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>> reporter: certainly in damascus, they're saying this is a declaration of war on syria on a research facility just outside damascus, according to the syrian regime. israel has not commented. we haven't heard any comment from the foreign ministry or even the military. what we have heard from officials who have spoken in anonymity, they've said, look, we have been watching weapons movement inside of syria. we have the capabilities to do that, and we will not let any weapons of mass destruction or any dangerous conventional weapons, like surface to aramis i wills, end up in the hands of hezbollah, which is on the other side of the lebanon border. hezbollah considered a terrorist organization by the united states and by israel, and they exist there, according to israel, as an arm of iran. we know weapons have been moved around. we've also heard that from u.s. officials there has been movement of weapons inside syria. this has been going on, civil war inside syria for more than two years. it's had a devastating effect on the people there. israel is extremely concerned, as is the u.s. as are some of the chemical weapons, which are believed to be large caches of chemical weapons in bunkers in depots all across syria that those may at some point be used on a mass scale. and then also information from the u.s. and britain and israel believe that chemical weapons have been used in a small scale setting, but a big concern that those are going to end up in the hands of terrorist organizations and be used against different entities, israel being the closest. so you're seeing some information coming out from the syrians that israel did strike inside syria. we also heard just a few days ago from u.s. officials who said there was an initial strike that happened either thursday night or friday. we're not sure yet exactly what was struck, but we do understand from u.s. sources that they believe israel's planes were flying over lebanon. the lebanese have confirmed that, and that they struck from inside lebanon into syria, not breaking over syria's air space, but breaking lebanon's air space. lebanon very unhappy about that as well. >> so attacking syria, lebanon, israel -- what does all of this mean for u.s. communications with the west? >> reporter: well, we've heard from the president who has talked about the scenario. he was asked directly, was israel involved in striking inside syria? he said, look, that's for the israelis to talk about. that's for israeli officials to comment on. what we can say is we give the permission, we back israel in defending itself and that israel has the right to defend itself against -- whether it's weapons of mass destruction or very dangerous weapons that are conventional weapons. what we also know from the israelis is that i was on the border there in the golan heights with syria and also looking over the lebanese border this past week, and what we understand is there are a lot more troops in place, and there are more tanks, for example, that have been brought up to that area. we also have heard today that two iron dome batteries, the anti-missile batteries used, as you might remember, in the gaza war to knock rockets out of the sky, those have been used on the northern border because the army has assessed they are needed there. christi? >> sara sidner, we're so glad you're able to bring ug the very latest there. we want to take you to boston now because officials are still scrambling to find a final resting place for one of the bombing suspects. officials at three cemeteries have refused to bury tamerlan tsarnaev saying they fear a backlash from the public. meanwhile, investigators are still pressing tamerlan's widow as to what she might know about the bombs, which, by the way, were allegedly made in her own home. cnn's aaron mcfeick is in rhode island near katherine russell's attorney's office. i wonder how much of her you've seen in the last couple of days. >> reporter: we saw her yesterday. she was outside in her parents' backyard playing with her young daughter, who's almost 3 now, and one of her friends, and she left her parents at home with a friend for three or four hours yesterday afternoon. we did see quite a bit of her, and we've been seeing her almost every day in the past week. she's been going on a couple of errands and also been coming here to her attorney's office, where she's been meeting not only with her attorneys but also with investigators. in the week before, we didn't see much of her at all. she spent three full days locked up, basically, inside her parents' house. we couldn't see her at all. we have seen more as she's gotten some semblance of normalcy, not a lot of that, of course, when her husband is now dead. we have seen a bit more of her than we have in the past, christi. >> the thing is investigators, we know, did find explosive residue in katherine and tamerlan's apartment. a lot of people might be thinking, isn't that hard for her to argue she didn't know anything about the bomb plot? >> reporter: christi, from the very beginning, her attorney has maintained she was very busy, that she was raising her young daughter, that she's only 24, and tamerlan was, of course, 26, and this young couple had a toddler, and she was very busy raising that child. also, in this young couple, katherine russell was the bread winner. she was working 75 to 80 hours a week, so double your typical work week, and outside the home for that entire time while she was in somebody else's home as a home health care aid, and tamerlan didn't work. the bottom line is she was very busy and gone a lot. that's why her attorneys have basically said, of course she wouldn't have known, christi. >> conversations with her and authorities most likely not over at this point. thank you so much, erin mcpike. we appreciate it. i want to tell you the owner of the funeral home that is now holding tamerlan's body says he will start trying again tomorrow to find a cemetery that will agree to bury the suspected bomber. pet peter stefan spoke yesterday with cnn. >> they don't want to do it, they won't do it, and i can understand the point of view. my view is we have to do something. we have to bury the person. this is what we do in a civilized society regardless of the circumstances. i can't separate the sinner from the sins. i can't pick and choose what i do. in this country, we bury the dead. as i've mentioned many times, we bury the oswalds, the dahmers, the bundys. this is no different. >> tweet me if you will, chri i christi-paul. we've gotten a lot of responses. moving on here, five women escaped from a limousine after it caught fire. this happened in san francisco. look at the flames that just engulfed this limo. four of the survivors, we know, were rushed to the hospital. five other women in that limo did not escape. they died. police had to shut down part of the bridge for the investigation, and it's not clear what started that fire just yet. and still a thing in southern california here, though different area. firefighters are tackling a fast-moving wildfire on the ground and from the air. they're hoping to have it fully surrounded as soon as monday, but the so-called spring fire is nearly 60% contained at this point. it's blackened 28,000 acres in ventura county outside l.a. this roared to life just three days ago on thursday. nearby schools were closed as a precaution, and two young brothers say, well, this experience has been a little frightening to say the least. >> it's been kind of scary because we were getting packed up for evacuation. when we got dismissed from school, there's been ashes coming down, and the sun's all a different color from the pollution. it's been crazy. >> what an experience for them. firefighters could get some help from the weather today. we hope that for them. winds have calmed down quite a bit. there's a 20% chance of rain for later today. hope that helps them. let's get to the kentucky derby. there is a new winner, of course. halfway through the race, orb was nearly in last place. then he came from behind to steal the win at the mud soaked derby, as you know. now orb and his jockey, joel rosario, going to take a shot at winning the triple crown with the preakness later this month, the belmont stakes in june. no horse has won all three races, by the way, since 1978. might be time to prepare for another round of gun debates. that's because nra executive wayne lapierre decided to make boston the center of his gun speech. ygirl back at home would absolutely not have taken a zip line in the jungle. 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