you very much. we are just learning that the russians also asked the united states to check up on the brother's mother. her name was actually added to a data base called t.i.d.e. the terrorist identities data mart environment. her name was added at the same time her son tamerlan's name was also added to that database. obviously, this opens up the investigation even further. let's go back to nick peyton walsh. nick, you have actually had a chance to meet this woman, speak to this woman. any idea why she made author...

Planned to attack next. mayor michael bloomberg said the city would have been prepared but cautioned the toll could have been catastrophic. also tonight, russia warned the u.s. about the mother of the suspects and her name was also put on the terrorist identities data base. want to bring back john miller. john, so many twists and turns to this. let's get into when dzhokhar tsarnaev is taken to hospital and his life has been saved, he's not dead, so he can be interrogated. the fbi get in there, they start interrogating but after 16 hours and plenty of information coming out, they suddenly have ...