Investigation Into Boston Bombings Continues
POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning, everyone. Welcome to our continuing coverage of the Boston bombing. I am Poppy Harlow, coming to you live this Saturday morning from Boston.</s>HARLOW (voice-over): We have new details about why investigators are combing through a landfill in search of evidence from the Boston bombing suspects. The critical information they hope to find and a possible clue to a possible accomplice. Also there is new evidence this morning that the suspected bombers read an online Al Qaeda- inspired magazine that reads a how-to for how -- for terrorist organizations, how to make a bomb. We'll have much more on that, what it is and how it wasn't just a manual, but may have been -- may have been a motivator. And a second chance to finish the marathon, what one couple is doing to cross the finish line at last.</s>HARLOW: I am here on Boylston Street by the memorial for the victims of the Boston bombing. Here life is trying, people are trying to get back to normal. It is now just over a week since the capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. But while people here in Boston are going about their Saturday morning, a beautiful sunrise to my right, there are still a lot of unanswered questions about what happened and why. And those questions have led investigators to a landfill about an hour away from here.</s>HARLOW (voice-over): It is in New Bedford, Massachusetts. That's right near UMass Dartmouth, where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev went to school. Investigators are looking specifically for a laptop computer. That computer could provide more information about the planning and the execution of this horrific attack. CNN national correspondent Susan Candiotti spoke with our Anderson Cooper about the investigation.</s>SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The leads to search the landfill for that laptop computer came not only from the suspect himself, the young man who is now hospitalized, but others who, according to this official, may have had knowledge of its whereabouts or may even have played a role in ditching it, getting rid of it after the bombing. Now the source says there is also evidence that leads investigators to think that the elder brother, Tamerlan, may have been involved in drug dealing. The source would not elaborate on the nature of the evidence. We've already been talking about the fact they've been looking into whether he may have supported himself through drug dealing; but, of course, if they can find that laptop, Anderson, in this landfill, after it had been ditched somewhere that was, you know, like a dumpster, that eventually made it to the landfill, if they can get into that, they can find out things like e-mails and contacts and schedules and instructions, so much other information about how this plot may have come together.</s>ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST: I understand you also have new information about what the bombs were made of or how they were constructed. What do you know?</s>CANDIOTTI: Well, the belief, number one, is that both of the brothers had a remote device to blow up each of the two bombs. Now in terms of the ingredients, we know that they're still analyzing a lot of this information, but they do know that one of the pipe bombs that was used in that -- the shoot-out in Watertown, those improvised devices were, in fact, constructed from elbow pipes. Now elbow pipes, that is one instruction method, rather, that comes up from time to time in "Inspire" magazine, which is something that has been used and promoted by Al Qaeda to give information about how to make a bomb. So that bit of information also is an important part of this alleged plot investigation.</s>HARLOW: And Susan has been doing phenomenal reporting on this since the start. One of her sources also talked to her about Tamerlan Tsarnaev possibly dealing drugs. Investigators, we know, have been looking into whether Tamerlan supported himself by selling marijuana. That's a possibility that they are looking at. One thing that is also important to note that is developing is that police are taking another look at the 2011 murder of one of Tamerlan's friends from back in his boxing days. That friend's name is Brendan Mett (ph). He and his two other friends were killed. And when their bodies were found, police found marijuana sprinkled on them. So a lot of questions remaining and just developing this morning. In Washington, a warning that more arrests could be coming. It comes from Congressman Mike Rogers. He is the Republican chairman of the House Committee on Intelligence. In an interview with "The Boston Herald" yesterday, Rogers said -- I want to quote here -- "There are clearly more persons of interest and they are not 100 percent sure if there aren't other explosives." He went on to talk about that; he gets daily briefings on this investigation, of course, and he had some very critical words about the decision to Mirandize bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev by his hospital bed several days after his capture, saying this -- and I'll quote -- "I think this was a serious and possibly a dangerous set of decisions made. There's going to be more arrests, I do believe. This is incredibly important, and once he, Tsarnaev, got a lawyer, which the citizens of Boston and America are paying for, he stop stopped cooperating." And we do know that from our sources as well, that (inaudible) any significant information to authorities since he was Mirandized. Now he was questioned for about 16 hours before he was read his Miranda rights. But of course, he was in and out of consciousness, so we don't know how much information he gave. And that questioning came under the public safety exemption. During that questioning, Dzhokhar said that he and his brother acted alone, but investigators have a lot of questions and, of course, many are saying of course he is motivated to say that they acted alone at this point in time. Dzhokhar is right now at a federal hospital, a Federal Prison Hospital in Devens, Massachusetts. It's about 40 miles outside of Boston. He was moved there Friday morning from a Boston hospital, where some of the bombing victims also were being treated. Pamela Brown is at the Federal Medical Center Devens. Pamela, good morning to you. Give our viewers a sense of what it's like there and especially what the conditions were when Dzhokhar was brought to that facility.</s>PAMELA BROWN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: All right. Well, Poppy, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was brought here in the early morning hours of yesterday morning by the U.S. Marshal Service. When he was brought here he went through what's called an intake screening process. Now that entails a strip search, a medical screening as well as a psychological screening. From there he was fingerprinted, a DNA sample was taken and a photograph was taken. All of that was given to the FBI, we're told. Now that was followed by him -- taking him to a restricted part of this facility here behind me, Devens Federal Medical Center. This restricted part of this facility is for, quote, "high-risk inmates". So he was taken there and that is where his cell is, we're told. It's a basic cell with a steel door, a slot for food, and a toilet and sink and that's about it, we're told, Poppy.</s>HARLOW: I know that he has his own cell there. But I'm wondering if we have any indication on how long he is going to stay there or when we might see him in court? I would assume that the investigators will try to get more information from him there if his lawyer will allow them to.</s>BROWN: Absolutely. I spoke to the U.S. Marshals Service. Right now we don't know when he's going to be moved. U.S. Marshals Service says that they don't release that kind of information. But what we do know here is that he was officially charged this past Sunday. And we have 30 days from the day he was officially charged for the indictment with a grand jury. So essentially over that 30 days, a grand jury will be presented with evidence and then decide the charges that he will face. From there, there will be an arraignment, where he will make a court appearance and plead. And then you're going to see the pretrial motions take place. Now, Poppy, at the end of this month, at the end of May, rather, there was a -- what's called a probable cause hearing scheduled during that initial appearance this past Monday with the judge. But we are told that there's a good chance he might waive that probable cause hearing. Typically during that hearing there is a lot of evidence presented and a lot of times defendants will waive it for that reason, Poppy.</s>HARLOW: And I think also, Pamela, it's very interesting that he is taken to this facility where they do not treat very severe injuries or do very complex surgeries, so I think that gives us some indications of his state of health at this point in time. Pamela Brown joining us live this morning, Pamela, thank you. Well, for the first time in days, we are getting a look at the wife of Boston bombing suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev. You see her there, Katherine Russell; that was shot there yesterday. First time she has left her home in days, where she lived in Rhode Island. She is the woman in the head scarf, there you see walking into that car. The other woman is her attorney. Well, Russell is one of the most mysterious figures in the case, someone we don't know a lot about. She was married to the man accused of plotting to bomb the Boston Marathon, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and she says she knew nothing about it. CNN's Erin McPike is in Providence, Rhode Island. Good morning, Erin.</s>ERIN MCPIKE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Poppy, we saw Katie Russell for the first time in several days on Friday, when she finally left her parents' house, when she was escorted by her attorneys to their office here right behind me, where they met for about 90 minutes. Now when she arrived, I did get a chance to ask her, how are you doing and what is happening; she didn't answer any of that, of course; she just looked a little bit bewildered. She left; we did not see her leave. We do know that her attorneys will be here, working all weekend, Poppy.</s>HARLOW: Absolutely. Authorities have certainly been questioning her and want as much information as they can get. Erin, thank you. And to Russia now and a crackdown on suspected Islamic extremists. Russian security forces raided a place of worship in southern Moscow and detained 140 people yesterday. More than 30 of them are foreign nationals. Officials say the site had been visited before by suspected radicals, including some from Chechnya. The raid is not believed at this point to be linked to the Boston bombing. And back here in the United States, investigators in New York are taking a closer look at this.</s>HARLOW (voice-over): It is a piece of an airplane's landing gear. And officials believe it's from one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center on 9/11. The 5-foot-long piece of metal was found in a small space near an Islamic community center. The plane part will be, of course, examined by the medical examiner's office and the NTSB. And we will have much more on that discovery a little bit later this morning.</s>HARLOW: Well, 90 minutes of terror with the Boston bombing suspect. The Chinese national who says they carjacked him is now sharing new details about that absolutely terrifying night. We will give you all of those straight ahead.</s>HARLOW (voice-over): But first, before we go to break, we wanted to show you the cover of "Boston" magazine. This is heartwarming; it is beautiful. Take a look. Those running shoes, actual running shoes that runners used during the marathon in the shape of a heart, on the back, actually, you see the soles of the shoes, in the middle, the words, "We will finish the race." Just shows the strength of this beautiful city. We'll be right back.